WIN MORE by Learning this Live Hack in Poker

[@CrushlivePoker]

Wanting some feedback on the chapters added in timeline for each part of the hand. Do you find that this is helpful as the viewer?

[@mrhobbeys]

Yes it’s just easier when coming back to a video from not being able to finish or later on a rewatch.

[@AndyWardTenerifeEstateAgents]

It can be yes, although I always listen to the whole thing anyhow - 👍

[@stevesteve788]

I think probably a good idea for most, but ur my go to "new video added", so I'm watching the entire video regardless. No homo, to me u have a very soothing calming voice, so I rewatch- actually just listen, to vids I know to help me fall asleep. I do this with vids I've heard so I'm not staying awake anticipating what happens, but figured I'd throw that out there- that being said more playlists would benefit me for that reason(10-13 min isn't quite long enough lol)

[@hairycanary5912]

@@stevesteve788 doth protest too much?

[@stevesteve788]

@@hairycanary5912 what?

[@bjbarlowe]

Finally a casino Bart hasn’t played at

[@BB-re6nz]

@@aheroictaxidriver3180 cringe

[@BradKraft2011]

“Oh ya the 2/500 Korean Juan game. Love their dumplings. Hop Kim is still the floor there. Anyways let’s get to the hand”

[@emphatically]

@@BradKraft2011 LOL

[@CrushlivePoker]

I knew you had to have a foreign passport to play there

[@nalanwaters3365]

@@BradKraft2011 LOL

[@johnherold7289]

That's why we call and watch Bart. Congratulations to caller were all learning.

[@frankbaars1880]

Thanks for the honesty. It’s overplayed and got lucky, but being so honest and reflective makes it a valuable lessen 👍🏼👌🏼

[@GetMeThere1]

Very good. Learned a lot. I will say though that youtube is FILLED with videos of pros doubting villain putative flush shoves when they have the Ace in the flush suit. i.e, I've seen a million pros make this villain's call -- refuting your idea that hero jamming was the wrong play.

[@nikitakucherov5028]

Good to see poker catching on in Korea!!

[@davidheo6691]

Nice to see a hand from korea! There is such massive demand for poker in korea whether live or online. I'm really curious/excited about what GG was producing in korea. I'm korean american, can speak korean, and been playing poker recreationally for years. I was in korea recently and was super excited to play poker for the first time there and got to say my experience was interesting. I played at a legal "card room" in Jamsil, most likely a repurposed bar, and this place only had hyper turbo tournaments(10 secs max for every decision). Cash games at these kinds of places are still illegal. I'm not sure how legit this place was for the following reasons: There isn't a floor/tournament manager in case of hand disputes, just some general manager who mostly acted as the bank. The dealers are just attractive girls wearing normal clothes and I don't think they have power/knowledge to settle disputes either. There was no ledger displayed in terms of players or prize pool. I experienced some disrespectful behavior too. For example, I asked a basic question about the blind setup and guy at my table who seemed close to the dealers snapped at me with informal talk. I could care less about this in the states, but as context it's really disrespectful to speak informally to strangers. Also, the guy who knocked me out with runner, runner wheel vs QQ slow rolled me lmaoo. And it was the slow roll where he only shows his top card first (ace), then reveals card below like he was in a low budget Rounders. Again its my first time playing in korea but I'm sure the spirit of a slow roll to an absolute stranger is universal. And I'm not accusing any cheating, but this guy was also close with all the dealers and he hit runner, runner twice on me when I was all in, and did the same to other at the table. Again, this is my experience and was stoked to play any poker in korea, but left feeling a bit uneasy/unsure about poker culture in korea

[@bennyblanco675]

Wow lol seems like a shady operation, but as humans we tend to ignore red flags in our lives. 🤷‍♂️😅

[@88mphDrBrown]

These are 2 players that are making massive assumptions and so disconnected from a coherent thought process that it devolved to button clicking. It's hard for me to say which of them played the hand worse, I think it's the hero.

[@fevolenko3995]

In an Asian game where I put most opponents on ANY flush draw, I would play like hero everytime. I think if villain had Ahxh, he 100% raises on flop or turn. If we just get to river and then he raises, I'm putting him on mainly lower flushes, sets and sometimes Aces up. But if villain never has nut flush getting to river like here then the reshove prints imo

[@guillermoalvarez9400]

You can say that the hero made a bad play and got lucky to be called by worse. Alternatively, you can say he made an exploitative play against a villain who overvalued two pair enough to raise the river and then still unable to fold to a 3 bet jam. If you know a villain to be bad enough that he is unable to fold marginal hands then it is a good exploit. If Garrett did this you’d be calling him a genius

[@anonguy6453]

I don't see any problem with Heros play (as far as most things, particularly the tank jam). As played villain has top pair to the river, then two pair, and blocks the best flush, which he can use as a bluff so I feel that scenario is much more likely than any AceX of hearts. Only thing that doesn't make much sense is villains tank call imo.

[@paulpena5040]

On the river there are only 2 possibilities: 1) He has the nut flush 2)He has the A hearts and is bluffing the nut flush. Nothing else makes sense. You ran into scenario 2. Remember he DOESN"T KNOW you have K 10 of hearts. For all he knows you have 4 5 hearts or 4 6 hearts and he KNOWS you don't have the nut flush. So is bluffing really that crazy? Not at all. But calling the jam is just frustration.

[@mangohavoc6428]

Thanks for the time stamps Bert Hammond!

[@TheDjcarter1966]

Finally decision is tough because he always has Ah here it is just a matter of is it suited. Results oriented sure it worked out but I think I'm with Bart can't fold but easy call.

[@chaybro1]

This was a good video. Good lesson to be learned. Would be interesting to hear this from villains perspective as I think if he’s thought about it holding his exact hand, the ‘mistake’ from hero got him to pay off. Cool vid

[@victord6940]

What could the hero be bluffing with?

[@SoulfightPoker]

cool to see a Korean-american poker community in the comment section.. also a really interesting hand, I was thinking about how to play this river where you almost have 0 bluffs betting into 2 people on the flop, I think theory would really like a block sizing on the river with a lot of hands, then you can turn stuff like AhQx into a 3-bet bluff versus raise.. top set is very difficult to play on this board

[@ilovebrandnewcarpets]

If villian doesn't have the Ah he's folding. Hero got very lucky here. Agree with Bart (obviously)

[@JHK725]

Jun (hero) here. You know what they say. Go big or go back to mama’s trailer. I had to risk to not go back to my mama’s trailer 😢

[@sr4087]

just popping in to say you rock bart and this thumbnail is top knotch LOL well done

[@slotcouple9330]

Can u do a video on mtts with rebuys and u only want to fire 1 bullet. How to handle aggression of guys who want to spin it up no matter how many rebuys it takes them

[@WirelessKFC]

plenty of people at these levels simply cannot fold Top pair let alone Two pair, the fact the villain raised river bet with on flush on board tells you everything. In their mind flush is so rare that they simply don't believe you have it if you go bet bet with a draw and they convince themselves you are trying to bluff representing a flush.

[@adamseidel9780]

Flushes alone: A 2,4,5,6,7. Jack seems weird PF but okay. That’s 5-6. Low flushes, 67, 56, 57… that’s already enough to call. Edit: holy absolute fuck at villain’s call 😝😝😝

[@bhedger3021]

actually don't think there is anything wrong with caller's play apart from the logic he uses. half pot bet on the river seems perfectly reasonable given there's a lot of thin value hands we still want to bet, like sets/rivered straights, while we still run into a bunch of Ax hearts hands that we don't want to bet too large. Facing the raise, I would lean towards calling, but I think KThh makes a pretty good jam at some frequency and stops villain from being able to raise call off a hand like this and also just means we can jam more Ahx hands as bluffs when we get raised.

[@lowlimitcashgamespodcast]

Really need to understand what hands your opponent really can’t have. The times any player would just be calling flop and turn with two pair or sets is almost non existent. And of course the old adage of just bet for value is a simple concept that is still good at low stakes. Fancy play syndrome of inducing bluffs etc should really be reserved for very specific players which are rare at low stakes. Great call and excellent breakdown by Bart as usual. ✅✅

[@joshmullins4849]

Villains line is actually not even that crazy aside from the preflop call (A8o always a fold and not close). I get raising river when you feel protected against a jam (somehow he was not here) and I get bluff catching this hand if you only expect nuts to rejam for value. Definitely stars aligned for hero to get villain to have a hand that’s not even supposed to be in range where the line works.

[@kennyvoller5419]

Spot on josh 👍👍..... Villain raised river to get value from AK/AQ thinking he was good with A❤️ in his hand... But don't you think he should have folded to the all in??

[@joshmullins4849]

@@kennyvoller5419 It’s weird. From the perspective of “people never 3bet bluff shove the river”, sure I’d probably just fold everything and feel fine. If you do feel like villain is capable of bluffing, this hand is about as good as we are going to find as a bluff catcher. It’s a bit double edged though in the sense that, if this were going to be some high level bluff I’d expect the shove to contain Ahx, and that hand is impossible when we have Ah8. So when no value makes sense and no bluff makes sense, it’s usually just a fold and assume that it’s an overplayed hand like what happens here I suppose. When we put hands in our range that don’t belong like A8o it has weird echos all the way down the game tree that we won’t know what to do.

[@tom-qj6uw]

@@joshmullins4849 "When we put hands in our range that don’t belong like A8o it has weird echos all the way down the game tree that we won’t know what to do." That sounds good but I doubt that this applicable here since AhJd plays the same if the river is the Jh but this time you (probably?) won't argue that that AhJd does not belong in villain's pre range. The weird stuff that is happening happens in this hand because a) villain raises the river without the flush and b)hero reraises the river All-In without the nuts and c) villain knows that hero cannot have the nuts and d)villain's hand is certainly good enough to beat any bluff.

[@JohnSmith-nx7zj]

I’m not raising the river with villain’s holding. When hero bets river he’s basically saying he’s got a flush or a bluff.

[@Dylan-vm4gl]

I mean he was unblocking the Ah blocker 😅😅😅😅

[@The20thHijacker]

Wow A8o with Ah may be the only hand against which this line works. Caller got lucky or is Korean Mike Postle.

[@embro6474]

Red your comment and tried to pronounce Mike Postle in Korean way. You have to say it very fast lol

[@qazzaqstan]

I wonder what hand villain convinced themselves hero was turning into a bluff (also raising river with 2 pair there was odd but that is a side point). Like if I had villain's hand I'd be very confused by the jam but I'm still folding.

[@JohnSmith-nx7zj]

AxKh maybe? Although that’s only 2 combos.

[@qazzaqstan]

@@JohnSmith-nx7zj that was the best I could come up with as well, I mean I guess there aren't that many KhXh opening from +1 either so as long as they can convince themselves hero is just as likely to turn AxKh into a bluff as 3-bet K high flush for value the 40% of the time they are good is enough to call but 3-bet bluffing is just too rare for that to be enough. It almost feels like they are convinced hero never takes this line for value without the nut flush so any bluffs no matter how few hands or how rare the line is enough.

[@JohnSmith-nx7zj]

@@qazzaqstan I guess it just shows you should never discount the possibility of someone overvaluing their hand. Especially if the alternative is them 3-bet bluffing on the river without even holding the nut blocker.

[@adday3006]

That's awesome. A bad play that works perfectly with this specific combination of hands.

[@sinatra222]

It wasn't a bad play. Half-pot bet is perfectly fine for getting called by an ace or a two-pair hand. His reasoning was faulty tho - Bart is correct that half-pot is not a 'block' sizing that induces bluffs.

[@adday3006]

@@sinatra222 I was referring to the jam. Typically he's getting folds from worse hands and calls from ace-high flushes. Villain leveled himself into a call by having the ace of hearts, thinking the only jam for value in this situation was the nut flush.

[@ZToxLives]

Weird situation where villain's losing call is more correct than hero's winning raise. Villain had the perfect hand to bluff catch with.

[@88mphDrBrown]

Idk, I thought about this one a bit. AhX is the most likely bluff candidate, so villain is blocking the most logical bluff. I feel you though cuz hero's shove makes so little sense as anything but the nut flush, I can see how villain mindfucked himself into believing hero had to of been running some unconventional bluff. I think villain's river raise was pretty dumb. I think it would've been a good move if it was a massive overbet, but $400 for $1017 is too good of a price to expect people to fold flushes. Hero's shove is such a suicidally bad play that it convinced the villain no one would do it.

[@JohnSmith-nx7zj]

@@88mphDrBrown you think villain’s river raise was as a bluff? I was assuming value. If he was trying to get flushes to fold that seems suicidal, especially for that sizing. I guess the fact that the hand is so in between shows why it was a bad raise. Seems like a clear call in villain’s spot.

[@88mphDrBrown]

@@JohnSmith-nx7zj no, I don't think he was bluffing, I think he was going way too thin for value. I think the vast majority of people in hero's seat are going to be extremely hesitant to go for 3 streets of value with just an ace. The only lone aces i think people are going to do that with are AK, AQ, and AJ; even then i think those hands are going to be checked a decent percentage when the front door hits. Not just that but hero's going to fold good aces a large percentage (they're literally the bottom of his value range) so the villain isn't even always going to get value from the small amount of hands he's targeting. What I was saying is that if he's going to raise it should've been huge as a bluff or just call.

[@JohnSmith-nx7zj]

@@88mphDrBrown agreed. I think against some very nitty players (who would only bet the river with a flush), villain could actually shove his hand as a bluff. But against most players Ah8x plays best as a call.

[@ruanribeiro1484]

Hi Bart, nice work, I like it very much. How much these concepts apply for online cash games instead of live games, because to me besides the tells it should not be much different right?

[@user-ld6zk6qj6w]

Bart, can you recommend a good poker book for cash game players? I’ve read Super System and others way back in the days but I would like to read a more recent book that covers all the things you cover and more. I generally play $3-5 to $5-10. Thanks so much!

[@WeissAdvice]

“i had a read” the mantra of everyone justifying a bad decision

[@robert2375]

Hero should give description of villan and how hero is viewed at table

[@Kd4c]

My thought when listening to this hand was if you're three bet jamming you're getting called by Ace high flushes and maybe Queen Jack. Based on the board there's really no other heart combinations that he could be playing. And if you're at looking at this from the villain's perspective. You hold the nut card and you're getting three bet. What is hero three bet bluff range KxKh? If I have the nut card and I get three that all in, and he is bluffing. Congratulations you can have my money.

[@jacobgoldman5780]

Is it just me or is Villians River raise also thin?

[@JohnSmith-nx7zj]

Villain’s river raise seems pretty bad yes. Flushes are never folding. You might get hero called by the two combos of AxKh but that’s about it.

[@_Jashawuh]

I was thinking that he had the ace of hearts as a bluff, im never right lol

[@digitaldavid5633]

Great video. Thanks

[@Nick-fc9xy]

Ace high flush is nothing to be scared of.

[@danielhurst8863]

Stopped at 8:15. Weird river bet size, and the raise is simply a call. No hand that you beat is calling if you shove, and raise and stack size leaves you with just a shove. Only the AhXh will call you, so you'd fold out hands you beat and only get called when behind, but there is too much time left for you to have simply called.

[@hugovaz777]

He can call with worse flushes, sets and two pairs...

[@chiknsmack]

@@hugovaz777 He can maybe call with exactly one worse flush (QJ) and should never be calling with sets or two pair without the Ah. Hero got very lucky that he was jamming into AhXo and villain called with his bluffcatcher, thinking that hero only ever jams the nut flush (which villain blocks) or air.

[@ashypharaoh8407]

I've gotta get to Korea

[@pot_kivach160]

What would H do had he riveted a brick?? 3 barrel?

[@moneymikz]

Why would a pair of As weak kicker and the nut flush draw take that line?? I think you can pretty easily discount the nut flush on the river but I probably still would have just called…Well done caller you maximized your profit for sure

[@fevolenko3995]

??? Why just call if u EASILY discount nut flush? That means YOU have nut flush. Your comment makes zero sense

[@virajs.8864]

@@fevolenko3995the entire comment makes no sense at all…

[@Matt-np3fe]

haven't heard results yet but i'm re-raising river all day here. pot-sized raise/slight overbet (to $1550-1850 total).

[@leviwhatever6192]

"You got a little bit lucky".

[@zacveatch6478]

Holy shit that was entertaining

[@drfunkinstein1]

Opponent thought he had AK

[@davidespinoza310]

I want to be at this game

[@chrisrusso4512]

Villain fell for improve on the river syndrome

[@Noondroid]

Guess I need to book a flight to Korea

[@gazorpazorp9798]

Damn Bart is out of patience lol

[@Williy_Nilly]

With what's at stake, jamming is a no-brainer. It's not often that you get the opportunity to jam with second nuts.

[@chadjohnson6718]

Live poker is no where close to being dead boys

[@MonkeyPunchZPoker]

Weird how the "he can't be bluffing with the Ah because I have the Ah" thought didn't enter his head.

[@hymnofashes]

What an absurd river spot. Wtf does villain think hero is bet-3-betting when front door comes in? Turning ak into a bluff?? V knows hero isn't bluffing with the ah! So he's either just losing his mind with air or he has some flush! Or some set and he can't read the board.

[@pot_kivach160]

2:58 what is he betting (Turn) for?

[@Stockhandle123]

To fold out a pair under an ace. I love betting the turn but I would bet bigger and give up if i miss the river.

[@JeffreyHaefner]

Caller is a fish 🎣

[@G0DofRock]

Weird. I was thinking he was slowplaying AA so he raised a weak riverbet. Unreal how he called.

[@elliotsmeal3516]

I think in general you want to give up on missed heart draws on the river and find better bluffs that block Vs calling range and dont block his folding range (QJs, JTs not in hearts). It's important to factor in the As is on board and not the Ah so V could very well be giving us rope and has the NFD that will rarely fold to a third barrel even when hearts miss. Edit: oh man, the river is a 3/4 to a PSB when you get there. The only thing that raises is the NF and you are rarely getting bluffed. Finally got to SD and lol wtf?

[@pot_kivach160]

V screwed it up big time. It's even bigger taking into the account that he played against a LAG.

[@noThankyou-g5c]

What was the hack?

[@conorm2524]

Starts at 3:43 but I couldn't understand it.

[@lujoconnor]

Lol amazing

[@frankspencer6935]

A bad play against a bad player.

[@paulmcdougald4953]

Wtf

[@s805m8]

A3hx I’m guessing prior to finding out. They both butchered this hand lol

[@z17seattle]

@0:18 was not a good time for me to unmute, 🫣immediately I was thinking he is guessing accents again.