Thanks For the Great Content Doug! Also... just an acknowledgement that you're including the starting stack sizes in your hand reviews is greatly appreciated!!
Pet peeve: I noticed 3 players on your left who rested their arms on the table all the way out to the bet line. I dislike players who do this because I can't see their cards and chips. Sometimes can't see stuff of players next to them. Plus, they were crowding your vlog.
You should check the river with your AKo. I mean, for that specific table and opponents. I was on the table with you. You just converted your AKo into bluff on the river. Against that opponent, I would make a really tight fold full house. Everything else, I love your game plan and analyze . Keep up with a good work, Doug 👏
Thoroughly enjoyed this vlog👌, especially the AK hand. Your reads saved you/ but the real key here was your decision of no 3bet preflop w/AK in position to (only) $15 open. 3bet here would have inflated pot pre and don't know if you could get away from this hand later after a 3bet. Well done! WSOP this year? Met you last year, hope to run into you again. 👍
I’m totally a dog guy. Great news on the new addition to your family. I like the breed as well. I have a grand dog right now. A three year old German Shepherd, who just seems to love his grandpa. I go get him to take him to play ball several times a week. while my son and daughter-in-law are at work.
@@dougmccuskerpoker sorry, I apparently didn’t listen carefully enough. I just got too excited with the thought of you getting a new dog. Then, my mind could focus on nothing else. Lol.
@@dougmccuskerpoker Floroida, between the palm beach kennel club poker room and coconut creek casino! It's a good thing he can't drive yet, or things might get expensive til he learns the ropes.
When I go over my difficult hands with my old dog Joey, he just falls asleep unless there are treats to be had. With treats, he give advice, but it's become obvious that he's never read a poker book in his life, the dirty dawg. It's a damned good thing that I love him.
Good fold with AKo. I think I like to start betting on the flop though given it’s 3 ways and there’s plenty of worse Ax and 9x the player behind can have. As played, the opponent is most likely to have AA with a much smaller chance of 99. Reason being 99 is highly likely to bet the A95 flop to get value from any ace. River check raise with AA makes more sense than 99 as well because AA can expect 9x to bet and call a raise, but 99 shouldn’t check river much since Ax often checks back so it’s too risky to lose value. Given your live read, and the fact that river check raises are nearly always a nutted hand, I wouldn’t lose any sleep over your fold. It’s going to be correct 99% of the time. Edit: ^ posted this before seeing your comment about the opponent saying he had AA the next day. 😄
Seems like you ran good when involved, hourly of almost $90 is good when youre card dead Doug?? Best regards from a very warm, dry, England, makes a change , golfing my legs dead at the moment buddy, cheers Fraser
I was patient and didn’t tilt from being card dead. When I played, I thought I played well. It’s so easy to start playing garbage just because it looks better than the other garbage.
Can’t wait until Harley and Zeus both analyze poker hands. You have a busy life, making vlogs and walking 2 dogs. Your play was perfect, it has to be to constantly win at low stakes no limit hold’em. I wouldn’t change anything.
When you had Ace King, couldn't the A95 flop have given him a pair of nines? After the board pairs the 9 and he bets big, couldn't even had a suited 9-5, made a two pairs on the flop, then trips, now a full house?
My initial read was he had a very strong raising hand. QQ+ maybe AK. That read and the additional read on the river that he was strong made me believe he had AK crushed.
I think that guy is a typical OMC who slow plays monsters. I mean sure, bad players would’ve paid him off with AK, maybe even gotten stacked, but good players like yourself can get away from it. He would’ve gotten more value going for 3 streets. He had the perfect setup to get max value but only got the minimum
He is not an OMC, but checking top set on a dry board is not uncommon. He fired turn for 90% pot, and went for the check raise on the end. I just happened to have a good read that made me cautious, otherwise he would have doubled thru me.
On the JJ hand where you say “Ace is better for my range”, could be true with you blocking KJ but it put a 3rd diamond on board and he definitely has more diamonds than you. Nonchalant lazy analysis lol
