How to Win Money Playing Poker in Texas (With Good or Bad Cards!)

If you enjoy pocket aces, bluffs, and beverages, well then you are in luck my friend. We're playing poker at The Lodge in Austin, Texas. And we get pocket aces. We also bluff. And we find a very unexpectedly tasty beverage. It's all right here on this week's Poker Vlog!
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[@thomasdowe5274]

Texas has lots of ambiance happening that is more like 'family' than Las Vegas. Vegas is great, but a trip to the Lodge and the nightlife of nearby Austin to relax in that change is what getting away means to relaxation...:)

[@3percentermafia]

Yeah bro, that's my number one rule in poker. ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS go home after pizza and beer! Nothing good happens at the poker table after pizza and beer.

[@AndrewNeeme]

Well said.

[@hxhdfjifzirstc894]

@@AndrewNeeme I'd like to see a bit of content, from time to time, about your personal philosophy on leaving the tables for the day. I know there's so many factors to consider, including social aspects, enjoyment, etc. Just from watching your channel for quite a while, it seems that your circle seems to go wild and gamble it up, in the late hours... and that's fine, but it contrasts somewhat from the business aspect, so it's an interesting dichotomy.

[@RSS_754]

There are all kinds of vloggers, and I follow a lot of them, but I watched the first vlog about poker on this man's channel, and since then I don't miss it, and as long as he records, I will follow, long live Andrew, greetings from the far away country of Serbia!

[@thesquirrel2]

Love that you're back on the content grind and you're just dumping hands. I hope the algorithm rewards you bro

[@AndrewNeeme]

The algorithm and I have gone our separate ways. I am in search of true love.

[@easymoney7007]

Andrew says, "Can't run good forever".....Rampage says, "Hold my beer".

[@CassielusMaximus]

Hold my lucky beer

[@MrAgmoore]

Hold my pizza

[@NeiltheDeal]

Free money. Take it.

[@christopherton]

Ever seen RamSpooge lose a tournament on a flip ? Dude looks like he’s seen a ghost. Sun running. Luck boxing. Dude sold his soul. Up against the big boys he shows his skills

[@SENSUI347]

BUT YOU CANT LOL RAMPAGE GOT SLAP AT HUSTLERS

[@jamesec1949]

Another quality Neeme video and without even one FVRBL comment. The inset picture narration is a nice touch and so are the restaurant/bar cutaways. 👍

[@AndrewNeeme]

Thanks for the watch as always, Jimster.

[@silverlicious2086]

Top shelf menu. Pizza looked delish, the smoked old fashioned looked interesting and def glad no Jellys were harmed. 🥂 GL on the grind. Onward and upward.

[@corzza13]

Been very busy lately and haven't caught many vlogs but I love the format of this one and hope it continues! 80% hands 20% in between stuff is perfect

[@yertle38]

🤘 for the Pinthouse Pizza callout!

[@willbean2492]

Great meeting you early on Friday morning for my first trip to the lodge! Thanks for taking the time to chat and be real! go Bills!

[@jake_villanueva]

Can’t wait to come check out the lodge and it’s local offerings. Way to promote the city! 🎉

[@AndrewNeeme]

I expect to see an Instagram post from Hoot & Annie tagging me while you enjoy your smoked old fashion.

[@dylanrieck6671]

I visited last year, it's a nice room

[@danielgarland9838]

Love the success, joy and passion! Balancing out the vlog with other non poker activities! Always best wishes to you!

[@brownshoeblues2014]

he lost 4k

[@AndrewNeeme]

If you single out one solitary session, yes that is true brownshoeblues. 🧐

[@danielgarland9838]

@@brownshoeblues2014 Results good or bad doesn't diminish Andrew's attributes and the positive impact he has with the poker community.

[@brownshoeblues2014]

@@danielgarland9838 this a cult or something?

[@flyingbirdman3270]

Love your videos, the music is always dope too! Keep em coming man!

[@BigDogStu]

The GODFATHER of vlogs! Much respect!

[@leotierney9801]

dear andrew, you are my favorite poker player! best blog, best commentary, the drone footage, break down. i wish you a great 2023! i hope to meet you some day. come back to Graton Casino in Santa Rosa! im a wine guy, and a foodie. love to show you'all around! LT

[@Niksow]

Love that last last part where you unknowingly post day 4 results. Love your style. Good luck at the tables

[@charleslilja4698]

Maybe Round Rock will appoint you an Ambassador with your local plugs to add to your plethora of titles and salutations...lol. love the run good! I wanna see more!!

[@gamblicious1]

Why would they do that when he's one-third owner of Round Rock Lodge 😂

[@AndrewNeeme]

I wish I was one third. We got a few other fellow owners doing their part to run this fabulous place of business. 🫡

[@brunowolfe9172]

Andrew, who was the music of the montage of ‘Hoot and Annie’….loved it!

[@ogFIEND]

Cheers Andrew! Hope this year is going well so far.

[@AndrewNeeme]

Same to you Mr. Chaz. 👊🏼

[@shoop4040]

Whats up Mr Neeme, thank you for the video, been a tough start to my 2023 so watching your video lets me forget about the hogwash - As always may you and Busi have the time of your life -

[@AndrewNeeme]

Hey Shoop, I’m sorry to hear about the rough start. May things turn for you expeditiously. All the best. 👊🏼

[@pokor5791]

Love the Neeme. Love the PLO. Keep on climbing out of the hole. (hmmm that rhymed), Hitting up the Lodge next month.

[@brianfloyd2279]

Hey Andrew, I'm curious if ur approach moving forward when u have those losing sessions? Do u look back and think if it was bad play or unfortunate runouts? How do u get ur mind right to play again in these very aggressive games?

[@leehjones]

Love the bar and restaurant visits too. Feels AN classic and a key part of the brand.

[@AndrewNeeme]

Those are my favorite parts, as you well know Lee.

[@paulglassanos3363]

awesome vlog no1 in the nation! sorry brad lol

[@patmcgibbon7263]

Loved the name of the cocktail bar! Hoot & Annie!

[@AndrewNeeme]

Clever as it is good, surprisingly!

[@DougalSAFC]

Andrew - can I make a request for an addition to these vlogs, or even a dedicated channel?! Can you include more details of the beers you enjoy? I like the look of the beer places you visit and the hazy IPA looked very nice. I’d enjoy this additional content 🍻

[@AndrewNeeme]

Was just thinking today that I should dedicate my second channel to more of that. 🤔

[@DougalSAFC]

@@AndrewNeeme well this response has made my day. Great minds. I like visiting the same type of beer spots you seem to. Would enjoy hearing about the bar, and the brewery / name / style / % of the beer you’re sampling. Would need to know how it rates on the favourable scale. If you need a UK correspondent, just let me know.

[@NSF101]

That Jellyfish IPA was my favorite beer during my trip to Austin and Round Rock.

[@AndrewNeeme]

Dude it’s way too good. 🤤

[@leehjones]

I jumped up and cheered when you turned the KJ into a bluff. 💜

[@AndrewNeeme]

🔥🔥

[@831bweiser]

Can you explain your sizing decision on the KK 4 bet vs AA hand? Was that sizing stand up game dependent cause it seems too big to me.

[@MattSlaughter]

Andrew - you gotta go next door to Pint House and hit up Whiskey Cake!! Fantastic food - whiskey flights - good service. Highly recommended from this local!

[@AndrewNeeme]

Haven’t heard of it but will def check it out!

[@cameronandrew1853]

Definitely going to check out that pizza place. I have been enjoying the lodge since moving to Austin but have yet to enjoy some good local pizza

[@AndrewNeeme]

Get it! Also check out Via 313 for very good Detroit style.

[@shradburley1649]

Love the Julian Avila background music

[@ekolbatx]

Bluffs getting it done at The Lodge!!

[@mikew9334]

PLO is always awesome to see. Cheers.

[@riverboat123]

Always enjoy your videos 🍻

[@wncraig21]

Of Course

[@scottbartel4235]

Keep them coming as always enjoy your videos

[@iHOWL_Fury]

Have you ever thought about touring some smaller poker rooms? Like regional ones?

[@HotWidIt]

Wicked transition NEEME!!! Haha love to see it 🎉

[@AndrewNeeme]

☺️

[@smartfreak7105]

This video was just the inspiration I needed to begin gambling. I'm headed to the ATM. My journey starts today!

[@AndrewNeeme]

😂🫡

[@hxhdfjifzirstc894]

It's only 'gambling' if you have no strategy -- poker is a game of skill. Of course, you can play poker as if it's a slot machine, and that would be gambling... but there is a difference.

[@jesselucio2473]

Love the content!

[@bens5944]

Everyone's hands are ghost white? Nice lighting?

[@gnawbabygnaw]

You see more poker than I. How often would you say you see AA hold? Seems rare to me. One pair. I stopped trapping with it cuz I seem to always pay.

[@AndrewNeeme]

It’s definitely the winningest hand in any player’s database of hands. It’s just tough because our minds focus on the times when something bad happens in order to avoid it happening again to us. Poker is tough like that.

[@KensingtonCarpets]

Love that the Las Vegas photo is actually Macau lol

[@AndrewNeeme]

😬

[@IconicGamble]

Love PLO content. Thank you

[@AndrewNeeme]

You’re welcome. Do you play PLO?

[@reidblundell8703]

wuv yooouz Andrewzz Thanks for continuing your vids despite success elsewhere.

[@AndrewNeeme]

Hey thanks Reid. Plenty more vids to come.

[@iphonelover4610]

Gangster bluff with KJ!

[@kennygpokerstrategy4917]

I'm trying to be on a diet and that pizza looked absolutely INSANE lol

[@AndrewNeeme]

😬 my bad.

[@stephenshaw7593]

Great stuff!

[@wncraig21]

Cannot handle this heat! ❤️

[@cagedcombat6696]

Hey it sucks you lost, but you made my morning better watching this! Cool video!

[@AndrewNeeme]

Happy to hear it. 🫡

[@cagedcombat6696]

Subbed broski

[@tylerr4397]

Electric Jellyfish is my go to anywhere that has it

[@ianbent0n]

What hands are you targeting with the 87s bluff? Is he really folding over pairs all that often?

[@AndrewNeeme]

What can he beat on that runout? What do you think he had? Random AcKx that he cbet into 4 players? I suppose there’s a chance he’s wider than just overpairs, this being Texas.

[@ianbent0n]

@@AndrewNeeme I'd be calling with over pairs a lot because I'm kinda stationy and know you're capable of a lot of bluffs there. I'm also not a great player and that's probably a losing call :) Was the right move on your part, I was just curious because my instinct said check it down with the 87s.

[@BLX187]

good opening. straight to it

[@AndrewNeeme]

No messing about on this one eh No Name.

[@theodorehsu5023]

That pizza looks delicious! Now I want some with a Coke Zero (IPA and meds don’t mix). Sorry to hear about the post-pizza rough going (the law of averages swung back to unlucky). But making an overall win is great, keep it up!

[@AndrewNeeme]

IPA and most things don’t mix tbf. 🤔

[@theodorehsu5023]

@@AndrewNeeme Would love to check the pizza place out, I’m sure my friends would love it too.

[@Range4Harry]

Strange but true that eating dinner can change things, not sure if fasting is best either. Maybe power health drinks? Alcohol has strange effects,not sure what's right.

[@dchevron77]

the lodge has some of the best action I've seen in pretty much any poker room. Love the video!

[@AndrewNeeme]

I’m gonna have to go ahead and agree with you there.

[@DanielRall]

Electric Jellyfish hazy IPA? How do I 👍🏻 this video again?

[@nono6167]

Might have bluffed an over over pair of that 87ss hand, might just as well have had the best hand against a strong A high type hand with the club, like the bet either way but don't think we are necessarily getting a bluff through there.

[@AndrewNeeme]

You could be right my friend. Might’ve been the ol’ value bluff!

[@wncraig21]

Wammer of a hand!❤️🔥

[@nevadanlv5469]

When you're running Hot!, then taking a break , it's usually hard to get that mojo back. Most gamblers are superstitious, when I'm on a winning streak, I know I need to increase my betting. Being in the zone is the best feeling in gambling. Good job Neeme! Cheers!

[@joek4685]

Thank You, you win some lose some. Just max your wins.

[@mannyconrique2931]

I tend to notice if I lose a cooler I end up losing more hands that follow.

[@AndrewNeeme]

Do you think it’s a mental game thing?

[@Niliooo]

I legit don't understand why we need to turn that KJ hand into a bluff. What better hands are we realistically folding out? AA, A9, and that's it? Everything else is either beating us or we beat by just calling. Can someone explain to me pls?

[@XanderDominitz]

At 4:39, why does Andrew have two-pair? I thought PLO was about creating the best combination of two hole cards and three communal cards (KKQ96).

[@herts9999]

What combo of cards on the turn can you make with his holdings in a PLO hand that are better than his two pair?

[@justinvanderveen5471]

Qs and 5s play, not the Ks anymore

[@XanderDominitz]

@@justinvanderveen5471 Ah, of course. This is why I don't play PLO. Thank you:)

[@AndrewNeeme]

This is why you need to play, because you’re not the only one to misread their hands! 😀

[@mikewilliams3509]

Towards the end of the vlog I thought that dude had aces when ya had kk

[@nitroice7108]

God damit...put this boy into the poker hall of fame now

[@gamblicious1]

I would like to buy one of your hats that says Andrew Neeme Poker Pro😉 you'll get it back man👍

[@wrenlinwhitelight3007]

@14:55 Pizza porn O_o I thought I just came here for the poker

[@victordavalos6198]

Andrew, if you allow a suggestion from a former subscriber and viewer of your channel: I used to like and watch your channel a lot . Way before Brad’s. Once you switch to PLO the appeal (at least for me was over). I think focusing in one or the other (NLH /PLO) would do you better rather than playing both . I don’t know about many players who are interested on watching both. Just a humble point of view.

[@juliaroseisabot]

variety is the spice of life. 🌶️

[@joshdenmark6354]

What was up with the swat team?

[@AndrewNeeme]

On-site security detail for the club. 🫡

[@bobk5872]

Well played with your king jack off-suit hand Andrew. My question is, why not refer to the hand as jack-king-off, when the obvious pun presents itself? Lol

[@AndrewNeeme]

Big fail on my part no doubt.

[@jeffcooper4225]

Let’s go Andrew!!!

[@AndrewNeeme]

Let’s goooooo Jeff.

[@Liwet.]

How does the standup game work if the last person ends up losing all their chips on their last hand?

[@TheBarkanMethodofHotYoga]

Another good one… KK hurts!! 🙏🧘🙏

[@memteasy]

GG's @Andrew! Just a question - in the 99 hand with set, where opponent claimed he had aces - shouldn't he show his hand as it was all in situation? Or this rule does not apply everywhere? Cheers!

[@AndrewNeeme]

Hey Martin, yeah Nate is correct here. Technically he should show his hand first after all the board cards are revealed. But since I had such a strong hand which is almost always the best one, I just flipped it over right away. In tournaments they make you both flip them over as soon as there’s an all in and a call. Cash games are a little different.

[@memteasy]

@@AndrewNeeme gotcha, thanks both for the reply - tourney player over here! Dealer must have confused me, back in the days :]

[@ChristopherB123]

Where were those cops going during the outro?

[@sfjeanfrancois]

Way too much poker for me in this vlog 🙃😅I scrolled to the old fashion scene and the closing one. 🥃

[@AndrewNeeme]

Haha my two favorite parts as well!

[@nattybumppo4151]

Lol “Seventeen thou…”

[@VincentKathakraoff]

“You could be in Las Vegas..” Shows Macau… (Casino Lisboa, precisely 😂)

[@AndrewNeeme]

10 lashes for Egan the Editor!!

[@VincentKathakraoff]

@@AndrewNeeme 2 shall suffice 😜 Thank you for your content! 🙏🏻

[@ekolbatx]

@@VincentKathakraoff I appreciate you taking mercy good sir 🙏

[@silverlicious2086]

LoL. 10 Lashes 🤣

[@beebeegee]

Will you be at the Lodge this weekend for the $100k? I'm making my first visit there! Hope to see ya

[@AndrewNeeme]

I won’t, so you have my permission to win all the money. I’ll be back mid Feb for the stream relaunch.

[@beebeegee]

@@AndrewNeeme currently at 35 bigs with 10 players left til the money! Update edit: it's in de bag!

[@danielmccready5736]

THE GODFATHER

[@kevinfry3834]

That pinthouse pizza was 30% crust... why? 🤣

[@AndrewNeeme]

Was it??

[@renoxdxd]

Nice video, thanks for that. 2:35 In my opinion bet river with 78s is not great. You have better hands to bluff with on river, if you bluff them on turn. UTG cbet flop against many players 1/3 pot - this is most likely not a bet with overpair. OP doesn't want to be raised, doesn't want to see a lot of turns or give such a low price. Bet turn from your side is not necessarily only bluff bet but also a protection bet. There are hands you beat on the river when you check behind.

[@cmorrow0231]

Nothing beats a smoked old fashioned - not even pocket aces...

[@CoryMaddoxATX]

I couldn’t handle the heat when you 3-bet me with A4hh 😞

[@AndrewNeeme]

THE HEAT. 🥵🔥

[@tmac2vicious32]

Damn man, Teach me your ways! lol

[@AndrewNeeme]

Step one: Buy a point and shoot camera.

[@andifuture2825]

Who wants nitty poker action should go to the Lodge😂

[@sonomaslim]

That was incredibly big of you to muck you cowboys prior runout. I hope that is a good customer of yours.

[@stevencabiati1467]

Talks about how much he likes the beer, blames the pizza

[@jromatkin1806]

Bro New Vid!

[@AndrewNeeme]

🥳

[@jromatkin1806]

@@AndrewNeeme I know you’re in high demand but can we get a DC mug trip on the extended schedule?

[@thehusketeers4319]

If you have kings against aces you're supposed to go bust, but in a stand up game I'm going all in right away with pocket kings

[@mbtadhl]

Nice

[@AndrewNeeme]

Niceeeee

[@VegasPokerNomad]

Looks like they didn't go overboard with the pizza toppings. When there's so much on top it make the slices flop, it's very annoying.

[@AndrewNeeme]

Try the Bahn Mi Pizza! Loved it.

[@wncraig21]

Call that if you hate money 💰

[@Brisk317]

Poker is played in Atlantic City and Philadelphia too. Two places you and Brad never come to.

[@juliaroseisabot]

that pizza is making the mediocre leftover lunch i’m eating feel very insecure 🤤

[@AndrewNeeme]

Get to Round Rock immediately, Julia.

[@chrisleos1235]

Another question about the stupid standup game, when the final player standing gets stacked, do they still have to pay all the players the bounty?

[@AndrewNeeme]

They sure do. Or else no more standup game invites for them. And nobody wants to get uninvited.

[@richardroesler2209]

3 weeks into the year and my pocket kings have been beat by pocket aces 3 times online...

[@AndrewNeeme]

Things happen quickly online! Lots more hands = lots more of everything.

[@richardroesler2209]

Hey Andrew, thanks for showing us your journey as well as your poker adventures...

[@smb5655]

I love drinking beer it's my favorite thing in the world cuz I'm Canadian. eh

[@AndrewNeeme]

Round of Molsons then eh?

[@smb5655]

@@AndrewNeeme that is the most of the shit e est of beers in Canada. Like in the US we have micro breweries every where. So that the great minds can make the most amazing beers. Hop ee beers to amber ales you know. But piss water of olden days far long gone molsons is not the popular. Beers to you eh