Playing with Patience vs AGGRESSIVE | Learn With Lex

In today's episode of Learn with Lex, I will be showing you how to know when to play aggressively and when to play passively with a short stack. Subscribe to my channel for more videos: bit.ly/Subscri...
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I’m Lex Veldhuis, a poker professional and an official ambassador of PokerStars. I have been in the poker industry for 17 years and counting! When I was only 5 years old I got in touch with computer games and got very competitive with beating the games. In 2004 I began with my first online poker games and the rest is history. In 2016 I started streaming every single game live on Twitch.
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[@LexVeldhuisTV]

I hope you found this helpful, please, let me know your thoughts and questions in the comments!

[@sushanthshyamsundar2352]

Always so informational! Your explanations are so easy to understand and so on point! Much love & thanks from India!!

[@takthelegektorasbloodjusti2241]

Hey lex! Thx for the videos. I''ve been playing for about 4 years and while i had some good turnouts i eventually broke even cause of my inexperience. Your videow have been a huge help on mid/short stacks and i am finally turning a proffit. I would love to see a video on how to play with a big stack deep run. I find my self a lot on the final 3 tables with a huge stack and i always blow it before the final table. Thanks again tho!!

[@benking1533]

Super helpful With A2s against a all in from the SB (who has you covered) Any combo you’re ahead is at best 60% favourite So calling villains all in only means you’re hoping for trash or 2 random cards like K5 at the best of times but they can also have good hands that crush us (any pocket pair) and any Ace x Is that worth your tournament life if you’re in the money but 10 places from now the money jump starts to increase significantly?

[@michaelmain7970]

Most insightful poker youtuber about. Its one thing to understand poker but to put it in layman's terms the way that you do, so folk that are an ace of spades short of a full deck (like myself), have a chance of grasping it.

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

HAha nice way to put it! Thanks and good luck

[@joela2864]

The perfect vid for me today. I definitely realized I panic play way to often around 15 to 20 bb. Thanks Lex! You're the Goat 🐐

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

Good to hear. Calm the fuck down and grind!

[@stevenlewis3981]

Your poker blogs are quickly becoming my favorite. Much success to you.

[@jvw8129]

22:29 unbelievable 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@chanoone7812]

I love how level headed your becoming dealing with outcomes! It's impressive ✌️

[@SomeNiceMovies]

Isn't it a question of stakes? He's used to $250 tournaments, and 530 and stuff. Does he really care about $11 that much?

[@chanoone7812]

@@SomeNiceMovies you can never control anything except the decisions that led to the money going in. If you are happy with your decisions you should be happy. Outcomes suck sometimes and loosing your mind doesn't make any difference. You really can't care as long as you like the spot you put your opponent in.

[@Eric-tj3tg]

Good stuff, Lex!

[@adrianoalves20]

Free coaching. Amazing!

[@MrKieranja]

Your content really makes me wanna play poker again, just don't have the time no more. But I remember losing $300 (40% of my BR at the time) playing mostly $1 tournaments in a single month, that really makes you doubt yourself and think youre playing bad even tho its just runbad. Made me feel alot better about my play when I made back like 80% in just the following week haha

[@emphatically]

“The board is dry as toast” 😂😂

[@gilialadim]

thank you so much dude, so good hear you comentating the hands, situations that I see everyday on torunaments I play. THANK YOU so much for share your knowledge.

[@larsrademaker576]

Nice one again Lex! Thank you. Looking forward to Sunday!

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

See you then my guy!

[@PvoordeW]

Very helpful, thanks Lex!

[@nickmo15084]

I think it’s important to distinguish between calling with low pairs and shoving with low pairs when you were saying what do you expect to get called by.

[@bxball]

A while ago I fell into the jamming too wide sub 20-25bb ethos that so many people preach and went on a big downswing. Shook that shit out of my game and have righted the ship. GG Lex

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

Be careufl though. Some hands are just shoves. 24bb with 22-55 on the button is an allin. No way around it.

[@bxball]

@@LexVeldhuisTV right but not UTG or LJ 🤣🤣

[@swirzu949]

Learn with Lex - such a great content! I usually play low stakes turbos/hypers so those videos are very helpful. Keep it going mate.

[@jordigarcia191]

High value content! Thanks

[@matthijsdenengelsman3574]

Again, very helpful! Being short stacked is all about patience and getting it in good. I think your notion about linking the result of a single hand to having a bad strategy is really important. Employing the right strategy but having an outcome you didn't hope for does not mean you have to play differently the next time the situation arises.

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

It's one of the biggest mistakes people make. Think from the result backwards.

[@PUPPAXDD]

My friend does this all the time and I tell him to just think about the times when the play is very profitable. Maybe get kings or queens or random bluffs to commit more chips into the pot drawing very slim. And if they outdraw you so be it.

[@css815]

I think this was the most helpful LWL video you've posted that I was able to fully understand, TONS of valuable information.

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

I think playing shortstack is so counterintuitive for people so im glad to hear that.

[@beachvermin]

first time watching one of these learn with lex vids and i find your explanations pretty great. down the point and clear all the way. please do more of these! cheers from brazil

[@bxball]

Straight to the point. The way I like it.

[@christophealbrand7280]

Thank you so much for your vlogs. Great advice. Great entertainment. I really appreciate the work you put in those. It feels new

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

Awesome dude, thank you!

[@ericmao4088]

love the content lex

[@michaelgriffioen785]

Top filmpje Lex !! Veel waardevolle info thanks

[@ashishkrishnapandey]

Thank you and love from India ❤ I play a lot of Turbos so these videos are really helpful.

[@anthonybasile154]

Hi lex! I’m new to you channel. I just want to say I’m very grateful for this wonderful and beautiful content you are sharing. This is really great info,I’m taking notes. Looking forward to watching your other videos. All of these little tips and tricks are so so helpful. Thank you.

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

You are so welcome! Thank you for the appreciation mate

[@CapitanScruff]

Great stuff as always!

[@adamarsenault2889]

I’ve really been struggling with these types of situations very informative and I’ll be using these in my game play now firm handshakes as always and looking forward to next stream🤝

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

yayayayayayay gl brother

[@nine_fingers_mike]

Lex send me good run Vibes please 🙏 . Great video mate GL

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

RUN GOOD

[@esc0barDH]

I hear you talk a lot about flop textures. What is there in general and also specific to say about the different flop textures and possible future streets

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

Hey buddy can you elaborate. maybe tag me in my discord so I make sure to see it.

[@sushanthshyamsundar2352]

Amazing information!! I'm trying to learn as much as I can before my first ever WPT! Will you come to the Indian WPT Prime event? All your videos are so helpful, and have helped me crush a number of Satellites!

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

I won't be there but gl dude and thank you!

[@allenwazny4355]

Great session. Real valuable advice around NOT playing badly (or downgrading your play) just because you are down to less than 20BB. Also, some guidance around paying attention to opportunities to take pot if "no one is interested" even if your cards do not hit.

[@campbellsmith5484]

Thanks Lex

[@hansjurgen6967]

wieder einmal ein sehr geiles vid Danke

[@publicaccount1589]

Great content, Lex. Can you do a video how to properly throw your computer out a ten story window after three consecutive bad beats in a mid stakes tournament? Thanks!

[@saavy4113]

Needed this video a lot...thnx for so much of free value content brother ❤️

[@craigferge4702]

Hey Lex, thanks for the awesome vids. Interesting point you brought up at 7:40 about treating late-registrations as higher buy-ins because of increased variance. However I was under the impression that max late-reg was higher EV and actually lower variance - because I thought you have a better chance to make the money due to not having to risk all-ins earlier on where you are much further from the money. Am I wrong on that or just misunderstanding?

[@jarirepo1172]

Nice video! About "What do you expect to call you (when you shove 66)?) question at 20 mins, it is as you say, lots of folds or high cards calling and flipping. But taking any other line would be way harder to play well: Fold - just too tight, you cannot fold 66 here against cutoff range! Call - playing 66 oop will be very hard and you cannot realize your real equity well. Small 3-bet: Almost same as before, opponent should call almost all of his range and you will only be in tougher spot then with even more chips in the middle. All other options than shoving preflop are just plainly worse. EDIT: Once again, against cutoff range.

[@Jeesus2011]

Lex since we shove 22-55 for 35bb vs button open, what other hands do we shove so it doesn’t make QJs to snap us knowing that he’s almost always flipping. We won’t shove 35bb with nutted hands and we balance it with none all in 3 bet bluffs so they know they’re not likely to be dominated

[@mrT-qp1mf]

I do everything right and get the aggressive player in with some trash and I kk or qq or something and the flop comes and they drill two pair and I lose. Happens so much. I need some advice lex. I've read up that it not me and my play is good as I'm getting my money in good. But stars and gg seem to pick the moment when I have the monster and lose to 94off or some trash. I've tried to handle these bad beats but it's got to the point where im even scared to call off all in when I have aa. I literally had aa 13 times from 8am till 9pm and most of them where all in preflop and lost 10 of them.

[@QuintBlitz]

16:46 All this was missing was a small smack of the lips! "Nice."

[@spand1222]

Amazing video, love your content. My only suggestion would be that u should do a similar video but in a bounty tournament, its a very different game in my experience when it comes to short stack play.

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

It will be in there eventually. But it's a good idea. I'll try to register some bounty tournaments shorter.

[@spand1222]

@@LexVeldhuisTV i really apreciate it. I just won my first turbo tournament and your video probably helped in it so thank your mr.Lex😎😊

[@kellymcelree6986]

On BBZ is there a particular bundle or vid that specifically deals with short stack play?

[@benking1533]

Perfect video for me 👍 FYI the vlogs are awesome Please keep that up!!! Even if it’s just you meeting with other players Their advice against yours is great to watch Only GTO I don’t understand is how spraggy scored such a beautiful and lovely woman 😂 Id like to see the math on that 🤔 🎣

[@JosseFTW]

Very interesting video lex, good stuff. I play alot of turbo sit n gos and this short stack knowledge applies here often. One question tho: you stress the point about not shoving weak aces with 10-15 bb from early pos because u can get called and be dominated. But why is it so, that when they're suited it's all of a sudden a clear shove? U for ex. said A2 suited is insta shove from utg with 10bb, but isn't the math when it's suited just like 2% better? U still get dominated from all the other stronger aces, no?

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

It's true (and I believe its closer to 3%) But that makes the difference! IT's enough

[@Lorten1986]

Lex isn't a suited hand only like 2.5% stronger than off-suit?

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

YEah but it's enough

[@bostonpj]

Can we have a tempest video please?

[@bxball]

How do you feel about developing a limp range on say a 12-15bb stack? I've been experimenting with it with some positive results.

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

You don't need to develop it on your own, you can find all of that in the chart section on bbzpoker.com. Yeah it's really good so good th inking by you.

[@Aceinlife]

How does the size of the field affect the use of push / fold charts? E.g. 75 player buyin vs 250 player buyin

[@pete6099]

I would have thought it's more down to number of players on your table and your position and action before you rather than size of the field although bubble play may alter the charts considerably .

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

It gets closer when you get a bit down in the field. But it's way too advanced to adjust to much to it. Just be aware of imediate money jumps like the bubble or on a final table.

[@vivekdarklord]

Sometimes you just need a professional poker player to tell you, 'Don't play bad because you're running bad'. New day, new me

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

gl!

[@ffallenaangel]

nice. i would like a video about this: your runing good in a tournament, but a no cards gap starts for 30 o 45 min and now you haveo nly 20 bbs or less, but you dindt loose any hand ,just blinds were up.. waht to do to avoid that. tyy

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

You don't avoid it. It just happens

[@ffallenaangel]

@@LexVeldhuisTV o :(. Ty

[@damiandeboer8316]

how do you play on pokerstars in the netherlands?

[@jppagetoo]

This applies even when you are short stacked (even at small stakes.) When you had A2dd and the villain bets 1BB on the river you should be VERY wary. It's a move I see often at smaller stakes. Yeah, it's a small bet and the pot odds make this a call. They know that and use it if you have any showdown value at all, even A high. But I have learned at these stakes, that is the nuts extracting an extra BB for value. It's not a fold the first time you see it, but if you see them do it again... exploitively FOLD your marginal made hands, you are beat and getting all the pot odds in the world still make it a bad call.

[@pete6099]

It seems to be player dependant too. Was the small river bet to induce a raise or was he scared of a flush. It's hard to tell what the 1BB was used as without knowing the other players thought process. Interesting spot though.

[@jppagetoo]

@@pete6099 For sure. It is very player dependant. That is why I said watch for it first. Then if you see it again, exploit it if you can.

[@chromersv]

“Have a big tournament later today so I hope Im not wasting my rungood” its a joke, but not really haha

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

Trueeeeeeeeeeeeeeee haha

[@aidenwilkin5738]

Lex losing a tournament "this is nice"

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

I hope you found this helpful, please, let me know your thoughts and questions in the comments!