Full length Training Video: Critical Fundamentals of Preflop Play
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- čas přidán 22. 05. 2024
- We deep dive into the fundamentals for tight, aggressive pre-flop poker and enable you to make good decisions during your game.
0:00 -- Intro
0:10 -- Intro to Preflop Fundamentals
6:44 -- Suggested opening ranges
17:54 -- Responding to Opens
30:01 -- Responding to Limpers
40:04 -- To 3 bet or to Flat
54:18 -- Responding to 3 bets
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Finally something valuable for beginners. Vast majority of these videos are useless as they don't explain anything. Any concept, any reasoning, nothing. You're the first one that I've seen who bothers to make a slideshow.
by far the best pre flop game plan strategy i've seen on youtube. If you dont pay for poker coaching, this is the next best thing to it
I already spend a lot on poker, now I have to get coaching?
This has been the most helpful video I've found on preflop play. So good.
One of the best videos I’ve seen on poker yet and I watch a lot of poker videos
This is a fantastic video! I'd suggest this to someone learning poker that is already familiar with position and equity/pot odds.
I think that this is the best poker education video I have ever watched! Thank you. Hardly any of it was "new" (except the 4-betting analysis, which was pretty new to me, since it comes up so rarely in the stakes I play), but all of it was so well presented that it really helped nail down reasoning that I was only hovering on before. I love how concepts were introduced, described, the *reasoning explained,* and then summarized. So many other videos I've seen tell you what range you should have in different situations, but don't fully explain the reasoning.
Thanks so much!
That was a lot but to my surprise I enjoyed it and definitely plan on using it.
Probly one of the best poker informational videos i've watched!
Great video! These preflop charts are very helpful and you explain them in a way that's easy to listen to.
Really awesome content. Thank you sooo much for this.
Best video Ive watched in a very long time. thank you Sir.
This is an outstanding video. Excellent stuff.
Fantastic knowledge. Thank you ❤️
Great analogy, putting.
Thank you for making this. 🤯 I'm having new ideas for my gane
This is a great resource for people learning or teaching poker.
I need to hear more from this guy. Keelee? or something like that. I recently started up poker again, I am still from the "Old School" which amazingly still kinda works for me but I need to update my game. I have watched MANY "courses" or "training" videos and most were worthless leaving out the "common sense" part of the information. Before I retired I was a technical engineer who specialized in "training". THIS is how you do it. While I don't think he is an expert, he does an expert job explaining these concepts. I hope I can find more lessons he has taught. Thanks man, you put me on the right track.
Good video!
very informative
this is GOLD! Please more of these content will be appreciated!!! :)
I accidentally hit the enter to finish my thought I paid for the same stuff i learned in this course i bought so what im saying is crushingpoker could and should be a instructer/ teacher/ thank you
thanks for hard work 💯💯💯💯💯
This is a great video. Thanks!
Good info, thank you.
I used to be a pretty serious small to mid stages player right at the moneymaker boom and then stopped playing as my career took over. This video was a great refresher on a lot of the tactics I used to apply when I first started and went from break even to winning player. Even just following a structured set of opening ranges and 3-bet/iso pre flop hands is a great way to start a winning approach. Great video.
Very good video! Don’t necessarily agree with everything but it was great to get me thinking
This is gold!! Is there anything like this for post-flop play?
Great vid! Will help a lot of players! 고마워요
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This video is extremely useful, if you don't know which hands to open, and you know of each player if he is a LAG, TAG, NIT or any of the other descriptions.
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I don't agree with the comparison with putting. I agree that they are similar in the way you explain, but I find both those things the most fun part of the game to learn about and practice. In golf though, you're then done. In poker you get a flop and I'm like, okay... now what? XD
Limping party? XD I want to suggest the motion to do a limping dance around the table if everyone is in :p
On a serious note though: I love how you explain things. Sometimes you use terms that are unclear but as your explanations progress it becomes clear what you mean. It's rather difficult to understand for a beginner like me and the tempo is quite high, but for me it's the perfect speed. It's challenging and not boring and I can just about keep up and it feels amazing to learn so much.
29:00 - Interesting idea I often find that my calling range wanders sometimes especially during long periods of little action. I’ll make a note of this when playing against regs with reasonable ranges preflop.
I think this is very common to have a few people in home games and some live games where people get looser as the night goes on or if they havent seen anything in a while.
@@milothemalinoismethod 100% if i had a winning streak n cards run hot...n once i.cool down/now in a slump ill call with lopser hands cause im using "my winnings" (a dumbass and nocive thought process
2) long periods with no action. Subconsciously limp/open and realized after 20 hands in down 1 2 3 400$...cause i call...fold..call..fold..repewt..
3) or if i have 8 hour session....last 2 hours i get looser too....been at the table for too long..and forcing some action which again causes me to call.....fold..call n fold.
My 3 biggest scenrios where i do.this without even thinking(which is the scary part) just like sports and physical activity. Need to re-train my brain into always thinking each hand instead of using "auto pilot" mode n just acting in a subconscious manner (if that makes any sense)
Vader graphic is absolutely perfect!
It's cool that such a long informative video is uploaded here, but I guess most viewers are familiar with more or less points of the video. So I would recommend for "the next time" to put timestamps down into the description, because more experienced players can pick only the points they aren't good at yet. Nonetheless thank you for uploading this!
Done. thanks!! __Bart
Thanks Bart!
Fantastic, nothing else to say.
There is so much info in this video
one of the best poker videos out there! have you got anything more for post flop play? i think the new meta of poker will be 3 betting all the time
Only 6 months old, and already so many people online 6max NL are playing 3 bet or fold strategies haha
Thanks for increasing my Poker IQ. MY poker future really looks bright! I really love all the content. Watched all the call in shows as well. I will join up! Im crushing!
how did it go ?
@@roumi123 he quit after losing 3 micro tourneys and blowing his deposit on casino games
@@MrMaccas94 lol, glgl
I'm gonna watch this several times. Thanks so much.
Yeah no way I’ll remember everything at once.
Yeah no way I'll remmeber everything
Yea no chance I will remember all this.
yeh, there is no way im gonna retain this all in at once.
Yup, no way all this information can be remembered at once, at least not by me.
Thanks you buddy awesome ! Do you have a video on post flop poker.
Crush has the best poker content (maybe followed by upswing). Considering becoming a member
With 25-50BB, it's possible to play 99+ & AK in general, and suited Broadway hands just when opening (no limpers) from the Button or Cutoff. This can work as bankroll management, but also when taking the worst seat (big stack on left) to start, entering a game vs. unknown players, or simply as a hedge against restrictive buy-in structures.
The more restrictive the buy-in structure, the more sense the short stack makes. You can always top off to the limit, but not go south. A short stack is also more likely to get paid off, even multi way. 100BB (max) makes more sense vs. multiple 125-150 BB stacks than it does vs. multiple 300 BB stacks, but 40 BBs undercuts them all.
It could take hours to run 40BB into 100BB playing rock-tight, but full-time players shouldn't care, and part-time players could just-as-well "hit and run" by doubling up with a big hand. Perhaps the best reason to play short stacked is for playing higher stakes with the same roll, eg. $2/5 players could play $5/10 with the same $500 buy in.
Way late to this video but thank you. It seems like my natural range is MP2, I need to learn to unNIT myself in later positions
Bart Hanson sounds different in this video
UTG
I like this opening range better
AA-77
AKs-AJs
AKo-AQo
KQs
As a standard range that is always played - this is 6.6% of hands. At a 10 handed table I will stay pretty close to this.
If the table has some thinking and tough players I'll add...
A2s-A5s with 25% frequency for each. The best way to do this is to pick a suit - for ex. I'll play Ah2h only and fold the other ones.If I add A2s-A5s with 25% frequency I get - 6.9% of hands.
Next add 87s, 76s, 65s and 54s with 25% frequency. Again, pick a suit. We're now at 7.2% of hands. Why not 98s? I agree with Doyle Brunson in that 98s hits a lot of straights that are 2nd best when you have other callers. This also gives me better board coverage with the lower cards.
Now I'll add some hands dependent on my opponents. If I don't get 3-bet a lot I'll start adding in my other pairs starting with 66 and 55.44,33 and 22 only are playable under the very best conditions. If I add 66 and 55 I'm at 8.1% of hands.
The next hand I'll add is ATs. I'll play this if I think my opponents are playing a lot of ace rag hands. Now I'm at 8.4% of hands.
Usually I don't play the next 3 hands until the next position, but sometimes table conditions are good enough to play them... BUT BE CAREFUL! Under the wrong conditions you will lose money - AJo, KQo and KJs - now we are at 10.6%.
This is usually as wide as I open up UTG. If I add in 44, 33 and 22 - which I will not unless I'm sure I'm in a super passive game and I'll get paid off when I hit - now I'm at 11.9%. This is pretty loose.
Can QJs be played profitably from under the gun in a 9-handed game? Maybe. If so, I'm at 12.2% of hands.
QTs, KTs and JTs are just begging to be dominated. Lots and lots of negative implied odds. But hey, maybe you are Daniel Negreanu and have supernatural post flop ability - probably not. Let's say I add them - 13.1%
Off course you could add more suited connectors and suited aces for your bluff range
A lot of this changes also dependent on stack sizes. This is a basic 100 BB stack size. If you play deeper I will add more hands. If you play deep and add more hands you must be able to read hands well post flop and get away from 2nd best hands.
fuck me i'll never be on this level
@@pieguy2323 I hope your trolling. It's a strategy for 1/2 & 1/3 regulars. It's always fun after they open for 20 and 3+callers to 3 bet to 90-130 depending on the regular, and watch them snap fold or tank fold with the most beguiled look, and then once the stations fold, you turn over A3off or Qxs. Awesome when they have 250BB+ and 2 hours later you scoop them when they are unwilling to fold QQ+ or TPTK to the whale who 3bets light.
@@pieguy2323 not with that attitude
Why does the video suggest calling an open with a 75% tighter range? I've always understood it to be that you can call an open with a slightly wider range because 1) you're getting better pot odds on your call 2) you have position on the person opening
very good contents, thank you for your effort
This is a great video and I’m committing a cardinal sin of commenting on something before finishing the video but I hope you go more indepth on what a linear 3-betting range means. At some times you’ve implied that you should 3bet any calling hand in your range always, at other times you’ve implied you should 3bet any calling hand in your range _sometimes_ . If it’s sometimes, how often? 10% of the time? 50% of the time? Or are there specific guidelines for when you should do that?
thanks for an excellent video. played with some range adjustments in my live game yesterday and it really helped my decision-making. wondering where/how the SB/BB ranges fit in? is there info on that somewhere?
I didn’t include Sb opening range because it is so often chopped at mid/lower levels. If the game uses a drop structure, limping from the SB can be very expensive, so we will have to resort to open-only strategy. I typically open about 60% of my range from the SB. I did discuss 3betting and flatting ranges from the blinds.
of course. makes perfect sense. thanks for the reply and for the excellent content!
lol how p
Bart preached the three bet fold strategy's from the small blind. Big blind totally different.
Your SB should be folding to 3bets and mostly call with a very tight range in comparison to bb where you can defend alot more ranges against late positions if EP raise you defend from small blind if you have top 10hands only really at best, big blind totally different he should almost always defend his blind his range should be the largest
Do you have more of similar content and next stages of this video
I wish I had watched this when I first starting playing 😂
Im glad i am watching right now
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Hey great video. Just dont understand the part about A2 not being able to flop a double gutshot. As far as i know A3 can't either? What am is missing here
457 is double gutshot for A3
I had never thought about that before. I am only 2 min into this video and I'm already learning great stuff . Thanks!
Anyway you could share a sheet of the different ranges for each position?
PSkarie copy and paste
Like the video.
Thank you!!!
At the point you say "You might think this is a lot of work, and here's what you can do instead" -- I respect Doug Polks answer, and it's what screams in my head everytime and was happy seeing Doug say it. If you don't do this stuff you will always suck, it's hard work to be good at anything, and bottom line if you don't put in the work, stay at 1c-2c tables. Good players have always put in the work to get better - back in the old days they worked with what little tools they had. Today we have so many analytical tools to use.
jason hounsell
Very well said!
I’ve been playing cards all my life and poker and gambling is second nature to me growing up in Las Vegas. However, I’ve had to admit how much more I needed to learn to not just be a donk. 😂😩 This tutorial is great and I can’t wait to see what more he has.
are this ranges for MTT or for CASH?
One thing I don't understand is why you have several options for ranges in your drop down for each position. For the UTG there is one that is just plays 10.3% of hands and another that is 9.35%.
I've been playing poker for 30 years, this is a life sucker out of the game. It's a deck of cards. Anything can happen.
question: how does preflop strategy change in relation to the amount of players in the game? Early position still plays tighter but less tight than in a full (9pl) game? Can you play waaaayyy more loose? Or do these concepts go out the window in a 4-5 person game?
I would say very similar start w the LJ if playing 4 handed
Less people you can slightly loosen your range, for example heads up you can 3 bet and play way wider then in a 6 max. And you can 3 bet and play wider in 6 max then 9 max. Just remember the money flows to the button
I'm not clear why we're referring to baby aces as "strong realized equity" rather than "reverse implied odds." Sure we can flop strong, if rarely, but far more often we'll have top pair in a spot where its often not good.
It works in those cases in which your opponent has no Ace..and you are commited to your pot...An Ace on the turn or river might just pull off a great pot...but yes no good against a strong Ace
@@NishantSharma-tr6xl there is still reverse implied odds when you turn or river an ace. There's a lot of Ax that plays preflop so you start running into 2 pairs when the ace comes out on turn or river. E.g. someone having A9 on a J92 board, you turn an ace and it's not good. You have to play these weak aces very carefully and understand top pair of aces with weak kicker is a very marginal hand and should be played accordingly.
Which hand would you rather have on the flop in a heads up AKo vs 22? The TWO TWO because like the computer says it's going to win 68%(68.08% to be exact) of the time! All those options your talking about... runner runner etc... are included with that. There are 990 possible outcomes with 674 of them giving 2,2 a win... 316 of them AKo wins. So, betting with the 2's has a positive cash expectation. Betting with AKo is a losing move with a negative cash expectation... calling only if you getting better than 2.1328 to 1. Of course all of this is assuming you have a good idea of what your opponent has. Honestly I wouldn't want to be in that flop with below bottom pair or high card Ace.
where can you get the app? I see something in the apple app store but it's not like yours.
thanks for the education!
What exactly do you mean by app? This is a video from CrushLivePoker.com. Our site is totally mobile responsive and if you want to have an icon on your phone that acts as an app check this out: www.crushlivepoker.com/support/#FAQA6442 Bart
CrushlivePoker what was the software you used in the video?
You have a gifting of teaching all over you brother I would consider even paying for the information you know
Unlike alot of those poker sites out there wont mention any names but you should consider if you haven't already put together a basics an Intermediate and Advance/ loved the visual about putting im a visual type learner and informational but you have a way of explaining in a practical way that an average fundamental player can build on so put a poker teaching site and courses videos quizzes i dont need to see how many cashes or bracelets you got. I need good sound information and information that is actual helpful what we just watched and learned here for those who were paying attention is worth itse weight in gold I paid 19 have price to site to
do you adjust how often you 3 bet depending on raise size? if you are in a game where people raise 7x or sometimes more, it would be hard to 3 bet some marginal 3 bet hands. if you dont win immediately, you are in a rough spot w a good chunk of your stack.
unfortunately you have to tighter your 3bet range in short stacked games like that but if you know certain player is opening too wide you can 3bet with a range stronger than theirs
Whi software are you Tsing here?
Problem with this system is flops are random. How many times you raise with AK and miss then C bet and get called then blown off on the turn or river. How many times you raise with JJ and two overs come and you must fold. Much better to under rep your hand and bet when you hit the flop. Pretty much only hands you should raise preflop with in a Tourney are pairs and Suited broadway cards.
7 6 suited is better than ace 9 off suit? I'm pretty new to poker, I understand the logic and don't doubt what he's saying but I'm astonished at that. shows how little I know
suited I mean
One of the best videos I've seen. One question. You mentioned aggressively attacking very weak players. In some cases where the weak player is aggressive calling and raising that it is better to be selective in getting in pots and calling to let him do the lifting, especially if you know you will have to show down?
Weak players aren't aggressive.
Yes, there a weak players that are calling stations as well as loose aggressive. These can be some of the weakest players at the table
how do we calculate what whst hands to open with . I'm guessing these preflop charts are based on some kind of equilibrium. say for example we are in late or middle position and the players closer to the blinds are extremely tight. how do we calculate what hands to expand opening with and how to calculate the ev of such hands .
also how do we calculate what hands yo flat call with against a 3 bet. say our oppenent is three betting a way too much. how do we equate what hands to call with vs the 3 bet percentage versus wider and tighter 3 bet frequencies
does this apply to cash games only or can you use it in tourneys or both?
This is for cash games . Bart
Continue ranges all appear to be based on a "standard" 3-4× open. How should the ranges change based on a real world open of 6× plus?
im not 100% on this but i think the continuing range is based on the villian opening range not the bet size. i dont think you adjust unless you had a bet sizing tell.
I like your initial opening range charts but can’t if I can get a copy of them.
what i did was copy and adjust them in user created files on pokerstrategy equilab
so alot of these ranges are only considering when you are the first to open the pot. when others limp, is that considered an open? so would you base how to proceed on 3-bet ranges?!?!
When another player limps then you can no longer open since there was already action. You can decide to over-limp (limp in as well), or isolation bet (raise the limper) to put off other players from limping in as well.
3betting will only be able to happen if you bet, and are raised. Then you can re-raise, hence the '3rd bet'
great vid :)
Where does everyone get this poker equity calculator- a lot of people use this one. I have found others but nothing as good as this one
Der. The name of it is at the top-
What is Sb Nd bb in terms of positioning? Are the advantageous or not, do we want to play as SB or BB?
SB is small blind and BB is big blind. The blinds are advantageous preflop bc you are the last to play and get better pot odds but are horrible postflop bc everyone has position on you
Where you playing online that there aren't open limpers?
Sounds like I need be be investing in some software
Me looking at length of video. I'm not going to watch this hour long video. 1 hour later...I think I'll watch that again.
0-10 Variance is the way homeboys
This does not sound like the narrator from the other videos. Is this Bart Hanson or?
listen I'm kindy lost cuz I'm a french native who understands english but not that much. Is it for texas holdem poker ? and what ATs means ? I feel kinda dumb right now, I got all the poker basics and understood the positionning thing but felt completly lost after that part ...
Ace Ten suited
Where can I get this charts you use in this video.
You can just make them yourself in Excel or Google Sheets. no need to pay anyone for software that way.
What is the speaker referring to when he refers to some players as "VIP"s?
voluntarily in pot
Very important players or whales
whats the name of the software on 6:45?
lol
pokerchruncher, at least thats what it says on the top of the screen ;D
no content about blind vs blind? in some live games it does happen.
Drive for show, put for dough
This range chart only works against other players using the same chart.
got lost at the 15x/25x/35x... so if im playing NL100... and the villain opens with a 4bb raise... im 3 betting 140bb?? can someone explain that to me? i mean... what i understand is... if someone opens and i have aces... im all in? haha im pretty sure im getting this wrong
No - let’s say you’re playing $1/$2 and have pocket 4’s. Someone raises to $8 in front of you. The video is saying you need to have a stack size of at least $120 ($8 x 15) to call and try to hit your set on the flop.
What is the the program he is using?
pokercruncher - for Macs
Is that the voice of Randy Lew ?
What is a huge VIP in the BB? :D
i'd say about 101% is pretty big
a whale aka a bad rich player
Like someone famous in the BB.
Does the blue mean you fold? Like what if you have KQo during utg? Should you limp? Fold? Raise?
I don't know what putting is or the rules of golf. Next video.
"Drive for show, putt for dough"
what do we do on the flop when villain just flats our 4bet bluff
Cry.
Is that Randy Lew ?
What's a VIP?
How do you spell this guys name? He says "Key Lee" but I imagine the spelling is off on the first name.
I don't think you should open this many low equity hands UTG. The reason you do it online is to balance your range so you can't get attacked on low boards.
But Live little people are attacking boards anyway. It's a fit or fold game 90%. Therefore you probably loose money o these hands just because it's lower equity than the calling hands.