Mastering the Fundamentals: Preflop Strategy

I've just logged my first 100 hours at 1/3 after years away from poker. Earning, but about half my goal. The game in this room, that, before pandemic, was loaded with short-stack nits, is now booming. Deep stacks with lots of splashing, limping, squeezing too small, and other mistakes. OMC is gone. He plays 3/6 and tries to hit a hand jackpot while being bled dry by rake. I was a reg in Postle's room and that scared me. But I'm back, and live poker is back. I feel like Fast Eddie Felson. I'm re-learning the old game. Thanks Jonathan.

These charts are wrong, I've definitely won more hands with 7/2 offsuite than with pocket Jacks.

Why does the chart say to bluff k4s but says gold k5s (cuttoff vs button 3-bet

Shit advice

CRUSHES A6 lol

Can someone plz explain me on thing right 16:45 . If im the under the dog 1 the red cards only apply if under the gun folds. But if im under gun nobody before me can fold so i think im getting somthinh wrong

charts and difficult math theories behind...doesnt metter bc when you have only fully junk hands for 15 mins straight, running out of your chips, all u can try is bluffing. Sounds cool to raise with nuts but when u dont see even a K in hands for an hour.....:D

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Or just do what I do raise with shit cards and limp in with aces. Play all the mushrooms who are playing these strategies unawares when you turn over 8 3 off suit and you’ve made a full house 😂

Can someone explain to me why, in the Cutoff vs. Button 3-bet range, AQo is a 4-bet but AQs is just a call? Cheers

How often does the situation actually happen tho?

The best move I have found with big blind and little blind is to have the nuts and to just call, so even when a bad flop comes up and you don't actually have a pair on board it's much easier to bet aggressively when you have nothing and have the earlier players to fold as they assume your hand has some pretty funky values as you are just calling or where forced to stay in because of your position of big and small blinds.

Also if you do have the nut's players may just assume you are bluffing because you just checked initially and if you check again when high value cards appear and they have something then you can start raising them after the call and rake in a lot of profit based on the initial assumptions of the quality of your hand.

All this is good but always look to hit ur hand ak no good at all without a hit😮

can you explain raising 2.5bbs ? is this calculated at all ?

Please don’t play pocket 2’s……

I would like to understand which is the logic of a higher equity for AKo when JTs has a higher probability of matching a straight and a flush. Is it just because AKo has the higher cards? And as a beginner, since I think it is very difficult to clculate these odds during a game, should I learn all these combinations?

Idgaf, I’m playing KJo in any position

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So basically, if Schrödinger's cat had a favorite game, it would be Poker?
Got it

Just watched my daughter win BIG with an Ace & 2

This is gonna sound really dumb but this is when I learned 3-bet means to be re-raised preflop. I thought it just meant betting 3BB, which is commonly given as the standard first-in raise size. Whoops

is BB considered UTG for this presentation?

Played my first game today online
Everyone went all in pre flop at a 9 player table😢

3bet js roughly 3-5x the first raise usually 4 x

What is 4bet ? Is it less line 2.5 x or more like 5x plus ??? Or same 4x GENERALLY SPEAKING btw not “it depends”



That one two dollars blinds

Open 6
Three back 22
For bet 65 or 110?

and if you had aces example would you 5 bet or just jam at that point

150 bbs

Opponent 200 bbs

Should I 3 bet junky like Q2o or call 2 or 3 times every 100
Hands to add randomness to my range ? Or never

So follow a chart so everyone knows exactly when im doing in certain situations, got it.

5:20 mentions the biggest poker fallacy for noobs. You gotta trust the long term statistics and not get fooled by losing at a good hand or winning with a bad hand, and think that means it's actually good or bad. You gotta remember exceptions and rare things happen too. And if a rare things happens a lot at first it can fool you into thinking it's not that rare. Like you might get a full house playing 7 2 off suit, but that doesn't mean you should all in every time you get 7 2 off suit. lol.

And sometimes you'll fold a bad hand that would've been the winning hand, and think "aw man I shouldnt have folded!" Even tho it was really the best move overall! If you trust and play by the statistics you will win in the long term

Just want to say that of all the poker clinics and tutorials on YouTube, and no offense to Blackrain or Doug, Jon makes it simple to set in and understand WHY we do what we do and what we should and should not do. It’s not the little tricks and plays in particular situations that’s being taught here for free, but it IS the money making fundamentals that is being shared.

Thanks from AU Nathan, this all applies to my $50 live mtts.

can someone please elaborate on why low pairs are good to play when one is short stacked instead of deep stacked. Is it due to effective stack size and less to lose in such a scenario? Quite new to this hobby so excuse me if my question is rather stupid.

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I literally just lost having triple ace

You Brad Owen and Daniel Negranu have made me love poker and taught me so much.

This video is still awesome today. Came back to it just for a refresh. Thank you so much Johnathan!

If you’re under the gun and everyone folds to you, isn’t that the end of the hand, since UTG is first to act? I don’t understand that scenario.

Read many times and lost many times, KJ off suit is the most lost hand in poker. When you can fold KJ offsuit preflop when youre first to act or last to act, youre game has stepped a level up. Beginner to novice

Great video, love the Excel charts and simple explanations. Going to test this out!

Beginner poker content doesn’t need “Whenever everyone folds to you”. What we need is “when everyone limps to you” 😂

Holy hell can you go any slower!

Equilab

I hope to make enough ..