It’s natural to try to break down poker scenarios into groups so that you’re studying one type of situation at a time. A player might decide to take a week to focus on continuation betting, another week on 3-betting before the flop and another week after that to study double barreling. While […]
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This hand is from 5NL, 6Max on PokerStars Zoom. Hero raises UTG, ends up getting a call and another call. They go three-way to it. Hero flops TPTK, c-bets, faces a raise, and here we are. Everything leading up to this point looked totally fine, totally standard. At this point, we have
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When you become a regular at a certain level of play, you’re going to run into other regulars as well, and these are the people who you’re going to play with the most often. Because you have so many hands with them, you’ll have plenty of information that can be mined from
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This hand is from 5NL, 6Max on PokerStars Zoom. There’s a raise UTG. Hero decides to call, next act with pocket QQ. I want to talk about this, because this is a really important part of the hand that I think sometimes goes overlooked. To start out, I want to talk about
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Levuta says: “Is there any merit in check shoving this turn?” Let’s check out the spot. This hand is from 2NL online, playing four-handed. There’s a limp from the CO, a raise from the Button, who is a 32/21 over 30 hands. Hero decides to 3Bet, which I’m very happy about. However,
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Tony says: “I have an interesting hand with jacks versus a fishy villain in a tough spot where he over-bet jammed on the river.” This hand is from 25NL on PokerStars. There’s a min raise from Jumper, and he is a 32/11 over 29 hands. It folds around to Hero, who decides
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Jan just wants a line check on this hand, so let’s check it out. Okay, so this hand is from 10NL 6Max on PokerStars. There’s a raise. Hero decides to 3Bet with KQ, and I can totally be on board with this. There are a couple of situations where I’ll more heavily
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Today’s question comes from King. He says: “Hello. I really liked your “Ask SplitSuit a Question” videos and got really interested in working off the tables. I liked your example with hand reading and writing down ranges, but could you give more examples of things we can study? Thanks!” So, King, before we
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