Here are my top 9 preflop poker tips for beginner players. You will learn what hands to play, when to raise, how much to bet and much more.
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I just released the sequel to this video. If you struggle on the Flop, Turn or River here are my 9 POSTFLOP Poker Tips for Beginners: https://youtu.be/-mWsXEf_lQQ
I’m too much of a weak reg player 😔
which hud is good for Ignition on line site?
Just subscribed….great stuff…to the point…super practical…glad you came across my screen !
So what’s some of the best online poker sites?
around 11:45 you talk about getting on the left of the weak players, would you also recommend the opposite? when you identify the strong players try to get on their right? i've always kind of done that, so that i can control the action betting into them and seeing how they react… ie in my last cash game a few days ago i initially sat down in seat 8, seat 6 and 7 were two regs who play extremely well and also know each other very well.. after about an hour of playing to their left in seat 8 and watching them bust seat 5 twice and take chunks out of seat 3 and 4 without me being able to get in on the action i moved to seat 5 when that player left and i noticed their play completely changed when i moved into that seat. I also started being able to control the pot while they started folding a lot more.
Thanks for the tips! I'm a noob and the part i struggled with the most was the preflop, just like you said haha! Thank you, awesome video!
Kinda funny how he starts off with saying that the best position is to act last and goes on seconds later talking about the importance of being first to bet lol
Only works when against pros. Newbies are unpredictable. 😅
Do these tips also apply to live cash games, or just online?
Invest in a $20 Bluetooth mic to talk into. The echo/reverb from your room is crazy
i want to thank you froe creating the donks lol
I’m going to bluff a limp against you with a strong hand.
Also here's a funny anecdote I heard…. It's better to have aces, go all in preflop and get 9 players to call every time than it is to have them and get 1 person to call. The idea is that the 3 out of 10 times you win the money with the 9 callers makes you more money than the 80% of the time you win against 1 person.
Unfortunately you can't push a magic button and constantly get 9 callers to your preflop all in 😀 But I would imagine that as long as you get more callers than your odds of losing you should be profitable in the long run.
So like that screen you have 3 callers…. you only win 46% of the time… but if you were all in with both of them ur quadrupling your money on a little less than a coin flip… That's pretty fuckin good.
I've never been to a poker game where you can only have to raise it 5x the blind to get people to fold LOL that's insane.
The 1/2 games I play at the casino, raising to 10 gets no less than 4 callers 80% of the time. Raising to 20 you will always get at least 2 callers….. In order to get only 1 caller you need to raise to around 15x the BB….
But there's the problem…… If I have aces and raise to 15 I get 3 or 4 callers….. If I raise to 20 I usually get 2 callers, sometimes 1….. So then I raise to 25 and everyone folds….. It's so difficult to find that sweet spot to get only one caller, I've been trying to figure out the trick with this for so long… there just isn't any trick…… And that's the biggest problem… I have pocket 10's, I can't really raise to 15 and get 3 callers every time I have pocket 9's because I'll lose more than I'll win that way…. However, if I raise only to 6 or 10 I get 7 callers and barely ever win. In these situations I feel like just limp calling works best because I'm basically set mining anyway, and I'll see the flop more often without having to even call a raise at all…. and if I do hit a flop I will get called for big bets ANYWAY.
Maybe these things you're saying will work online where the people aren't so gambly, but I play 1/2 live in Vegas and raising to isolate just does not work here unless you raise really big. But I've tried doing that for a while and started losing (I log everything) all the time! In these splashy games I've found that playing tight and minimizing losses is the best approach… wait for good post flop equity and then be aggressive…
Of course it's possible that I just so happened to try this isolation strategy by betting huge during a down swing, but when you DO isolate and you miss, you find yourself in positions where you have good bluff equity… But it's very very difficult to get people to fold anything so in reality the "how often will he fold" variable of the equation is impossible to know….. Did he hit bottom pair? Then he will call a pot size bet……. does he have a gut shot… then he'll call…. did he miss completely??? YES he folded! More more times than not you're bluffing and then getting called by a shitty better hand… or a draw…. and the 20-30% they win their fuckin draw PLUS the 90% they don't fold leaves me losing 70-80% of the time.
You said not to use cookie cutter rules, of course I get that, but what do you do when you're playing with splashy players? The only answer I've found is to literally just wait for monsters and then rip as much money as you can get them to call while ur ahead of the math… And then that comes down to actual decision making, which is one of the toughest parts of poker.
Edit: So yeah I wrote this before getting to your #2 tip, and it seems my conclusion was correct… just flat call these guys.
Wait a minute….. can you explain why the 9 player chart only allows you to play AK suited to A5 suited and not less? I'm SO confused about that…. Wouldn't A2 A3 A4 and A5 suited ALL be BETTER than A6 suited for example?
What am I missing here I thought this was well known…. Is it only in my head that it's well known?
good video, but 1/2 cash game raise to $6 rec with AK offsuit at a live casino is a fantastic way to go to a 9 way pot.
It helps mee!! Thanks 😊
According to this range chart you would never play 7/8 suited?
Limpers love calling light