Simple Trick to Beat Bad Poker Players (Just Do This!)

Use this 3-step process to beat the bad poker players (almost) every single time. This is the simple strategy that I use to crush the bad poker players.

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[bjvalenzuela]

Learned that hard way never bluff a bad player lol😂

[McRuffin]

“They will literally mortgage their house to call you”. I’m weak 😭😭😂😂

[fastfunpokerjamie]

The problem w low stakes is that no one folds so you’re playing multi way pots w less equity. At 1-2 you simply wait for a hand and then value bet it. Anything else is fancy play syndrome.

[misterduelog]

Hey Nathan, love your videos and thanks so much for sharing your poker knowledge.

I just tripled my initial deposit on PokerStars playing micro stakes games. I had learned a lot of these concepts from other pros during my first foray into the game in 2016.

The way you explain things, and especially how you CONTINUALLY REINFORCE your lessons revealed to me that I already had a great foundation at the game and then it built upon that. It’s not some “secret thing”. My biggest issue was confidence.

Your videos are helping me get my confidence at the table! Especially how you laugh and joke around when you’re explaining things, it shows you actually love the game!

Anyway I’m gushing a bit but I had to say thanks, and wanted to ask if you had any videos specifically talking about confidence/mental game either free or paid in your university.

Thanks again!

[seguren]

That bonus tip happened to me yesterday. I hit full-house on turn, the river completed the straight draw. I shoved all-in, and to their credit they took time to think about it first, but ultimately they called with a rivered straight. Cha-ching!

[KissMyConverseFool]

this advice sounds good, in a weird world where you can isolate people by popping their limp or minclick effective limp, but I play a lot of live 1-2 where someone will make it 1-10-20 and 4 people call, then my 20-40 just makes a 200 dollar family pot. I could go 80 but at that point we're almost just playing push or fold when it's a game with 200-400 dollar buy ins

the problem I guess i run into is your prior of getting the bad player isolated in the first place.

[Julz--]

I'm really quite conflicted now. Nathan in other videos and also in your free cheat sheet you say that the way to crush the microstakes is to play a TAG style (top 20% of hands in 6max and top 15% of hands in a full ring). But now you're saying to get into as many pots as possible with them with a much wider range. So which is it? Would love to hear your thoughts on this.

[zeljkopetrovic]

3x isolates no one and you play 6way flop and if you bet 8 on a AK8 bord, you get called by Kx. Not sure who is the fish there.

[apocalypsepromotions]

Thank you as always for your important content!

[fredsmit]

I like your tips! One of you best videos.

[anthonygraham]

Does this content apply to tournaments? Or is there certain content I need to watch for tourneys?

[stanime]

Recently started NL5 and been struggling. 40k hands, and i've basically broke even. However the bonus point is something i wasn't doing. tbh I almost never bet more than 3/4 pot. Dont know how much impact it'll have - but I agree with your point.

[Variia]

If most of your table is bad, isolating doesnt work. 4-5 people calling 6x is not unusual. And in that case you need to hit your hand.
Playing against 1 idiot is easy, against multiple is hard unless you have a hand.

[TheMoviesWithMike]

What do you do when over a 4 hour period the best pair you had was 44 and the best non pair you had was 94 suited surrounded by bad players, you can bluff or value bet, are you simply doomed that tournament, or is there another option in these Super Droughts? They don’t come up too often, usually you get at least suited gappers to work with, but they do happen. Any solutions?

[stravs]

This is good, but does it describe wild players? The kind I'm thinking about raise all kinds of suited junk, big. Like 15-20bb big preflop, with T3s. I'm here with KK, and since I know this player raises light, I'm re-raising. Flop is 3 7 Q rainbow. Villian shoves with his bottom pair. I call. No K on turn or river, but river brings T, giving him 2 pair to my KK, and I'm stacked again. Oh, I know his chances of making 2 pair there are very slim, and I have the advantage. Just seems to happen way too often.

[PhoenixTTD]

Stuff like this doesn't make sense in live low limit. 3-5x doesn't isolate anyone. 6-7x might but often they fold and you are still multiway. Raise more and they will fold but you are probably playing someone else, probably multiway. So playing for excessive bb's multiway without picking your opponent while you have a bad hand doesn't seem like a good strategy. You cannot isolate a specific limper in most situations.

[matthewnovik]

biggest problem I seem to have is winning small and losing big..lol

[joshuablack]

Should I be betting my straight/ flush draws on the flop? or just check and wait for it to be a made hand on the turn/river against fish

[terencehill]

So in your example, what do you on the turn with you Q8 on AK8 third pair when he calls your 80%-pot cbet?

[chilogutierrez]

I've learned to not try to over inflate pots vs the any two cards Jonny's of the world. I would simply bet flop check turn for pot control and call river. You really need to have nutted hands vs these guys to bet confidently. But also the odds they will call you down when your the nuts are a lot better because these are the same guys that will never lay down two pair on any board texture