These High Stakes Hands are WILD

[@ReverendBayesPoker]

Thanks to Pete for having me on the channel, it was a great time. I'll be in and out of the comments the next couple days answering questions and giving my harsh, extreme opinions... so feel free to ask anything! -Alex

[@johnnyblackrants7625]

Hey Alex, do you play and study poker full time? Also nice handle. My gamer tag is "Lord Bayes" lol.

[@johnnyblackrants7625]

Also, what's your effective hourly rate in different games, not counting study and preparation?

[@ReverendBayesPoker]

@@johnnyblackrants7625 Good name! Yes, poker is my full time job.

[@ReverendBayesPoker]

@@johnnyblackrants7625 I won't say it, but it's high :)

[@johnnyblackrants7625]

@@ReverendBayesPoker Hmm. Are you down to PM me? I'm a professional gambler right now: sports betting and blackjack. Poker has always fascinated me, but I couldn't justify it financially. Seems reasonable at the stakes you're playing, though. Your youtube channel doesn't appear to have any vids, but I'm also super curious of how you chose this as a career, and your early days with it.

[@Wiffle_]

Would love to see more of Alex in future

[@rkadeon3295]

Alex was a great guest and you two have good chemistry! Would love him on the show again but equally just enjoying you chatting with someone on a similar level to you technically. I think it brings out the best in you as well :)

[@Donker-Konger]

The Best part of this Video is that you DO spend 17 minutes on one hand. I love a deep dive on a particular hand. Please consider additional content with this strategic depth in the future. @ReverendBayesPoker is now my street poker spirit animal. Also, Peter, we need a video on targeting. I really am curious about what the leak is with targeting for unsophisticated players versus well schooled players. Hopefully more, kind sir, than learned players know how to target ranges and newer players just target villain's one or two combos they think they have. Please Peter. Please clarify the term "targeting' for us.

[@ReverendBayesPoker]

I think Pete would say that most inexperienced players use "targeting" in a way that causes them to tunnel vision on a single part of villain's range, and then do something illogical -- e.g. bet a random sizing that that they feel will get a fold/call from this region of their range. In the video Pete uses targeting simply as a way of talking about which hand classes in villain's range are responsible for the EV we reap.

[@CarrotCornerPoker]

Yeah something like this

[@luigiromeo9772]

Ahaha man the guy is so smart and can really elaborate on his though process clearly and you had a great interaction with each other! Really enjoyed this one Pete :*

[@archerscherer44]

Bring this guy back! Once again, best video in months

[@gsomethingsomething2658]

Love this! Thanks, Alex, for sharing your very insightful thought processes with us.

[@matheuszambon7737]

Great video guys! Thanks for the talk. Very insightful 🙏🏻

[@keniffkeniff]

Highstakes Alex is more than welcome to come again and scam us one more time

[@thom8363]

This episode is sooooo valuable. Thank you both for that

[@caddymix024]

i really enjoy your guys' discussion, super informative and mad respect to you both for being able to pull these thought processes out naturally and in game. the hand i question is the 78dd. it's so hard for you to have value here, and maybe that doesn't matter if you think he's over bluffing, but hands like JJ/KK/AJ/9x aren't taking this line, which would be the bulk of your value range. i take AA out as i think at this depth it's incentivized to 5b preflop a lot of the time, though i do think if you arrive at turn with it you can shove for value and put KK/QQ and fd's in a very tough spot while also getting protection. i'm just having such a tough time coming up with hands that want to play this way, QThh or A5hh are possible candidates as well but i think calling to realize at this price makes a lot of sense for those also. just such a wild spot and i'd like to hear more thoughts on it. all that being said, calling feels gross and so does folding at this price, so i understand the rationale behind getting street as fk and just shoving, i'm just having such a hard time believing he folds any part of his value range at this spr so you have to rely heavily on him overbluffing. you guys are great and i really appreciate this insight!

[@harryhartnell6377]

Love Alex and thanks so much for having him on! Would love a high stakes series of videos with him. Makes for amazing colab

[@WillTait-x4w]

One of the best poker videos I’ve seen in awhile. Very informative but also you guys are cracking me up 😂

[@paulmccrory6511]

Amazing analysis...and the dynamic is great. Appreciate the content guys

[@kingjonc]

I find these conversations great and very insightful

[@brianhalloran8322]

Pete these 2 videos with Alex are great. Would love to see more of this

[@kamilpreweda4280]

I love this Alex guy, please more

[@funkymunky975]

Loved these videos with Alex! MORE!!!!

[@videootje86]

Great video (apart from the typos in the on-screen text about bluffing 🤓)! I would love to see some reviews of hands played by Alex against recreational players as well.

[@huggins_will]

Great content! Definitely would love to see Alex back. Incredible insight by the two of you.

[@Kevin-ji4lt]

Thanks Pete. This was brutal, but it was a good clap on the face.

[@el.and04]

Love hearing your thought process, this video is gold

[@jonnynordstrom5785]

So good! Plz do more stuff with Alex 🙂

[@JankyJimmy]

The infamous, Reverend Bayes 🤓😎 thanks for making Mi look good. And thank you Pete for being the 🐐 of poker coaching. Look what you have created!! 😂

[@ReverendBayesPoker]

Haha thanks. What's your screen name on PSMI/NJ?

[@Brazz27]

The discussion aspect of this is so refreshing ..!

[@c0l3slaw]

Absolutely love this content! More more more.

[@faaltoh]

This content is fantastic. Your best stuff is always with you discussing hands with other competent players. Please Sir can I have some more?

[@talullahtheegyptianbaladyd4388]

Omg have we got a bit of a bromance going on? Pete, the way you look at alex suggests there is 😂

[@stefan8110]

Great stuff, very interesting hands so I would love to se more with Alex!

[@randomrivers]

Great 2 part video. Would love to see more of these

[@danthemaninapan]

In the QT hand, you say 'this is the classic overbet texture' for a flop cbet. (16:10) However, in the next hand (20:20), you discuss that cbet decisions are pointless and you shouldn't waste your time learning about flop cbetting and being intricate with sizings, and that it's barely included in the carrot poker school. Does this mean that a student of the poker school would be taught the general principles about which flop textures generally work well with big sizings and which work with small, but without going into lots of detail?

[@ReverendBayesPoker]

Yes, detail is hard to memorize and doesn't add much EV to your game. The solver likes the flop overbet on A-broadway-low flops in these spots (especially AQx and AKx with a flushdraw) but betting small loses negligible EV if villain is raising you enough.

[@radical6905]

Yes more of Alex, the conversation on the hands is fantastic And obvs you're both scammers

[@jarirepo1172]

Very nice and entertaining video.Plenty of points I' have not yet managed to consider.

[@John-uw4hz]

Love this guy. Great format!

[@williamchristopher5653]

Hey Pete, just starting to learn about combos/blockers (yeah late I know). What's the best tip to learn the math of calculating them when you're in a spot on the river facing a bet

[@sargon8385]

Very cool. Love deep reviews hands.

[@volivoly]

On the AK5r triple-barrel node, is it really over-folded? I feel like regs over-fold and recs over-call because recs just sometimes decide to "not believe you" and call with A6o?

[@ReverendBayesPoker]

I think you might find recs surprisingly willing to fold on these "scary" runouts, with an eye grabbing flush completer or overcard or straight completer on the river. The extent to which recs overcall is exaggerated -- remember that every time they call you down with 4th pair you see it. But you never those times they fold top pair on the flop because they had a feeling.

[@martincoughlan478]

Great vid and analysis. so has Alex been coached by Pete or did he just go through the Carrot poker school ? An understanding of Alex journey from start to HS would be cool. (apologies if in part 1, I've not seen that yet but will watch later)

[@CarrotCornerPoker]

We’ve not done one to ones, he took the entire CPS and watched a lot of KZbin and twitch. I can’t take fully credit though, he’s also rather bright.

[@cjgak8129]

1st time finding the channel. Love it!

[@1312Mork2]

We LOVE HS-ALEX❤❤❤

[@willhoulk9554]

Alex is somebody I wanna run into in the poker streets… just click the call button lol

[@antonsergheiciuc4666]

yea definitely bring Alex back. I like how he explains things

[@harryhartnell6377]

Big question of q10 hand… What is the weakest hand we should be jamming for value on this river? Is ak the bottom of jam rsnge or what do we think?

[@montyball2868]

Street poker!!! Sounds tough.

[@brenneisenchevy981]

Love the rng bash especially on the river no one will be hitting perfect gto frequencys and there will always be a pure best line for your Hand for sure the higher you play people will make it harder to figure it out and decisions will get closer

[@Awre18]

That AJo hand is SO INTERESTING!

[@tehlaget]

keen to see more of these

[@ekw555]

good stuff! hope to see more.

[@marcusymarcos8750]

More High Stakes Alex!!

[@JuskuK]

I might need to print out:"If you rng the river, you don't deserve to play the game". Maybe the best line ever. 😄

[@seangrover702]

The KsTc hand. What about checking back river?

[@PeterPollopin]

Great vid. More please

[@louievasquez2155]

Hi Alex, how is the traffic on the higher stakes (1/2+) games on the poker sites exclusive to MI and the Midwest? Is it significantly higher than the sites open to most of USA?

[@ReverendBayesPoker]

The traffic is slightly lower but game quality is slightly better, I think.

[@henrikstergaard6252]

Great great stuff....

[@The_Life_Shoequatic]

I didn't know that "militates" was a word but Alex used it and now I know. I hope Alex visits again. (of a fact or circumstance) be a powerful or conclusive factor in preventing: "these fundamental differences will militate against the two communities coming together"

[@Oque.Nos.Somoss]

Guys...at 12:58 Peter said the he is TARGETING, LOL I knew that this day would come. LOL Cheers! Amazing content! Let's gooo!

[@CarrotCornerPoker]

I am allowed to use it, it’s a special responsibility that comes with age and experience.

[@DrSuage]

we love hi-stakes alex

[@user-jt2bf6ym1o]

We love Alex!

[@alexk-1535]

20:06 that's your 1 for the day...

[@tolkien11]

Good stuff!

[@gladyslucas198]

ya get this guy back again

[@philmorris2521]

Just curious that to play at that buy in level I would assume this pro who has been playing for 3 years only must have in the region of £200k bank roll. How he amassed that over what sample size as a template for the rest of us at what win rate BB/100 too. would be really helpful

[@hschuler7892]

I like both of these guys but I don't think Alex knows what it's outside of the fenced in MI pool and I don't think Pete knows what it's like inside the MI pool. And funnily enough the come to similar conclusions.

[@paulgibbons-keynotespeaker]

Magnificent content.

[@suyashgupta4019]

Good discussion but completely disagree with the part where alex said its stupid to use rng while deciding to checkraise river against competent opposition, if you decide to checkraise Q10 pure just beacuse its a good hand to checkraise in a vaccum, your river checkraise number will be like 20 percent, and no reg is folding to your river checkraise ever. So maintaining your frequency is with an rng in some postflop spots is absolutely mandatory or else its will definitely reduce your ev in a long run. Not in all spots but definitely in some, river checkraise definitely one of them.

[@AllDayIDream]

Sick video

[@lukecox4105]

I’m convinced alex is your son

[@Love1isall]

Pete is also a poet😂

[@ChristopherCorbo]

Alex you play any live or mostly on online?

[@ReverendBayesPoker]

Just online

[@bruwar]

Pete, you’re actually a lot better than high-stakes-Alex at cards

[@douglasjamesmartin]

never randomizing postflop as a professional poker player sounds silly to me

[@johnnyblackrants7625]

@@Jacobson-dp7gg I think something like the Doug Polk / Negranu challenge is a good example of a situation where you have to randomize, but in that, they were each playing thousands of hands against just each other. In a situation with that much data, balance and GTO become much more important. In the population at large, though, that information barely exists. If your guesses of whether a spot is over/under acted are generally correct, then you'll make more money not randomizing. From the way Pete talks, it seems pretty clear that those guesses are possible at midstakes; the question just becomes how high do the stakes need to get before people don't have those leaks.

[@FlashDavin]

@@Jacobson-dp7gg What is the argument that randomizing is required? I can’t make one.

[@ReverendBayesPoker]

The bottom line is that making good poker decisions comes down to maximizing EV. Randomizing doesn't help you do that -- in fact it detracts from it because (1) it substitutes for thinking critically about the factors that do influence EV and (2) tempts you to use your shiny RNG button in spots where you might not even be indifferent in theory. You should RNG preflop though, because that spot is high visibility and there are some unnatural preflop 3bet and 4bet bluffs that people need to keep themselves accountable to actually making.

[@Keptionpoker]

Iam playing at GG-Poker a lot deep cashgame, NL10 atm, not that high i know, but its very VERY normal to see a 3x 4bet OOP, and the 3bet IP 4x, perfect !!! Only one player type is not doing that, these guys who have these 2,2x raises, these sneaky intelligent raising guys which Pete just mentioned in one of the latest Vids, sry forgot which one. Feeling shame and a bit like a chatpro writing you :) But is what it is, i love deep cashgames, so much. PS: Maybe if you check the math it should be higher or could be higher, everything, but then it gets a folding party.

[@CarrotCornerPoker]

You are forgiven for chat pro-ing. It is the season for kindness after all.

[@alexk-1535]

Alex is awesome

[@robertosansone8992]

Pure gold for free...must be really Christmas 😂😂😂

[@TedJones-ye1ud]

When your range is strong and your hand looks bleak, bluff is the line that you should seek

[@floka1230]

More Alex!

[@natedoeswork]

More!

[@bigenglish22]

More Alex please - it feels like Pete x 3x pot jam for value

[@dennisje2925]

love this video. Want to know more about him. How did he become high stakes pro within 3 year (and if he cant explain he must be scamming :):) ) And yes this guy is the carrot poker school AI :)

[@ReverendBayesPoker]

I played and studied a lot during college, from which I recently graduated :). Played full time the summer before my senior year, and returned to part-time during the year. Study for 30 min to 1 hour per day, that's all it takes and the rewards will compound with time.

[@dennisje2925]

@@ReverendBayesPoker thanks! I study more on average the last year, but is quite clear you make more out of it than me because are still struggling to beat the rake at 25nl. Did you start small stakes or higher. I started with 50 dollar ar 2nl and very slowly grinding it up. I also noticed that during the video’s you are extremely mentaly sharp: how did you train that?

[@drdooba5432]

Bring Alex back or make your own channel. Love listening to your thoughts

[@drdooba5432]

Bring Alex back of make your own channel. Love listening to your thoughts

[@davicola56]

A5o becomes an easy call if you’re bluffing QsTx in that spot

[@craigmontalbano]

We want Alex back!

[@Riversharkpoker]

Bring Alex back that boy got a 200iq

[@senecastevens3399]

get em back

[@ryanberger303]

Algo!

[@ShadowBanned-iu4xe]

I'm sure you are probably a bit of a perfectionist, so at 14:34, I'll let you know that you misspelled/typed TERROR as TEROR in "2. TEROR INFLICTING".

[@4session_blunts]

dumbest comment 👍

[@zenpool5918]

Wow Pete. I honestly can't believe you would platform such a skeevy scammer in the poker community. I thought you were legit, guess ur just a scammer too... smh my head

[@Eddie-m7v]

BRING BACK STREET POKER

[@TheStockAlchemist]

As long as you say "quote on quote' targeting, it's okay.

[@blackbeardgoatjr2434]

Not saying he's a scammer, but he could be a plant to promote the school 😜

[@derekluna7700]

He plays 6max plays like it's headsup so it's very hard to believe he is profitable. It could also just be how soft closed pools are. I have a college friend who barely plays and he makes a low salary playing in his spare time and he doesn't take it seriously at all.

[@MrEnragedBurrito]

buddys yapping, bit of a yap fest over here.

[@blackopal3138]

You guys, that last hand you taaaaaaaalked for 5 mins on the river and neither of you once mentioned, I don't think, lol, the play on the turn. Imo,,,,,,,, you have to make a small bet there, or, if you do check, you are checking the river too, or smooth call if he opens. Because, after seeing the whole hand, Idk, wow, I have a totally different take than you, but I'm not playing at these limits. He was very brave to go for the check raise AGAIN, twice, on the river, after you checked the turn. He is risking getting no value which is what you should have given him, but, you need to figure out how he knew you would bet, cz he played you.... Either way, I think you need to keep that hand cheap. I say a small bet instead of check, because you can find out right there where you are at, but check is good too, cz you can smaaaash broy, so, free card is good. Cz theo if you bet, he is going to pop you right there, BUT HE DIDN"T bet river ! duh duh duh lol so maybe he doesn't pop a turn bet... figure it out man, lol Peace

[@blackopal3138]

My apologies, poker verbiage, ... he 'exploited' you ;)

[@ob105]

Everytime I come here.. I am abused.

[@hymnofashes]

Obvious scammer. Not a real Scotsman. Can't beat 10nl and is pretending to play high stakes. Uses the targeting fallacy multiple times.

[@derekluna7700]

the 1st video was terrible. It's not like they are playing headsup vs a top endboss, its ring/6max poker and the guy plays it like its headsup. It'd be rather strange if he was profitable...

[@horenzodipartendo8225]

Ur vids are always so long with lots of bs filler conversation… just go over the hands and stfu. Love your stuff.

[@CarrotCornerPoker]

Fine no more fun. Merry Christmas.

[@horenzodipartendo8225]

Or maybe a separate format series/video where hand reviews are edited/shorter to the point

[@paulgibbons-keynotespeaker]

Alex has strange accent Carrot... doesn't talk normally like you.

[@CarrotCornerPoker]

Yeah he’s a weirdo, sorry about that.

[@graydontinneny2276]

Scammer 😂

[@infosrelevantes7146]

why? seems like a fair thought process

[@derekluna7700]

@@infosrelevantes7146 the 1st video did not make him look like a profitable player to me.

[@antonistoyanov2144]

Definitely i will be enjoying to have more of these.Just finished off part 2 and i will be looking forward for more :P

[@WinningStek]

I like this guy.