I'm trying to think of a way to play this hand worse, and the only thing I can come up with is calling the river bet and then mucking the hand face down after being shown 99.
That's the truth! My old game stopped running and the new game I'm at is too big and I can't play correctly. It sucks. Picking the correct game for your bankroll is the 1st decision you have to make correctly to win at poker.
Caller should watch the old episode of Seinfeld where George does the opposite of his instincts in every situation to improve his life. That approach would have served him well here.
My name is George, I’m unemployed and I live with my parents…. I’m Victoria 😊 The real lesson is beautiful women get lied to so much that a guy that shoots them straight is more rare than a millionaire hitting on her
Caller did indeed play this hand poorly, but he called in knowing he played it bad and wanted help. He is trying to improve, and we should commend that.
This is what I was thinking. He had probably bought in for 2-300 and that 500-700 profit meant so much to him. He needs to move down in stakes or go south 👀😂
He had six decisions in the hand. Four of them it hurt to hear him make these decisions. The first decision didn't hurt to hear him make it, but then it retroactively hurt when he didn't backraise. The fifth decision actually seemed quite reasonable, but then it retroactively hurt when he didn't call the shove. If he's betting that small on the river, it has to be because he's trying to provoke an all-in bluff shove, where a larger bet like Bart recommends would make it appear that he's pot committed, and therefore no one would have the guts to try and bluff him with an all-in shove. I actually like the decision to just call the open preflop, especially if there's a good chance that someone else 3 bets, giving the hero the perfect opportunity to 4 bet backraise. If people are 3 betting quite often, and especially when there is dead money in the pot, this is a great move. It's not always a great move, but it depends on how often people are 3 betting. But I don't like just calling the open preflop because you don't want to play a big pot.
Jamming is absolutely printing money pre. Anything else is insane once we get that opportunity. It's literally the only reason to flat the open, you're hoping for this scenario.
Fellas, there’s no rule about when you can leave. If you’re “leaving in 3 hands and don’t want to play a big pot,” so you can lock up a win or something, then just leave before this hand. That should never be a reason to play less optimally lmao
this guy keeps saying "i'm playing nitty" when he means "i'm playing passive" -- playing like a nit isn't necessarily a bad thing in a 2/5 game, but playing passively is a disaster.
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This might be the worst player call in. After he says I flat bc I am leaving in 3 hands and don’t want to play a big pot. Then gets dream back raise spot and flats again and plays multi-way pot horribly and is clearly scared money.
@@harrynamkoong3361 exactly, once I’ve made the decision to leave I don’t care what position I’m in, if I know that I’m not going to want to stay if I take a bad beat while I’m waiting for the big blind to approach then I just rack up and leave then
ya at that point if ur that scared either just leave when u decided ur gonna play scared or just fold. to the 3bet if ur THAT unwilling to play correctly. You’ll lose less money then if u go 5 ways to the flop and check the flop and turn w top pair second last to act. or just check down the river if u cant call a raise i mean ur trying to get it through 4 other people. if he just checked he’d be winning a $600+ pot for free. but somehow he chose the worst of both worlds.
@@harrynamkoong3361 his particular hand makes the play even worse. AK gets a lot of its value by making small and medium pairs fold but getting called by worse aces
I think he was expecting to get called by a non believing lower pair, but didn’t expect someone to be check jamming without the goods. I’ve seen passive fish play AK this way but none of them would’ve folded to this raise
Someone needs to explain to the caller the difference between being nitty and playing scared. He seems very scared to play, as though he’s looking for spots to fold. He also seems to have a fundamental misunderstanding of most of the basics, such as using position, squeezing, blockers, combos, etc. thanks for the call either way.
Struggling to come up with a hand V has that hero loses to and that gets played this way, especially when hero's hand is so under-repped. The check-raise river theory says V is supposed to have some showdown value, but not enough to call if someone bets behind. Assuming no one is betting without at least having a K, and that V isn't the type to be massively sand-bagging with a hand he should have just value-bet, like AQ or 3x, this has to be a call. V's play only makes sense if hero or BTN are super-aggro players who will stab at the pot with air when everyone checks three streets.
This hand just shows the importance of betting to narrow the field and narrow the opponent's range. They likely fold to a bet on the flop. The caller played it so weak that the bet on the river looks like more of a missed draw or under pair that will fold if pressure is applied. As played the hero has to call. If he had bet on the flop it is likely that the only caller(s) will have sets, KQ, Ax hearts, KJ suited (maybe?). All of the under pairs and suited connectors likely go away here. That's the best time to target the KQ and Ax hearts hands.
I’m with Bart, I would have bet $325 on the flop. You are going to get at least one call and then you can bet like $400 or jam on the turn. No way, I check this hand twice though.
This is a month old but I’d like to know why a busted flush wasn’t brought up? Where I play the villain wouldn’t’ve check raised, he would’ve shoved on the river. I instinctively thought it was a 4 card flush and would like to know if I missed something
As played pre... IMO it's almost criminal to not back-raise when our equity against the field (as played) is so, so good... Otherwise, just fold if "we're already leaving the casino"? Planning for the "what ifs" need to take place Before any River Bet.., Live & Learn 👍👍
2 good lessons to take from this: 1. You cannot play poker to "not lose" and expect to win. 2. If you're planning on leaving soon and you don't want to get into a big pot (maybe you're trying to lock up a win), just leave! There's no law that says you have to play to your blinds. Always follow your instincts. If you think you should leave, leave. If you think you should take a break, do it. If you think you should switch tables or seats, do it. Granted you shouldn't be doing it to try to get better hands; the card distribution doesn't really change. But if there's a pain in the butt player to your left, and you'd like to get position, then switch! If the game is no good, change games!
$650 in the pot flop top pair, top kicker, with a $1000 behind, I'm shoving! I don't particularly want calls, but those 9's might have thought it was a bluff and called, but I'm happy with the $650! 😁👍✌😎🗽
If you're afraid to get money in when you're likely ahead (or very strong), you have to quit the game. You WILL lose all your money. Personally, I would have jammed when it came back around preflop. Nobody had AA, and there would be a good chance to win it right there -- or to win it against an average hand that called.
If you’re gonna check the first three streets might as well just check river. Problem to me is that after the river bet hero just doesn’t seem strong at all. If you ARE gonna bet river you’re almost enticing someone to try to bluff at that point
Maybe it was a lucky guess, but when they were talking about the river my initial guess was this guy has pocket nines, maybeeee pocket eights. Then I thought the only other hands I’d put him on were AJ, A10, QJ, or Q10. But my gut was right. The guy was the initial preflop aggressor, but then only wanted to call the 3-bet (probably hoping everyone else would fold). Clearly he was scared about the possibility of a higher pair all the way to the river. And he never was the aggressor again until the very end. Just seemed like he had small value but knew know one else had the nutz.
I'm calling the river 100% of the time the way this hand was played. There us no way he's not beating river with any good hands. This smells like he is bluffing a bluff.
On top of that the river could counterfeit the opponents possible two pair. If one is going to play it that way, there has to be a call off on the river.
Truthfully UTG can also have straight up airball bluffs at this point because they never needed to make a decision post flop and exploitatively those could definitely work half the time, especially when it looks like hero has straight nothing.
I think UTG puts caller on mid pair on the flop and discounts the 3h bc caller should bet the A high flush draw that comes with having a 3 Caller isn’t aware of the low chance of V having a 3
I’ve seen some bad players play a hand like AK this way, check with it multiple streets hoping someone bets for them, but then bet the river themselves thinking that they’re being tricky. But none of them would ever fold to a raise on the river, mainly cause they were willing to call down if someone else bet for them so they sure as hell ain’t folding now
Hearing this guys analysis, he should move down in stakes for multiple reasons… I don’t think he could have made a worse decision on each and every street. Would have been better if he folded preflop.
Wow what an absolutely terrible player. Worst played ace king ever. He thinks when UTG flats a late position three bet with the whole field behind that he can still have aces and kings..
The moment this hand is over,, I'm getting my name legally changed after this hand. And then moving away to rebuild my life. Let those that are close with me know that I made a mistake and can't recover. My goodness.
This hand made me throw up in my mouth a little. What stupid thinking the hero does and he deserves to lose. Thanks Bart for excellence in Poker education!
I have to congratulate this fella for having the the nerve to bare his soul, naked, in front of a group of poker players who are just WAITING for someone, anyone, to call in with a hand played poorly enough that everyone will know it was played poorly. Like raw chicken dangling in a river of piranhas, and every last poker player taking their turn ripping the flesh off his bones. Poor bastard.
come on everybody in the comments: be nice. not everyone in the world is as amazing at poker as you guys are. if he's calling into this show, its because he's interested in learning and improving.
Dude decided to call up Bart with the full knowledge signature on the terms, that he will be on livestream, and potential YT video with a guarantee on infuriating both comment sections. Had he shown any ounce of remorse, or minimal level of self deprecation around his mistakes, more sympathy for the man would be reasonable. White knighting for anonymous randoms online to be nice around their self inflicted blunder is redundant.
Bart, we need a few seconds of outro on these videos so we can click like on them. The ending is so abrupt and I’m already on another video and I have to go back to like the video. Nothing major, just a few second splash screen and music maybe? It’s not a huge problem on my phone but I watch a lot of RU-vid on my TV and it’s a pain to go back and find these vids to upvote
After listening to the entire call, I know for a fact this guy didn't even consider back raising preflop. I've never seen a worse played hand. Every single decision he made was a mistake. There's no point to playing poker if you are going to play this way. I have vomit in my mouth right now.
uh... flatted initially.. OK.. you can be sneaky strong.. but, the re raise.... i am going to $500 after the $130.. and yea, i do want to get it in with AKs... in that scenario.. i am not fond of AKs as a made hand, but, its just worth the risk.. and $500 is an overbet. but, in tables I play,, a raise to say, $275,, gets called again,, so i now play 4 ways with AKs,, not a good outcome.. i want heads up.. just me... post flop now.. well, thats why i dont want a 4 way pot.. a flush draw is most likely in this hand, who may get sticky, and no matter the odds, sticks around. or. someone likes Broadway cards, and has an open ender.. again, cuz you left the door open.. so yea.. i re raise, BIG, pre flop, to isolate.. and yea, call all in if i have to.. not my fave play, but, ive lost to AKs and won with it. ive lost with AAs pre all in, to KKs and QQs, making sets and flushes.. final analysis.. omg.. seriously... the guy could have AJs.. KQs.. A10s..or J10s.. and think his 2 pr is good.. million scenarios.. none of which include folding.. yea, crying call, if KJ was sitting on that.. unlikely given betting.. but i am calling..
