8 Habits Keeping Poker Beginners STUCK

These 8 bad habits are keeping poker beginners stuck. Learn how to fix these 8 common poker beginner mistakes in this video.
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[@BlackRain79Poker]

Have you made any of these 8 poker beginner mistakes? Also, here are the 7 mistakes all poker fish make: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mGGWiH6bndB2d9E

[@robertschatz7781]

Yes, I made all 8 of them, and some others I do not like to mention. At least now I know why I am losing.

[@Lita-yr4wt]

When I first started online I couldn't stop bluffing and trying to win every pot 😅 now I probably have some tells to work on, especially in-person

[@ucthisstack]

Id destroy you. Lets play

[@spaarky277]

If I am making any one of these mistakes, and I don't recognize it and change my play, I will be making an early exit from a tournament or I will lose what I came to play with in a cash game....

[@jacobandrade433]

I love how all these mistakes are my exact playing strategy 🐟🐟🐟🐠🐠🐟🐡

[@EverywhereDrums]

I invite you to my home cash game lol

[@rescobarjr]

​@TheWorkingDrummer i would take all ya'll money. Send the invite

[@ken9999roch]

LMAO! Now that was funny! I can relate!!!

[@markmiller6423]

I guess this makes 3 of us. I continue to make the same mistakes.

[@Q_Dawg1950-jb4fu]

it's okay... because when you catch a bluff everyone will marvel. How did you play that ? -- you just say "I'm lucky" - LOL

[@FranklinHalfAddict]

Discipline may be the most important thing in poker. I’m not very good at the game but the last time I played I really focused on staying disciplined. I was playing with four other guys from work, none of whom are very good either. I wasn’t catching any cards and my stack slowly dwindled early throughout the game. I outlasted the first two players and was in 3rd place out of the three remaining players. But I stayed disciplined and was folding when I was supposed to and eventually started making some hands. I outlasted the next player to fall and was heads up but down in chips at least 2:1, may have even been closer to 3:1. I was able to grind my way back and win the game. I was lucky to start getting some cards, but if I had made bad calls/raises early in the game I never would have been in a position to win later on.

[@roberthaun6622]

If you're card dead then you should mix in a bluff here and there so that way you can catch your opponents off guard and you may win a mid or a big pot sometimes.

[@KevinDurantEasy]

Needing to "see it" is one of my weaknesses. It requires a lot of mental control to not want to "see it"

[@Jordblitz]

That probably means you just don't play that much. Once you play more, you won't care so much about what other people have. It gets old quick

[@KevinDurantEasy]

@@Jordblitz Yeah I don't. I've just started off

[@Jordblitz]

@@KevinDurantEasy don't worry to much about it. I think just a little more play time (or even just watching poker vlogs online) will naturally break you from that habit. You become more concerned with what YOU should do in a given situation

[@VengeanceBG]

I would do it in a freroll but only if im a person who "calculates" hands and this gives me something to work with later.

[@TitanSlotS]

Very underated content this is stuff you pay to learn. Thank you sir

[@BlackRain79Poker]

I appreciate that!

[@raprap543]

Number 3 literally happened to me 2 hours ago. I have pocket jacks so I 3-bet and the flop was A K 6 rainbow with 2 players. I check and the guy bets 3x the blind and I call. Turn comes 9 and he c-bets. I folded, since I believed it was a pretty bad for me all in all.

[@user-gh7gg1kk5d]

Too funny! On example 5 as it was starting I was asking myself why the hell we called that 3bet oop with kj off….. and then you drop the bomb! Good stuff Nathan!

[@MarianneMcVeigh-xz2yv]

Thank you for your excellent videos. I hadn't played for two years and watched some of your videos just before a recent game. There were 40 people playing, i ended up being chip leader at my table after putting some of your strategies into action. Then I managed to get to final table and came 7th. I could have placed higher had I not been so tired after a busy day but i want to thank you for the tips that really worked when put into action. ❤

[@BlackRain79Poker]

Glad you like them!

[@erinfrost7562]

Thank you! Game changing info here!

[@BlackRain79Poker]

You're so welcome!

[@cabrinhaswitchblade8532]

Thank u so much 4 such a content! Just discovered your channel- now watching previous and don’t know how 2 stop) So could u 🙏 clear up, how 2 play such a hand like KJ or K9 Os at EP, MP and BU against unknown opponents

[@dadacrv]

Great video!

[@albertoaramake6287]

Always good advise from this Nathan💯

[@BlackRain79Poker]

Thanks Alberto!

[@williamcorbett5342]

I had no idea that direct eye contact was a common symptom of bluffing.... Now I'm having flashbacks to my first time playing and realizing why that one guy always knew haha

[@Asbestiparta84]

Good stuff, man. Thx 👍

[@BlackRain79Poker]

Glad you liked it!

[@khuongduy6697]

Thanks man! sometimes AKs AKo in tournament lip vs 99 TT short stacks nearly ITM always lose in Natural 8, bad beat

[@KrooksGaming]

Number 3 had me dying. I HAVE to see it. I’m working on it 😅

[@eb1970]

i am at the point of throwing away my pocket aces kings and queens. You win only big once every ten hands, 7 times you only win the blinds and the other 2 times you loose your complete stack, without doing anything wrong.

[@Juce_GG]

You are lying. You will not throw away your Aces and Kings.

[@albertwang6465]

I spoke with a pro in Vegas yesterday, he said speaking in general amateurs should be raising and folding more while calling less

[@sceptycznyracjonalista4769]

Great tips thanks

[@BlackRain79Poker]

Glad it was helpful!

[@TimStJohn-zd2fx]

Spot on, Nathan! I completely agree.

[@BlackRain79Poker]

Thanks Tim!

[@TimStJohn-zd2fx]

@@BlackRain79Poker You got it! One of the brightest minds in poker.

[@huey_444]

Thank you!!

[@BlackRain79Poker]

You're welcome!

[@sebastiantorres8678]

Excelent content

[@CMichael2276]

There is only one universal road block holding beginning poker players back and it's bankroll.

[@mihhailzaplava4820]

Thanks man!

[@BlackRain79Poker]

Glad this one helped!

[@petra5349]

Hey Nathan, love your content. But I’ve noticed you are mostly talking about nits and i play on gg poker where most of the players are VERY agressive. I would love to hear more about the agressive players too if you could include those too in your next video would be amazing :) tnx Xoxo

[@maulrat588]

Nine way, with preflop raise callers, middle pair is almost always dead. Check or fold. Calling only if heads up. Maybe. Also it takes a lot of experience in seeing thousands of hands to react the same way to AA as you do to 2,5. Practice looking at the cards, sliding them in front of your stack, and leaving them there until the hand is over. The same exact movement every time.

[@spaarky277]

What am i doing wrong in tournaments if I always do well in cash games, but only made it heads up once at final table?

[@user-yw6du8gw5m]

Thank you Teacher ❤

[@BlackRain79Poker]

You are very welcome

[@liguly9449]

Good morning, Although I am aware that your book is primarily aimed at cash games, can the basics of this book (apart from the ranges) be aimed at MTT players please? Thank you for your videos which are a gold mine for people like me.

[@jacobfrank2164]

Every time I play, I get closer and closer to understanding this guy.

[@TravisMay108]

So, question from a not so good player: I feel like with the first two examples that betting is a form of pot control. In the middle pair example, I feel like I'd bet often thinking, for one, that it shows strength and could scare off some hands, but then also, I'm worried about if I check and the person makes an oversized bet with a possibly worse hand or a high drawing hand like KQ in the first example then I'm in a really tough position. But if i bet, I'm often getting called and maybe improve my hand on the turn, etc. and I have thus controlled the pot by betting. What do you say about that?

[@Piglover1221]

Just listen to the advice check/call fold if you get a bet against you !! You need too stick around for the flush and straight draws middle pair can only turn into trips or two pair at most !! Which is still very un likely to happen

[@christianoglesby6951]

My girlfriend coined the term the "Just Kidding" for the KJ hand 😂

[@TomVerhaegen]

Problem is that I try to keep my decision time exactly the same everytime but then sometimes you get raised or called on a raise and you need a longer time to think about your next move. Specialy if that player is sitting one turn in front of you.

[@matheusrodrigues8096]

suggestions on poker sites to play reg tables ?

[@Asbestiparta84]

Subbed, liked 👍

[@BlackRain79Poker]

Thanks for the sub!

[@jonathansantana6239]

My game has improved thanks to your tips.

[@BlackRain79Poker]

Happy to help

[@UncleJoeLITE]

Cheers Nathan.

[@BlackRain79Poker]

No prob, glad this one helped!

[@ItsEverythingElse]

I had a bad problem with adrenaline shakes until I had played for a thousand hours or more.

[@ALexTheMasterBro]

Been playing for 3 years now .. i have no idea how to play poker…

[@leshreddur]

Yeah, when folks start going all in and I only have pocket aces and no flush possibility, I fold and watch one guy have a flush and another a straight and then I feel better I dodged them bullets.

[@ucthisstack]

Terrible strategy fish

[@leshreddur]

@@ucthisstack oh yeah, what? Bluff when I don't have anything and they have a straight and a flush? Did you smoke your breakfast Sir?

[@leshreddur]

Thanks man! Plus I'm only playing online and I believe it's much harder to bluff online. So pardon me if I am out of line a whole lot. Live playing is a much harder game to play. Im just a novice only playing online for no money. Just sharing 30 ish badly played hands. I would get excited and forget to count suits. I'm a fair novice at best lol.

[@ucthisstack]

Your strategy makes no sense. Protect your aces you soft pop tart

[@ucthisstack]

@@leshreddur id love to play you. You have absolutely no chance i eat chumps like you for breakfast

[@tuber93422]

I have done every one of these

[@longlostkryptonian5797]

You are soooo right. As good as I think I play most times, I refused to lay down my AAJJ with 10 10 on the board. I just had to see his 3rd 10. So f’n dumb!

[@josephmeador1529]

#5 is called the Gap concept. #4 and #3 s why you don't play online for free chips. You will be called with 2-6 off and donks will bluff and go all in every hand. Playing online will make you play badly at a real table.

[@nilsfacey]

I tried signing up for the free poker cheat sheet on your website however I did not receive an email asking me to confirm my email. Could you please help me download your free poker cheat sheet?

[@bobwhite4734]

Referring to number 7, I'm confused. If you have the lead, should you not make a C-bet? You're talking about the turn, not the flop, right?

[@ChrisKeeper29]

This past weekend I won an all in and was up in money, but then slowly whittled away my stack until I lost it all. Any tips on playing when you’re up? Should I get involved less/ be more conservative- that way I lose less? Thanks

[@rafaeljavier2012]

Learn when to cash out

[@boxychubbo6922]

You were one or a combo of the following: 1. playing too many hands. 2. card dead. 3. Not hitting anything on the board.

[@Scrappyhoops]

I asked the same question no one seem to know a good answer on here or his Facebook group

[@Ihave10billionsubs]

Very common. Biggest leak I see is going on "winners tilt", i.e. playing too many hands, calling with mediocre hands, etc. after you win a couple big pots. I used to have that for a long time until I fixed. You could also be card dead too, or just whiff a bunch of flops. Usually that's when it's time to wrap it up and call it a session, before you give all your winnings back.

[@zacharymassat1515]

You should literally play the exact same way. If you're deeper, then you can play more aggressively preflop and post flop bc other players will want to put in their stack with less and less hands, but the amount that you're up or down shouldn't dictate how you play whatsoever

[@mikehennessy6766]

when you say you dominate the low stakes games, how low are we talking? i will play 5-10$ tables and when i raise pre-flop with ace/queen people in those games people have no problem calling . and then i raise after the flop to show my aggression. then i continue to show my aggresssion like you say and im just left with ace high after the river and just end up losing to a pair or folding that ace and losing those chips.

[@mattjared8952]

I don’t get it…in every other video, if you have AJ with top pair, he always stresses continuation betting on the flop…I feel like, when he says to check/call in this video, I’m getting contradictory info…

[@Life-Glug]

Great tips, especially not bluffing fish.

[@gabrielboily2641]

But not all fish are the same I don't like how Nathan groups all fish as if there all the same. There's fit or fold who are bluffable and calling stations who will call triples with bottom pair and if you have 20 hands on that fish you have no clue that they'll call you with. In the particular example we can still win at showdown and bluffing on that runout is probably going to be -EV the fish is going to have worse missed draws that we can win against. If you have 8 high by all means you can bluff you're not winning at showdown anyway and the fish might fold because the flush came in if he's fit or fold. If he's a calling station you don't even bet the flop, turn and river.

[@eggny4877]

I folded pocket kings to a 2,3,4, flop opponent shows 5,6 saved me good money

[@Keptionpoker]

Nice Mindset > Good Hand or Strong Hand, i always have a hand like that :D ;) :p

[@BlackRain79Poker]

Very good!

[@jeffryglenn7024]

I shove with any pair... my house is paid for!

[@ShinestuHiko]

It has struck me I play much cleaner if I’m straight

[@dennislavelle6909]

in tip 5, would you call that preflop raise against a fish?

[@Q_Dawg1950-jb4fu]

of course he would... fishes are great to stack against !! You just gotta be patient.

[@privateHandle731]

Youre saying to check/call, but in your other videos you say to generally c bet. Do these two bits of advice not contradict each other?

[@Lita-yr4wt]

Thank you!

[@BlackRain79Poker]

No prob, glad this one helped you!

[@Lita-yr4wt]

@@BlackRain79Poker They always do! :)

[@nimbus400]

Do you have some thing in Spanish..?

[@joeshab123]

"tons of straights" - There's only one possible straight on the board...

[@NicTikkets]

🤔 one of my biggest flaws would be concentration.. any tips on improving that... I play mostly tornys so we have our breaks every hour... Im tag player and consider myself quite disciplined. But every now and then i will make a loose call or be to aggressive when i shouldn't be and i know in my self it comes down to those moments where for what ever reason my concentration drops and i cripple my self.

[@Shannon_Robbie]

A mantra that you repeat to yourself in your head could help remind you that you're losing focus.

[@NicTikkets]

Thanks for the reply.. I know personally if I'm at a friendly table with a bit of banter I lose my concentration (something I need to work on) but I do enjoy the banter 😔

[@josephmeador1529]

#2 Those who chase straights and flushes arrive on planes and leave on buses.

[@griffingaming1450]

Dont try this online, if you think this works online you are on the wrong video, especially in low stakes games, people will all in on A anything suited. Ive seen people on in with 5,6 suited. Its a completely different game online, only play with these tips at a live game.

[@justingifford4425]

This is why I do t play online anymore

[@Q_Dawg1950-jb4fu]

Number 2 will make you a fish... just saying !

[@primewestplumbing]

What do I do if I live in California. Can't play for real cash!!!???

[@TheMostSubsChannel]

cringe af, 100k subs all new players who dont know anything about poker

[@CDCmist]

Maybe the strategy is to fake the mistake

[@benriccardi298]

Guy is 15 years old giving advice 😂

[@spaarky277]

Best 15 year old advice I've heard in less than 7 minutes

[@roberthaun6622]

Lol!!!!! If that guy looks like he's 15 then I look like I'm 5. 😂🤣

[@whatsupshittafabraans1926]

Teaching players to be snowflakes

[@wangchi_]

wat?

[@Ihave10billionsubs]

Nope. Teaching players to be cautious and deliberate in their actions. I mean, if you feel like burning money at the poker table then go ahead and play like a maniac. Most people do afterall.

[@WokeSoul77]

Curious whats your bankroll? Your on KZbin watching this so your probably not professional....

[@WokeSoul77]

I guarantee you do not have as much career winnings as Nathan.......

[@whatsupshittafabraans1926]

You dickheads, poker should never be a career, it’s a pastime like a hobby, I play here in Australia, we gamble about two flys, our official game is two up, and I play several pub games a week, I don’t care for winning motza money because I’m f Inacially secure but I’ve won many more nightly tournaments than you wish you were here, entry usually $20, end up winning 2-3 hundred a night , win some loose some, I see the same players at different venues across Sydney Aus. Make the same predictable by the book moves, never bluff never straddle, and yet again all the young buck say come play the casino. I don’t need that thrill, just happy to play socially, but then again you do come across Aholes, so I do lift to the challenge to break them into bankruptcy, , so snow flakes will never win because gambling is a risk, you morons all have turtle shells on your backs, so as far as I’m concerned, pull your heads in, TONY H

[@emilysuvac8243]

cool

[@badvideo169]

yet they call and hit 2 outer gut shot , your advice doesnt HELP!