Great video! I really do enjoy these 'every hand' videos - especially with the thought process behind it. A lot of the sorts of hands we see here are hands that just don't make it into most youtuber's vlogs, and seeing how someone who is frankly much better than me handles those spots is genuinely both really helpful, and interesting! I also like the 'definitely not a bomb pot because those are banned' hands, lol. Fun way to play how the table wants to, despite a place being pointlessly restrictive! haha
I’ve been watching you since your very first video- I instantly felt a connection with your style of play because it seems super similar to what I was used to. Your breakdown of the hands is really nice because it’s not just surface level analysis- you actually treat your viewers as if they have a brain and don’t just use poker terms to mask your plays. Very nice to watch your videos. It’s very dry, super to the point, and delivers what I like: as many poker hands as possible.
Love the full game reviews. I’ve been trying to teach my girlfriend how to play poker on a more serious level (just like being smart in home games) and your videos help a lot. Keep up the great content
That bet size of the bluff on the 7722 runout is unnecessarily high. This guy could float pretty much only with the pocket pairs (33, 44, 55, 66, 88, 99) some flush draws, but not with the 7h and 2h. If you'd bet 200 to 405 it would be enough to fold a bunch of his hands. 350 seems very bluff heavy to me, like if you want to scare off the villain off the pot. I might be more inclined to call 350 than 200 with pocket pair. And if he would call the turn I think I would give up. I don't see anyone calling such size bet on the turn to not call the river on such dry texture. Also 200 is the sizing you'd might want to use with overpairs to charge underpairs, it adds extra combos to the pool of your value range. I might be wrong though, I'm not very much into GTO stuff. It might fall also well to your personal style of playing, if you like to push the opponents around, making to cause blunders, I don't know. I'm more into small ball approach, so maybe my optics is slightly skewed.
Good to see your vlogs posting been rewatching episodes. New challenge should be interesting. I'm underolled for the games I'm playing in and have to stop myself from making certain plays I know you would make in certain spots.
Gotta love it when people overplay AA when you have the near nuts. A6hh: 2s does not uncap anyone's hand, so I'd bet larger on the turn. Good call and good check on the river. You definitely would have been betting big there with the 53s. LOL You don't have to defend your STR after 2 calls. You have better pot odds, yes, but you have much worse equity. K4s from the HJ is similar. Would you open with that hand? Too many people to get through for this to be worth playing. 65cc: I'd seriously consider raising flop or turn after such small bets. Why are you calling with 74o from the LJ? KK: I get that the solver says to bet these large, but that assumes villain plays like a solver. I'd just bet around 40% and hope for a raise. Then I'd bet huge on any turn that likely does not uncap villain if he just calls. KJo: This is NLHE. You can get all-in on any street for any amount. Geometric sizing is just a starting point for considering bet sizes. Often huge overbets (either small > ob or ob > small) are the best action to take. A river overbet on such a coordinated board seems to be a polarization error to me, since AJ, KJ, and 5x (especially 5xhh and 65; 54 is doubtful since villain did not raise the small flop bet.) are the most likely pairs calling on the river. Solver almost always checks turn and always checks river with this combo. I think in practice villain's range is very constricted here to top pair and 5x when he calls full pot and then a river overbet.
K6ss: All of the online content I can find says that you should bet fewer marginal hands like 2nd pair, instead of more. Why call the raise? What draws does villain have? 86s: After watching you play 100 sessions, I would absolutely bet small with my top tier hands, getting 450 out of your trash hands instead of 0 because I know you like to attack "weak" bet sizes. What's ironic is that most low limit players bet exactly like this with their good hands because they are afraid you'll fold against bigger sizes, and good players will too because they know you will try to bluff them off their thin value. They'll just check/call with thin value instead because good players think about your response to different sizings before betting. 85dd: You check raised villain in the 86s hand because his small bet sizing meant he was capped. Then you made small bets on turn and river with the effective nuts. IMO turn sizing should have been huge. Either he has Ax and calls or doesn't. AK: This is a raised pot. How does everyone have a 100% range? You make a lot of huge bluffs in situations that I think a small or medium bet would suffice.
Last time I got it in with a set (88) on that board (T87) opponent had 96 for the straight - and I didn't fill up, but it did go: Opponent bet 9 I re-raise 27 he 4bet 52 and I shoved all-in for 220 when I knew he had the straight. I really donked off 2/3 my stack lol
So if you don’t hit a set you just fold ? Is that what you mean by “no set no check call?” What if you have 44 and flop comes 356 rainbow? You aren’t going to peel/ rep one of the other sets when the original raisers range is restricted to over cards/pairs. Doesn’t seem smart nor profitable to me, but I’m still a novice player so who knows
Excited for the upcoming challenge... great to see a solid vlog from you with hands! Question, how much does your commentary match your in game thoughts??
nice video! just a question as i’m trying to learn: is there a reason why your opening sizes aren’t consistent? i’ve seen 2.5x against a straddle, 3x w no straddle, etc. want to see if there’s a method or if it’s just vibes
I'd personally open to 2.5x without straddle, but given it's 2/5 it's either $10 or $15. Straddle we want to raise smaller than we normally would as the SPR has already been cut down, and we want to go into the flop with as much chips behind so we can maximize our postflop edge.
The KJ hand was really impressive. I would never get this much value out of this hand...specifically that turn size to jam the river...to be honest i would see the river and getting scared and go into ceck call mode and let him see a cheep showdown...you really konfronts me that im a pussy in this kind of spots. In my mind i always think the pot is to big for my onepair hand in a singel raised pot it dont worth it...but you get so much value out of this situations...i'm glad that you are not in my area 😅
Hmm if I didn’t know any better I would think you might be playing a few bomb pots in this vlog 🙃. Good to see you back Sam, how long did you end up staying in Macau for?
I had a question from the 55 hand...in my opinion he has a easy fold i mean after this river aktion what bluffs you really have here? The only bluffs that can jam rivers are A4 and 64 using blokers to full house's?only maybe it can be sometimes a hero call in bigger stakes but in a casino...come on?Would you call in his shoes and I'm lost? Cheers from Germany i love your kontent keep on going 👍
Hey Sam, can you explain your bet sizing? I get confused as to why sometimes you'll do a standard 3BB initial raise, and other times you'll do a 10BB initial raise.
Hey Sam, I wish you made a summary vlog of Macau, anyways can you share your thoughts about it? Is it worth going, did you try 100/200hk, is it tougher or similar to 50/100? How is a general vibe about foreigners, did u had trouble communicating or most people speak some english? Thanks and gl :)
@@BluffaloSam Lets say if your goal is only to make money playing live poker, but you dont have access to private games, would you say Macau is the place to go, or are there better options in your opinion?
I think I’ve watched every single one of your video logs and I don’t think I’ve ever seen you take the line of “check top set on the flop after raising preflop, bet turn and then check raise river”. I like your raise a lot but I think you’re fooling yourself if you’re trying to say you’re balanced here. When you have a big hand you pile (as you should in live poker because people have garbage and don’t bet thinly enough for value).
Man I'm upset he vlllian re-popped all-in for around $2k on that hand where you had the open-ended staright flush draw WITH a PAIR... Man assuming he had an over pair i/o top set of 7's, you were looking at possibly a ridiculous 20 OUTS!!! Man if ever I wanted to see a rabbit cam river card haha!!!
Not so sure that guy had a 7 on that 7722 hand especially considering he only told you he had one instead of showing it Why would a 7 ever shove there on the turn? At worst you're vs an overpair drawing to two outs and a big majority of the time you're gonna be up against a bluff or a 2 that's blasting off you have drawing dead so you want to keep that person in the hand and a turn shove is just horrible with top boat
I don't understand why you listen to the solver when these aren't GTO spots. You can't say in the same hand, "Solver says to big bet" and then say, "This is never a bluff."
Why not? Ranges are undefined on the Flop, I follow the highest EV patterns. Now on the river I have an exploitative read and I'm not allowed to use it because I used a solver sizing on the Flop?
@@BluffaloSam I just feel bad for you because you're torching money each vlog with your play. I'll continue to watch because I enjoy the content, but damn man if you need to get connected with GA, lmk.
In the second game, your opponents tend to be playing quite tight, so your loose-aggressive bluffing against your tight opponents will obviously cost you a boatload of money…ease up on the gas bro. A bunch of small pot wins will add up, but not over the blast off bluffs.
I'm an unorthodox poker player. I don't study charts or do what 90% of people do to make their game better.. I play the player and play cards that destroy AA when you never think of it
@@richardsimmonsjuggernautof9781 what's amazing there? How many times one gets counterfeited on two pairs? How many times one can catch two pairs against pocket AA? How many times you can correctly detect your opponent pocket AA?
I like BS. Having fun and winning money (usually) is a bunch of BS. BS is rarely full of bs, except when he's totally full of bs, but rarely, and never in the commentary.
Please don’t stop vlogging bluffalo. Your style is solid, just study more go into silver analysis more. This is how vlogs should be.
I like the vlogs where you actually show the hands instead of walking around talking about the hands . Please do more of these
The only reason he did that was because they don’t allow filming where he was abroad
Thank you so much for uploading. Your vlogs offer me a lot of knowledge and comfort. Been having a pretty hard time on the felt lately.
Sorry to hear that bud. Trust me it will turn around. Just stay solid!
He remembered his password!
Loving these complete hand histories Sam! More of these please
Great video! I really do enjoy these 'every hand' videos - especially with the thought process behind it. A lot of the sorts of hands we see here are hands that just don't make it into most youtuber's vlogs, and seeing how someone who is frankly much better than me handles those spots is genuinely both really helpful, and interesting!
I also like the 'definitely not a bomb pot because those are banned' hands, lol. Fun way to play how the table wants to, despite a place being pointlessly restrictive! haha
Love this style of vlog. Great content!
Best poker vlogger out there. Keep up the grind.
Yeah extremely underatted. Only friends gave him a shout out recently so real recognize real.
I’ve been watching you since your very first video- I instantly felt a connection with your style of play because it seems super similar to what I was used to. Your breakdown of the hands is really nice because it’s not just surface level analysis- you actually treat your viewers as if they have a brain and don’t just use poker terms to mask your plays.
Very nice to watch your videos. It’s very dry, super to the point, and delivers what I like: as many poker hands as possible.
The king is back :D
Love the 2/5 and below. Please continue to do these every hand shown content!
Love the full game reviews. I’ve been trying to teach my girlfriend how to play poker on a more serious level (just like being smart in home games) and your videos help a lot. Keep up the great content
Welcome back!
very enjoyable, your analysis and play is very entertaining
Best poker content out. keep uploading
NICE VLOG. Bummer on the run bad. Thanks for the vid.
39:40
"The only ace we can actually beat"
We also beat A2 and A4, they got counterfeited.
Ooo right!!
That bet size of the bluff on the 7722 runout is unnecessarily high. This guy could float pretty much only with the pocket pairs (33, 44, 55, 66, 88, 99) some flush draws, but not with the 7h and 2h. If you'd bet 200 to 405 it would be enough to fold a bunch of his hands. 350 seems very bluff heavy to me, like if you want to scare off the villain off the pot. I might be more inclined to call 350 than 200 with pocket pair. And if he would call the turn I think I would give up. I don't see anyone calling such size bet on the turn to not call the river on such dry texture. Also 200 is the sizing you'd might want to use with overpairs to charge underpairs, it adds extra combos to the pool of your value range.
I might be wrong though, I'm not very much into GTO stuff. It might fall also well to your personal style of playing, if you like to push the opponents around, making to cause blunders, I don't know. I'm more into small ball approach, so maybe my optics is slightly skewed.
Can't wait for your next one.
Can't wait for your next one either 🎉
Where are yours dudes? Both of you
Good to see your vlogs posting been rewatching episodes. New challenge should be interesting. I'm underolled for the games I'm playing in and have to stop myself from making certain plays I know you would make in certain spots.
Gotta love it when people overplay AA when you have the near nuts.
A6hh: 2s does not uncap anyone's hand, so I'd bet larger on the turn. Good call and good check on the river. You definitely would have been betting big there with the 53s. LOL
You don't have to defend your STR after 2 calls. You have better pot odds, yes, but you have much worse equity. K4s from the HJ is similar. Would you open with that hand? Too many people to get through for this to be worth playing.
65cc: I'd seriously consider raising flop or turn after such small bets.
Why are you calling with 74o from the LJ?
KK: I get that the solver says to bet these large, but that assumes villain plays like a solver. I'd just bet around 40% and hope for a raise. Then I'd bet huge on any turn that likely does not uncap villain if he just calls.
KJo: This is NLHE. You can get all-in on any street for any amount. Geometric sizing is just a starting point for considering bet sizes. Often huge overbets (either small > ob or ob > small) are the best action to take. A river overbet on such a coordinated board seems to be a polarization error to me, since AJ, KJ, and 5x (especially 5xhh and 65; 54 is doubtful since villain did not raise the small flop bet.) are the most likely pairs calling on the river. Solver almost always checks turn and always checks river with this combo. I think in practice villain's range is very constricted here to top pair and 5x when he calls full pot and then a river overbet.
Very enjoyable, i like your analysis of every hand. Good luck, on your way to two million!
K6ss: All of the online content I can find says that you should bet fewer marginal hands like 2nd pair, instead of more. Why call the raise? What draws does villain have?
86s: After watching you play 100 sessions, I would absolutely bet small with my top tier hands, getting 450 out of your trash hands instead of 0 because I know you like to attack "weak" bet sizes. What's ironic is that most low limit players bet exactly like this with their good hands because they are afraid you'll fold against bigger sizes, and good players will too because they know you will try to bluff them off their thin value. They'll just check/call with thin value instead because good players think about your response to different sizings before betting.
85dd: You check raised villain in the 86s hand because his small bet sizing meant he was capped. Then you made small bets on turn and river with the effective nuts. IMO turn sizing should have been huge. Either he has Ax and calls or doesn't.
AK: This is a raised pot. How does everyone have a 100% range?
You make a lot of huge bluffs in situations that I think a small or medium bet would suffice.
You would adjust, but no one else seems to 😂
Last time I got it in with a set (88) on that board (T87) opponent had 96 for the straight - and I didn't fill up, but it did go: Opponent bet 9 I re-raise 27 he 4bet 52 and I shoved all-in for 220 when I knew he had the straight. I really donked off 2/3 my stack lol
Thanks for keeping it real.
On my way to Aria now. Going to implement the no set no check call strat
Lemme know how it goes!
@@BluffaloSam flopped no sets but managed to get stacked flush< flush and AK
So if you don’t hit a set you just fold ? Is that what you mean by “no set no check call?”
What if you have 44 and flop comes 356 rainbow? You aren’t going to peel/ rep one of the other sets when the original raisers range is restricted to over cards/pairs.
Doesn’t seem smart nor profitable to me, but I’m still a novice player so who knows
@drugsrbad475 that's different I'd audible open ended of course
How did villain check that flop with 6-2 like 6 ways wow
Excited for the upcoming challenge... great to see a solid vlog from you with hands!
Question, how much does your commentary match your in game thoughts??
I try to do my commentary "raw" so I'm using the thoughts I had in game at the time.
Great vlog! Love the content!
Missed you pookie
Damn good to see you.
Wooo!!! Welcome back!
nice video! just a question as i’m trying to learn: is there a reason why your opening sizes aren’t consistent? i’ve seen 2.5x against a straddle, 3x w no straddle, etc. want to see if there’s a method or if it’s just vibes
I'd personally open to 2.5x without straddle, but given it's 2/5 it's either $10 or $15.
Straddle we want to raise smaller than we normally would as the SPR has already been cut down, and we want to go into the flop with as much chips behind so we can maximize our postflop edge.
The KJ hand was really impressive. I would never get this much value out of this hand...specifically that turn size to jam the river...to be honest i would see the river and getting scared and go into ceck call mode and let him see a cheep showdown...you really konfronts me that im a pussy in this kind of spots. In my mind i always think the pot is to big for my onepair hand in a singel raised pot it dont worth it...but you get so much value out of this situations...i'm glad that you are not in my area 😅
Hmm if I didn’t know any better I would think you might be playing a few bomb pots in this vlog 🙃. Good to see you back Sam, how long did you end up staying in Macau for?
No idea what you're talking about!
Around 6 weeks in Macau, will never do that long again
I had a question from the 55 hand...in my opinion he has a easy fold i mean after this river aktion what bluffs you really have here? The only bluffs that can jam rivers are A4 and 64 using blokers to full house's?only maybe it can be sometimes a hero call in bigger stakes but in a casino...come on?Would you call in his shoes and I'm lost?
Cheers from Germany i love your kontent keep on going 👍
Like your CZcams pace
Finally! LFG
Nice to see you not going after every pot now. 👍
lets hit a set!! lol
Hey Sam, can you explain your bet sizing? I get confused as to why sometimes you'll do a standard 3BB initial raise, and other times you'll do a 10BB initial raise.
Depends if others are in the pot. 3bb is if I raise first, 10bb if someone has raised to 3bb already
@@BluffaloSam Okay I was thinking 10BB was initial but maybe it was a re-raise and I didn't notice.
Missed you bud!
36:07 you can see a diamond
Hey Sam, I wish you made a summary vlog of Macau, anyways can you share your thoughts about it? Is it worth going, did you try 100/200hk, is it tougher or similar to 50/100? How is a general vibe about foreigners, did u had trouble communicating or most people speak some english? Thanks and gl :)
Only played 50/100, was easy to communicate, idk if it's worth going unless you're playing 100/200+
@@BluffaloSam Lets say if your goal is only to make money playing live poker, but you dont have access to private games, would you say Macau is the place to go, or are there better options in your opinion?
Please stop leaving us. Vlogs are goated
Nice moustache
Played with you last Sunday July 28at river rock casino 1/3. Fold my AA to you on 8 9 Q board when you check raise me on flop and bet on turn.
Don't remember what I had, sorry 😂
I think I’ve watched every single one of your video logs and I don’t think I’ve ever seen you take the line of “check top set on the flop after raising preflop, bet turn and then check raise river”. I like your raise a lot but I think you’re fooling yourself if you’re trying to say you’re balanced here.
When you have a big hand you pile (as you should in live poker because people have garbage and don’t bet thinly enough for value).
Aiya
27:00 I missed with 76ss, nice hand sir
@@TehGutterRats that makes sense!
Finally
Did u survive with 400bb😂😂?
Sure did :)
Man I'm upset he vlllian re-popped all-in for around $2k on that hand where you had the open-ended staright flush draw WITH a PAIR... Man assuming he had an over pair i/o top set of 7's, you were looking at possibly a ridiculous 20 OUTS!!! Man if ever I wanted to see a rabbit cam river card haha!!!
I know eh! That one really hurt
what is comission and cap 1/3 and 2/5 at parq?
10%+$2 capped at $12 or so
42:08 -$2676 that's not bad. Could've been worse.
Guessing 100k to 1 mil?
Way better
@@BluffaloSam 👀👀👀
teach me how to flop sets please
Gg
Whoa who are you? I forgot this vlog existed.
How dare you 😂
@@BluffaloSamGot eeeem.
Glad to see you back in your usual form. I really love this format of vlogs from you. Hope you enjoyed your travels!
Not so sure that guy had a 7 on that 7722 hand especially considering he only told you he had one instead of showing it
Why would a 7 ever shove there on the turn? At worst you're vs an overpair drawing to two outs and a big majority of the time you're gonna be up against a bluff or a 2 that's blasting off you have drawing dead so you want to keep that person in the hand and a turn shove is just horrible with top boat
@@awpodvt it's live low stakes, they're OOP on the turn and they know 90% of the player pool is checking back River with their non 7x value and bluffs
I don't understand why you listen to the solver when these aren't GTO spots. You can't say in the same hand, "Solver says to big bet" and then say, "This is never a bluff."
Why not? Ranges are undefined on the Flop, I follow the highest EV patterns. Now on the river I have an exploitative read and I'm not allowed to use it because I used a solver sizing on the Flop?
@@BluffaloSam I just feel bad for you because you're torching money each vlog with your play. I'll continue to watch because I enjoy the content, but damn man if you need to get connected with GA, lmk.
Have these games actually become decent to play?? Was just 8 nits nut peddling for years
Not the best 2/5 game out there for sure, but playable
@@BluffaloSam thanks, how is the PLO action? They ever get the mix going?
In the second game, your opponents tend to be playing quite tight, so your loose-aggressive bluffing against your tight opponents will obviously cost you a boatload of money…ease up on the gas bro. A bunch of small pot wins will add up, but not over the blast off bluffs.
I'm an unorthodox poker player. I don't study charts or do what 90% of people do to make their game better.. I play the player and play cards that destroy AA when you never think of it
What’s your lifetime net winnings and what stakes do you play?
wow! Where were you before?
Wow you try to make 2 pair+ vs AA, what an amazing strategy!!
Poker coaches hate him because of this one simple trick.
@@richardsimmonsjuggernautof9781 what's amazing there? How many times one gets counterfeited on two pairs? How many times one can catch two pairs against pocket AA? How many times you can correctly detect your opponent pocket AA?
I like BS. Having fun and winning money (usually) is a bunch of BS. BS is rarely full of bs, except when he's totally full of bs, but rarely, and never in the commentary.
@@Clipknot 😂😂😂
Bro where have you been?! We missed you.
Took some time to travel to Korea, and then settle in back home :)
@@BluffaloSam❤
I was a little worried you were kidnapped by triads