Almost Nobody Uses This Line... It Prints Money

Transcript

I do want to announce, though, that we are doing a $10,000 freeroll with Club WPT Gold. And that's coming up in mid-May. It's either going to be, I think, the second Sunday or the third Sunday of May. And if you've already signed up on the site through the code BART, you're already in. But if you haven't signed up at the site at all, you can use the code BART and you will get into our $10,000 freeroll, which they give us on a quarterly basis. And I've been playing a lot over there. Now I'm actually playing a lot of PLO High tournaments. I have won a few. I won two tournaments in a row a couple weeks ago. And then I did a PLO High tournament video that we put out this weekend too. But I think it's by far the best option for Americans. I'm not super familiar with the regulated state-by-state sites. I just know that they have very, very small prize pools. And these games, especially with PLO, are extremely soft. So you can check it out. Head over to Club WPT Gold and use the code BART at sign-up. I actually have a hand here that I think I'll just do. I don't normally do this, but I had it as a backup because I wasn't sure if Jake was actually going to call in at 2:40. So I had it as a backup because it was a late add. So I'm going to do this here, which is going to be on the regular podcast, but I wanted to record it for a YouTube video anyways. So what ended up happening was that I actually played on Friday night. And I also played on Saturday night this week because, obviously, I was going on my trip to Denmark. So I played on those two nights. This is the first time that I've played probably at night since—God, it's been a long time—on a weekend night. It was frustrating because on Friday, I had to wait three hours to get in the game. Now, I ended up being able to play some PLO. But then on Saturday, I sat next to one of our subscribers, Rachel, that I know from Boston, and I got to put in a good six hours. I put in a good six hours nonstop. So it was a good session. I won about maybe 18 or 1900. And there were several hands that came out of that that I thought were interesting. And this is one that I think is pretty interesting here too. And I've talked about this many times on the podcast, but I think people don't necessarily get a grasp for it. So let's go through it again. You'll hear this twice if you're listening to The Call-In Show and the regular podcast too, because this is a hand for the regular podcast. So I would say it's about maybe midnight. And I'm in seat nine. And villain in the hand is in seat one. He actually has me covered. It's 2K effective. And we basically have the straddle on. And he's got me covered. I would say he's an Asian dude, maybe right around my age, probably a little bit on the tighter side. Looked capable, though, and also would fold. He wouldn't necessarily get frustrated. I don't know if he's a for-profit player or not. I don't know any of these guys, obviously, at night. So this hand goes down where I open the hand for 30, which is about my normal sizing. We're playing eight-handed or something like that. And I've got King of Diamonds, Queen of Clubs. So I open to 30 from plus one. And the villain in the hand—I'm going to call him tightish—calls to my immediate left. So I'm in seat nine. He's in seat one. He makes the call. And then two other people call here as well: the button and the big blind. Again, the game was pretty wrecked up. So you'll see that I'll do definitely more volume of betting in these types of situations, as we'll see. So we go four ways. I'm the preflop raiser. The pot's 120 bucks. I've got King of Diamonds, Queen of Clubs. The flop comes out Queen of Hearts, Jack of Clubs, Deuce of Clubs. So we've got a two-flush Broadway board. Pretty multiway, for sure. I mean, three other opponents. I'm out of position as the preflop raiser. And again, even though we're playing 2-5-10, the 10 wasn't necessarily always on. This is, in essence, a 2-5 game. There's still a 5-10 game going, although it was kind of weak. So my approach in a lot of these spots, especially on two-Broadway boards, is to do a high frequency of betting. In other situations, a lot of people might check when it's super multiway. But on a Broadway board with multiple straight draws and multiple flush draws, when people over-VPIP and they play too many hands, a lot of their hands come out of a portion of offsuit Broadways and some probably ace-x that they shouldn't necessarily VPIP. So the big blind checks, and me with top pair, I bet 80. I've got King of Diamonds, Queen of Clubs. This is going to come into play, by the way. So the queen out there is not a club. King of Diamonds, Queen of Clubs. I flop top pair, and I come out and I bet 80 into 120. So about two-thirds the size of the pot. The MP guy next to act calls. So MP calls, and then both the other guys fold out. So it goes fold, fold. And now the pot is 280 bucks. So again, Queen of Hearts, Jack of Clubs, Deuce of Clubs. I bet 80, he makes the call. This is important to remember because of configuration. Now this guy is much, much stronger when he's calling next to act. I mean, he literally called next to act. He's got two people behind him. I don't even know if he's necessarily calling with a jack there. I think it's a pretty light call, even if you had something like maybe Ace-Jack, Ace of Clubs, maybe, with two people behind. But stuff like Jack-10, even King-Jack, if he calls with that stuff preflop in a multiway spot, when I come out and fire 80 into 120, if he's nitty, he should be doing a lot of folding. Okay, so now the pot is $280. The turn's a brick. It's the Seven of Diamonds. So I'm thinking about this, and I'm like, well, all right. It is a brick. Should I start slowing down? Am I concerned that he might have me beaten? He maybe has some Ace-Queen, although it is a three-blind configuration. I think that gets three-bet off a lot. And how often is he really slow-playing big, big hands here with two people behind him? If he flopped top two, I assume he'd have three-bet with Queens and Jacks. Now he could have Deuce-Deuce here too, but he didn't raise the flop. And there has to be some frequency that he's going to raise the flop when he flops something like that. I don't think it should really slow me down all that much. So again, the pot now is 130 on the flop. I'm just going to fix this. It's actually 290, not 280, just to be exact. So the pot's 290. Queen of Hearts, Jack of Clubs, Deuce of Clubs. Turn's a Seven of Diamonds. And I come out and I bet 190. And he thinks about it for a while, and he finally calls again after some thought. So MP calls again. And my question to you guys out there listening, especially to the podcast, is what is this guy's range? Now, he didn't raise flop or raise turn. He's never going to have pocket sevens. You would think, especially at the stack depth, on this type of board, which is super, super draw-heavy, that he's going to want to put some money in at some point with Deuce-Deuce or Queen-Jack, even if he has some sort of frequency of slow plays, right? Because there are so many action-killing cards. I mean, it would be a disaster if he had something like Deuce-Deuce, and then he got some sort of ultimate scare card at the end, right? So he makes the call again. And again, sure, I'm behind to Ace-Queen, but I looked at this like, calling next to act, calling on turn, I looked at it like he's got a queen here, probably not Ace-Queen, or he's got some sort of draw because of the tight configuration. Pot now is 670. And now the river is the Queen of Spades. So it's Queen of Hearts, Jack of Clubs, Deuce of Clubs, the turn's the Seven of Diamonds, and the river is the Queen of Spades. I hold King of Diamonds, Queen of Clubs. The reason why that's important is because Queen-x of Clubs is not available. I kind of tagged this guy as tightish. And my question to you all out there—you can pause the recording if you're listening to this on the podcast, and I know I've spoken about this before—is what would you do now at the end? I think that's a good point. Think about the type of range that we put him on. And then also think about the many, many times I've said this in the past. If the river instead was some sort of brick, like a red three or something like that, a lot of times, especially when you unblock top pair—like if I had Aces or Kings—you should be betting close to 100% of the time because checking to induce a bluff is not going to be the most profitable line in a spot like that. If we held Aces, Kings, even something like Ace-Queen on a red three, some sort of true, true brick, because people aren't going to necessarily bluff their front-door draws. However, this is a very, very unique case when top pair pairs. When top pair pairs and you check to somebody on the river, a person that otherwise does not really have a bluffing frequency off of a missed draw on the front door will suddenly bluff. And also, if he has a weaker queen, like Queen-10, Queen-9, and I check to him, what's he going to do? He's going to bet. So in this spot, even though I am probably 98% an advocate of not check-calling river at low-stakes poker, this is a spot where I actually think this is played and should be played as a check-call. Because we are not going to lose the value from a queen. We don't really think he's got a jack here. It's such a small portion of his range. Is he continuing to call a turn with Ace-Jack? And then if we bet the river, who knows? I mean, if I knew he had Ace-Jack, of course I would bet. But I think most of his range here consists of busted-out draws on the front-door club side, or some sort of draw that backs into some sort of weak hand like seven-x of clubs, busted-out flush draws, busted-out straight draws that might have been trying to represent the flush, or a queen. Or some boatish types of hands too. So we don't lose the value when he has Queen-10 or Queen-9, because he's going to bet. And then we're going to give him the green light, in a spot that he otherwise would not have bluffed, to check. And that's what I did. I checked. Hero checks. And obviously I would do that with Aces and Kings here in this particular spot. The other reason why this gives somebody the green light to bluff when they otherwise wouldn't have bluffed is because so few people in my spot take this line. So few people go bet-bet and then check when they make trips. I've talked about making this play when you lead out of the blinds in a limped pot with a top-pair type of hand. Say the board comes out Jack-8-4, two-flush, and you have Jack-Deuce. And I'm a pretty large advocate for betting out. You bet out and get a call or two, and the turn's a total brick, like a three, like Jack-8-4-3, front-door flush. You bet out, you get one call. And then the river's a jack. So you make trips in a spot like that. Depending, obviously, on the board texture, if you check, you will get a very, very high bluffing frequency from the person in position because they never see anybody check trips in a spot like that. Obviously in that example, you're losing to all of the jack-x. But here we can even get the guy to value-own himself here too. So I check. Hero checks. And MP thinks for a little bit and fires out 500, which is five black chips at the Encore. And obviously I snap-call. Hero snap-calls. And he says, "You're good." And again, this is a stylistic thing. I mean, it's just kind of a dumb argument. I do not wait for him to show what his bluff was. He said, "You're good." I turned my hand over. That was that. So I don't know what combo he had. I just think that that's kind of an etiquette thing. One of the videos—and we'll probably put a link to it up on YouTube—that I got roasted the absolute most for involved Garrett, actually. Garrett Adelstein, before the Jack 4 scandal. So this is going back like four years ago. I think I called it Garrett versus Reddit. The same type of thing happened where Garrett was bluffing, a guy called, Garrett said, "You're good," and the guy was trying to make Garrett show his hand. And Garrett's like, "You want to see my hand?" And I went on this whole rant about how I don't do that. I just fast-roll over my hand. And a lot of people disagreed with me. But I do think, as a professional, I just do that. I'm assuming the guy's got a front-door flush draw or King-10, right? But when you think about that and think about how uncommon somebody will take that line there with a queen, I made myself an extra 500 bucks by doing that. So I was pretty happy with that. If villain has a queen here, doesn't he just call any bet? Yes, but he bets himself, though, too, Mr. Letus23. That's the great spot about this particular situation. Someone said check-raise, Mike? Oh, that was you, Mike, on the side. I asked Mike about this hand. He said, "I was going to check-raise the river." Another option here too. I think Daniel makes a good point. A reverse block, which is, all right, you're going to make it look like you bet out 100 to try to induce a raise. Yes, that's another possibility here too. A couple of things have to happen here. You have to get raised by a bluff. And then you also have to get raised by a queen. Every time I play that reverse block, every time I try to do that, it just doesn't end up working all that well. I think Nate can attest to this too in the live chat. But that has some credibility. Thank you. You know, you bet out and get a call or two, and the turn's like a total brick, like a three, like jack 8-4-3, front door flush. You bet out, you get one call. And then the river's a jack. And then the river's a jack. So you make trips in a spot like that. Depending obviously on the board texture. If you check, you will get a very, very high bluffing frequency from the person in position. Because they never see anybody check trips in a spot like that. Obviously in that example, you're losing to all of the jack x. But here we can even get the guy to value on himself here too. So I check. Hero checks. And MP thinks for a little bit. Hero checks. And fires out 500, which is five black chips at the encore. And obviously I snap call. Hero snap calls. And he says, you're good. And again, this is a stylistic thing. I mean, it's just kind of a dumb argument. I do not wait for him to show what his bluff was. I just, he said, you're good. I turned my hand over. That was that. So I don't know what combo that he had. I just think that that's kind of an etiquette thing. One of the videos, and we'll probably put a link to it up on YouTube, that I got roasted the absolute most for. It involved Garrett, actually. Garrett Adelstein, like, obviously before the Jack 4 scandal. So this is going back like four years ago. I think I called it Garrett versus Reddit. Where the same type of thing happened where, like, Garrett was bluffing. A guy called. Garrett said, you're good. And the guy was trying to make Garrett show his hand. And Garrett's like, you want to see my hand? And I went on this whole rant about how I don't do that. I just fast roll over my hand. And a lot of people disagreed with me. But I do think as a professional, I just do that. I'm assuming the guy's got front door flush draw or king 10. Right? But when you think about that and think about how uncommon somebody will take with that line there, with a queen, I made myself an extra 500 bucks by doing that. So I was pretty happy with that. If villain has a queen here, doesn't he just call any bet? Yes, but he bets himself though, too, Mr. Letus23. That's the great spot about this particular situation. Someone said check raise, Mike? Oh, that was you, Mike, on the side. I asked Mike about this hand. He said, I was going to check raise the river. Another option here, too. I think Daniel makes a good point. A reverse block, which is all right, you're going to make it look like you bet out 100 to try to induce a raise. Yes, that's another possible one here, too. If, I mean, a couple of things have to happen here. You have to get raised by a bluff. And then you also have to get raised by a queen. Every time I play that reverse block, every time I try to do that, it just doesn't end up working all that well. I think Nate can attest to this, too, in the live chat. But that has some credibility. Thank you, talk to each other in talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk Thank you.