S05E11 - Answering Your Questions Part Two - Poker Strategy

Today’s poker strategy podcast is all about flush draws and straight draws on the flop and player reads. Fan of the Pod. Pod episode every single Sunday ad free and fluff free: https://lowlimitcashgames.com Full blown poker training with hundreds of audio and video teaching exclusively how to crush 1/2 and 1/3 no limit: https://lowlimitcashgames.com There are options to join for a year and save 10% as well making the pod and/or training super affordable. The best way to ramp your game up and know how to play any hand in any spot by drilling it over and over again. This is the only product I endorses. Make sure to use my code for a 25% discount at checkout: https://advancedpokertraining.... Use code: lowlimit Want more details on everything that is offered with the training package on Patreon? I go into great detail about it all here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/... Just want to leave me a tip? Do it here. https://www.paypal.me/brettmas...

4 Feb 202422min

Today is another bonus poker room review. We will be talking about my home room. Ebro Poker Room. Find them online: https://goebro.com Wondering where the podcast every Sunday went? Fans of the Pod get ad free, fluff free episode every single Sunday: https://lowlimitcashgames.com Save 10% when you choose the annual option Targeted Low Stakes poker training with hundreds of hours of audio and video teaching exclusively how to crush 1/2 and 1/3 no limit: https://lowlimitcashgames.com Save 10% when you choose the annual option. Hate AK? How to Play AK Master Class For only $49 get this 88 minute training video of me showing you exactly how to play AK, particularly when out of position. https://www.patreon.com/lowlim... The best way to ramp your game up and know how to play any hand in any spot by drilling it over and over again. This is the only product I endorses. Make sure to use my code for a 25% discount at checkout: https://advancedpokertraining.... Use code: lowlimit Want more details on everything that is offered with the training package on Patreon? I go into great detail about it all here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/... Ebro Poker Room 20 minutes north of Panama City beach Fl 16 tables 1/2 400 cap 1/3 2k cap 2/5 no cap 6 rake 2 promo Generally $100 hourly high hands Holidays can be $100 to $200 15 mins Royal flush $500. $2500 if spades Weekday action 2 to 3 tables early day 5 at night ish Weekends 5 to 8 tables. The bigger games will run randomly. Usually at night. Almost always a bigger game on Friday and Saturday Food is pricey but almost always better than average. Wait staff is phenomenal Dealers ranking 8.6 (explain) Pros Loose action Friendly staff and players Good food Free Player accounts Feels like a home game a lot of the time Cons Pricy food Music repeats same 30 songs over and over Difficult to get a bigger game going sometimes. They have some rule about having to fill all the empty 1/2 seats to be able to start the bigger games (varies by floor) This is my home room and although I travel I lot I spend about half the year playing here. Had an issue one time and poker manager called me at home to talk about it. Won’t find that most anywhere. It’s a dog track built in the 1950s or so. So not the most modern. But it’s very friendly. Great action. Professional staff. Good dealers on average.

18 Jan 202418min

The hand history to follow with along is below. Fan of the Pod. Pod episode every single Sunday ad free and fluff free: https://lowlimitcashgames.com Full blown poker training with hundreds of audio and video teaching exclusively how to crush 1/2 and 1/3 no limit: https://lowlimitcashgames.com There are options to join for a year and save 10% as well making the pod and/or training super affordable. Want more details on everything that is offered with the training package on Patreon? I go into great detail about it all here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/... The best way to ramp your game up and know how to play any hand in any spot by drilling it over and over again. This is the only product I endorses. Make sure to use my code for a 25% discount at checkout: https://advancedpokertraining.... Use code: lowlimit Learn to beat the games you play! So much stuff online for games you don’t play. Not enough for things you do. It’s confusing. While learning some “balanced” things can help your game, low stakes max profits are made simply by exploiting the massive mistakes your opponents make, and playing correctly Vs their mostly “face up “ play. Mark 1/3 south Florida 450 effective with AJ off co Limper , v 15, hero calls, limper calls 45 KT6 rainbow Check , v 40, hero calls, limper folds. (I thought I could stack him if I hit my gutter and my ace may be good as well. 125 6 V 100, hero shove , v snap call. Shows TT hero drawing dead. I was crushed here but I know as preflop caller I have all the 6x hands and he doesn’t. So I think if I shove here he has to fold lots of his one pair hands. Thanks for looking at this hand at you can use it on the podcast

7 Jan 202427min

Reviewing poker, the podcast and Patreon for 2022. Fans of the Pod get ad free, fluff free episode every single Sunday: https://lowlimitcashgames.com Save 10% when you choose the annual option Targeted Low Stakes poker training with hundreds of hours of audio and video teaching exclusively how to crush 1/2 and 1/3 no limit: https://lowlimitcashgames.com Save 10% when you choose the annual option. Hate AK? How to Play AK Master Class For only $49 get this 88 minute training video of me showing you exactly how to play AK, particularly when out of position. https://www.patreon.com/lowlim... The best way to ramp your game up and know how to play any hand in any spot by drilling it over and over again. This is the only product I endorses. Make sure to use my code for a 25% discount at checkout: https://advancedpokertraining.... Use code: lowlimit Want more details on everything that is offered with the training package on Patreon? I go into great detail about it all here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/... Podcast Download stats Just over 200k After changing to one public per month sti maintained 50% of monthly downloads $1380 pod revenue Changes to pod (short) Received 184 messages on social media specifically thanking me for the pod from players who has become winning players citing the podcast as the number one reason why. Patron stats Had 4 one on one patron all year Mid tier was 95% full all year, sold out much of the year Added the fan of the pod tier and love it Player hourly Omg 27.31 Slim 16.82 Sebastian 40.67 Mike 11.29. Up from $1 last year Nicholas 44.43 John 11.23 Bobby 18.80 2023 poker goals / results Hours 1500 goal / 1428 Had 4 10 buy in downswings. Most ever in a year. Expected hourly 58% lower than any year I’ve had in the past 6 years since tracking 2024 goals poker - Improve mental game overall - only play when feeling good - Take a walk every hour - Leave session the instant I am irritated or not enjoying the battle - Travel to less rooms, play more in the rooms where I have my highest edge - Improve at PLO 2024 goals pod Increase downloads 15% 2023 goals patron Increase fans of pod tier 25% Increase middle tier 5% Increase one on one tier one more person Create 20% less content that is 50% better

31 Dec 202339min

Todays poker strategy podcast will focus on playing two pair Vs playing sets and the differences in specific spots. To get every episode every Sunday as a fan of the pod, ad free and fluff free, or to get full blown training check out: https://lowlimitcashgames.com The following analysis assumes that you know the player you are in the hand with and they always have the flush. If it’s a player that can bluff a 3 suit turn then there is much more involved. But all too often at low stakes it’s just rarely a player bluffing when the turn brings the flush. When you have a set vs two pair on the turn which brings in a flush, and it’s very clear your opponent has a flush, how good of shape are you in? 22% with a set 9% two pair If it’s an all in and the pot isn’t laying you 4 to 1 with your set or 9 to 1 with your two pair then it’s a fold. And this is the biggest mistake I see at low stakes. Players calling with the two pair because “I can still get a full house” while being oblivious to the pot odds. For this reason it’s safe to say to just always fold two pair hands on the turn vs what is an obvious flush. We can continue with sets though. If you have money behind then you can call with your set getting 3 to 1 as long as you feel that you can get one more bet of that size or more on the river when you boat up with set. With a two pair hand it’s much more dire. Getting 3 to 1 as an example your need to have 5 more bets of that size you are calling left behind and know your opponent will pay when you hit. For simplicity sake, the two pairs are just always folds. So much so you can just assume it. For sets you can spend the time doing the math and evaluating. Want more details on everything that is offered with the training package on Patreon? I go into great detail about it all here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/... Don’t want to do the whole Patreon thing but want to just leave me a tip? They are much appreciated and you can do that here. https://www.paypal.me/brettmas... The best way to ramp your game up and know how to play any hand in any spot by drilling it over and over again: https://advancedpokertraining.... Use code: lowlimit

10 Dec 202322min

To become a fan of the pod and get a 1/2, 1/3 no limit focused episode of the podcast every week, or to get full blown training to crush low stakes no limit holdem, check out http://lowlimitcashgames.com Lodge review Bomb Pots, H-E-B, Big Red The Lodge owns the poker market in Austin. There is a small room nearby that has one table on average running. And a couple more within 15 to 30 minutes. But other than TCH they all are one or two table rooms. Run very well. The poker atlas system allows for getting on list up to one hour ahead of arrival. This lets them know when an influx of players is coming so they always have dealers on standby to open new tables. I don’t think I ever waited more than 5 minutes for a seat other than the early morning hours between 7am and 11am. 11 per hour to play. No discounts for paying up front. They don’t come to harass you at the table if you haven’t paid your time in advance like many Texas rooms. You settle up with them when they leave as they track your playing time. Discount. Weekdays from 8am to 11am they let you play free. Me and my pro friend did this every weekday the first two weeks. The games are so bad it’s not worth the $11 hourly savings. Can you profit? Sure. But it won’t be much per hour. Better to just play later when the games are their best. Dealers. I’ve come up with a way to score dealers moving forward in my room reviews. Every dealer than personally deals to me I’ll rate 1 to 10. And i take notes. At the end of my trip all add ill of them together and divide by number of dealers for an average score. The lodge scored very high with a 8.4 average. Michael “all in” loud as hell. Talks nonstop to players slows the games way down. I was too his right and he was yelling across the room at someone right into my ear. Killing me. I’m not a fan of loud dealers or dealers who talk too much. He is both. But he is a very good dealer technically. N. Won’t say full name. Worst dealer in the room. And the only bad dealer really. Seemed relatively new. Tried to talk and do conversation which he isn’t ready for. He need to just concentrate on the make. He really was a problem in bomb pots. Floor / Brush I found them all to do their jobs very well. One particularly interesting thing is the floor can pull up camera for any table right on their phone (or perhaps it’s a poker room phone or device) and review a hand right there in real time. Had this happen twice during my month of playing there and it really sped up getting rulings that required reviewing video. Players I was traveling with a pro grinder friend. We discussed the lodge 1/2 players at great length. After a month this is out conclusions. There are a ton of solid players, good regs and pros. There are a ton of nits. There aren’t a lot of people punting massively. The gamblers seem to be made up of a lot of players who Save the gamble for bomb pots. This isn’t optimum for the holdem hands. We saw it time and time again. Bad players who didn’t gamble much in holdem. And would just punt massively in bomb pots. If you are planing to play here, spend lots of time getting good at double board PLO bomb pots. Players who play bad but leave when down a couple buy ins or up a couple. Only one really deep game in 19 days (sessions 16) I was amazed how many days I’d be 4 or 6 hours into a session and there may be one stack over 500. Everyone else still in the 200 to 400 range. This is so much different than nearly any other 1/2 game I play. Hands per hour. One hour between the two bombs and a dealer floor player thing we had 16 hands in an hour. Saw many bomb pot hands that took 10 minutes. Many. On average it’s probably 5 or 6 minutes. This one dealer (Nick) who was the worst in the room miscalculated a split bomb pot. Two hands later two players start discussing it and he stops dealing mid hand while they work it out. Not only did the damn bomb pot take 8 minutes. It was another two minutes discussion during a hand I had the betting lead in. Food Drinks etc Water and soft drinks are free. No food other than chips and peanuts and beef jerky etc. They sell beer. BYOB liquor and wine. You can bring your own food. Or order Door Dash. Security. I always felt safe there. They have anywhere from 1 to 3 armed security in there depending on time of day. They have a station with a screen of all the security cam views and are always checking it. I assume they would walk you to your car if you asked. I never did. Overview. This is a massive room and games are always running. You won’t ever have to wait long for a seat. Player pool is better on average than nearly any other 1/2 player pool I’ve played anywhere. It’s beatable for sure. But I’d expect my hourly to be 1/2 what it normally is when combining the players and the bomb pot effect. One aside. Many many of the locals who have been playing there from day one world often lament how much better it was before Doug Polk and company took over. They talked about the games being softer. How free breakfast was served. How every night was a different dinner. Like taco night. Pizza night. Lasagne night. Etc etc. So while the room is massive and generating more income for the owners I’m sure, the long time locals missed the good old days of softer games and more being given back by the owners. I’ll never return to Austin TX to play poker

26 Nov 202334min

Todays poker strategy podcast is on identifying scary board textures in no limit holdem. This poker podcast is specifically designed for the 1/2 or 1/3 low limit cash game player. Whether this be your local home game or poker room. I tailor the content of my poker coaching specifically to you the low stakes poker player. I do a new episode every Sunday. This one which is free to the general public and then private ones every subsequent Sunday of each month just for fans of the pod. $5 a month. Or pay annually and get a 10% discount. You will get the pod without any fluff, Intros, outros, adds or distraction. Become a fan now and never miss an episode at: https://lowlimitcashgames.comYou can also check out my full blown Advanced poker training designed specifically to teach you how to crush 1/2 and 1/3 poker. Hundreds and hundreds of hours of videos, charts, whiteboard study presentations and access to the private discord community. The is also a private coaching option as well: https://lowlimitcashgames.comWant more details on everything that is offered with the training package on Patreon? I go into great detail about it all here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/...Don’t want to do the whole Patreon thing but want to just leave me a tip? They are much appreciated and you can do that here. https://www.paypal.me/brettmas...The best way to ramp your game up and know how to play any hand in any spot by drilling it over and over again: https://advancedpokertraining.... Use code: lowlimitFor 25% discount Scary board texturesQTx, Q9x, JTx , J9x, More scary when two suits Scariest QT9, QJ9, JT9, JT8,Level 100 scary when suited Use some caution when you have big pairs etcUse to your advantage when opponents are capped at big pairs and you aren’t.

29 Okt 202322min

Todays poker strategy podcast is about how to play your best and thrive when you are running bad. This poker podcast is specifically designed for the 1/2 or 1/3 low limit cash game player. Whether this be your local home game or poker room. I tailor the content of my poker coaching specifically to you the low stakes poker player. I do a new episode every Sunday. This one which is free to the general public and then private ones every subsequent Sunday of each month just for fans of the pod. $5 a month. Or pay annually and get a 10% discount. You will get the pod without any fluff, Intros, outros, adds or distraction. Become a fan now and never miss an episode at: https://lowlimitcashgames.com You can also check out my full blown Advanced poker training designed specifically to teach you how to crush 1/2 and 1/3 poker. Hundreds and hundreds of hours of videos, charts, whiteboard study presentations and access to the private discord community. The is also a private coaching option as well: https://lowlimitcashgames.com Want more details on everything that is offered with the training package on Patreon? I go into great detail about it all here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/... Don’t want to do the whole Patreon thing but want to just leave me a tip? They are much appreciated and you can do that here. https://www.paypal.me/brettmas... The best way to ramp your game up and know how to play any hand in any spot by drilling it over and over again: https://advancedpokertraining.... Use code: lowlimit For 25% discount

1 Okt 202315min