Stop Using These 5 Poker Strategies (Amateur Mistake!) 

What poker strategies give you the most trouble? Also, check out my other video with the top 5 poker hands you need to stop playing! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FEgWfgEsTa4.html

I was told by my poker mentor years ago that the biggest difference between recreational players and pros, is that rec players are always looking for a reason to play a hand, pros are looking for a reason to fold

I love watching big deep highstakes analyse by bencb or doug polk but lets be honest you are actually the channel that 80% of us really need to pay attention👏

I play 2-5 live cash - not micro stakes on line. What you said is universally correct. Thanks Nathan for sharing the insight of millions of hands,

Im a huge fan of your story, starting from literally nothing and having never deposited money on your poker account. That is amazing to me! I admire your persistence, thank you for being inspiring and learning me to play better poker. ^_^

Never folding Aces is a great topic. It is definitely hard to do at times, even when its a scary board. Even when experienced and you know better, can be hard to do. I've gotten better with it over the years tho. The worst is having pocket Aces and losing to pocket Aces tho. Had it happen twice, first time was a small limit game, so didn't lose much. Second time was much worse. Was a 1k tournament, on my birthday, and allin preflop. Had red Aces against black Aces. 2 spades on the flop, then runner runner spades. Horrible bday gift haha.

Finallly! Poker tips I can actually understand and use in my low limit games. Thank you.

Number five is totally true. Can't count all times that I have lost big in low stakes with AA, KK, QQ. vs small sets, two pairs etc.

One major flaw that I see that is not talked about much is Overprotecting your hands. I see a lot of players who are so scared to lose a pot when they have a big hand that they overbet the pot and only take down a small profit. For example, a 1/2 game with 5 limps to the pot, so a $10 pot going to the flop. A player will flop the nut straight and then bet all in for $65 and everyone folds.

A type of chasing draws is special: set mining. Many players call pocket pairs preflop, no matter what it costs.

You guys gotta read his books... they are gold! His videos are great, but his books bring you so much more!!!

These are actually very solid tips that would save or win people a lot of money if they took them to heart. Subscribed.

Yep, all good points. Have learned most of those the hard way. I've even lost sets of As & Ks. Grrr.

This was my favourite video that you have done and I feel this. will help many poker players out for sure!!!! Thanks man

Tip five is so on point. They barely ever bluff on river, basically 95% it's a monster hand. On a rare occasion people do bluff in micro stakes and calling stations put them in their place :D

Good to see BlackRain himself do a video. Always good to hear his advice about poker! :)

Very simple and straight forward also easy to comprehend. Keep up the good work!

You are a great low stakes teacher!

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Relative hand strength is a very important concept.

Good advice. I realize I do some of these mistakes. I followed some of your other rules and I won!

love your vids, but was wondering if you ever do live play vids? would love to hear your thought process in live action, thanks 😊

The turn and river nuts strategy is saving me a lot of money, thanks man!

I've been playing poker for less than a year and I'm guilty of some of these. Mainly, overvaluing marginal hands as blind vs blind.

appreciate the knowledge

I think low 2 pairs are fine to play. But you gotta play them hard and fast. I generally am looking to check raise on the flop and if it goes check check them I will end up just calling it down unless of course you just run bad and all the hight cards and flush come out.

I love hands like 5/3 suited. No wonder I haven't won anything in almost a year. I see Daniel playing hands like that and winning so I incorporate it into my game

I find it rare that QQ+ folding in micro stakes for sure I typically try to get all the money in the middle before the turn because you are right most times if you haven't hit your set by then there's a good chance you've lost the hand.

I'm surprised that cold call 3bet is not on this list, in my list this is the number one difference maker between newbies and regular

Great advises as always. Thanks Nathan.

Folding pocket aces hurts my heart when I've had to do it ( twice). Ooohhh the pain !!! Lol.

Don’t fold your aces pre though haha, except maybe in some crazy multi-way pot on a major money bubble in a tournament (and even then, you should probably be calling if you like winning rather than min-cashing tourneys!

Top pair is usually not worth more than 13 big blinds. If someone is betting more than that you can expect them to have two pair or trips etc.

"River raise is always the nuts" Haha too true. I was playing 2 days ago at $2/$5 and flopped a set. Unbeknownst to me I was behind as my set of 3s was dominated by a set of Aces. Anyhow I bet each street and he just called. But the river was another 3. I bet and he raised! (always the nuts) and then I re-raised (always the nuts) and then he jammed the 2nd nuts. A terrible cooler for him but it does go to show river raises are NEVER light.

With top pairs like AA and KK I like just jamming it all in preflop especially in later positions or the blinds and if there have been limper's or raisers prior to my action. Get it all in preflop and no tough decisions post flop. Yes you might win a smaller pot but at least you won't lose a big pot when you convince yourself your top pair is still good cause we all know they are hard to fold. Preflop your a 82% favorite to win with AA yeah sometimes you will get a cooler your KK meets AA but thats poker and I can live with that as I made the right decision pre flop. This kinda helps me to avoid tilt also and second guess my preflop decisions like maybe I didn't raise enough to get heads up and your in a multi way pot and then your AA/KK is normally in trouble on the many coordinated/wet boards. If I'm in early position UTG, UTG+1 at 6 max or full table I/you need to make a strong raise 4 or 5x BB so you can get heads up and not give decent pot odds to those is late position or the blinds. This will give you a higher chance mathematically for your AA/KK standing up if you can get heads up and if everyone folds so be it you only won the blinds. Sometimes you need to assess and gauge the texture of the table and figure out what size of raise will get most players to fold then use that bet size to ideally get heads up and sometimes you will get raised then just jam it all in with AA unless you are really deep stacked so then its important to look at your opponent/s stack size. My thoughts. What you think of just getting it all in preflop?

Very guilty of the last statement. Thank you

Very useful -- especially when made into a 'topic,' as you have here. Thanks!

I've been watching some of your videos. You're a cool dude with valuable content. cheers

I have a HUD that tells me my win probability. If it is less than 90% I try to avoid betting a lot. I try to fold. I know I should fold if the xBB's go up up up with a

I like your vids mate, the 5 worst poker hands was great, jack 9 suited I was always tempted to use that hand. Now I do not! Keep up the good work plz :)

Can you do a vid on downbetting flops? I see a lot of vloggers doing this and its confusing especially when its a wet flop. Thanks.

Wait... 2 pair isn't the NUTS?!!! Better go back to the slots🤣🤣

Ignore most of these for tourney play - cash games - sure but not tourney play. Especially turn raises - 50 percent are bluffs.

I hit a back door flush with A high and my opponent had the nuts on the flop with the same flush. He went all in on flop, I called and hit the flush on the turn, won a big pot with A2 off.

NATHAN thank you very much for all your the help,, Watching your videos yesterday I applied all I learned from you and I won $800 on 2-3 no limits... thank you your strategy definitely works.. Keep up the great work you doing.. I preaciade it..

Im that guy always folding low two pairs only to find out they have just a pair. Ive taken so many losses with low two pairs that its almost instant that I fold them especially if a face card comes

Thank You 🙏 great advise !!

Aa is 1.5. The real number one is calling down with kk on an ace high board

Good evening to you do you have video of when to do continuation bets after the flop I like the content of your material keep up the good work thank you have a nice evening goodbye.

This is a solid top 5. Good advice.

Play for stacks, not pots. When you start doing this, it's easy to get away from top pair.

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Your videos are 👍. You have really helped me. Thank You 🙏

Nailed to 100% Nathan!!!

Do you have any content on 9 man reg speed sng? There’s not much quality content on them.

All these types of hands are hands you should play just you have to be defense when action flops happen. None of these hands will loose you money in the long run as long as you play them right and are good at reading players based on how active they are and probability. An example is I'm not afraid of chasing the bottom end of a straight as long as only 1-2 opponents went to the flop and I am getting the right price if someone bets. If I three bet an active opponent and go heads up to the flop with pocket nines and the flop is Q/8/4 rainbow I'm pretty sure my hand is still good. if four people see the flop I know my hand is probably not good but if every one checks to me you know I'm taking a shot at it. Poker is very situational. All these problem situations you are describing usually happen when too many people go to the flop in a raised pot. Not enough people three bet there strong hands to keep people in check. If some dude raises under the gun every time and several people call and I am by the button with KQ I am not calling I am 3 betting. If the always under the gun raiser raises and the guy right next to him three bets as long as that guy isn't super tight I am four betting him as long as I got a hand I can call a raise with and his stack is a third my size or less so if we get it in and I lose i am not crippled. Another thing a lot of players don't factor is the dynamics of heads up pots versus multiway pots. In heads up your opponent is more likely to bluff you but when you make a strong pair they are usually gonna hold up way more. in multi way pots your top pair is more often beat by being out flopped or out drawn but opponents are less likely to bluff you because their is other opponents in their to keep them in check. if some guy is stuck between you and another opponent he is less likely to bluff because he is worried the other guy might have something. Side Note I beat the World Series of Poker video game a couple of hours ago. also got 3rd(caught in bluff by King high vs Ace high) and 24th(3 outter bad beat with 1 card to go) earlier in the week.

it happened to me today lol i cried. 1 flushed out on the turn and the other flushed out on the river. I shoved two pair on the flop and lost 350 extra on the turn and river flushes. Someone called on the flop with 350 all in on the flop

thanks for all the good info

I just had a nut flush against a guy I was battling for hours and I didn't think his raise meant he had a full house until it was too late...

thanks for the reminder

Bottom two is the same as top pair in a big pot

Thank you. I like videos like this!

slowplaying never works for hellmuth anyway. he always just traps his ego.

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Very helpful

Thanks...good VIDEO!!

I do all of these! Thanks for showing me I'm a donkey lol I'll see my way out now.

Excelente video. 👌

Honestly the best strategy in big online tournaments seems to be get in as much as possible.. forget playing smart hands.. guys top of the leaderboard just luckbox gamblers

Why the hell would you bet with AA on a board of 567? Unless, it was 4-bet preflop. If it was just a raise and a call, I am in check, call mode. If I am in position, I am playing pot control.

Awesome video

Good advice. Getting married, you and your Aces against the world, costs so many chips. If you don't get some help on the flop you will do well to move cautiously.

love your logic thank you :)

dont forget to float!

Great advice

What about bluffing ?

I usually am glued to my premiums like AA because they usually hold up but yesterday I snap folded. Post flop 3 ways 6-8-9 and 2 clubs I bet and got check raised by an extremely tight opponent and the other player called as well. I threw those rockets away asap lol. It kind of burned seeing an A on the turn but probably still no good.

you couldnt count that high, millions of hands means nothing compared to iron will and mightyness!

you talking about that 95% play NLHE. You ever play other pokergames?

Hmm I think that was worth at least 500k hands experience TY :) ..

dont drop yo aces jack!

I should retire from poker. Haha. Great information. At my level People play pocket 2s. and think they have the nuts. But I'm at that level.🙂 Find your information just great thanks. I have final tabled a few times and won a few times. And yes. When I don't win. That's when my brain. Has a bad fart. And I lose 🙂🙂

My like was number 1000, maybe I will learn something.

i found my 5 biggest leaks in one video should i be happy or worried?

"Or they could have quads, holding 77" lol naaah, if there's 2 7s out there its highly unlikely they are holding the ither 2 😂

abosulutly

Slow play don't pay

Is Every Hand a Winner Every Hand a Loser???

unless you are one of the sites sponsored players, online poker is a scam, that's the first thing everyone should avoid.

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Ah, 98s my pretty alluring femme fatale...seducing me with your straight on a TJQ flop, but crushing my balls vs. villain's AK...

So don't play big pots with aces lol ok

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I didnt hear anything except that weird ass voice. Very strange

Voice put me to sleep