This 1 Thing Will Make You a Winner in Poker

Adding this one thing to your game will make you a winner at poker. Bart discusses this key concept at 14:20 where the caller's opponent plays a strong hand somewhat passively.

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0:00 — Intro
1:12 — Preflop
2:29 — Flop
8:03 — Turn
10:08 — River
14:20 — 1 thing that makes you a winner

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[RileyLogan-it]

If you don't value own yourself sometimes, you're not value betting enough.

[DKMCC]

i mean yeah this hand sucks to see when you’re the hero, but you can also smile knowing you SHOULD have lost way more flopping top pair against a slow played over pair. Bart even said at the beginning, it could even be a spot to bet/3-bet the flop and be ok with getting it in sometimes.

[danwoods]

I remember reading somewhere once that 'if you get raised postflop in a $1/$2 or $1/$3 low stakes game, its almost always for value and folding anything less than two pair will be a winner in the long run'. This hand is a perfect example of that and through the years its proven pretty true (at those low levels you don't even really see combo draws raised). If i was in the hand, id have called the extra $50 on the flop due to the price but check folded on the turn or river unless i improved.

[pot_kivach]

yup, QQ makes sense on turn! (checking back). I missed the V profile, though.

[burkhartlaw]

I think the villain is right, it was a bad call. He should have raised. You just spent 10 minutes explaining why AJ was likely good. Those same reasons apply even more so to QQ.

[thaThRONe]

You have to understand the way low stake players play. It's far from standard and you have to adjust to players that won't 3bet pre with a premium like QQ.

[kennyvoller]

How does QQ not put money in on the turn when checked to?

[robert]

I would like to see an analysis of villans hand.

[JeffreyHaefner]

In these 1/3 games, ppl rarely ever raise the flop vs the preflop raiser unless they can beat top pair. Especially in multi way pots, zero chance he’s raising a hand like QJ or KJ, so we beat nothing. Gotta get the discipline and know it’s an underbluffed spot. I could see us calling $50 more on flop bc it’s cheap but still looking to fold if we don’t improve. Ppl at 1/3 LOVE TO FLAT RAISES PREFLOP W BIG PAIRS, that’s why they’re stuck at 1/3 and can’t move up

[jklee]

As played I was thinking either bet big or check shove on the river.

Targetting worst Jx that raised flop and checked turn. Probably lean with betting as JT may check behind and live players dont value bet thin enough. QQ may fold to check shove though lol

[king_has_no_clothskul]

I AM MORE SCARED OF FLUSHES THAN STRAIGHTS. STRAIGHTS CAN BE CALCULATED BUT FLUSH YOU SEE TWO OF THE SAME THERE IS EVERY EFFING CHANCE THAT THIRD IS ON THE WAY ESPECIALLY IN NOTORIOUS ONLINE GAMES( MONATONE BOARDS AND LAST TWO OF THE SAME SUIT GALORE ONLINE AND I CANT EMPHASIZE HOW OFTEN THEY DO). IT IS HARD TO HIT A STRAIGHT THAN FLUSH ON THESE ONLINE GAMES.

[pokerbosscycler]

QQ totally a rec player to flat pre flop in position

[brianpotter]

Take note of that guy as a mouse....they NEVER 3 bet unless they have AA or KK, and even then they don't always 3-bet w/ KK. They want to see a flop to make sure there's no overcard before they start putting in more money.

These people are easily mistaken for splashy players who play hands like J5 suited. When you are playing low stakes (especially live) games like this, players don't tend to get too aggressive unless they have the nuts or next to the nuts.

[colintimp]

This is my luck. It was either going to be QQ or they'd go all in with 88 for a rivered full house.

[JeffreyHaefner]

Hero raises big preflop, gets multiple calls, then bets flop and gets raised. Highly doubt we r good here w AJ. I lean fold exploitatively

[EllieBanks]

I agreed with everything Bart said here. Only thing I wish had been discussed was the idea of donking turn.

[mrhumble]

Bart always says the min raise is usually not nutted hands. But apways in comments people tell him 1-3 esp multiway is super strong. But he sticks to his beliefs.

[lookaguru]

I’m snap mucking any one pair (even AA) to a clickback of any size in a live low stakes game. It just doesn’t happen often enough. Passive live rec-peasants love their Call buttons more than their first born. They can’t folds hands and they don’t know how to raise.

I’m immediately putting the vilain on QQ+, J5, J3, 5-3 or Sets. As atrocious the raggy hands are, they are played as bingo cards. Villain won’t raise J5 on a J62 flop.

[king_has_no_clothskul]

THE DREADED IT CAN WIN YOU EVERYTHING OR LOSE EVERYTHING!

[TomRauhe]

At least 1.2x pot on the river easily.