5 Postflop Tricks to EXPLOIT Your Opponents! - Featuring Alex "Assassinato" Fitzgerald
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"Ok guys I'm gonna keep em coming at you fast" *proceeds to take a reasonable amount of time thoroughly explaining the concept*
I had playback speed at 1.25x and it still seemed slow.
lol .... he does 40 minute videos on single hands .... not bad either
I got to tell you man, now that I've had a few days to give these concepts a run for their money; This really changes the way hands are played. I'm going to post a couple of hands to the forum, hopefully I get some views from OG guys. I think I did good. But thank you for the great video.
Really great content. I greatly enjoy Assisnatos teaching style and outside of the box hand analysis
Such a good video I come back to revisit this information a few times a year. It's just so good
Some very nice ideas, and examples of how to think in these situations. Much appreciated!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks Alex, i watched this when it was first released and needed a refresh. Im old now and cant work cos of circulation probs in my legs and money is very scarce now due to the Virus but i can afford a few MTT buy ins for upcoming Party Poker series so i am doing as much refreshing as i can so all this stuff becomes automatic on the day. I cant afford a sub at Poker Coaching, even though Jon being the great guy that he is, does his darndest to make it affordable with his continual, as it were, Sale's. I watch all his vids religiously and try to catch as many Coffees with him, what prevents me most of the time is cos its 2 am my time in New Zealand when he fires up the Coffee Percolator. I just love his boy James and no doubt Thomas will be a neat kid as well, and its impossible to say a bad word about Amie and her Cameos are well received, as are Mr James' appearances. Jon said the other day that James was at school as he was broadcasting so i guess we will see less of the young fella but i do look forward to watching the boys progress as they age. Really cool family and i wish them well Alex. Thanks for the vids you do here, Jon spoils us with his Free content and i have now learned solid fundamentals thanks to him and Wizards like yourself. Really, really loved this vid mate, its as Sweet As! Matthew Janda I had contact with at CR's back in the day, he loves dogs, as i do so i found out he had a Labradoodle and....we swapped Dogs as it were. I told him that most of his stuff went over my head at that stage and he told me that Theory prolly wasnt my thing, so that meant that i had to work at it a lot harder.
Dude, start walking more often (10k+) steps a day and stop sitting for so long. Your legs will thank you.
Hey man thank you so much for posting these things by Alex, I recently found your channel and I liked it a lot, and I've been listening to Alex's podcast for prob 3 years or something
Awesome!
Interesting presentation, thanks for sharing your insights.
Such a nice video, just after watching it once i started implementing it amd it really gives such a nice edge over everyone else!!!
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Glad it helped!
This is really great. Thank you.
These videos make me realize i don't know anything about poker. Very humbling.
Love it. Extremely thoughtful and helpful and I LOVE the pace! Fast... Question - at 19:30 ... why wouldn't you re-raise to 1300 after opponents turn bet of 450? Why let opponent see river for free if you believe you are ahead on turn?
IIRC Alex talked about how that player played so he mostly has hands you beat, so a raise OTT means you self-own... but just calling allows a donk bet OTR that is very likely to get called by all those weaker hands based on flop texture and how you played your hand up to then
In hand #3 where the opponent is trying to "buy the showdown" I believe it's better to check-raise the turn.
He bets 1/2 pot on the flop and then 1/3 on the turn... I agree that we can be fairly certain that he doesn't have a set on a J742 board, and the only 2 pair combo that makes sense is J7 suited which he's also betting big.
However, by raising the turn we are:
1. Denying equity to K-high or Q-high hands that raise from the cutoff: AK, KQ, K10, K9, K8, K6, K5, K3 (mostly suited variety), AQ, Q10, Q9, Q8, Q6, Q5 (mostly suited variety).
While it's true that most players won't double-barrel a hand like Q9 or K8 here but he is an aggressive player he probably double-barrels air to get us to fold a 7,4, 33, 55, 66, 88, maybe 99. 10's+ we raise pre so he can discount that.
2. Extracting value from KJ, K7, K4, K2, QJ, Q7 (yes he's probably checking K2 or Q7 on the turn). We are also extracting value from 79, 78, 76, 45, 89, 910).
I don't think he has many flush draws. Most FD's on this board are strong combo draws which will bet bigger like 89cc, 56cc, 910cc. Because we block the Jc he can't have top pair + FD.
So by check-raising the turn we:
1. Deny equity to K and Q.
2. Charge pairs and draws.
Furthermore by leading the river with a J (which is basically a merge bet), we are:
1. Denying him the opportunity to fire the river with his missed flush draws and straight draws.
2. Denying him the opportunity to turn some of his made hands into a bluff: He probably checks back a J or a 7 on the river but he could choose to turn his 4, 2, 66, 55, and 33 into a bluff (again he's rarely doing that but nevertheless)
3. Allowing him to bluff-shove us... if he is a thinking player he knows that our chk-call, chk-call, lead line range doesn't contain any sets becuase we raise the flop or turn. The only hand that makes sense with this line is KJ. Whereas 1,300 into 2,130 isn't exactly a blocker bet, we might bet QJ, J10, or J9 this way to name-our-own showdown price.
So he can bluff-shove us off our J. (And if we happen to have the KJ he just shrugs and rebuys, right?)
Finally, when we lead the river and get shoved on we basically have to call: there is 7,430 in the pot and we have to call 2,700. However, as Alex mentioned earlier that the #1 leak of mid-stakes players is going broke with one pair OOP, so let's not put ourselves in this spot and reduce our variance by bluff-catching the river.
Feedback is appreciated!!
I've been noticing the overbetting on the turn is one of my post profitable plays. It works great when under the gun. Good bluff spot too.
I always bet the same preflop to hide my hand. You can then check forward on the flop to any aggressors. Depending on the sizing, I'll wait a long time before I call. Makes everyone think my strong hand is marginal at best, and this call was a big decision.
Then boom. Turn comes. No checking now, big overbet. Being under the gun your range is generally tighter, and most people would think you made your draw on the turn.
Great stuff! Thanks!
"YESSSS!!! 2K INTO 1200!!" 😂😂
Love the stuff!!
Thanks for this great stuff
Alex has completely changed my entire poker world.
Freakin awesome session!! Great content.
Hey watched the full vod but forgot to write down, the poker books for mindset? @alexfitzgerald thanks for the content!
Super. Thank you.
"if I told you I hate this book, and I've never read it, you'd think I was a crazy person" cracks me up because if how many people hate on Twilight who haven't read it. Not relevant, but yeah, there are lots of crazies lol
Who is this guy?? Love him. Great pace, fantastic energy. Thank you 🙏
Alex Fitzgerald.
Love it!
Top video bud looking at web now
I appreciate these nuggets
I am so grateful for players like this who think there’s an algorithm that solves poker
He didn't say that in the video.. I doubt he'd disagree.
He basically DOES say that.
Nope. Alex says against PREDICTABLE players you can exploit vs. their predictable actions. Based on low stakes mass database stats he is sharing what works longterm mathematically vs. the player pool -- but never encourages robotic static strat!
I really loved these ideas. Going to incorporate these into my games today. Another one similar to the river bet idea is when a player, even very aggressive ones, bets smaller on the flop than they did pre, you can c/r them on flop and take it down 95% of the time. I do this very often with total air it’s one of my biggest tricks. This works in all levels of games. Don’t try this against a whale of course coz if he bets at all he has like 10 Aces right? 😝
Does the package works for cash game ?
Great video
I like the strategy mentioned with the 89s and the 754 flop but my question of it is: What's to say he didn't limp in to you pre raise to protect his blind heads up wit a 3-6 or 6-8? maybe even suited? Wouldn't that make going 1.5 an extemely dangerous move or did I miss something?
Then u fold the reraise. He has the straight, hard to imagine him not reraising you on the flop or turn. Even if he calls the 1.5, you simply fire a light value bet on the river and fold the reraise
Is the package deal over?
Hi Alex on the last hand example. What would you do if you had an A7s, you raised pre-flop because it was folded around to you with only the blinds to call. Same situation SB folds BB calls and then the BB checks on the flop? Do you play small ball and pot control and check back? or is the better play to raise 1/3 pot and then decide what to do after the turn? same situation you don't know the people you are playing with?
Thank you
1/4 to 1/2 pot .... no reason, unless you deploy constant bet sizes, to scare anyone off .... his reasoning that a king high is still calling the larger size is suspect at best.
Any chance of showing the RESULTS of the hands? It would put things in better perspective. Thanks!
Great job.It seems to boil down to being more aggresive, its scary, but think how the other guy feels
I have only ever found that playing the same hand the same way all the time leads to players adjusting really quickly. Having a balanced checking range is much more likely to net results in low stakes where players are hyper agressive, and don't really calculate risk / reward ratios when they bet.
What is the difference between recommendation 4 & 5? Once says to check raise A high boards with the best kickers and the other says to bet big on A high boards. His example with AQ and an A high board recommends a big cbet. However, isn't a Q considered one of the best kickers? Why not check raise?
Thank you so much guys! I just won a tournament for $425 profit because of videos like these!
yup I just won a tournament for 330 because I keep watching and learning
I have consumed ALL of Alex materials and it completely changed how I look at my opponents.
I sometimes feel like Neo at the end of The Matrix; they are playing in slo motion and I can see their bullets way before they hit me.
Ran bad in May, but last 3 live MTTs ($60 buyin) = 5th 3rd 1st -- and barely had to win any flips to get there :)
Any 4 or 5. 16 outs
I love Alex's content
16:40 you gave a free river card. What about betting the turn?
I love the overbet you recommend in the 2nd hand with 89h. My question is what value hands would you make that play with? Or are you just always bluffing in that spot and pretty exploitable?
Well if the guy still has capped range, and he's seen you overbet bluff here, you can overbet for value with anything that beats the top of his capped range ( probably A7 or JJ-88).
That means you can overbet your overpairs, sets, straights and your Qx that you cbet with
@@dondio9920 I don't think I'd want to overbet my value hands and get mostly folds, the value portion of your equity goes to shit if this is how you play your value hands. I feel like all this does is shift some of the equity to winning more smaller pots on turns with bluffs in place of winning bigger pots on the river with your value hands. I get that the math works out well for this specific hand because it's a bluff, but if you add ALL the situations including your value hands and play them this way, I don't know that you'd see any better results than just betting smaller. And if you're doing this with a gutshot on the flop, how many other hands are you doing this with as well? I feel like I've people try this and it requires them to do it too much, and you see this happen once or twice in 50 hands and I know exactly how to bust him now. So maybe you only get to do this trick once per table.
The 2k into 1200 bluff is an interesting play. You’re not deep enough to do anything other than shove/fold on the river. What happens when he calls? Lots of scary river cards and hero now down bets to a half pot on the river and villain can only call getting great odds. Hard to pull off the triple barrel.
Alex i tried your advice #1,#2 butt lost i had pocket Ks, Board Ad XXXX bet 1 1/2 x pot , looking for a set, he called, I put him on pair As or bluff? he had to beat a set or 2 pair, what made him not fold after i went all in? river X what did I miss read this play? how would you have played this? he was a better then avg player. rockin M
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I don't mind the second hand play. But I feel something is missed here in the math. With his strongest 10-20% of range he wouldn't just call, he would shove as his 2/3 stack is already in there. And then we get 2/11 pot odds and probably that much equity, should we call? And how does this affect the overall math?
Not bad
Great video! Wanted to share a little anecdote about myself. I always had a kinda unorthadox style that would experiment a lot and make a lot of plays you suggested in this video. I used to post on 2+2 a lot and gave out a lot of advice - anyway, one such piece of advice I once gave (maybe 10 years ago) was about trick 4 - raising AK on an Axx (might have been paired, or 2 un-connected cards) in the same spot as the video. Anyway, I got an absolute ton of hate from it from all the regulars - ie. it's a terrible play, i'm a terrible player. please don't post such trash advice.
I think i stopped posting after that for a good while and then i switched to plo anyway so started giving advice out there. So feels good to have some validation 10 years later that maybe I wasn't so crazy after all!
Off-topic, but how many BB should you have in your bank roll? I have heard 2000 or more. I've also heard 1000 which seems low to me for nl.
Check out jonathanlittlepoker.com/bankroll for all of the necessary bankroll information. It depends on your win-rate.
Daniel what about MTT?
As a slow player, I love players that do the second trick. Please I hope people are watching this.
you raise then they just fold, easy decision, but the point is most the time you’d be put in a tough spot to call with a mediocre hand
16:00 Aply RULE 1: Raise pairs on the turn
Why give villain CO a chance on a flush or street without having him to pay?
Why not apply this rule?
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His flush draw will call, but what do u do when that heart turns up?
Bet/Fold is what Alex often suggests -- since low stakes players very rarely BLUFF raise on scary turns or especially rivers.
And it is true -- I often bet OOP and get called on river and am SHOCKED to see 2nd nuts only called.
This is a great analysis and really gives us a different way to think through tournament betting. Would you make any changes to the sizings if you were going to adapt these strategies for a 2/5 cash game?
Alex often points out live cash game players are a LOT more sticky (since they can reload if they are wrong). But general principle of exploiting still applies. You just have higher variance because of how big your PFR size needs to be to get PBSH!
Do these tricks also count for online mtt?
Yes.
Do these pointers work in cash games too?
Yep!
With the 8,9s hand, what do you do on the river if he calls the overbet on the turn and a spade comes on the river? Don't u think his calling range PF has all the Qx of spades? And if he calls the turn, his range must have lots of Qx o spades, right?
Alex suggests overbet one-and-done. If they called they have a made hand almost always (that they are never folding). When u overbet OTT and hit TP or a draw OTR it is shocking how much value you get :)
he's in a lotta trouble! ask C.Rijkenberg for advice instead, Fitzy's the kind of dumbass that donkbets then folds his way out of a nut flush draw, against aforementionned LAG Constant who only had... second pair.
That feeling when you find out they did those tricks to you: surprised_pikachu.jpeg
Are you going to have promotion anytime soon?
I'm sure this is a great video. I just have no clue what you're talking about. Range, Equity, Flopzilla. It's all greek to me. I understand probabilities, draws, outs, and pot odds. I don't understand this particular level of abstraction, or how it would help me play better. Any thought on where to get from my understanding to this understanding?
you're on the right track, friend, at least you know what outs or pot odds are, I know people who have played poker for years that have no clue what these are, and won't ever bother.
Flopzilla is a software. What you see in the tables (AKs, 87o, etc) are Ranges, potential holdings of Villain. Equity is hard to explain, look it up, very important (fold equity, equity denial). BTW the video isn't great, almost downvoted it, can I get advice from Rijkenberg instead @alexfitzgerald ?
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Do these tips apply to cash games?
Yep!
Ive dun it, but its so scary u can only do it rarely, a good thing to accompany this is , do it when u have pocket qs, try to save it for when theyve had enuf and go all in, u could be given up a good trap but itll be worth it if they call that overbet.
What on earth are you talking about?
Who's the man, with the master plan, yo! it's the assasin Fitzgerald!!! Buku!!!!
8:30 why are we cbetting for only half pot. With our holding and this flop I feel like 3/4-pot is better?
I think Alex did not want to focus on that street, but in general a flop bet size (HU presumably) depends on the player and your full plan ("one and done" vs a really tight fit-or-fold player who only continues with his Broadway pair or a strong draw = half might do same job as typical 75% when no Ace and not 2 cards 9+, however vs. super sticky opponent who likes to float you then you might even bet 25%-33% otf and then 1.5xP on most turn cards!)
Also, overbetting the turn tends to go better with "underbetting" the flop. Look at this spot. If we bet flop, say, 500, the turn pot will be 1630 with 4250 stacks. 1.5p would be about 2400. If villain calls we go to river with a 6430 pot and 1800 stack. Underbetting flop results in river pot and stack sizes of 4800 and 2650, respectively. Still not great, but much better than the alternative.
Yer the bomb.
Plus he could easily have a rag suited, so hes got outs.
While u got. Bumpkis
Lady fell off the slot dead in the floor. EMTs shock her back to life stabilize her with some ringers and she climbs back on that stool and fought them off.....git the hell away from my machine. And kept playing. I'm dead friggin serious
Strong passions
Sounds good, but a lot of the advice seems to be the opposite of what JL says - like getting to showdown cheap with marginal made hands. Kinda confusing balancing the two...
Outstanding
So any J x on the small blind can check a J on the flop... And get your whole stack from your own hand..???..
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This could have been a 20 min video lol
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19:00 Why even see the river? I was so confused when you called the turn. Hammer that pot right there and get it over with. Why let him draw? Why be cute and hope he doesn't have a King? He's playing like an idiot anyways so he just might. Get that money when you can!
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Woo hoo ✋
Wait but what if everyone else in tournament has also watched this video. And also got masterclass, and then we win all the money off the fish, are we not then playing a break-even strategy?
If there is not some kind of thing wrong with this? If so, what's wrong with this logic? If i'm right? What kind of shelf life does info like this have, or is there more of a strange zigzag in ev? I would imagine it would eventually become breakeven (at least at the highest stakes) if it were the superior play.
Not sure, but i feel like this subject is worth SOME thought.... GL internet!
The first rule of the flop is...that's it ! It rarely improves ! So you know that turkey check raising ...He ain't got nothing....usually. and if you hang on long enough yer gunna put steam on the old bean counters head and he is gunna have a friggin stoke god I hope they have EMTs at this final table . Jesus! !
Are you doing the same in a cash game.?
The flopzilla graphic is quite confusing as an infographic. There is no color key to the preflop chart. As an intro/advert for Poker Coaching it's quite off-putting. You'd want something out there that seems clear and complete.
I wonder what the significance is of the opponent “shaking his wrist out like it’s hurting” in the second hand... 🤔
Any regular viewer of Ale material knows.
The "flourish" is something tjat attracts your attention; a player with a monster does NOT want to attract your attention...
U can't check that frist flop
Does being balanced mean betting the same amount on all three streets? How are you supposed to do that?
No!
@@PokerCoaching So what does being balanced mean, post flop?
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@@PokerCoaching Thanks! Quiz 239 is the best one so far, it goes through the order of operations you should do in your head every hand.
Great stuff!
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Heres a line for bad guy, hes got the jack and calls, flops j and leads, i might have checked to see if scare card turns, river too, if k,q,or A, comes then u could risk big bet, they go all in, too late now, i call and lose to a pair of jacks. Once in a blue moon the ace will come, of course they usually fold to the raise, pressure is a bitch, u dont want to lose the money of course but being embarresed by a dumb move is painful too, which is one reason ppl will stay with their bluffs and nothing feels worse than trying to bluff a guy with the nutz
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timer too long
Another Irishman with a Spanish nickname. Just like 'Beto' O'Rourke from County Limerick.
I started calling my neighbor, Jesus "O'Leary" just to be fair.
I did that a play with the nnut flush draw and the guy raised me all in with 6h8h. I called and missed 1/3 match stack the game just started we bought $400.
#5 wouldn't betting 3/4th pot only get you paid by trips (and fish with weaker aces, yeah, but no way you're getting in 3-barrels with that big of a flop sizing)?
I'd like to keep my opponent in the pot, especially him since he'll be BB whenever I'm on the button, might even voluntarily lose a street of value in the early stages to see his hand sometimes, invaluable info for later.
#4 is kinda dumb, how often do both players flop top pair? and when they don't, good job, you just lost your client!
#3 very good tip
#2 hate overbets, you're in a great spot when he calls with your gutshot (rolleyes). A fish WILL call, and a decent/good player will too, seeing he'd see no reason for you to overbet, except well... a terrible bluff
Raising the AdTc on the Jd5d4s Ts turn is lame. The value range you rep is tiny: JT and possibly a slow-played over pair. The majority of your range will be semi-bluffs. Hard to balance and opens you up to getting shoved on by any half-competent villain. I’d be ripping in anything with equity in this spot.
Flop is a Cbet also. Blockers to some of villain’s continue range (FD, JT, QT). 1/3 pot range bet can’t be bad, anywhere up to 1/2 pot if you have a checking range on this flop.
Stopped watching. Next
OK, but that's your interpretation based on your own perception.
Its poker. Not rocket science.
To me? Well, my read is that youre being a snarky little know it all douche bag for no reason.
Have the best day.
Next.
Alex Fitzgerald is the Bill Belichick of NLHE tournament coaches
Alex doesn't cheat!
I hate Belichick and like Fitzy, but this is a stupid comment, where are Fitz bracelets? or his students' bracelets?
one hour to do 5 post flop tricks...jesus.
£3 into £10 within 10 minutes using your Raise alot on the turn/river. Edit: £14
In your first example, the concept you're arguing logically makes some sense, but theoretically this raise is awful. You have JT (sometimes, if you didn't cbet) and TT here for value. Opponent can literally jam any straight draw, any flush draw, and Jx hands on you and show immense profit. I mean he's printing and you're straight up burning loot. By opening up our opponent's range this much, and thus being unreasonably exploitable, this has to be a call plain and simply. I imagine against the weakest opponent's this play having some merit. You will get crushed against anyone paying attention however.
Side note: glad this video is getting 95% likes. Hopefully you guys are following this material to a T and hopefully we sit together soon!!!!
You know I can beat you bad
pure nonsense. Try to apply it in italian field where they snapcall you with bottom 3 streets. An easy way to bust first in any italian mtt.