Today’s question comes from James. James wants me to review this hand play with pocket fives in a $1/$2 live game where he opens with 55 under the gun. James gave a really nice write up with this. I am just going to give you a little bit of a glimpse of what is in […]
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Today’s hand comes from John where he has 44 in a live game. In this $2/$5 game it folds around, hero opens fours, opening a 5x is probably a little bit large here. You can probably get this away for 20 just as much as you can get it away for 25, so I might shave
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Today’s hand history question comes from Eugene. Eugene just wants me to review this hand played with 99 in a live game. This hand was played at $2/$5, there’s a limp and Hero decides to limp behind. I would say this is my first issue with the hand. I really would prefer the hero be
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I don’t do this too often, but this video is going to be a little more ranty than normal. I apologize, Moss, I know this is going to suck a little bit, but I really hope that you learn from this, and I hope that anyone who’s making this kind of mistake
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Truth be told, I’m a very visual person. I’m also a very mathematically-oriented person. So being able to visualize math-based things is crucial for me when trying to learn and use something. So when I began studying hand ranges and learning how to exploit various ranges, I created a simple model to
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Today’s hand comes from Bob, and Bob wants me to review this live hand played with 76s. In this hand the blinds are $2/$3 – it folds around, hero decides to open. Gets called, gets called, gets called and goes multi-way to the flop which of course is not too too uncommon in the live
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This hand is from a $2/$3 live game. There’s an open limp, there’s a small raise and hero decides to 3bet to $27. This is the kind of situation where I would much prefer hero 3bet significantly larger. I’m definitely happy that we’re 3betting, I definitely want to be doing that, but
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In this hand, we have Ace-King suited. There’s a raise. There’s a call, and hero decides to call as well. In the write-up, both villains Hoodstar and Chacko are described as straightforward, not tricky regulars. Hero says, “That he elects to call with Ace-King suited, but that he’s definitely going to raise
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AA can be tricky – but by playing them better preflop it becomes much easier to set yourself up for success. In this hand, Michael makes some glaring bet sizing mistakes which creates issues and ultimately ends up losing the hand. The blinds were $1/$1 and there was a $2 straddle on…
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This hand was sent in using the boom player on PokerStars and in this spot there is a min-raise from player 7. Hero just decides to call and one quick thing that I’m going to say here, somebody who min-raises from here probably isn’t the greatest player in the entire world. Because
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