IMPROVE Your Poker Game

This call-in hand demonstrates how to use hand reading and range analysis to improve your poker game in real time.
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[@CrushlivePoker]

Who would ever consider bet folding on the turn? Also is the caller's river bet to thin based upon the action?

[@herts9999]

Not bet folding to this player type when I hit my hand, nor is the river bet too thin. Sometimes he shows up with T7 or TJ, but other times he just has air and clicks buttons.

[@scottalford7393]

I was think xb turn tbh but as played dont mind bet fold turn sucks if we call a xr we kinda forced to call down brick rivers. As played I think personally otr the price you’re getting I wouldn’t take into consideration as just expect Villian to have zero bluffs meaning I assume if I call I never win. We also have way better hands than AK here to call river with

[@jacobgraham4166]

Never in a million years. Especially in Texas where I live. I disagree with Bart I think there is a decent amount of players that run into a K like KJ, KQ and think it’s the nuts

[@ethantucker3516]

I mean we hit our hand so I feel like our hand is too strong to just fold to one c/r.. also we are still in position and can make some type of exploitive river fold if he jams into us. I’d actually be more interested to whether we call or fold a jam after his c/r on turn.. but I’d check how hand was played on river.. too thin for me to go for an extra amount and just get put in the blender and hating life like this guy in the moment was I’m sure lol

[@Oatriumph]

@@jacobgraham4166 for the turn, but the river is a check, right?

[@jamesharrison5420]

Bart is the most level headed, clear,concise, fair in the field of poker. I learn way too much for this being free content

[@ChiariLife420]

Another excellent hand break down Bart, hope the family is doing well. I'll be playing live poker for the first time in about 3 years, been playing online and learning as much as I can, and thankfully CLP is an ace up my sleeve for the start of my love run. Gonna simply play 1/2 or 1/3 to start out and hopefully make some waves.

[@troyhbk]

I subbed and liked. Your commentating on HCL and your clear and simple way of explaining things is refreshing. Thanks man!

[@rhinorakemaker4573]

My questions are what would you have done if A) if villain open jams B) you didn't choose a large river bet for value but went say 225 and he jammed?

[@blakefredrickson6506]

If they were a little deeper it would’ve been a good river bluff imo. We always say the river is underbluffed (esp as a check raise). No better time to check raise than when you have some SDV so you check, but once the IP player bets you know your pair of Jacks is no good.

[@houndofzeus]

Ya I thought the same. Another 2 or 3 hundred behind and top pair is going in the muck

[@sportspokerguy3506]

Queen blocks all of the straights and the flush bricked out - good bluff by the opponent if he had just 500 more behind he would’ve taken it down.

[@coral250]

yea or if he went for the lead jam

[@Ash_Maca_Music]

I absolutely love this content bart, thank you so much for making it for free ❤

[@MarkoAssi_pokervlogger]

I'm a poker vlogger from the Philippines. I advise my players to check back on that spot. I don't mind losing thin value. Only someone with a made hand will call anyway. Everyone folds, or they can bluff like in this case, putting you in a tough spot.

[@sr4087]

from that light call down earlier where villain called down "light" seems to me caller is views as a NIT where he is only going to be raising top of his range, thus the 10/J rag board unlikely to hit him

[@laurencechen1111]

Villain check raise on a draw on the Turn is very spewing. I would jammed on the Turn on Villain's check raise. Hero is ahead against Villain's range, like 73% equity against Villain's range of {QQ-88,AQs-ATs,KQs-KJs,QJs,AQo-ATo,KQo}. This way you avoid any tough decisions on the river.

[@nickmullen402]

Great video! Can someone please explain what Bart said about having a heart in our hand facing the river check raise? They agree that hero does not want to have a heart. Is that because with a heart we block missed backdoor heart draws? But if we don’t want to have a heart, then it’s better for villain to not have a heart because then he would unblock our heart containing hand, right?? I feel the solver is leveling itself at that point

[@Gos1234567]

Yes Hero shouldnt have the ace hearts especially as it blocks the chance V is bluffing a missed flush draw.From Vs point he should not have a heart either when bluffing as him having a heart blocks Hero from having missed flush draws so less need to bluff. Ok just listened again and Bart is wrong saying Hero WOULD want a heart when bluffing

[@usurper55]

You are right bart made a mistake on that

[@Michaelperry1985]

I've done alot of double check raising on flops and turns but I've never seen value double check raise turn and river

[@kinglebronify]

Lol this was such a weird hand

[@Michaelperry1985]

Great hand as always. In 3bp I always find these turn raise size funny. Usually when we are polarized we raise big , however we usually go geometric over 3 streets so a smaller raise size would make sense. I usually just try to raise to a size were we have near a pot size bet left on the river

[@DexterPlastic419]

Sometime stack sizes don't allow for a bluff

[@Nytemaster]

Qh9h is 2nd nut and is the only hand that makes real sense with this line. But in reality the villain picks up the open ended on turn. He may think he has fold equity as a semi-bluff check-raise considering your flop check and light turn bet. River play doesn't make much sense though since there are now three broadway. You would have to have absolute air so this is a value raise? I don't get this line of thought unless he thinks the J is good but then why not lead?

[@xxxYYZxxx]

The Hero's small turn bet is what induced the Villain to C/R bluff the turn. Hero should have 3-bet big on the turn.

[@elemonix4334]

Hi Bart, thanks for the ongoing awesome content. Question: where do you play or recommend for online poker? I live in Cali . Thanks

[@moaf2padventures757]

i might be in the minority here, but i like the flop check back. to me its one of those spots where villain just has so many more of the strong hands. my default would probably be to check back my entire range (absent any exploitable reads on villain). curious to hear how often others are betting this. turn bet needs to be on the larger side imo. the board is getting pretty coordinated so i want to charge the draws when i actually have it and fold out worse when i dont. what exactly does a 1/3 pot sized bet accomplish here? i feel like the river is a very clear check behind bc a vast majority of the time opponent is either giving up with their air/missed draw or trying to trap us again.

[@Gos1234567]

I agree and would check back here,what better hands are you folding out on that flop?Yea a few worst hand will call but they would have plenty equity against you

[@matthewschallenkamp6193]

Jam this river against this type of player. Check-raise-check screams busted draw - what hands would villain actually check river with that are better than ours? Maybe 76 if they played funky/scared. All other 2 pair or better are easily strong enough for them to bet for value esp. considering that we've checked flop. Against such a capped range we can punish by betting ~everything, and this particular hand is still on the stronger side of what we show up with, third after AQ and KJ.

[@hymnofashes]

Don't like villain's line. If hero checks back, villain loses. If hero bet-calls, villain loses. If you're targeting a top pair/two pair type hand with your rivered or flopped straight, why would you not jam the river? Therefore if you are bluffing you would also want to jam.

[@andya7964]

This is actually a pretty well played hand by hero and villain. I'd like V's river check raise more if they were deeper though. It makes sense in that he checks thinking he has some show down value, and then when hero looks like he's going for thin value he doesn't think he can call, but does block the nuts so he turns it into a bluff. But hero is just getting too good of a price for the bluff to work. So I guess I'm not the biggest fan of the bluff but you can at least see why he did it.

[@Dexerion]

The structure of the bluff was amazing. Just like you said it would worked better if deeper. It’s possible the villain thought 2nd pair was good there. The K was the only pair that was beating him.

[@Gos1234567]

I think its much better just to jam straight into Hero as the pair hasnt really any SDV after V calls the turn CR

[@andya7964]

@@Gos1234567 I agree, given the stack depth, jam is better than check-jam. I do think the Jack has a little bit of SDV, but not much.

[@slivy4402]

Does bart live in massachusetts ?

[@danielhurst8863]

Stopped at 10:30. I would check back the river, as even thin value here is unlikely, anything you beat will fold, and you'll often get called by two pair or a straight. 9T isn't calling your raise, and a sticky player isn't folding 98 in fear of your AQ. KQ is about the only hand that you beat that will call, and that's a minority of hands. A call here simply seems the best option. All the crazy bluff hands people show up with won't matter, because they will all fold.

[@acelitesports4855]

I guess if villain had QhJh he would have said that. But I wonder if villain had Qh. Not that I’m assuming villain is on some high level of thinking just curiosity I guess

[@ChrisM-wv4gs]

preflop standard cant say on this exact board but preflop Aggressor is in general allowed to Cbet double overs on dry flops where Villain should really have any st8s. LJ should never have 89. Turn bet is also good

[@kinglebronify]

This is by far one of the strangest hands on this channel, no clue what the villains plan was

[@willowandluka5302]

0:24 we get it Bart, you’re old!

[@ryan-wc7wv]

Confidence bred from humility; this is my passion, my quest

[@BB-re6nz]

Nice

[@Jealod24]

All the time in these spots I hear people say “usually people don’t bluff here so it’s heavily skewed to value”… which I agree with completely, mostly because these bluff lines make zero sense and most players don’t have the balls to check raise bluff on the river. All that said, I wonder how much money a good player could make if they made these check jam bluffs 25%-40% of the time because they’re counting on other good players thinking “no one would ever bluff in this situation, especially a good player”…

[@adamseidel9780]

Having the ace of hearts in your hand here is a disaster. So many of villains draws are ruled out there. The remaining reasonable hands are very pear shaped.

[@adamseidel9780]

After the hand: yeah, villain had the one reasonable hand left. Rough bluff on those kinds of odds from villain. With the jack coming on the River, you’re targeting what, like, a 10?

[@leonardjulius6098]

Bart’s so polite, he legit thought he said 190 and said “That’s not small, 190 into 260?” What would anyone else have said?

[@CrushlivePoker]

huh?

[@calfan8838]

Is there any chance the villain is actually value owning himself? I’m wondering if he put the hero on a 10 or maybe some sort of weaker holding. This would depend on the villain being pretty bad, but I’ve seen some pretty bad players lately.

[@ScottiMusicNow]

Never. Not even KQ.

[@ScottiMusicNow]

Never. Not even KQ. Even if they are atrocious

[@calfan8838]

@@ScottiMusicNow I’m sure you’re right. But what is Villain hoping to fold out when he’s giving the Hero such a good price to call?

[@JMTavares7]

Maybe he was value-bluffing ;)

[@bostonthibault4788]

16:20 Why would the villan want a heart in his hand at the river? Shouldn’t he want to unblock all the flush draws the hero could arrive at the river with that bricked?

[@9outs553]

You would think so. Especially considering he went for the bluff.

[@Gos1234567]

yea Bart is wrong on that one,V should have no hearts when bluffing with a pair

[@GotoyourhomeBall]

This hand is a mess on so many levels. Nh caller

[@omarsalaytah1773]

my question is .. if u have a strong hand on the river would you ever bet just 330 or go all-in ?

[@alexatedw]

Yes if I had a set of Kings, I’d go for smaller value instead of allin

[@mackwilkins5167]

I like a small sizing from AK in this spot given that a set or better and most two pairs are leading river, as well as the fact that there are a number of weaker hands that feel obligated into calling, or spazzing, given the SPR and price tag (KQ, QJ, weird single paired Kings like K9s, etc.). This line also allows you to work in these bets as minimal risk bluffs in spots where you have little to no showdown value and your opponent has little to none or their hand is likely quite capped towards calling a bet as is the case here (villain strangely decided to go with it after a check, which is basically never too strong with what he has left). Can 78h, a definite check raise candidate, call or raise this river if you are holding A9h? Probably pretty tough given that AA, AK, J10, etc. want to bet for thin value. Less capable/tighter opponents will lay down a lot of single pairs with missed draws in this spot, and if you are both sitting a little bit deeper, you can comfortably fold single pair holdings and bluffs betting small if villain CR all in, you just have to give credit and aren’t punting a pot sized bet away in the process.

[@danweaver5787]

Bart you’re an independent?

[@crooninmoonie6440]

i wish he let the guy finish his story first

[@gregorythomas531]

First

[@howjoec2638]

I have a felling this is older than Sleepy Joe

[@alexanderszabo1629]

what's older? the hand? also learn how to spell before u make incoherent comments on youtube that no one cares about

[@tomgentile7237]

Too much rambling ? Get going.