$4,600,000 MILLION dollar PRIZE pool!! Time to RUN GOOD! // Poker Vlog

[@andyarnold8129]

Regretting not making a bigger preflop raise with the last aces? Big stack playing low suited connectors may fold?

[@Ggoodlad1]

"Playing well and getting unlucky" speaks to me, and many of us I'm sure. Story of MY week anyway. Carry on, and thx for the fun story, Lex! GL in Vegas, man!🍀👍

[@kaceydillin7367]

Looking forward to seeing you play at The Lodge in Round Rock Texas today. Best stream in the business. Have fun under the lights! ❤️

[@Giuls_83]

Great video , The emotion and authenticity of the video is refreshing and relatable. You should try incorporating a sped up time lapse of all the rags ! Only discovered your channel recently and glad I did 🙌

[@hamishesslemont3705]

That was gruesome to watch Lex ! My worst bad beat ( online ) was where I lost an all in to a straight flush ………and I had QUADS !!! 🤢

[@stephenharney4886]

Hey lex, i just won my local pub league and with it a trip to vegas. Im a long time viewer and was wondering if you could switch it up on the videos and do a guide to vegas. Im talking more how best to get around. What time and places to play low/medium tournaments. When to enjoy the other things vegas has to offer. Where to go on break. Where to eat. Where to go for a smoke break to not miss too many hands. You are someone who s been there and done it and while it would be more of a guide than a vlog i think it would be really cool to see some of the logistics side of just being in vegas

[@ratmuff1]

Love that you’re real and you share your feelings when it sucks. Poker players need this! It’s not all rainbows and smashed flops!

[@dingaonhockey]

Yoo do you remember what the runout was on the hand at 6:00 minute mark? You had TT vs JJ 33. Flop QQ3 but JJ won. Was turn/river KK?

[@anthonybasile154]

Hey lex stay focus this is just part of the process. It just wasn’t your day to win but your day is coming..the thing is you just can’t quit remember winners don’t quit losers do. Stay positive be focus and expect great things to happen. Hang in there buddy as always great vlog good luck!!

[@misterjones1224]

I feel old, but the hands that show the board at an angle w/ no card graphics are difficult to see 🤷🏻‍♂️ Thanks for sharing. Best of luck 😎

[@scotttavernier720]

Not sure you have the temperament for tournaments. The big boys don’t get as worked up as you do

[@SrenHansenDK]

Thanks for another great video. I have little doubt that you are far better cash game player than I will ever be. I am wondering how much coaching you have taken in tournament games? I am asking just because my own experience (have played all the way to WSOP Main event, is that your cards are important for roughly half of the pots if you play live tournaments with $500-$2,000 - almost the other half is chipping up with any two, playing your position a lot more aggresive. From your tournament videos it does not seem like you are that much playing position as you are playing the cards delt? (Don't get me wrong, cannot be done blindly, but it is a hugely important aspect of tournaments.

[@vincentchouinard11]

I'm a tournemant player, and i love all type of your vlog. I feel your pain today! Keep doing some poker tournemant vlog its realy fun to watch. GL on the lodge today!

[@blackbeardgoatjr2434]

Just finished watching the WPT 2022 Barcelona tournament. Talk about crazy variance!

[@winstonwinston3487]

Lex channel so underrated…. Starting to become fav poker vlog above all the more popular guys (eg Rampage , Mariano, etc)

[@calebmichael5210]

I appreciate you honesty in the outro! Tournaments are awesome but brutal. I played a tournament recently and couldn't pick up a hand all day. Finally get Aces and shove. Get called by the maniac with 9-2 and he hits a 9 on the flop and a river 2. Brutal, but that's poker. Get em next time bro!!

[@KING_133]

You Lex great vid! You don’t know me but I play at the Hardrock all the time, just like you but mainly tournaments. My advice is you should play the 100k guaranteed (first place be about 35k) or Big Slick tournament the HR run every month just to get the feel how tournaments are played. Tournaments and cash are different animals especially at that level. Next time I see you imma say wassup and chop it up with u!

[@jthrasherphoto]

I'll be in Vegas when you're there too. I'm going to see the U2 show and play some poker. Been a long time vlog watcher. I'd love to meet up if you have time while we're there.

[@mastercarve6211]

Unfortunately Lex, you didn't raise your aces enough: with 3 people left to act, 3k is nowhere big enough- even with 1 caller, the button is probably coming along. I would probably bet at least 7-8k, hoping to just get 1 caller. The button still may call with 5/6 suited (exactly what I put him on when he raised in the video), esp. with a 250k stack. Tough to fold there, but I think I would've just flatted the raise at most. Poker is a tough bedfellow sometimes! Take care, great videos !

[@richardsimmonsjuggernautof9781]

Lmfao these comments are priceless, let’s 5x our premiums so they won’t get cracked. Let’s have massive sizing tells preflop to give away our hand strength and play face up the rest of the hand. Whatever your opening size is, 2x, 2.5x etc, it should absolutely be the same size for every single hand in your range that you’re opening, whether it be 45s or AA

[@logansmith4690]

@@richardsimmonsjuggernautof9781I agree with the sizing tells but a min raiser does usually seem bad imo. Atleast 2.5-3x but I’m sure in this hand he calls anyways with 56suited otb

[@richardsimmonsjuggernautof9781]

@@logansmith4690 yea that’s fine, AA doesn’t always have to win, just navigate postflop correctly. Most of these troglodytes would rather just 5x pre and win the minimum just bc they’re afraid to actually play postflop and play real poker. I don’t get dealt premiums near enough to want to only win the blinds when I get them.

[@moayourlawn1126]

54s and 56s are def in the button range to a min raise.

[@Operation2]

Brutal AKs chop with that sweet sweet board. 2:00

[@horacegardner3516]

Feel your pain! I am pulling for you to hit a big win! Good luck.

[@jrcorsey]

Before you shove with aces, always check how close you are to the end of the video. I did, and it was obvious you were behind. You could have saved most of your stack. Better luck next time!

[@xavierharding8938]

Exactly I saw the video was 24 minutes long and I knew he wasn't going to cash. Had Lex simply checked that he could've saved himself 7k.

[@MrOracio121]

😢You said it yourself said has been very tight the last 3 Hours and you decided to reraise? Why just call and see a Flop no Set …easy fold that only cost you 3500 and if you hit you double up

[@laartwork]

​@YallaMiami yes. He used to play the math. Now he is into "high variance"... aka gambling. If your name isn't Phil Ivey just stick to the math and make a good hourly profit. He has good skills for lower stakes.

[@rhcp9009]

You don’t want to flat with JJ at this stage. He could of lost a ton more if he flats 3500 & sees a 8-4-2 flop he’s screwed.

[@MrOracio121]

@@rhcp9009 ? He did say he felt like his opponent was tight right… if he bets into you on a 8-4-2 flop.. I’m pretty sure you can just muck it depending on the bet… easy fold if he continues after flop for let’s say 5K… fold it and move on… if “you lose a ton “😆on that flop after knowing you opponent hasn’t been getting out of line knowing your beat 🤦

[@scarfaceaz]

I agree, he should have called in that spot for just a bit more and tried to spike a set. If he misses, there's an actual decent chance the flip gets checked because the reraiser is now wondering what Lex might have. You just can't be folding premiums like 4th best starting hand in poker that late in a tournament. If you lose, you lose

[@PeterPiperPickin]

What are you talking about lol. Regardless if guy is tight or just hasn’t played any hands because he’s card dead, if he’s halfway decent in a tournament setting he’s opening like 80-90% of hands once it’s folded to him otb against a dead SB and a BB lol. Flatting JJ there would be one of the worst options. Not saying I haven’t done it before for deception and a little bit of balance/experimentation but you giving one of those “why not just call JJ and try to flop a set if not fold” opinions like JJ is the same as 22-55 lol.

[@adansampieri6249]

Icm, and reverse implide odds in late tournament levels is required to the point of folding queens,kings, and sometimes even aces but more when you're out of position....

[@Bbfanatic]

awesome transparency lex o get em next time!

[@TEAMGETHELP]

@6:00 damn even Jacks got outflopped and lucky on the turn

[@MecheGT]

3k for aces?

[@joedelucia5779]

Those Hollywood tournament players are wild!

[@G0DofRock]

Just started live tournaments. It's been good but man I was so close to bubbling a deep tourney last night and got it in KJ vs QJ, clean flop, turn, river Q.

[@fredmiller9190]

GREAT to finally meet you over thanksgiving at hard rock.

[@dchevron77]

Tournaments are BRUTAL. It sucks that you can spend 6+ hours to lose it all to an 80/20 flip but that's life I guess. Makes the highs all the more enjoyable!

[@Hice_T]

Tournaments are ruthless, you can go months without cashing.

[@tjsumigray22]

Ive been watching you for awhile, and I've mentioned this before: when you have an Ultra-premium, your 3-bets need to be larger to isolate.👍

[@williamroberts4758]

Tournaments I agree, like all in. When I 3-bet on a ultra, all my bets will be all in.

[@richardsimmonsjuggernautof9781]

lol that’s called a sizing tell friendo, all raises/3 bets should be the same size regardless of hand strength

[@tjsumigray22]

@@richardsimmonsjuggernautof9781 absolutely not. That might be the dumbest thing I've ever heard in a poker comment section.

[@Matzes]

​@@tjsumigray22if you raise all your premiums higher, you will not get Action, people catch ln quickly. Pretty much playing face up. The comment above you is right 100%. Raise the same always in the same situation, you cannot get exploited.

[@richardsimmonsjuggernautof9781]

@@tjsumigray22 loooool, wow mate, you’re a real whopper if you believe that

[@frankrizzo5155]

Thats why I rarely slow play aces. But thats poker!

[@salvygambler8607]

I think you’re going too light with pocket AA’s it’s either all in or fold for me in tournaments. I had similar situation last week in a tournament hitting sets twice into a highly connected flop. Both times opponents folded.. but I didn’t bust to their small call and 1 card straights… with them hitting

[@tanthony298]

With how often they get cracked for me I tend to either be super aggressive like a 30BB preflop open jam or limp and then jam on the preflop raiser or limp and hope to flop a set or whatever and go from there, better to win a small pot than get cracked and believe it or not you will get called for a ridiculously large preflop all in bet more than you would think.

[@salvygambler8607]

Yeah I agree. Don’t give them any of the community cards, that’s when things go south.

[@flamesnow8689]

good luck on the coming tourneys

[@RoganShortsFeed]

The fold with JJ is repulsive. Anyways, GG

[@nickflesch9116]

donky EP min raise entitled Lexo baby poker

[@TheEriccli]

My luck is just like yours 😂 you are so real

[@sujaysateri4359]

50 bb (cash games) Open with A9 on button Bb calls Flop A 9 8 ..2 spades I raise he calls Turn 2 of spades I raise ,he shoves I have the A of spades What to do in this position?

[@louiemoretti3533]

Man tournament life is tough... it's a love/hate thing

[@Wildkoala1]

3:30 is a crazy hand

[@TimothyKiernicki]

What in the WORLD was Mr 55 thinking...calling flop and turn on that board? INSANE.

[@nex8000]

In position on a Q high board the preflop raiser is going to bet a lot of hands on that flop that totally miss. Then the turn bet was very small, plus having a club never hurts. It was like 800 into 3200+. He needs like 20% equity on the turn to make the call. Probably still a fold, but not really that insane. Lex just didn't bet his hand strong enough. Gatta go more than 1/4th pot with trips. He was clearly scared of the flush.

[@kmdskins]

I would have been tilted too. There was only one move that you made that I would have played differently. When you got pocket jacks for the second time in a row, you said that the person that raised you was very tight. Yet, you decided to re-raise him instead of just calling and saying a flop. Who knows what the flop would’ve brought but now you’ll never know. Once he re-raised your re- raise, folding at that point was the right thing to do but I don’t think you needed to get to that point. Just my 2 cents.

[@gbwiz]

i actually like jamming pre with AA in both spots.

[@gregorygiles6430]

Most people will balance sets with bluffs if they are good players.

[@raymondthompson7899]

Y'all continue to say that poker's a game of skill 😂😂😂

[@blakeengland7784]

wtf is that turn check call with friggin birds

[@actionpoker7C2H]

I play a couple live $50 turbos a week and the occasional bigger ones. You get 5x your starting stack over on the cash games and you're eating lobster tonight. Anything short of 10x starting stack on the final table and you probably just wasted the last 3 hours of your life spending the whole time recalculating your BBs every 15 minutes just to get sucked out on KK vs A6O on the bubble specifically from a dude with 60% of the chips locked up and nothing better to do.

[@onthebeach8211]

why did you fast forward it? couldn't even understand him saying he didn't look and that was the best part of the entire video

[@TimothyKiernicki]

Good chance he had Kings - with one being the spade.....on your aces hand. I would wager.....30 schmeckles

[@adcscooter4517]

That last hand is further proof of why I say the min raise is the worst play in poker. If you raise 4x pre-flop there you probably get suited connectors to fold.

[@tjsumigray22]

I think this has been a major flaw for awhile

[@richardsimmonsjuggernautof9781]

Ok but now you have to be balanced. Now you have to 4x all the garbage you’re raising with to steal the blinds, and putting in way more chips all the times we have to raise/fold, also now when we’re raising sub optimal hands we only get called by a tighter range that we’re doing worse against. God forbid a big pair gets cracked, it’s called knowing how to play postflop poker and navigating various runouts correctly. Only clueless whoppers 4x their strong hands to “avoid getting cracked”

[@dangraffenius1988]

See you In Vegas, I’ll be out there for the WPT Main

[@billpotts3350]

Tournaments are very frustrating. Play for hours and come up empty

[@ryanroberts7771]

You have to chip up early in a tournament to be able to dodge some landmines. Playing shortstack will get you cracked by bad players. You need to be betting more with ultra premiums to punish the bad players.

[@kmsnow6292]

Aces cracked twice. This is why I’m not a fan of min raise pre (2X, 2.5X) with this hand and invite 2 or 3 other players into the pot.

[@woodlee1996]

Can't believe that AK was a chop

[@pedroreyes2860]

Have some manners , push your chair in buddy

[@jiqiao711]

The last hand pocket aces play was bad

[@Spiritualsecrets444]

I like cash games more than Tournaments

[@michaelmclaughlin1958]

I guess folding AA might be the best move in a tournament!?!?!?!

[@brandonsanders9674]

At least you got to make a decent video for us to watch! I’m just trying to be positive.

[@rudenurse2561]

✌🏾👽

[@-_-John-_-]

✅

[@deshaunjackson8188]

You can't only play good hands? Sometimes you gotta pay to see cheap flops with low pocket pairs suited cards and connectors. And if you connect your opponent never sees it coming!

[@00SecretAgent]

... #LexO KZbin is killing me please post more often..!

[@dangnguyenhai8971]

I swear to god that this guy doesn’t know what he is talking about. Hand pocket 10s, he said vil would have AK, AA or KK but then vil showed JJ, he said that’s what he thought. Hand AA min raised 2bb then 3 callers and he said not so many 5 when vil re-raise him. Man, I swear this guy can’t even beat 0.5/1 on pocker star

[@joshuapatrick682]

Pocket aces early in a tournament… hate em

[@blakeengland7784]

why would he raise with KQ 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@dash9658]

I love the wide variance play by the big Stack with 5/6. You never thought in a million years that he had a 5 and hence he got all your money.

[@mikewilliams3509]

Why play a tourney that you're just gonna jam without looking and end up having k3 lol

[@logansmith4690]

When you 3 bet the TT and BB 4 bet how was the SB in there with pocket 3s???? Horrible play And the AKd 3 bet and getting 4 bet where you ended up 5 betting into aces is the exact same way I got busted in my last tournament. AK of diamonds vs BB AA

[@dfamily2385]

Playing a tournament and be scared. Just dont play tournament lex. Your making us sick. Folding JJs on a 4bet. You just won on that hand. Your analysis is worst

[@deshaunjackson8188]

You can't play tournaments like you play cash games.

[@mattsmith5703]

Poker is a killer I lost a 5000 dollar pop with pocket aces got the money in good against Ace Four on flop of 9 9 4 and villain hit a 4 on the river and that’s poker

[@wompwomp7177]

Hopefully playing a $5000 pot you can handle the swings, if not you have no business being in a 5k pot to begin with

[@jimmyyates9520]

so i just watched your ace king of diamonds hand. my question is why not consider a fold in that hand preflop? in a cash game sure u shove and rebuy and move on but this is not a cash game. and lex that is the point! if u want to be best of best, u have to know the battle u r in. in a tournament, your chips are your ammo. dont make a play because its what the book says, u have to consider more variables when in a tournament. i know i am being critical but u seem to come to the table with this belief that u are the best player. if that is the case, prove it!! i bet when u went all in with the ace king u said to yourself if i lose i will just buy in again. cant think like that. wsop main event there are no rebuys. u should play as if this is all you got. no reenforcements.

[@hieungo7518]

You kind of killed yourself with the min raise.

[@brianfloyd2279]

Do people really drive around doing videos? He's looking into the camera which means he ain't watching the road.

[@righttobeararmsetc.8492]

When u have AA u can't let four limp in just should have bet five k if anyone wanted to stay in they could have paid if not u win easy too many means AA loses

[@marktito6169]

Nothing you could do. Try playing smaller tournys. Those real big tournys are a pure luck.

[@marksimos7549]

Comment help, you’re welcome.

[@derekjwalls]

You min raised AA and let the chip leader see a cheap flop with a wide range and he sucked out.

[@qttasks6989]

Lex is a awful turns player way way way tight then makes stupid decisions why shove on k55 with aces there

[@Ceej1724]

Live poker tournaments are rigged! 😭

[@tphuynh85]

NT NT NT

[@christianc1407]

Buddy calls himself a pro and dudes never had a winning year 😂

[@hullhealersboatworksrestor4377]

He is a winning cash game player for sure.

[@ericlively3979]

Never called himself a pro but a cash game specialist. Does need some tournament courses to help his game

[@joyride1598]

Never had a winning year? How do you figure that? He's a cash game player

[@shawnwilson1514]

Stop slow playing in tournament it's not a cash game!!!! If you went all in with aces the guy with the five would of definitely folded!

[@thirstybass4303]

Wdym

[@mully107]

Lex can you please acknowledge the comments from the last video where you got shorted 1k in a pot?

[@jimmyyates9520]

okay lex, in a cash game with players u have played with before therefore u have a history with, its okay to call them rec players. but in a tournament with players u dont know, its insulting to say that! i mean i dont go into a tournament thinking oh no i must be playing rec players because who am i? am i better than them? i see alot of poker vloggers use that term rec players as if they are better than those players. its irritating. negreanu is a pro, the magician is a pro, ivey is a pro. everyone else is just a poker player. until u get to that point in your poker career, u, me and everyone else are just poker players.

[@ritviksahu3239]

Please sponsor me i wanna play with you

[@jackspinner4727]

Pretty sure lex is looking for sponsors not looking to sponsor. Could be wrong though doesn’t hurt to ask

[@idahoidaho7656]

dude you run so bad at these tournaments! wtf everytime

[@tavogp]

i don't like poker tournaments , they can be anti climactic

[@hulk3518]

Bro your the worst player in tournaments aa is an all in preflop, why would you raise a tiny bit. 😢