Back to the Basics, poker vlog 231

[@vincentolmos2263]

9 high like a boss!! 👏🏼

[@dougmccuskerpoker]

@@vincentolmos2263 lol, I thought you could beat that 😂

[@vincentolmos2263]

Clearly the best man won

[@ronlamaster9301]

Happy to see your luck, like mine, is turning around. When you hitting your hands and making the right moves at the right time, poker is fun. Keep vloging and we will keep supporting you.

[@dougmccuskerpoker]

@@ronlamaster9301 thanks for the support, poker is always easy when you’re running good. The toughest and most impactful on your bankroll is playing solid when running poorly. I’m still working on that

[@michaelkelly6667]

what a great year Doug! Congratulations!

[@dougmccuskerpoker]

@@michaelkelly6667 still have a few weeks to make it better 😀

[@timshaw5963]

Congratulations on a solid week! Loved the tree hunting photo!

[@dougmccuskerpoker]

@@timshaw5963 good week for poker and family.

[@robs4530]

great vlog good luck this week happy holidays to you and the family (Zues too)

[@dougmccuskerpoker]

@@robs4530 thank you, hope your holidays are great also.

[@JohnLee-hb9ix]

Crazy…set over set w/AA and TT in a limped hand! Hope your good play and run good continues

[@dougmccuskerpoker]

@@JohnLee-hb9ix not sure I played the AA good, but I felt most of my play was solid. I always am thankful for some run good 😊

[@nicholi2789]

You have a beautiful family Doug! Good for you!

[@dougmccuskerpoker]

@@nicholi2789 I’m blessed 😀

[@beachfraser3747]

Another Sunday classic, I thought you played the pocket rockets well, ifyou raise he might fold as he didnt have the nuts either ,in his mind, i have nw had 7 sessions of chemo, yuk, side effects are awful, but battling thru keep wellDoug, lovely family and of course Zeus, regards from a very wintry, windy England!

[@dougmccuskerpoker]

@@beachfraser3747 how many more rounds of chemo do you expect? My family member is going thru a similar issue and I believe the doctors are planning to remove a mass now. Stay strong 💪, you got this!

[@CoolHandC]

Great vlog, Doug! It’s always good to change things up a bit from time to time on vlogs. Humor is always a plus in my book. I find it hilarious when Zeus gives his hindsight analysis on your mistakes. SoCal poker added a lot of humor to his and I miss his vlogs! One reason I like your vlog is that you play lower stakes. I mostly play $1-3 and $2-5 and I stop watching most poker vloggers when they move up in stakes, when they start playing more tournaments and less cash games, and when they play on live streams way too much.

[@dougmccuskerpoker]

@@CoolHandC I too prefer watching low stakes cash vlogs. Sometimes I wander to the mid stakes and higher, but I find those games are very different from “normal games” I play in.

[@Andrewsatkowski]

Clock on play time and up/down balance is great. We do play differently when been there a while and up or down. Great stuff watching you play!

[@dougmccuskerpoker]

@@Andrewsatkowski my biggest issue with time is that I get fatigue after 4 hrs. Try to keep my sessions shorter than most vloggers. Being stuck all day can affect my play. Happy the AA stood up in that multi way limped pot 🫣

[@pot_kivach160]

🐕was "marking" 🌲!!

[@dougmccuskerpoker]

@@pot_kivach160 he had most of the farm selected as potential candidates. 😂

[@daniels9775]

Doug, it looks like I may have my first chance to play at CC - on Wednesday this week. Not sure if that’s one of your days, but I look forward to checking out the joint and shuffling some of your chips for a few hours either way!

[@dougmccuskerpoker]

@@daniels9775 I normally play in the afternoon on Wednesday. Start around noon and play 3-4 hours. I also do some editing in the bar area afterwards in case you arrive later.

[@daniels9775]

Great schedule! I may arrive around your changeover time…I will be out there for work, after all 🙃

[@dougmccuskerpoker]

@daniels9775 see you Wednesday

[@TexasPoker40]

AA hand, love the check on flop, brutally hate that you didn’t check raise. If you’re not checking to check raise, then lead out for 1/4 or 1/3 pot multi-way

[@dougmccuskerpoker]

@@TexasPoker40 I should have lead because I’m blocking all the aces. When my opponent bet into 6 players there was a possibility he had KQ. I called the flop and checked the turn to try to get a read on his sizing. Small sizing didn’t feel like the nuts. His reaction to my check raise made me believe I had him crushed.

[@johndelaney8980]

I like how you were compassionate to the guy for two dollars. Way to go.lol

[@dougmccuskerpoker]

@@johndelaney8980 I never go out of my way to take someone’s last dollar. If it’s forced upon me, that’s a different story.

[@SavagePoker81]

Great family pic Doug..

[@dougmccuskerpoker]

@@SavagePoker81 I’m proud to say that all of them turned out good! Well except for that tall guy who plays poker all the time 😂

[@jamesecarson5631]

"quiet for an hour" thanks for the family photo; good going

[@dougmccuskerpoker]

@@jamesecarson5631 Family first, everything else is second!

[@carlkoh]

Great video!

[@dougmccuskerpoker]

@@carlkoh thanks, glad you liked it!

[@codydonaldwalter]

No big arguments. I thought there’d be 1 or 2 😆. That was great!

[@dougmccuskerpoker]

@@codydonaldwalter our get together was amazingly peaceful.

[@eugeneahmad5459]

Doug, I would love to see those 10 small hands that u lost early on💯. I would like to see if the situation was with betting n 3 betting for context. 🙏🏾

[@dougmccuskerpoker]

@@eugeneahmad5459 I 3 bet JJ, flop was AQx against 2 players.

[@TexasPoker40]

Doug, if the best player in the room is opening 32s from LoJack I’m on my way to this casino 😂

[@dougmccuskerpoker]

@@TexasPoker40 he is one of the best and he was playing deep. He is not afraid to put pressure on other deep stacks and is difficult to play against. That being said, 32s is clearly a fold in my book.

[@kayanhashemi7419]

i’ll only play you if Zeus is there, I gotta meet the star of the show.

[@daltonraynes305]

💰

[@dougmccuskerpoker]

@@daltonraynes305 a win is a win

[@narutoash111]

the last hand i would have raised to about 270-300. if he made a blocker bet intending to fold to a raise，make it bluffy and try to get him to call rather than value raise

[@dougmccuskerpoker]

@@narutoash111 that’s a good line, I might use it next time.

[@willinnewhaven3285]

Merry Christmas

[@dougmccuskerpoker]

@@willinnewhaven3285 Merry Christmas to you too.

[@raylewis6117]

Early huh? Good luck.

[@dougmccuskerpoker]

@@raylewis6117 👍

[@pot_kivach160]

AT, 17:24 would a triple 8 checked river?

[@dougmccuskerpoker]

@@pot_kivach160 I thought trip 8s would raise turn. Highly unlikely he had trips. Was targeting non believing J. All draws missed and would fold to any bet.

[@paigow1965]

I would have paid off with pocket 5’s vs A10 also. Unlucky for you he hit his kicker. You lost the minimum there though.

[@dougmccuskerpoker]

@@paigow1965 i thought he played it well. He was reaping one pair, betting turn is dangerous against someone who can and is willing to play back at him.

[@pot_kivach160]

77, 19:18 I like option 1.

[@dougmccuskerpoker]

@@pot_kivach160 option 1 is much better than 2. I like to be aggressive early, so I picked 3.

[@smcg1938]

That AA hand you would have gotten it in on the flip if you played it more aggressively. Slow playing rarely pays off

[@MrRodnick1955]

Doug I love your blogs you tell it like it is and good out come or bad you own up to it. Glad your + & not -.

[@dougmccuskerpoker]

@@MrRodnick1955 thanks you, I do have more positive outcomes than negative. Both are important to show. You can learn from your own mistakes, but it’s much cheaper to learn from other’s mistakes. Learn from mine and save some cash. 😀

[@stevelc1531]

My thinking on your all-in on the river with A/10 is you’re probably only getting called by trip 8’s, or AJ so why bet huge.? If he only has a J it’s probably not going to be worth it for him to bluff catch with what he had invested in the pot.

[@dougmccuskerpoker]

@@stevelc1531 that’s one way of looking at it. The other way is that my opponent doesn’t believe me and his would only jam with the nuts or nothing. The value jam against a sticky opponent is like printing cash.

[@tx189]

The nit game

[@dougmccuskerpoker]

@@tx189 sometimes there are nits, other times there is nothing but action

[@robertbriggs2674]

Gg

[@dougmccuskerpoker]

@@robertbriggs2674 thanks

[@MasterScopesvids]

First

[@ChuckHolloway86]

Dumb and dumber. Limping with pocket TT and AA

[@dougmccuskerpoker]

@@ChuckHolloway86 yeap, that makes me dumb 🫣