25NL Zoom Hand Review With Top Pro BenaBadBeat - Part One! 50 of My Hands Quickfire Reviewed

[@BenjaminRaven]

These hands definitely weren't as bad as you thought they were man! Keep working, you got this

[@eastyyy22]

The hard work starts now, finally time to study! Thanks as always for coming on mate!

[@Weazel1991]

Had plans today but this video was legitimately so god damn entertaining / educational that I may just watch on repeat. A perfect duo of genius Ben and the comic relief (Nick). 10/10

[@eastyyy22]

Ayyy thanks mate, appreciate it. Ben is absolutely nutted, we can agree there!

[@Weazel1991]

The JJ hand (18:37) I did want to agree during the stream that it was a fold. Some chatpro said "the min raise on turn from fish is always nutted", and as much as I HATE to agree with these generalisations, he is pretty bang on. Not surprised to hear Ben give the same analysis. Gl finding bluffs there son

[@eastyyy22]

It's definitely mostly value, but that guy was telling me it's never a bluff and to find any instances in my database that min raise turn was a bluff. I know for a fact I have several, and I've also folded a bunch, so who really knows! But yeah, this one's not good mate, never said it was pretty.

[@FefeLeVrai]

I think you could make a video about the hands you've faced a minraise on the turn with. I'm really curious.

[@cassielrincon939]

this video is actually 1 hour of pure gold coaching. Pretty huge one. Love to see itt!

[@eastyyy22]

Thanks Cassiel! Hope things are going well for you.

[@EL-em3mn]

Just subscribed. I think this format is better than 95% of anything else possible. I can't stand 20 minute studies of single hands. This is how it should be done.

[@eastyyy22]

Thanks man, I try to mix it up so there's a bit of everything, but I definitely plan to revisit this format!

[@davidbucci5649]

Pure gold! more videos like that with Ben!

[@eastyyy22]

Thank you! Unfortunately my Bena access is limited due to his schedule but hope to get something together every now and again.

[@samuelmelchione8586]

Wtf this video is like watching a Jedi master train his young talented padawan to be one with the gto force. This is super sick!!!

[@eastyyy22]

I'd love to be his padawan but he has a lot going on! If I get to pretend once a month for a video then that's enough for me haha. Glad you liked it mate.

[@converter3122]

Dude, this is soo good! Very nice spots, good tempo, no distracting music or background animations, clear native british english. Many of these spots an cocepts are relatively complex but you two, one expert and one decent player (I hope thats not an understatement lol) make it very clear! Definitely looking for more breakdowns from you two! ❤

[@yooyoo8637]

Yours and Ben’s videos are too funny, hope you make more in the future. This content too good to be free!

[@eastyyy22]

Thanks a lot! I will keep roping him into new videos, don't worry! The guy is literally too nice to say no haha

[@gustavloucetius1811]

So much great content here. Love the format! More of these!

[@eastyyy22]

Thanks, Gustav! Part 2 in a couple of weeks!

[@KavortOfficial]

Love the format of this. Really good pace with enough theory.

[@eastyyy22]

Thanks Daddy, glad you liked it!

[@Bongoincongo]

Top-tier quality as usual Easty lad. So good, I’m gonna rewatch and take some notes when I get the chance. Keep on keeping on. Bongo

[@eastyyy22]

Cheers Bongo lad, love having you about the place! Absolute legend, not just with memes! Glad you liked it mate.

[@Upbeatpkr]

Another great video! Can't wait for part 2!

[@eastyyy22]

Thanks Justin, glad you enjoyed it!

[@mannykang498]

that was the most entertaining informative video I've ever watched in poker

[@eastyyy22]

Thanks Manny!

[@JM-uk5to]

Very enjoyable. Found your stream on accident :D, really liked what I saw there. Love your dedication, keep up the good work mate :)

[@eastyyy22]

Happy accident, thanks for watching and for the kind words. Glad you liked the video!

[@gouttierevac1667]

Nice review!! Can't wait for part 2 :D

[@eastyyy22]

Thank you, it'll be here in 2 weeks!

[@sinsmiletv2840]

This is the kind of content i really like and need, thx a lot for Ben and you Nick

[@eastyyy22]

You're welcome mate, thanks for watching!

[@Roxz.1]

Love the variety of the content on this channel. Keep it up mate, valuable and entertaining!

[@eastyyy22]

Thank you very much! Glad you are enjoying it.

[@danupton5673]

best one ive watched yet. looking forward to part 2

[@eastyyy22]

Thanks mate!

[@NoChillzzz]

This video should be pinned in homepage of ur channel Nick, just absolutely genius stuff by both of you. Also, subscribing now :)

[@eastyyy22]

Thanks a lot man, one of my favourites too!

[@mowgly22]

Tips for multi way pot is nuts because we play lot of multiway vs rec in z25/16/10. So thank you for saving my money! Very good content one more time!

[@eastyyy22]

Definitely a lot of important stuff regarding multi way pots here! Hopefully will get Ben again in the near future.

[@warducky]

Awesome video! Love the speed of the reviews so it doesn't get boring

[@eastyyy22]

Thanks mate! Glad you liked the format, thanks for the feedback.

[@chesscoachgerry4140]

Love to see Ben again!!

[@eastyyy22]

Hope you enjoy it!

[@chesscoachgerry4140]

@@eastyyy22 Certainly did! :) ready for the next part ;)

[@eastyyy22]

@@chesscoachgerry4140 I'm glad! Next part in 2 weeks, got the small matter of punt or no punt next Wednesday!

[@tobibatt4731]

Havn't seen the Video yet but I already love it!

[@eastyyy22]

Good lad!

[@jakejenkz]

Unbelievable video mate, can't wait for part 2!

[@eastyyy22]

Cheers Jakey!

[@schmonk]

Great Video and that multi-way tips from Ben are super nice. I think it’s really hard to check that KK hand multi-way, just an auto bet for me too so far. but if u really think about it, you would even check a lot hu. Overall I think u could honestly battle 100nl reg tables, zoom is probably tougher but u get there I’m sure 👍🏻 obviously also need the bankroll haha. keep up the great content

[@eastyyy22]

Thanks a lot! I'm not convinced I'm good enough for that yet, I want to give 25nl a proper go and try to study more than I've been able to, but maybe one day! Appreciate the support.

[@KrishanBhattacharya]

Good video & good discussion. Thanks guys.

[@eastyyy22]

Glad you liked it!

[@chrisallen19821982]

Great content as always mate

[@eastyyy22]

Thanks buddy

[@azBreaak]

Great stuff as always !

[@eastyyy22]

Thank you!

[@jackmills8361]

Between Ben and Bean this channel has it all.

[@eastyyy22]

The juxtaposition is truly glorious.

[@jackmills8361]

@@eastyyy22 when's he starting his new channel 'Beans Biscuits'?

[@eastyyy22]

@@jackmills8361 we might have a Bean food review spin off series!

[@jackmills8361]

@@eastyyy22 my dreams have come true.

[@Charlie_Ses]

7:10 Surprised Bena turned this into a bluff on the river....I see why Nick gave up, given he'd missed everything. What are we hoping folds if we shove, missed flush draws, AQ? Seems clear the villain is calling whatever?? Though maybe not at higher stakes.

[@eastyyy22]

Just blocking a few popular call downs and having absolutely no showdown is going to make it a candidate at least! The K turn is good enough for our range to bluff river probably.

[@BenjaminRaven]

Simply because the runout is sooooo much better for our range. We also block 2 combos of KJss, KQss which count for a lot. Villain will fold many heart combos, J9s, some Tx. Plenty of folds to generate a hugely +ev shove

[@lazymonkey3446]

Nice format 👌 keep going

[@eastyyy22]

Thanks a lot!

[@beta7899]

You are lucky to have Ben in your life!

[@eastyyy22]

This is very true!

[@tdragonfragoso]

I may be wrong, but IMO the hand of 16:20, from an equilibrium point of view, should not be a 75% bet on turn, since the 6 is such a bad card for us. It reduces a lot of our value combos like T6, 63, 66. I think If you plug this into a solver it will be inclined to bet 1/3, so we can merge bet some Tens, full houses, sets and straight draws, and could induce lots of raises. Eitherway, It may be a good exploitative play against the micros player pool.

[@johnohara5675]

Great stuff Nick. Love the channel. In the QhTh 3bet hand on 232K, Ben mentions that vs co and button it's big 2/3 bet - but vs MP and UTG it's a block. Any idea why that is??

[@eastyyy22]

Not a clue mate hahaha. Just theory things. I'll nudge ben to answer this if he has time!

[@awesomenasavideos1499]

I made a note at this point in the video as well for me to take a look at later on 😆 guessing vs the wide ranges like CO and BTN we want to make the most of our fold equity and we want to generate more folds on this K. Whereas vs EP the ranges are tighter and we would like to value bet thinly with our more linear range rather than get folds. Dunno tho! 🤷🏻‍♂️ Wicked content btw only took me a year to find 😆 when is Ben gonna come back to hippodrome haven’t seen him in about 5 years

[@j.hurley5510]

I really hope doing this video with Bena has showed you that you're a massive nit in some spots and give people too much credit. Im forecasting a redline season for the graph as you overcorrect like everyone does. Should make for an extremely entertaining stream though. Great vid obviously, didnt need to say that ;) Big props to Ben for showing up again

[@eastyyy22]

Yeah definitely mate, I will be working hard in the next few weeks and months to put a lot right! Glad you liked it buddy

[@keithjackson5531]

I have thought that Nick gives people to much credit for some time but never felt I should say so. I dont like to critique someone who is doing so much for micro players.

[@sanwarahmed8227]

Regarding the hand JJ vs QQ where V 3 bet and Nick called pre: Ben's initial reaction was that we should not be stacking off with QQ 130BB deep, suggesting we should almost never be raising the flop and bloating the pot. However, all actions by Hero on each street was deemed standard (call, call, call). By the river we are in fact all in 130BB - is it a case of "as played" its ok to be stacking off with QQ on that board by the river but we should never be wanting to be getting it in with QQ on the flop? When we call on the flop, what is our game plan on the turn and river where we expect V to be barreling hard on clean run outs? Specially given that our first instinct is NOT to stack off with QQ 130BB deep? Great video, love the content. Just curious about that spot.

[@eastyyy22]

Thank you, glad you liked the video! Ben would be better to answer this and he may chime in, but simply from my perspective when we call call call we keep all of villains bluffs in his range, whereas raising narrows his range obviously and he will fold almost all bluffs. When Ben says to not get in 130 bbs pre and on flop, he means we don't regularly get this in vs hands we are beating. But of course competent villains will have bluffs when we call call. Hope this makes sense.

[@sanwarahmed8227]

@@eastyyy22 thanks Nick, yeah that helps :) good luck at the tables!

[@xuphan]

you made my day lol... just can't stop laughing when I watch you said you got fucked almost every hand (without doing anything wrong), hey this is what I've experienced these days. many thanks, to make me feel I'm not alone. stay positive, let's crush!

[@eastyyy22]

Thank you, glad you liked it! Good luck at the tables.

[@borstheyounger8838]

Great stuff, mate. Thanks :)

[@eastyyy22]

You're welcome, Bors! See you on the tables.

[@xyzt4007]

great video ben is amazing

[@eastyyy22]

Thank you!

[@modeob88]

first time seeing BenaBadBeat talking about hands... outstanding.... he has a school or channel or something like that?

[@eastyyy22]

He puts a lot of great content out on Instagram @benabadbeat, follow him!

[@modeob88]

@@eastyyy22 thanks!!!

[@jean-gabrielmaltais2343]

Get your water bottle ready boys. Time to Lock the F%$# in!

[@rodneytrotter6833]

How do we sign up for more Ben? Show me the queue because the guy is an outstanding poker tutor.

[@eastyyy22]

Stay subscirbed! 2nd part in 2 weeks and I'll no doubt rope him in to more down the line! Follow Ben on Instagram in the meantime @benabadbeat to fulfil your cravings.

[@hristobahchivanov7991]

Very good review

[@eastyyy22]

Thanks!

[@andrewthepusher90]

Amazing content

[@eastyyy22]

Thank you Andrea!

[@TheFairway8]

Pocket Jacks at 20.00 min check raise the turn is always at least 2 pair or set from a fish. However I have to admit I would probably have called in the same situation

[@eastyyy22]

I will defend to the death that this isn't true, I've had several instances where this isn't the case. This hand, however, is not good from me lol

[@4Sight1010]

18:09 looks like u figured it out, why i didnt snap in that spot :D

[@eastyyy22]

Because you're a massive nit or I am? Or both?!

[@fekigrejps7859]

9:31 hand. I didn't understand the answer. Why are we jaming turn? Because AJ???

[@stoodz]

Really good stuff

[@mielsen957]

13' min: if the 662 board hits villain so infrequently wouldn't it make more sense to bet small? I don't really understand Ben's reasoning here. Can you explain? :)

[@johntopham5619]

at 22mins, with the A9 hearts, you say that pocket 4's and A4 are literally your best two hands. What about the A9 two pair you're currently holding? Are you not supposed to have that in your range because it shouldn't have been a flat call preflop to begin with?

[@modeob88]

Very nice video !!

[@eastyyy22]

Thank you!

[@wannabe2700]

My charts don't agree with any of Ben's preflop suggestions. It just goes to show any small difference in the sims due to rake and so on lead to different ranges.

[@mcpartridgeboy]

Very interesting video im a losing 10nl player so I was shocked that you played your KK wrong you were the PFR so to me KK is a standard 3 bet there especially because its a pretty wet board a check seems strange to me allowing 2 players to reach their equity i also like your raise im putting him on heavy draws since the board is so wet, I think finding the fold is pretty skillfull way beyond my level i dont even think i could find it now after seeing this video.

[@eastyyy22]

KK is an absolutely terrible hand from me upon reflection!

[@mcpartridgeboy]

@@eastyyy22 Hi sorry to keep bugging you about this but i put this KK hand into equilab idk about the reraise but the flop bet is perfectly good, you have 59.3% equity it was hard to know what BB calls 3 way because i only have a BB chart for HU pots but even if its out i cant believe it will change the equity significantly !

[@wannabe2700]

@@mcpartridgeboy gto loves checking oop hu so checking oop multiway makes a lot of sense too. You're only staring at your kk hand but you should also look at your whole range.

[@pegasrio]

Oh, i knew u were familiar hahahahah. See u a lot on nl25zoom tables.

[@eastyyy22]

You're fun to play against! Thanks for watching.

[@pegasrio]

@@eastyyy22 thanks man, dont know for sure if i am a winning player yet, last month i got 2bb/100 50k hands, most of my winnings came from 80usd chests and gold chests (got 1 of 50usd). Hope we can climb these and soon we will ve playing together on nl50 and later nl100 XD. Best of luck!!

[@pegasrio]

And thanks for sharing this content, helps a lot to get better!!

[@pegasrio]

@@eastyyy22 i would love to see u talk about overfolding rivers vs population (seens to me that bet bet shove lines in 3bet and bet shove lines in 4bet pots are very underbluff in most of spots). I see a lot people bet bet give up river with Qhigh KHigh hands that sometimes were a 100%shove river.

[@benlambe6268]

🔥🔥🔥

[@coitacristian5261]

Hi. I would like to ask you about your bankroll management. With how much buyin's you go up to the next level?

[@eastyyy22]

Currently not really exercising much bankroll management. I was way over rolled for 16nl but I wanted to feel comfortable at it and beat it handily before moving up to 25nl. I'm now again over rolled for 25nl, but feel the same determination to beat it before moving up again. It's more of a personal objective for me at the moment. I would recommend aggressive bankroll management generally speaking, taking 2-3 buy in shots at the next stake if you have 25 buy ins or so.

[@coitacristian5261]

@@eastyyy22 lol....i'm a bankroll NIT 😂😂😂 I have 50 buyins for NL25, but i'm playing just NL16 😁😁

[@coitacristian5261]

@@eastyyy22 thank you for your response. Good luck at the tables.

[@coitacristian5261]

@@eastyyy22 when you spek about beating the limit, what means in bb/100, for you?

[@eastyyy22]

@@coitacristian5261 You definitely need to be playing at 25nl if you are showing a good win rate at 16nl! I don't really mean a bb/100, just a feeling that I'm better than most of the pool and feel comfortable in the games. Then I know I'm ready for a new challenge! Good luck!

[@deancrowley1443]

God Format

[@eastyyy22]

Thanks buddy!

[@stoodz]

25:07 Are you guys serious when you say you've never seen the BB call an SB open with AA?

[@crabluva]

Isn't the fact the guy limped utg giving us a pretty good read that he's likely very loose player? Even with no other hands, this is a pretty reliable tell surely. I think you're meant to fold because it's nl25 but I don't fault you for calling at all. Think a lot of good players do.

[@eastyyy22]

If you're talking about JJ then I think my play is just bad unfortunately!

[@no.1fan284]

I like it.

[@eastyyy22]

Thank you!

[@KrishanBhattacharya]

34:22 "that's one for you Hurley" Who's Hurley?

[@eastyyy22]

A friend of mine, mod of my discord and stream! Also been on ponp too. He said that QQ should be raised on flop and I didn't agree, hence the call out.

[@samyazzam4517]

Classic mistake at this limit is betting too many boards, particulaly in multiway pots.

[@falls2shine712]

24 minutes in and I think one of your issues is going up against regs while you are out of position. A9s is okay to call for the flush draw, but otherwise don't rely on weak aces on the flop, if you aren't controlling the bet sizes. If you're not leading, more often than not you are losing. If you don't know if it's a reg, just move on to the next hand or after you miss the flush draw and they start betting heavy.

[@falls2shine712]

I've noticed a safer method is mostly set mining and trapping until you get to about 200bb, then with an intimidating stack behind you, you may notice more people folding to your flop c-bets. Then it seems to me, it's safer and more effective to start opening up more for speculative hands. Bluffing more etc.

[@DD-vc7fq]

who is the villain in the hand at 34:00?

[@eastyyy22]

Not sharing info on villains!

[@nachoasens9238]

Does benabadbeat have a chanel or twitch ?

[@eastyyy22]

I have exclusive rights to Ben. But seriously, follow him on Instagram @benabadbeat!

[@nachoasens9238]

@@eastyyy22 haha xD ok thanks!

[@modeob88]

min 36:44 -> 98s the worst hand to call vs 3bet .... why ? 36:44

[@eastyyy22]

Ben touches on the reasons briefly at your timestamp. I've been calling half the time so what do I know!

[@BenjaminRaven]

it's a defend sometimes but just has some quite poor qualities like the ones i mentioned (getting overstraight)

[@modeob88]

@@BenjaminRaven unless JTs .... with all suited connectors we can lost vs overstright :S

[@HoangTruong-vk7ek]

crazy how much better easty is now compared to here. He's a classic fish here. So many mistakes and bad calls.

[@antigtohighlights1079]

tip: stop fucking thinking about having 8 hi and shit like that - its acidic - the blocker effects wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy more important than the fact your equity is 0 - there are TONS of hands that are 0 equity that ARE ATROCIOUS bluffs in gto - your 87s 3b IP turn barrel was disgusting and then you checked riv!!! its the easiest bxb line ever - you bluff your 8 hi after xing back turn bc 88/77 are FOLDING range ott

[@SuperYtc1]

I don't really get the point of this. He doesn't really explain why, he just says what to do. Hard to learn from.

[@eastyyy22]

While it is a quickfire format that leaves less room for discussion, I'd have to say I disagree here. Just watching the first hand back, Ben gives fair reasoning for every action. Even if you do feel that way, it can be good practise to think about why you might want to do those things, or why not. Sorry you didn't like it.

[@SuperYtc1]

@@eastyyy22 Where did you learn how to play GTO poker?