Dominate 3-Way Pots With This One Trick

So you're LLinusLove (congrats). You raise AK and Jason Koon and Alex Foxen call you in and out of position. You flop an top pair on an AJ7 flop -- how do you proceed? Today, we talk about monkey-in-the-middle, and how many high stakes players approach this common situation.
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[@TheRedLoop]

I'm certain most (if not all) of this is directly applicable to cash games of all stakes. I think by far this is the best strategy, even if it checks all around and your equity gets annihilated - it's still better than your stack divorcing you. This was great Alvin - more Multi-Way content, bro!!

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

Yeah I use this at all stakes! The value you lose from giving free cards is often made up for by making big folds, or having deceptive made hands on the turn that can extract a lot from suspicious opponents.

[@BittyPlaysPoker]

This is amazing please keep the content coming Alvin. Alvin….??? ALVIN!!!!!!!!!!

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

oh god, chipmunks unlocked

[@sosadesigner8813]

Damn! This was brief and extremely informative. I’ve been struggling in situations like this. Now, I’d go into them with confidence. Alvin, please can you make a video on how to play against callers who have position on you? My fear that they’ve flopped a set causes me to make a lot of mistakes.

[@4321i]

Jason Koon talking while u were explaning the strategy just made me laught and pay no atention to it LUL

[@Keanesqueeze]

I was watching a video about Linus’ Cbet tendencies so when you asked how much Linus was gonna bet on the flop, I immediately answered and completely failed the question 😂 Great video, I like seeing more of Linus’ play style and this one caught me be surprise

[@XandoFootball]

Damn I love Alvin man. Seems like a real cool dude

[@jjprodigyify]

This is what 3way GTO says too

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

[@tobyc8905]

He's back! Love your videos

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

Why thank you my man, I've been playing a ton lately, hopefully can get on some live streams for y'all soon.

[@johntrucano8186]

Great advice.

[@leonmozambique533]

In the soft low-stakes games that I play, many playes will call in the button with any pair or any draw and check the button with any holding that isn't top pair or a good draw...so I like to bet. They also almost never raise a hand stronger then two pair. Is there any GTO reason for checking so wide as the middle person? If not I'll just keep value betting into the calling stations.

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

I mean against horrible players you can do anything. But one day you'll face players who can tell you bet when you have it and check when you don't and you never win again.

[@ChrisM-wv4gs]

What type of hands are we check raising with. in say a 4 way pot and first to act checks we check. 3rd bets and either 4th to act or 1st to act calls calls

[@bobz762]

Hi Alvin some coaches advice that you have to flat your premium instead of 3bet when a fish is in the BB behind you. What do you think about that ? Have a nice day !

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

Disagree, not because it's conceptually poor, but because you can 3bet and fish will still call 9bb oop in the small blind with 66

[@bobz762]

@@AlvinTeachesPoker Thanks for your answer ! Btw what is your biggest downswing in bb ?

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

@@bobz762 I'm not exactly sure, because at this point I'm like 7 million hands into my career, but I'd never had really horrible downswings. maybe ... -4000bb between 2/4 and 10/20? I DID have a -27bi downswing at $25NL over a sample a long time ago where I finished close to 15bb/100 which was very humbling and reminds me how much luck plays in the long run--I'd say I go through long breakeven stretches more than have horrible downswings, def have had 100k breakeven runs at mid and high stakes.

[@davidmendez8185]

Commenting for support. Good video.

[@MrAntony2825]

Amazing video!

[@NKKK19]

I understand the flop check call for deception but why not check call the turn again instead of raising all in?

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

To deny equity, which is more important when the pot is larger. Also at some point you need to setup the pot for river shoves.

[@ralphlill5496]

Thank you

[@ptantonioalves]

Do not teach this cheat code to my opponents please... thx

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

Good think play is fairly complex after checking (like all other poker "opening" strategies), so you need multiple codes to actually unlock the safe

[@rom1879]

why is it Linus and Jason, but than there is Foxen? why not Billy? :)

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

I think it's because "Foxen" makes you feel like a badass to say, like it's a fighter jet call sign. No one cares about "Willy."

[@sunnyday9159]

Hello Alvin, Happy New Year to you as well. Few things, first it looks they are all in the hand. Its hard to see who folded and who continued to the flop. THEY ALL HAVE CARDS, UNLESS I NEED GLASSES. Why not just bet to protect your hand if you have AKo on this flop? Your explanation seems to be centered in "balancing your range" this balancing your range concept largely pertains to mid and high stakes games not small stakes whom mostly are not paying attention to your betting and checking frequencies. In these multi-ways, often when i don't bet to protect my hand, my opponent's hand improves then I end up losing the hand. Also, these are super high stakes players, 99% of your viewers will not be playing these players, at least not for now. What says you, thank you.

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

It's a complex explanation on why both gto and exploit prefer to check the flop that would require multiple hours to completely explore. But in essence, from an mdf perspective, if you bet bet bet and narrow villains ranges you'll often narrow their ranges to the very top, and since their starting hand range was narrower than yours, even fishy players will show you stronger hands more often than you think. Also, this hand showed Jason call lightly preflop and then fire with nothing. Ignoring his name, you don't think you face players who call light pre in position and then fire with little equity? Come on now. This argument really misunderstands what playing gto BASED strategies actually accomplishes in totality, because it's so focused on one thing (getting sucked out on). But what about all the times you make more from deception, or lose less or nothing from seeing both players react?