MIDDLE of a DOWNSWING....| Poker Vlog Episode 43 

How do you fold that last hand? You’re gonna be good in that spot 99% of the time my guy, don’t be a nit and call him down.

Playing poker eating casino food and siting for hours a day none of us poker players get whole lot of exercise. I have had the opportunity to see a few more of your videos. Like I said you play great you realize your own mistakes which sometimes can be hard for us to see or admit ourselves. Glad your finally on the up swing again and do look forward to watching more of your videos in the future. Best of luck to you. Glad you like the separate account it really does help seriously plus you know what you have at all times and cool thing is seeing that account grow from your winnings. Jay from Tennessee 😎

First hands were bad calls, last hands were bad folds

You’re doing a good thing in always reviewing your decision making after the fact. Just be careful about being too hard on yourself. Remember in game you didn’t have all the information. Sure you could have thought a little longer in some spots but that’s so easy to say after the fact. You’re definitely growing and improving as a player. Continue to focus on improving and ride it out my man! Maybe I’ll see you at Bellagio or Wynn Sunday or Monday!

Just found your channel. I like it. I like that you're honest without yourself. You don't just say, "Oh well, bad beat" Love the thought process of ranges etc.

Time will eventually turn around for you, just keep your head up and be positive 🤙

I love your self analysis....very hard to do at times.

Checking back that top pair on the flop was a poor decision

Good recording quality. What do you use for recording at the table?

For every losing session, there's a sun run on the other side. Keep it up :)

I've done it without the nuts and with. In a recent tournament, I did it when I had the right size stack for the re-raise to be all-in. I got called and more then doubled up. After we were in the money, there were two limps and a raise and I was on the button with AQs and the right size stack to go all-in. The UTG limper went all in and I knew I was screwed but all my chips were in the middle LOL.

AQo @16:09.. closer to a fold than a 3-bet. That being said, a 3-bet to $60 is preferable than a call. Question you have to ask yourself, how are you going to get stacks in when you just call. Do you even want stacks in if the board is Q-high (or A-high) and your SPR is 8-10. Congrats on hitting gin flop though. Postflop it's hard to assign what MP is betting with, he could have AQ, KK, JJ, TT (or JTs/KJs/KTs), but he could also have dumb hands like AK/KQ/QJ/QT. LP's range is.. wide too, can be AJ/AK/AT, KQ/QJ/QT, JT/KJ/KT.. along with possibly Q9/AQ. Honestly hard to say if we should even raise since we shouldn't be raising 2 pair.. Hard to think that we should be raising TT/JJ here. Maybe we turn QQ hand here into a bluff but that seems a bit spewy. Raising here signals "we have a straight" a lot of times. Also note that there is 12 combinations of AQo and 12 combinations of TT+JJ.. Raise size is quite big too. Prob $100ish is best if we were to raise. TT/JJ/KK is going to continue anyways and if we get loose calls from AT/AJ/AK/ AA, that's great, along with KJ/JT/KT that have low equity.. That's why I prefer calling flop, yeah sometimes you do get hosed on turn cards but 28 cards are blanks on the turn (roughly 60% of the deck) not to mention a 9 which now increases the times the turn is fine for you to 68% of the time and you get to stack someone who has Qx.

I never limp raise but did see a kid balance it with A5s and take down a nice pot

I think I saw you play at resorts world last weekend. Upswing is coming! Hope to play with you one of these days

Keep grinding bro! Let me know when you do a Southpoint session

Betting that flop with 88 @15:30. Yeah SB/BB could have 9x, 66/44/64 and maybe sometime CO checks with 9x+ but those checks from CO is rare at 1/3 (for good reason). Your hand also needs a ton of protection. $25 bet should be good. Turn is an auto bet. Not only do we have best hand 99/100 times, we get value from 4x/6x and we can value river when a blank falls (non spade) to get thin value from non-believer hands. Also, betting turn (and flop) leads to just bigger pots when we do spike gin on river. Hard to get $500 in when pot is $60. even if villian has 75/T7, they are more than likely either going to mix call/fold on river when we jam their c/r their straight to 115$. Whereas if we even bet on turn for $25 and 75 call (or T7ss) we go $100 on river.. hard for them to just call when they made their straight. And even if they do (like 10-20%) of the time, we have still won more ($125), than if we slowplayed and then they folded to our c/r jam on river ($115).

The limp raise works in a few scenarios If your table is crazy action and people are on tilt calling everything pre flop it will work. One time at hustler casino playing 1-3 I limp raised AA to $85 and got 5 callers lol

Honestly unsure of that aces hand. Seems like a check on turn as well. Unsure what our bet range is on flop if we even have one. Also even if we have a King, (AK/KQ/KJ), we would have board covered and it would be near impossible to get stacks in by river. If we had quads on flop of like 777, it's easier to get stacks in if board runs out with high(er) cards since full houses should be wanting to put piles in (i.e. if board is 777J4, Jacks full should be wanting to get stacks in)

On another note, great video! Hope the viewers see the lesson… a downswing is a great, if not the best, place to up your game. Put the emotions aside and look at the details, find the leaks and break the pattern!

88 at 7:48 wouldn't say not 3-betting is a mistake (although he is opening this wide, J9o, then yeah 3-bet away), but river is definitely a fold (even though solver mixes in a call/fold with boats lower than Tx here, live.. people don't bluff here at the ratio they should, esp at 1/3). Flop and turn is fine.

KK hand @10:11 check is okay, bet small (25%) is a fine option too. Theory being bet small is you bet small with all your bluffs here (JT of hearts) while you also bet your value hands (KK, AK no club, 99, KQs).. After opponent bets 50%, you want to call here with your entire continue range (flushes, sets, pairs with club draws, Ace high that contain a club, AK hands). After the raise and you get 3-bet, turn is fine. River is slam dunk fold. Also even if opponent jammed on turn, in theory land, we are supposed to fold as well.

🤣 of course you have QUADS! 🤣

Hilarious you make fun of the limp raise when it worked to perfection. It still works well at my card room but mine is def softer than most.

Also I hate the limp re raise move so much. However I see people fall for it all the time. More often than not.

You are betting your big hands too strong, which forces your opponent to make the right decision. AQ with broadway, let them put money in. Trip A’s with K kicker. Bet small and make it easier for opponents to call, you have two streets to get the money in. Last hand is a snap call

It seems like more of a tilt than a downswing. Try shifting your focus to the gameplay rather than fixating on the results. If you find yourself tilting because of extended play sessions, consider cutting down on the hours (I've noticed I play my best in the first 2-3 hours). If you're tilting because of bad beats when you're a 98% favorite, take a break and go for a walk. Remember, it's all part of poker, and everyone experiences coolers. Many skilled players struggle due to poor tilt management. Consider reading up on the mind game of poker, and best of luck at the tables!

I will still limp raise, here's why: at 1/3 only. Limping induces lots of pot money, so when you do limp raise, everyone folds assuming you have the nuts. do it with mediocre hands, take down easy money.

"HOPE" is the enemy of profits.

That was definitely exploitable poker.

I gotta say tough, I don’t feel as bad now. For some reason I thought you said you had 66, and flopped the FH

Dude u played bad in many spots. N i would have called the raise with AA. Gl.

Folding KJs (@2:45) seems like a mistake. Board: 5c 4c 3s Js 7h Dead: equity win tie pots won pots tied Hand 0: 66.972% 64.22% 02.75% 70 3.00 { 77-33, AJs, AcTc, AsTs, Ac9c, As9s, Ac7c, A6s, KcQc, KsQs, KJs, KcTc, KsTs, Kc9c, Ks9s, Kc8c, Ks8s, Kc7c, Kc6c, QJs, QcTc, QsTs, Qc9c, Qs9s, Qc8c, Qs8s, Qc7c, Qs7s, Qc6c, Qs6s, Jc9c, Jc8c, Tc9c, Ts9s, Tc8c, Ts8s, 9c8c, 9s8s, 9c7c, 86s, 76s, 65s, 54s, AJo, KJo, 76o, 65o, 54o } Hand 1: 33.028% 30.28% 02.75% 33 3.00 { KdJd }

I hate the limp re-raise move.....

Are you getting enough sleep because in this video you can tell your off your game. But as before you already know your mistakes your making as well. Plus still seeing that tell of you showing when your going to call when flipping chip in your hand. Not sure if this video comes before or after the one I watched before but that tell tell still there. But don't feel bad we all have went on downward swings and zoned out calls. Something else has our attention or on our mind or like me it always came down to not taking time to rest up weather it's sleep or just taking a day off poker to get the mind right again. I played poker for a living 25 years ago did pretty well made about 75 grand a year back then but was always in the poker room 12 to 15 hours a day back before you could even have volgs much less take pictures in casino hit a bad beat and wouldn't even let me take a picture with my flip phone lol back in 2000. But for three years I was in the casino every day missed a lot out on my kids growing up at time needed there dad as in early to middle teens. Learned the hard way to limit my time in casino as well as take time off for kids and family as the grow up fast. Your a good player and smart you see your mistakes as well as when you can improve least my opinion. Only thing I see is that tell you have really rest you have under control. Jay from Tennessee 😎

Honestly, if youre not calling a raise with AA, you should be in check call mode. The way you played the hand made it obvious you didnt have a K. He couldve been bluffing or overvaluing a q.

No way in hell I'm folding second nuts on that last hand. If he has a king then I'm just going home

9:15 "I'm done. F,ck this game". An understandable reaction after messing up your session but certainly not a very nice one either. As long as you learn from your mistakes it still is a good session even when you burned some money in the proces. This vlog you played poorly like you stated yourself and that is the time to be angry with yourself because you know you can play so much better. Better luck next time and hopefully making better decisions. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Love the vlog, not riffling…distracting and visually nauseated..🤭

why you fold AA on that board. u literally losing to only 1 card

It will be a better episode when we see you make some big laydowns...and be wrong. You need to tighten up, err on the conservative side and cut your losses. Not forever. BTW, I'm coming to Vegas at the end of the month for one night and staying on the strip. It sounds like you like the Bellagio -- best option for low stakes?

I’m sorry. I had to

You are the nittiest blogger out there

Lmfaoooooo no way u folded kings full of aces. If you hit an ace and had aces full would you still fold? Because its basically the same thing😂

When you flopped the absolute nuts, you have a person betting into you, a caller, and you decide to make a massive bet? The board was rainbow, so what cards are you afraid of at that time? I'm no poker guru, but I'm just calling there. You can always make a bigger bet on the turn, but you chased off all the players that might put more money in the pot. I'm no poker guru, but it looks like just calling would be the way to make more money.

25th

From my perspective, It looks like you're playing with tight or conservative players. Try playing tight and vlogging a tight session. Would be interesting to watch!

If you are still talking about the llimp raise then is must still be worlking. Just not for you.

You flop the nuts and bet everybody off their draws. Why would you want everyone to fold when you make your hand? You hit top set and check raise. How are you going to make money if you're hitting and playing super aggro with the nuts. 5xing any bet is just a overplay. Hey gl man.

I’m very confused as to why you’d raise in this spot. You had the absolute nuts and stacks can easily get in by the river. You’re chasing out a lot of money here.

You look tired need sleep and seems like your trying to hard to get a win by playing game after game after game trying to get a win when you need to take few days off rest and reset your mind. Them down swings can last awhile too I had my worst one last two months talk about brutal and makes you question your skills or if should quit playing and all kinds of things. Only thing that helped me was I always kept a separate bank account just for poker. That way no matter what my bills were always paid as I have seen guys loose everything houses, cars, family from gambling. Plus on my winning days I would always put half into poker account and half into regular joint account. That way when those loosing streaks hit wasn't worried about bills or family taken care of and I kept always building my poker account and usually at end of the year was built up enough comfortably to even use money from it to take nice family vacations too. Jay from Tennessee 😎

that is quite a statement about limp re-raises. they are a great part of my arsenal as an OMC(as i am viewed). i limp reraise on most all hands in games where there is little 3 betting. it is so efffective that last week a guy foolded QQ face up to my limp rfe-raise with AK. when you make "assumptions" you make yourself VERY exploitable.

please stop riffling on video…..