04.05.2024

Hey everybody this is alexander. fitzgerald or assassinato today i'm. going to be discussing with you how to. exploit microsix players. if you've ever seen one of my videos you. know that i believe the best way to. learn. is. through doing through action through. application through practice so i'm just. gonna make you practice. and then we're going to discuss. how we could better play against micro. sticks players i know many of you who. are watching this video. you like playing micro stakes games. you're excited about poker you want to. learn how to beat. these tournaments with thousands and. thousands of players it feels like it. should be a little bit easier. because. a number of these players are. recreational in nature and don't always. play the. exact form of poker that would lead to. results. so you know there must be a way to.

Exploit them but you're not sure what. that way is well today we're going to. discuss. a number of the ways you can exploit. micro 6 players and get results and have. a little bit more fun playing these uh. these games so let's go ahead and just. start so here you have queen nine. offsuit villains who you actually just. got moved to this table so you don't. know much about either of these players. so what would you like to do here full. color raise. and for most of these decisions i have a. succession of preflop. flop turn and river decisions that i'm. going to test you on with the preflop. decisions i'll give you about five. seconds. uh with the flop decisions i'll give you. five secondsish turn maybe 10 river 15. and. yeah so. just be prepared for that. if you'd like to get more out of this. lesson i'd highly encourage you to take.

Notes okay so. you you've looked at this spot now for a. few seconds. so this is one of the first ones i want. to discuss. with you guys so. most micro stakes players i talk to. and i i've done thousands of personal. lessons over 10 years. if you don't know me if you don't know. me i i've done a lot of private coaching. that that's been my main thing i do have. w coupons scoop wins wpt final tables. ept final tables i won the 250k. on acr last year but my primary focus. has been. uh coaching that that's definitely been. what i do. and. i. with a focus on database analysis and. one of the things. i. do notice with microsix players quite a. bit is they just call here when i'm. analyzing players who play micro stakes. games and i'm going through their. databases. one of the things i do notice is that. they. they call here every single time and i.

Go why do you do that and they say well. i'm getting really good pod odds and i. go okay. so how do you know you're winning here. and. i think what do you mean and uh it's. really neat with uh. database management systems with uh hand. history analysis tools now such as poker. tracker holden manager three. you can analyze these spots it's really. cool so the filter you would look at in. a database management tool would be. razer plus caller and then call out of. the big blind. and what you're trying to do here is if. you folded this hand your. loss. you would be losing a hundred big blinds. per 100 hands because you're forfeiting. the big blind every time every time so. actually it's actually more than that. because there's an annie but it's around. that. uh so. you're trying to outperform that so. let's say you're only negative 50 big.

Lines per 100 when you call here that. would be incredible. that would be excellent so you're saving. half the big blind there that's that's. very good. now unfortunately when i'm working with. micro 6 players what we traditionally. see here what i traditionally see there. is. sometimes my team helps me but in this. one i usually run point um. what you typically see is they're losing. much more than if they just folded. you see many micro six players losing. here like 200 big blinds. per 100 hands. and if you can think back to. your science class the way you would. test anything is okay you remember the. scientific method which was have a. hypothesis run an experiment collect. data then analyze the findings. and then adjust your. beliefs about the world not your beliefs. that's the wrong word adjust your. analysis adjust your analysis based on.

The new data. be able to adjust what you see. based on the data. and. what you're traditionally going to see. is. you've been running an experiment many. people have been running an experiment. and not even understanding it. in that. when they call out of here the. experiment is okay with great pot odds. price i i should be able to call here. uh just indiscriminately and i should. outperform a fold and if the data does. not. adhere. to that conjecture then. it's just an opinion it's. an opinion not exactly based on anything. so. i'd very much recommend i i do notice. the lower six players really lose their. ass off especially in this situation. it's it's just so difficult so you're. gonna be out of position in a multiway. pot so you can't bluff. and then even when you hit your hand. it's a. very weak hand so if the pot is getting.

Bigger it's very unlikely to be the best. hand and. when you're just starting in micro 6. games that's. it's very difficult at that time to know. when a pair is good or not so it takes. someone who's been playing for 10 20. years and they call out there yeah. there's there's a good chance they could. outperform a fold sure they're very good. at. turning some hands into bluffs and. they're very good at knowing when their. top pair isn't good anymore and so. perhaps perhaps eeking out value in. certain situations but i i'd say. most of the players i see at this level. what they're calling way way too much. out of the big line this one's pretty. close but i wouldn't be doing my job if. i didn't show it to you so here we have. queen check off suit and it's been. folded to you would you like to fold. call arrays. and all of these tournaments uh i mean.

I've said these are micro six. tournaments but they're two dollar three. dollar five dollar buyins. okay time is up. we're gonna go ahead and call here. and this player raises. here. would you like to fold caller rights. okay time is up. we're gonna go ahead and move all in and. this player folds so. what's going on here. this is one of the more fun plays and i. did. want to put it in here this is a very. fun preflop exploit you can do at. microsix games so i purposefully didn't. give you a read here because i thought. it'd be a little too easy at that point. i mean it wouldn't have been that easy. but. i i wanted to up the difficulty a little. bit you guys are ready for it you guys. i know you guys you guys study i mean if. you're if you're watching poker training. videos in your free time you're way more. hardcore than you realize.

Most people. you know the general public at your card. room doesn't do that right. sometimes. this is something a lot of micro stakes. players do as a mistake as well they. project how they think about pokemon to. everybody else they think that everybody. else is thinking about the game. critically most people are playing it. like a table game so if you're listening. to the sound of my voice and watching. this video right now you are much more. hardcore than you realize so. i thought you guys were ready for this. in this particular situation in micro. six games you need to remember micro six. players because it's a two dollar three. dollar five dollar buy and they they're. a little bit more flippant. about their calls a little bit more. flipping about their raises because it's. fun it's a it's a lottery ticket if you.

Lose three dollars it's not the end of. the world. so right here if you were to raise. villain eight would have a clean allin. which would put you in quite the. predicament because perhaps you don't. want to call more than 20 big blinds. with your queen jiakai if you raised. here so causing you to raise fold a hand. heads up which is very good heads up but. instead what we do. is a nice. exploit here where we limp in you let. him raise all his goofball hands just to. attack you there. because hey it's a two dollar tournament. it's fun and then you just shut the door. on him you want a nice little pond that. that that ships you up quite nicely. there so let's let's go ahead and try to. work that into our games. let's go ahead and work that into our. game a little bit more. so that's going to be our first little. fun.

Entrylevel basic exploit that we're. going to discuss today as far as how to. exploit micro 6 players try to limb jam. 20 to 30 x more from the small blind as. you move up in stakes people are going. to be a little. more wary of that play so it's not. nearly it's not going to work as much as. he'd like but in these lower stakes. tournaments it does work quite often. let's uh continue. if i can ever get my damn clicker to. work uh villain 18 goes ahead and opens. here. and again it's a three dollar tournament. you don't know a whole lot. about anyone what would you like to do. here would you like to fold call or. raise. and yeah the way this uh powerpoint. presentation is going to work is. if there's a fun little exploit you. might not have seen. before. or maybe you just haven't. been. exposed to before. or just a little one a nice one that you.

Can use in micro six games i'll go ahead. and highlight it like i just did there. but if we're discussing fundamentals. we'll just keep that to here. so here what would you like to do. speaking of fundamentals. this is another one you see a lot of. micro six players do which is. okay i have king 10 off suit. okay that flops pretty well. i want to see the flop. i'm getting a discounted price from the. small blind. all right i should go ahead and call. here you need to know again. when you collect data on this and you. look at thousands of players. damn near no one is making this. profitable calling and under the gun. raise from the small blind. out of position. in order to prove you were making this. profitable you would have to outperform. the fold here which would be negative 50. big blinds per 100. and i i see people negative 200 big.

Lines from here. negative 250 and we're talking sample. sizes of years and years and years and. years they just keep running that play. that's what's so nefarious about nolan. holdem is you can't remember the. specific results because it happens over. such a long period of time and it's not. till somebody accumulates at all for you. and shows you. the numbers where you go oh my god so. yeah most uh the vast majority of people. do not. outperform a fold here when a short. stack raises from under the gun. and. i mean just to put this in more. accessible terms i i'd like to let you. know where i get my idea from. so. you know that i actually i do care. enough to vet it out but. if you think about it logically when you. when you call here. it's going to be very difficult to bluff. because if you just lead out people are.

Going to go. well why did he lead out into me when he. checked to me as the razor so. so you'll check and then when you check. if if you don't leave there a lot of. people are just not going to believe it. and if you check there well now. if they do any kind of bet they're more. or less committed. and then. it. in at that point it's going to be very. difficult to bluff them and then. you got to ask yourself is villain 18. really raising like a k9 suited or a. jack 10 offsuit from early position from. that short of a stack. because now if they're not doing that. when we hit the flop we're not even. really excited to have hit the flop. because. they likely if they're not opening hands. we dominate if we hit the flop and they. hit the flop they likely hit it a whole. lot more and if we hit the flop and they. didn't hit the flop well they're not.

Going to be giving us much. and if we miss the flop there's no real. way for us to bluff. but. truthfully now if villain 18 was just. opening all the time yeah sure i'm sure. there was would be a way to make this. work but the problem is most people will. just see a guy open twice and because. they want to see the flop they'll say oh. of course he's opening too much. uh now. that being said villain 17 here. has a really beautiful all in because. villain 17. it could just increase their chips by. damn a third. if they shove over both of us if we call. there. and you could expect villain 17 to take. that. that line a lot in which case we're just. never going to see the flop and that's. going to be pretty. pretty bad for us so that's uh. that's a fundamental i want you guys to. remember while you're playing micro. stakes.

And villain 12 goes ahead and opens here. would you like to phone call erase. this is the same damn thing guys i. didn't give you a whole lot of time on. this one because you should be able to. spot it where are you looking right now. when you're playing micro stakes guys. remember you're going to have short. stacks. to deal with all the time. typically the structures are a little. faster the lower the buyin. you got to look to your left so a lot of. people go oh it's a 67 of spades it's. so. such a nice zone. oh my god i want to see the flop with. this and i get that it's a it's a pretty. hand it does flop pretty well. traditionally but what's the problem. villain nine could move all on it all in. on us very easily villain eight could. move all in on us very easily villain 10. could move on all in on us very easily.

Even villain 11 could possibly do it. we're not going to see the flop that. often and. again i'm just going to keep saying it. when you try to isolate these situations. when it it sounds really you know like. big high floating words like database. analysis or whatever all it is is. collecting. you could do the same damn thing with a. pen and paper just writing down the. results of every time you do something. and then averaging out the totals. and see what it is. and essentially all the software does is. do that for you with hand issues and. yeah it's just something i see all the. time which is guys call here all the. time and. you you'll see them be negative 50 big. lines negative 100 big blinds for every. time they run that because. if they fold it they'd just be. negatively annie that's fine but what. ends up happening the reason they lose.

So damn much is because somebody moves. all in on them so often. and then. if you hit you're six or seven. even if. everybody folds behind you which would. be great. and now you hit your six or seven the. big stack did open under the gun it's. not. unlikely he'd have a big card he. connected with too so you don't even. know if you want to connect with that so. just taking that back to fundamentals. folks so let's go ahead uh villain three. in this situation. uh villain three. has been. a little active and you have king jack. off suit on the button what would you. like to do here now that villain 3 has. opened. okay time is up. if this one more time guys is going to. be full so many times. people are playing micro six tournaments. it and it's very fun to get there get. involved and to go after it and things. of that nature.

And they'll say like oh i've seen this. guy open a few times before you know. we've only played like 11 hands and. they've raised like four of them this. guy's clearly a psychopath. it's a little bit more likely the guy. just picked up a few hands. you know. it's a it's really fun to say oh he's. active okay i'm on the button oh i got. to do something it's not necessarily the. guy's still opening under the gun. now if you if i had told you like i just. saw this guy open six three suited. from. middle position or something like that. in that case what do you do at that. point. you could three bet you could attack a. little bit. you you want to reraise isolate when. you have the best hand so typically when. you have the best hand in your. imposition. you want the person to play a big pot. with you out of position. because out of position they're.

They they. they have to act first the entire hand. they give you so much information you. could take. a fourcard flop whenever you want to. essentially because most of them check. to you 99 of the time now if they're. operating with a three card flop and. you're operating with a superior hand. and a four card flop that's going to be. pretty tough. to deal with. but that being said if you don't know a. ton about the opponent and the person. just opened from under the gun generally. give the person the benefit of the doubt. also. the way you're actually going to get. going in micro stakes games oftentimes. is you'll have to play a number of them. so i assume you're multitabling at this. point. so here. you're not very sure you're not sure. there's much profit to be gained here. so. i would look for a better opportunity on.

One of your other tables. continuing. here you have pocket queens now i think. many of you are going to be raising here. but the question is. what would you like to do here with 15. big blinds. would you like to go all in would you. like to min raise would you like to make. it 3.5. would you like to raise the 10k. i was playing a charity tournament. yesterday and that was how a gentleman. liked to play this spot. full coal or raise. time is up. so guys this is a very fundamental. exploit we can use in micro stakes. this is i'm trying to balance this. lesson here with a lot of fundamentals. you're gonna need for the rest of your. life if you're gonna play poker. up as a serious hobby. or as. a serious endeavor of any kind. i'm trying to work in some of the. fundamentals that are you know they take. a little bit of work but some of these.

Are so quick and easy for micro stakes i. i'm trying to put those in here too. which is this one's really quick and. easy guys which is when you're playing. micro six and it's a two dollar. tournament remember people are there to. gamble. don't get cute. so let's say this was a 109 tournament. and i shove 15x. there. in a lot of the training videos you guys. see here remember when i'm at work and. my colleagues are at work we do have to. play. as i record this i i this is sunday i. just woke up early so i'm recording this. so when when i'm done talking to you i'm. going to go play my majors and i'm going. to go play 500 buyins in 109s and 55s. and things of that nature 215s. and when i'm doing that. well if you shove queens here i i don't. expect someone if they got 200 on the. line. to look down at their fives and go yippy.

Skippy let's get the money in so perhaps. this might not be the way i play so if i. were teaching you. in a training video based on the 55s and. the 109s and the 215s i reply i was. playing or whatever it was. you might not see this move but this is. why we have to do a specific video for. you and your microsix games you guys. gotta remember. in microstakes games. they're there to gamble they're there to. play now a lot of those folks play home. games primarily they'll play like. charity poker tournaments they'll play. uh things of that nature. uh there's entire scenes in cities where. people just go to bars and play like 10. 20 buyins that's their thing that's the. way they pass time you know some people. some people like sports. some people like hiking some people just. very much love. social. relaxed poker now when they get that.

Poker itch and there's not a game on. a tuesday night or something. and they go online. they're going to be playing the two. dollar binds the three dollar buyings. the five dollar buyins. and at some point you know it gets a. little deeper in the tournament they go. okay i should probably get back to. hanging out with my spouse and kids. uh let's try to get a let's try to. rustle up. a stack here. or just call it. and you move all in and they got a pair. or they got like you know. a suited ace and they'd go okay cool. cool let's just go with it. and they don't begrudge you for having. the better hand they're gambling with. you. they're fine with that. and you just got to remember that. there's definitely. a reason to get cute in higher buyins. which is sometimes i'll do. a smaller raise because one of the ways. you can get people to over commit and.

Say a 109 is. sometimes the big one calls with way too. many hands than they should. and then they hit any pair and versus. the short stack they're just not folding. you'll see that more in high higher six. tournaments. uh if you can find the soft spot in the. big line and whatnot. that being said you just don't need to. bother with a two dollar three dollar. tournament because you can expect a lot. of like if i moved all in in a 109 here. i wouldn't expect. villain 18 to just go. get it in with my fives. right with all these other players back. behind but instead in micro stakes we. can. collect nicely right there. so let's go back to this slide here. where i'm keeping my. nonfundamentals uh easier exploits. listed out just so you have an easy way. to remember them as you go play micro. stakes so how to exploit micro six.

Players we already discussed lim jamming. 20 to 30 x more from the small blind but. also jam those 14 to 22 x stacks more. with big hands these players love to. gamble. and you'll have an edge you'll you're. gonna get called by hands you don't. expect to get called by so keep it up. continuing. and here. villain 19 goes and limps in and you. have ace queen offsuit. on the button what would you like to do. here. and again you don't know a whole hell of. a lot about any of these players if if i. have a note i'll read it out to you guys. but. most of the time you don't know a ton. about these people. okay that is. it i gotta i gotta do my job guys. fundamentals. fundamentals so first of all i see a lot. of you folks limping in here when you. play micro sex don't do that you likely. got the best hand. it's like final jeopardy.

And you know the topic put all the money. down come on. it's like your topic on jeopardy. go to the highest ticket. and run it. this is your game you have ace queen off. suit it's very likely to be the best. hand. so when you raise here though how much. would you want to raise to. so you limp for 400 you have 16 000. so i see a lot of you folks right it's. the 1200 or 1600 here. i i'd very much recommend you raise. you raise bigger. because these players love. to limp call once they limp why did they. lamp do you remember your first home. games. you limp because you want to see the. flop. now when somebody raises you you don't. go well i guess i don't want to see the. flop anymore no. you still want to see the flop so. you're very likely to go ahead and call. whatever the hell is out there. and then you're playing a big old pot.

Out of position and sometimes. you'll get players to over commit and. this is another example so we got. another player to over commit. with. i mean if they think we're getting a. little out of line there they can get it. in there but. many times. versus a limp and a raise there the a7. might not be the greatest but that. doesn't matter because the great thing. about these players is they'll still. just gamble with you villain 19 villa 9. someone's going to gamble with you so do. raise. those limps. a little bit bigger because if everybody. folds that's still fine you get three or. four big blinds which. hell some people that's their entire win. rate for 100 hands and if you do get. people to commit out of position. and they limp called with a bunch of. weak hands and you're playing a big pot. in position with a superior hand heads.

Up. and remember they're probably going to. check to you 98 of the time or whatever. it is. so you get a four card flop whenever you. feel like it whereas they get a three. card flop. and you have the better hand to begin. with and you get to see what they're. doing i it's going to be very hard to. lose with that edge so do remember to. press your position. right here we got the 7 8 of diamonds. what would you like to do. time is up. did you want to play this hand slow down. there cowbook. look at okay so guys. what do people want to move all in with. it's usually like 15 to 25 big blinds. something like that how many of those. stacks do you have to your left right. now. you got. you got what one two three. four. four of them. you got you got a lot of people that. five. well. here's the thing about micro six players. if it's a little bit of a tougher site.

If we're being frank if you're playing. with a number of euros who are currency. leveraging or just folks who are. currency leveraging anywhere. because maybe two or three or five bucks. isn't a ton of money to you and i. but i've been in countries where that's. you know the usd is pretty strong so. you'll see folks taking this game pretty. seriously now they'll know. those players who take it a little bit. more seriously whether they're in latin. america or wherever. and they're playing pretty hard they. they know. they're not supposed to be cold calling. from a lot of these stacks but if they. see you opening a little too much which. they'll likely pick up on if you're the. type to be opening this willynilly. they're going to put in their 24x stack. their 26x stack and things of that. nature now if you're playing with.

Let's say you're playing a very loose. passive american facing an anonymous. site should you open this hand. those players aren't as likely to move. all in on you. well. you'd prefer to have big cards because. the stacks are pretty short right now so. your implied odds aren't great so all. those. nice straights and flushes you want to. make on the turning river we're not. loving the odds we're getting to draw to. him we we would much rather have say a. king jack off suit here because. if we get top pair. versus another short sack and we get it. in it's going to be pretty difficult to. make a huge mistake there especially if. that person let's say it's a loose. passive player and they just cold call. too much and. you hit top pair if you take a look at. their typical cold calling range and you. see you know your top pair versus it you.

Can get a. lovely piece of software called. flopzilla if you'd ever like to try this. out. and. what you'll just see is you have a ton. of equity versus all those ranges with. the top pair so getting the money in on. the flop is fine whereas you'll see. if you're drawing you don't have as much. equity and then you know it's likely. going to be all in. on the flop if the person hit something. pretty decent that's what loose passive. players do with their short sex okay let. me see the flop okay i hit the flop okay. let's go. yeah that's when you get into a lot of. trouble so be very careful in this spot. here you have ace 10 of spades don't. know a whole lot about villain 26 melon. 26 has gone ahead and raised. all right that's time. don't be afraid of the big allin guys. there's no law that says you can't. you got you have to have less than 20.

Big lines to move all in this is a slam. dunk all in. most micro six players will open way too. much from the button i see a lot of you. folks just call there to see a flop. because you're scared to play until you. hit the flop when you if you move all in. here and you pick up all the money. going from 9k and change to 11k and. change. at 200 400 is a nine day difference you. get all these new tools in the. tournament you got the check raise. working for you now you got the three. bet working for you now you got a little. double barrel action working for you now. you can thread some of these short stack. players you can put them on the back. foot you want to take those tools. all right here you got the queen jack. off suit it's on you. fundamentals guys. fundamentals you should have known it by. now what am i about to say.

Well you don't want to raise there and. let them move all in with their. king four suited that's a better hand. than yours. you know i want to raise there and let. them shove their ace two off suit that's. a better hand than yours. put the pressure on them make them call. off for all their chips. especially if it's right before the. bubble bursts. see if they got it. there's no law that says you can't. you can only open jam 10 big blinds or. less. 15 big blinds or less you can put in. more than that this is totally fine and. then okay you're going to get caught. sure it's going to happen but guess what. in no limit oldham i've been informed. that the bad beats and backgammon are. something like 5 000 won but. in no limit to hold him it's so funny. if this happens live like where you turn. the queen villain 30 will act as if this.

Is the worst thing that's ever happened. to them which is. i want your life if this was that bad. now. but you you're never that big of a dog. in no limit hold him so you should be. gambling you should be pressuring. even in the worst situations pre when. you're just preflop dominated you still. got a one out of five shot. if i was running a parlor game where i. put a. ball underneath one dixie cup out of. five. and then. you came into the room and i said. randomly pick. which one do you think has the ball. underneath it and you picked you. happened to get lucky and you picked the. one with the ball underneath out of the. five dixie cups and i went oh my god oh. my god this is so sick. this is ridiculous oh my god how you're. so lucky. this is such a joke i would sound like a. crazy person. and. that's. but you got to remember you got to put.

You got to put the pressure on them. because there's a pretty good chance. you still have a ton of equity even when. you're called and if you win this pot. just before the bubble. bursts like. you get people always ask how do i get a. big stack on the bubble how do i get a. big stack going into the money it's like. you got to be. you got to be putting the pressure on. that and putting all the. pressure of like do you want to cash all. right. good luck. choose shoot risk your tournament. risk your possible min cash all right. you got to put the pressure on them and. then if they do buck up if they do wake. up with a hand remember you're never. that big of a dog and if you win that. pot boy it's going to be real fun from. that point on. all right that's it for preflop let's. go on the flop. all right let's get into some of these.

Flop situations so here villain six has. opened on the button i'm not in love. with calling here but i know a lot of. you folks do so. just typically with short sex guys you. want big cards. if you're going to play short stack pots. heads up you want big cards because you. make a big pair. you and you get it in when the stacks. are short it's going to be pretty hard. to do that incorrectly now with three. high it's going. going to be exceedingly difficult to hit. a big pair me thanks so the board comes. 105-5 and you get a nice little flush. draw what would you like to do here. check them out. if you do want to call here let's at. least do it right. time's up we check. and this player fires. k it is on you full call arrays. time is up. we're going to go ahead and raise here. now. this is. a. more basic. exploitative exploitable play.

That. we should do a little bit more versus. micro six players so the thing you need. to know about micro six players is. when it gets folded around to them on. the button they. they want to play so bad because poker. they're still recreational players and. poker still very fun. for them that they just open way too. much from the button and then when a. very hit or miss board like this comes. out where it's pretty unlikely for you. to have flopped anything. they're gonna fire pretty much just a. hundred percent of the time so. there's many times versus more balanced. play players here where i i would just. say just call. just because. oftentimes they'll not be bluffing such. a high percentage of the hands that you. really are incentivized to just. cash in your equity at this juncture. or just you know check check. when you check race here you're you this.

Gets bricked the board like 70 percent. of the time given how wide open his. ranges. are so you just cash in and then a lot. of times micro six players. will just be like well i don't want to. fool my king jack damn it and then they. call and then they miss the turn you. shove. uh or whatever it is yeah pretty much a. shot of it then they go damn it and then. they fold and that's just so much money. but if you're dealing with a more. balanced player when you move up. they're checking back. some hands for paw control they're. checking back once in a while. uh as a give up and they're betting. sometimes as a bluff but a lot of times. they actually have some kind of hand. they're trying to work with well versus. them a lot of times you can check call. once then if it gets checked if it goes. check check on the turn you know they've.

Messed. with a lot of their c bet blocks and you. can lead river as the out of position. float and look a lot like a 10 and. they'll be able to read the line. and. just fold to you whereas. micro six players they're not doing that. they're not going to read your line like. they're they're not that good at that so. you can you can just go ahead and take. the fight to them in that particular. situation. so here you do have a lamp. and you do have another person all in. for 48 ships what would you like to do. here with fives. all right that's time. and villain 12 has been limping quite. often. i change your answer. we're going to go ahead and raise here. in villain 12 calls. and the board comes king 76 here. would you like to check her back. time is up. we go ahead and check here. and villain 12. fires here. would you like to fold call or raise.

Okay that is time. we're gonna go ahead and fold. and. what's going on here guys whenever. there's a really short stack. player. all in. and. a micro six player gets to see your hand. anyway. they'll often be. much more casual about folding because a. lot of. micro six players they just want to see. your hand that's. you even hear them say that when they do. play live like that on the river they'll. even tell you i just gotta see it. i just gotta see it so if there's a very. short stack there. and they'll get to see your hand anyway. they'll fold a little bit more. preflopping on the flop now here you do. need to know sometimes you'll get an. atrocious board. and you gotta pump the brakes but. there's a good thing here what is it. if a player's been limping a lot that's. probably because they're a more passive. player and passive players don't bluff.

As much. and. passive players. let's say here you got some showdown. value obviously three to a straight. flush you want to see the turn in rubber. and micro six players they'll just let. you see it they're just not gonna be. bluffing as much as they should it so. you'll be able to get to a lot of. showdowns so you don't have to attack. this board now i did check fold and he. did have king of clubs so. there you go. and here we have 10 nine of hearts. villain four goes ahead and opens now. villain four has been helping quite a. bit. we go ahead and call here a little bit. of a dangerous call with that short. stack. villain one. being sure but he'd been doing a lot of. this which was just calling. all the time when he should be moving. all in or folding so. we go ahead and take the wrist sure. enough we get a nice big multiway pot.

Now villain two. goes in and leads into you here. on this board what would you like to do. here with the 1090 hearts full color. rates. let's get to work guys and gals. poker lessons can run you 400 an hour. you're just grinding right now. and grinding you're learning how to play. better focus feedback fix it. let's get to work. okay so a lot of people do want to call. there but you want to be careful because. villain one is if villain one's gonna do. anything with that shortsick oftentimes. they're just gonna shove and then that's. going to reopen the action and villain 2. will likely blast you off the hand so. with the. two over cards. and. the back door flush draw and the gut. shot. it's very tempting to call there but you. need to remember micro six players love. getting it in. all the time when they've hit anything.

On the board. and you'll see micro six players. how many times as come on guys you know. this has happened villain one shoves. there then villain two reisolates and. then you see villain one's hand and. you're like why would you re isolate. with that and it's like. jack seven of clubs right. but guys that's on us we need to know. micro six players are trying this is. their mo they want to see the flop and. then if they kind of hit it. in any fashion a lot of times as they're. short they want you know they want to go. watch netflix they want to go watch the. game. whatever it is. and they're just going to put it in. there so it's on us to be. it's on us to be wary of that now if you. call there that's certainly not. a bad play it's just we i wouldn't be. doing my job if i didn't. tell you guys in microsix tournaments.

That this is their mo see the flop. somewhat hit the flop get the money in. on the flop with any kind of short stack. so you need to be wary of that and this. was a specific situation where that came. up. so here you have a7 off suit. facing a raise from villain 40. again. you don't know a ton about this player. so. we're going to go ahead and call here. and the board comes ace six. the board comes jack six seven sorry. before comes jackson seven is back to. checkerbot. okay that is time. we go ahead and check here. and this player bets 2.7 k would you. like to fold call arrays. all right that's it. this one is a fairly easy fold what what. does it mean guys when micro 6 players. bet really big. on a board like this. what does that mean. typically if they raise from early. position and did you notice the person. raised into a bunch of people that could.

Move all in on them. let me double check i got that right. so i didn't highlight this but. okay so yeah this person can move all in. on them this person can move all in on. them this person can move all in on them. this person can move all in on them this. person could move all in on them so when. you see that. you have to call here but you're going. uh. that's probably a decent hand. so you're looking for an excuse to not. get involved so here you flop second. pair and you're going oh. i do have to get involved here typically. but the person lets you off the hook. when they bet pot because that's. typically okay if a person raced into. all those people who could move all in. and now they're just bombing the pot. on a three to a flush. board. they're telling you almost every single. time this is just i have queens and damn.

It we're getting this money in and. you're not gonna beat my overpair again. i've been waiting so long. i've been so disciplined. i i've been. for some reason micro six players are. just everybody when they start playing. poker they think even though there's. nine people at the table. and if you think about it logically. it's far more likely on almost every. single deal one of those eight people. will have a better hand than you. for some reason micro six players are. all of us if we're being honest. when we first start playing poker if we. don't. if we don't get dealt. a premium every single hand and have it. hold up we for some reason think. the world's out to get us or we're super. unlucky i was playing a charity. tournament yesterday i was taking a. friend of mine to a charity tournament. because he wanted to learn a little bit.

About cards and i said well it's not. going to get easier than a charity. tournament so let's go ahead and do that. and. i finished third. he's like first. game in like 15 years aside from just. like playing with friends or something. but uh that's beside the point he uh. i was five hands in. five hands in. to. the day. and two three players at my table. started talking about all the bad cards. that we're getting they really do expect. to get dealt premiums from the start now. if god forbid they gotta wait 31 minutes. before they get a premium which is just. every day. of no limit hold them that's how random. distributions work. it's about. you that's that that's even a little out. of schedule getting a premium. every half hour so whatever it is. they think because they've waited half. an hour. i mean my god that's one ren and stimpy.

Episode that's forever. they they think they deserve to win. dammit. with their premium. so this board comes out there and this. is a board you're not. if i check shove on this board you're. not loving your queens with no spade but. they're not folding. because damn it this hand should be good. and i'm not gonna let you suck out on me. again. and even if they lose it's not their. fault at their point it's your fault for. playing a stupid hand. but this person lets you off the hook. when you got a mediocre hand here this. person is clearly just bombing it's. probably a pretty good pair it your. seven is not worth anything anymore. they're going you're not hitting that. damn spade damn it my hand i've waited. you know. 19 whole minutes for this hand and i'm. so deserving of a big pot because i'm so. moral and patient.

That we're gonna go ahead and. just play for stacks because i deserve. this pot right now and if you're gonna. have to pay a lot of money if you think. you're gonna suck out on me mister. and that's your cue to exit stage left. ace 10. middle position. full color raise. i think most of you are raising here and. i hope you all notice there's not many. short stacks behind you villain. 21. goes ahead and calls. and. the board comes king nine three. three clubs. and villain 21 leads. 750 would you like to fold call a raise. five more seconds. okay time is up. we are going to raise here to 2.5 k and. this player folds how do we know this is. likely to not be the hand. so first of all. in micro six games there's a reason it's. called the donk lead it used to be a. joke. only a donkey would lead here. because most players in position are.

Going to make an assumption which is a. pretty good idea to assume which is hold. on i'm the preflop razor. if this person really did flop a flush. or flopped. two pair. or. some strong hand wouldn't they check to. me. and let me fire so they could build some. kind of a pot. when you lead out there it makes a. little less sense with a big hand you. take that play away from me. so. what that means is. it's very likely that this is someone. testing the water. that means this is someone who. wants to see where they're at that means. this is someone who wants to see maybe. if i take a cheap shot. at this board. i could take this away now sometimes. you'll see. some good players donk lead. it's not a super balanced play. but. it works pretty well. as an exploitative play versus a number. of players because. especially live you can get great.

Reactions out of people if you donk lead. real quick that'll help you. curtail the range quite quite a bit. but. that being said. you when you see better players donkly. what do they tend to do differently. a lot of. so let's say. a guy here. wanted to donk lead as a bluff and they. were a slightly better player. they might lead 1500 or something along. those lines maybe 2250. or something that be pretty hard for us. to deal with. as the in position player. when a person donk leads small and. you're already at a buy in level. where. it's micro stakes to begin with. it's very likely that this is just. someone who. wants to see if they can get you to fold. to any kind of bet so we are not going. to respect this now what happens is. a lot of the times people who watch. poker. on streaming sites. they see that versus most donk leads.

Most people just call. because. that tends to be a little bit more of a. wellconstructed range when you're. playing against better players. you. do not have to respect. these players this. donk lead is very likely to be a very. weak exploitative play by this person. they're hoping you're multitabling you. look down at your hand you don't have a. whole lot and you fold a little too much. and to be fair when they bet so small. their bet doesn't need to work that. often you're going to be better than. that and with a large percentage of your. continuing range you are going to go. ahead and raise here. so going back to our list of. exploits we're going to be using a. stakes. tournaments and i tried to make these. simple so everybody could get. something from this video even if you're. new to poker we're happy to have you.

Here if you're playing for the first. time i'd recommend or if you're new to. the game i'd recommend these. plays to exploit your opponents they're. easy to implement limp jam 20 to 30 x or. uh. more from the small blind jam 14 to 22. xx more with big hands these players. love to gamble and raise weak small donk. leads frequently they're likely bluffs. now if someone does do a weak small. donk lead and then they call when you. raise fairly quickly what is that guys. a lot of the times that's a weak pair. so if your hand on the turn you run into. something that's a lot better than a lot. of the weaker hairs on that board a lot. of the weaker pairs on that board don't. be afraid to charge them and get some. money from them. continuing. we have pocket tens here now i think. most of you are raising this so we'll. skip past that part of the test.

And villain 19 calls you here. now the board comes queen 10 4. villain 9 checks to you here. here would you like to check or bet. 10 seconds. time is up. if you did want to bet here how much did. you want to bet. the right idea here. is to bet larger. now we bet larger here and he folds how. does that make you feel. most people do not want to do large bets. because it's more fun to show down our. hands we feel. superior. when we get to show down a big hand. doing a really big bet and everybody. folds. that doesn't feel great. but. you got to think of it within the term. of. percentages. so. let's say. what does villain 19 likely continue. with well micro six players if they flop. a pair they pretty much always continue. and when they miss the board they fold. too much. and this is a board where if you add a. random aci you're not that excited about.

It because it's fairly coordinated but. if this person has a queen or a 10 or. even a four they're probably calling the. first bat regardless of what you put out. there. so. if. you could bet. many people would bet one third pot here. 800 let's say you get called there 100. of the time which is not true. okay so let's say you bet 800 there but. you get called 100 of the time so your. expectation is 800. but let's say if you bet 1575. you get called there. 90 of the time 80 of the time it's still. going to out earn. the. bet that succeeds 100 of the time on. average it's just you're gonna have to. deal with it when you fire your set. pretty big and the person folds and then. yeah the peanut gallery would always. tell you oh man. you fired too big. you shouldn't have done that but what. they don't see is now look i'm. i i play against a lot of weak players.

That is my 90 of my job is game. selection. i. like to play against weaker. opposition a lot like your micro six. opposition i can tell you when they flop. pairs they have a hard time folding. everybody says the same damn thing to me. these people never fooled and then. they'll flop a set on a board where. people are calling you with king jack. jack nine. spade drugs ten nine ten eight. jack. kington. ace ten. queen eight suited queen nine off. queen jack off queen 10 off. king queen off. uh ace four. five four six four suit. seven four suited that they're colony. with all these hands and they go oh man. these players never fooled quick bet one. fourth pot. get real cute. the name of the game. is taking other people's trips. that's what you're here for you're not. here to show down hands. to show everybody how awesome you are.

You're here to make money and if that. means once in a while. you're cracking a couple of eggs to make. an omelette so be it. you want to put these big. bets out here when. on this board let's be honest guys. calling with a high card is not fun. because it's such a coordinated board. your opponent's probably just gonna call. you with the pairs and they're probably. not folding regardless of what you put. out there with their pairs because they. can always justify to themselves like. maybe he's got a draw so you gotta go. for it and that brings us to another. exploit i want you guys using with micro. six players. we'll go through all of these again. before we wrap up today but right now. when they flop pairs they can't fold so. bet big. and don't be worried. if they fold they likely just missed the. board and they were gonna fold anyway it.

Shouldn't make you feel any kind of way. when they flop pairs they can't fold so. bet big so if you're on a flop where. it's really unlikely anyone was gonna. call you with high cards anyway. bet bigger because it's mostly going to. be the pairs that are going to continue. and they're not that sensitive in. regards to the bet size they just like. to continue they like to get to. showdowns it's fun it's like they're. home games it's like a casino game. continuing. got the queen jack off suit here. guys are sufficiently deep so you raise. here. villain two. reraises now villain 2 has been a. little lively. has been a little gungho. all right what do you want to do here. full color rays. okay that's time. we decide to call. and the board comes seven nine ten. and this player bets. would you like to full color raise. versus this aggressive player 10 seconds.

All right that's time. if you did want to raise here what did. you want to raise too. go ahead and raise to ten thousand here. because here's the deal. you're willing to get this money all in. anyway with the over cards and the. openended straight draw versus a very. loose aggressive player that's fine. that's fine. but you need to know micro stakes. players like to gamble. so if you just shove here what they're. gonna see a lot of the time is draw. and now you've given them a license to. call off with their sixes or their a7. suited or whatever it is. if you make them hit the all in button. with those weak pairs. they're going to have a much harder time. doing it i used to shove here not. understanding how loose recreational. players thought and i would be. flabbergasted when they beat me into the. pot with ace kick.

But you need to know if they sh if you. shove here they're thinking draw. because they want an excuse to continue. playing and it'd be fair to the guy he's. amassed all these trips and maybe he. wants to gamble and that's his. prerogative but you need to help him. find the exit you raise bigger here and. you hit make them hit the all in button. with the ace queen or the sixes or. something like that. they're not going to find that as easily. now on this one we did get it in. and i think i won this one so just a. total. so as you can see yeah we had him. preflop. uh on the flop we're we're both getting. that money and as you can see he was. goofing off with. uh toward me quite a bit during that day. and you got to be ready to gamble. you got to be ready to gamble when. you're playing with recreational players. because remember that's how some of.

These folks. blow off steam they got a tough job they. got a tough gig they're taking care of. their kids this is how they relax and. sometimes online they get a little bit. more. wily than they would be live where. people had to. would be able to talk to them or. whatever it is all right let's uh let's. keep it going let's keep drilling. this time we got a lip from villain five. we're in the small blind here what would. you like to do. we're going to go ahead and limp here as. well if you said raise that's fine. the board comes jack 73. would you like to check or bet. time's up. we check. comes around the villain five building. five bets. what would you like to do here. you go ahead and call. the turn is the ace of diamonds. do you like to check or bet. time is up. go ahead and check here. this player bets 5.2 k it's on you full.

Color red. 10 seconds. okay that's time. i'm gonna go ahead and fold here. let's discuss another way you can. exploit these players. so most your job and element hold them. is getting people to pay off your value. bets. the biggest pots you're going to win. are going to be when you secure a river. bet that's bigger than all the other. bets combined. and you can't secure a river bet with a. bluff. so the way you're going to secure that. river bet is by value betting now the. name of the game is getting them to call. you with as crappier hands as possible. so you can value that with as many. decent second pairs and weak top pairs. as possible if you're like every other. player who waits tell us they get a set. once a session decides to start value. betting you're not going to get where. you want to get in all of it hold them.

The great thing about low stakes players. microsix players they like to call all. the time. they love to call. they don't like folding. folding is a guaranteed loss that's. boring they don't want to do that. so what you're doing a lot of the time. is trying to play big pots heads up in. position with superior hands now. notice i didn't say premiums i said. superior hands you just have to have. superior hands to. the person you're playing against so if. you've got a guy opening 63 suited and. what not you can three bet jack 10 off. as a value bet. if they're just going to raise call you. with 6i. and then you can start shelling them. once you you. flop some pairs. it's a high variance way to play it's. worked for me for. decades the big blind keeps calling you. nobody's three betting you you just keep. opening and getting that big blind play.

You with fifty percent of the hands. and you just keep value betting them to. death. death by a thousand cuts. you keep going at them you got a. thousand spots. you got a thousand spots with weak. players the only way you're gonna give. it away. is letting these people. take it from you. when they finally decide to play pot now. if most of these players are loose. passive that means they escape your. purview most of the time they expect. they. escape your notice. because aggressive players you know are. aggressive 55 minutes in 15 minutes in. because they get attention. now if someone's lose passive and all of. a sudden they get very interested in a. pot you should get very wary. this person normally doesn't like. playing why are all these big bets going. in. if someone is a bluffer you're going to. catch them bluffing.

Nobody bats a thousand nobody pitches a. perfect game you will see bluffs at some. point you haven't seen bluffs out of a. guy in fact you haven't even seen. aggression that could have been a bluff. they don't deserve your money. they don't deserve your bets. they didn't do anything to earn it. you got your wheelhouse. you with your three bets where you're. targeting people. with your raises where you're getting. the big blind out there with too many. hands. it's like a martial artist the better a. martial artist gets. the less moves they need. a great boxer can beat you to death with. just the jab and the cross. now if you're a weaker fighter you're. going to try to draw them out into a. firefight the dumbest thing a great. martial artist a great boxer could do is. just get into that firefight. but the smart ones will stay on the.

Outside like. sorry. i will beat you to death with the. fundamentals. i will beat you to death. with the basics. that's what we're trying to be now this. guy's trying to draw you out into a. firefight. this is a fire fight so. i was a little wary. when he limped. this guy wasn't doing that that often. but i didn't say that before the start. of the hand because honestly. you can fold here always. what's the most important thing to be. asking yourself before you make a big. call and this is a big call. what do you have to ask yourself. first thing you should ask yourself is. does he do this with x and x is the best. value hand that you beat so what would. that be. jack 9 suited. tens that doesn't make a whole lot of. sense. he's playing that hand pretty strong for. an ace being on the board it's not. impossible it's just not that likely.

By the way guys. there's a lot of times people play poker. and they want to be perfect. there are no good options here. every we are comparing two options. folding which sucks and calling which. sucks the question is which one sucks. more let's avoid that there is not a. third hypothetical situation. where the guy suddenly takes the bet. back. and then there's a showdown right here. on the turn and we get to see if our. hand is good or not that does not exist. so if you're looking for that. do not expect it. it doesn't happen. if you don't like. any. way to play the hand. don't opt for the one that at least. gives you a showdown so you can sleep. well at night. that's how good players take advantage. of you. why do you think netflix shows you the. cliffhanger and then just starts playing. the next episode. humans abhor an open loop in their heads.

If i tell you a joke without a punch. line it's going to drive you crazy if. you hear the tune to a song that you. grew up with but you can't name the. artist it'll drive you insane. humans hate that open loop. so they'll pay good cash money to close. it by calling down when they should not. your options. suck here one option. sucks but you'll get to see what the guy. has and then you can. i don't know some people like to think. some people i really think get a thrill. out of thinking they're unlucky. they really get something from that and. i don't understand that. they really love. it it's uniquely not their fault. and. they'll call down just to see the. person's hand they'll give away their. money just to see the person's hand. so one option sucks but it gives you the. payoff of a closed loop. so you don't have to wonder at night.

Like did that guy bluff me. and the other one sucks but there's an. open loop now the question is. which one sucks less in which one. will cost us the least amount of money. and which one logically should we be. pursuing so again i'm gonna say it again. do not expect perfection from a game of. chance there's a reason people do this. at four in the morning while drinking. whiskey and barely. avoiding fist fights and screaming at. each other it is gambling things happen. now thankfully we can do it on the. internet it's a little bit more hygienic. than the check cashing places i played. in the back of growing up but it's still. gambling. so do not expect. it to be perfect. there is no third hypothetical beautiful. option that saves us from. how annoying this spot is so remove that. from your mind now let's get back to.

Business he does a big bet does he value. bet anything. worse. maybe but probably not that seems pretty. odd for someone to play tens or jack. 9 like that. most of these players love to see. showdowns and if they have a mediocre. hand. that's a perfect time to get to a. showdown. so. is this. a value hand we beat most likely not. okay how about a draw. now a lot of people are fixating on that. yeah that's it he's got a diamond draw. how many combos is that. how many combos. if you don't know it off the top of your. head you probably should not be gambling. on it just for reference every one of. the combos. is one. it's. one king ten of diamonds that's one. eight nine in diamonds that's one. how many combinations is an ace there. it's a whole lot more i'd recommend you. get a copy of flopzilla if you want to. get down to this and it's a there's a.

Lot more. there are far far far more combinations. of aces there. than there are flush draws. so okay could it be a flush off maybe. maybe. but there's not many of them okay is he. turning a pair into a bluff then now. that actually does happen with low six. players sometimes. but if you haven't seen them getting. aggressive before it's unlikely to have. happened and is it an absolute bluff. it's the same thing. asking ourselves is it an absolute bluff. it's the same thing. if we haven't really been noticing this. person then not and one of these things. you might have it right now but why. would you give them the satisfaction. why would you do that to yourself. why would you get out of line like that. you're going to beat them. up with the fundamentals. by the way the hands not over if you. call here guys. there's still a river to play.

You gotta let this one go. so let's go back to the big board of. exploits and discuss this one. put it simply. when loose passive players start bombing. the pot get the hell out of there. if you have not noticed them before that. means they're probably not that. aggressive which means there wasn't even. an opportunity for them to be bluffing. earlier it's very unlikely this is their. first bluff. it's possible it's just not likely. so you're not going to gamble on it. it's like a pitcher. who throws a really terrible breaking. ball five percent of the time could you. knock that one out of the park yeah. should you be looking for it no why. because 19 out of 20 times it doesn't. come. if he's got a mediocre fastball that's. the one you're looking at if he throws. that sixty percent of the time what's. their mediocre pitch they can't call.

Down correctly they don't know how to do. it they just call down all the time so. just focus on that when loose passive. players start bombing the pot get the. hell out of there now if you see. something you see some kind of bluff you. see them getting aggro you see them. consistently too not like no showdowns. they played a few parts aggressively. because that's most likely the hand but. if you see them get caught bluff and you. see that kind of thing then by all means. start calling it down okay continuing. all right guys let me show you how to do. this on flopzilla real quick. so the board came. uh the way we did this. the board came three seven jack the. person limped in so we put their hand. there over here we put jack ten hearts. the person limped in we check called. let's assume. they take a shot with the entirety of.

Their range on the flop because it's a. pretty hit or miss board now that's not. totally accurate but i by the way guys. this is just a thought experiment i'm. not saying this is 100 accurate i'm. saying. this is how you would do it at home. right you can adjust any assumption i'm. making here really i'm making. assumptions for the. purpose of expediency is that the five. dollar word for that but to be quick. so. all right so he fires so we put a blue. filter next to everything air and okay. then we turn this from red to grain now. he fired all of that turns the ace of. diamonds as you can see our equity is. pretty swell here all right 73 percent. things are looking good ace of diamond. comes not good. all right. so he fires again now what is he firing. let's go through arranging. uh. now a set two pair yeah okay and i i got.

Him. limping so so typically this is another. thing guys loose passive players low six. players in casinos or micro stakes. they tend to raise their best hands. in limp they're good in mediocre hands. and then they fold their crap so. i tried to make the limping range what i. thought was like good in mediocre hands. and as you can see he's there's no ace. king kings queens ace queen suited. because those are the hands most of them. raised so he fires on that turn so yeah. it's gonna be sad yeah it's gonna be two. pair yeah it's gonna be top pair. and then we didn't really think he'd. fire middle pair because he'd probably. try to get that to a showdown. and then okay cool we'll give him some. uh draws. and. you know we'll give him. you know the five four suited there okay. so we're getting giving him a bunch of. draws and like top hair better.

When we do that you just see our equity. just. just. hit the floor at 22. now and a lot of people fixate. on oh man he's got a lot of. flush draws there too right. the name of the game isn't put the guy. on one category a hand you're. ahead against right now and then. continue and put lots of money in that. that's not the name of the game. the name of the game is obviously. looking at the entirety of his range and. asking how it's going to play now what. you're going to notice is we're not. doing so hot. and like i said every. diamond draw you can think of you can. see it it's one combo you see that. little one underneath the six four. suited that little one underneath the. six five suited that's one combo now. let's go up to the ace queen off he. might have limp now that's nine. combos look at that ace jack even the.

One we're blocking that's five now look. at the ace ten that's another seven and. don't forget there's the ace jack suit. it's the ace ten suit it's the ace nine. the all the suited aces that's a lot of. them man it's a lot of them so. as you can see if we're going like oh. yeah he could have draws like this is a. time a person could have a lot of drugs. like i'm trying to give him a lot of. draws here there's no indication he 100. limps. six four of diamonds or something like. that but you'll even see then. it's only about a quarter of the time. he's got all that and that means the. other 75 of the time we are just screwed. and. by the way he gets to hit he gets to see. the river if we call we all catch that. right. the hand's not over. so yeah we're not looking so hot. okay continuing. final note on that hand guys because.

This is a big one like if i could remove. one error from all my. friends and my students who are getting. into micro stakes low stakes because low. stakes casino tournaments things of that. nature. it's. when loose passive players finally get. active that's usually because they had a. pretty big hand just because he had top. pair on the flop doesn't mean you need. to continue this would be the one i. would tell them the most like it's okay. to not. pay off. nut peddlers it's just fine you'll go. home your bed's still going to be there. your bagel's going to taste the same in. the morning your coffee is still going. to be there for you nothing bad is going. to happen and once again i hope you. noticed we needed 30 equity on that turn. to call if you were saying we got a call. there but you didn't know what equity. you needed what you likely had or even.

Just a guesstimate or anything like that. if we didn't even realize like holy. smokes even when we call here he still. gets to see the river if we weren't. thinking through all of that we were we. were just getting out a lot we were just. purely saying i thought my hand was good. on the flop and damn it it should still. be good on the fl. on the turn and that's not how poker. works things change all the time so here. you have ace king villain 11 opens on. you full color red. that is time. go ahead and raise it up. this. person calls. and the board comes ace queen. seven so here would you like to check. our bet. time is up. we check here and villain 11 checks back. turn is the three of diamonds would you. like to check her bet. time is up. go ahead and fire 6.5 k and this person. folds so a couple of notes here i'm. trying to trying to give you some work.

You you were kind enough to show up here. today you were ready to train so i'm. here to let's get the work in i i want. the work to be good you know your time. is valuable so let's get as much as. possible out of it so here i went for a. play i went through a micro sex play i. love. i do this a lot in casino tournaments. here so you check here. and a lot of guys who are just getting. into the game they think a check is like. oh cool he missed and they just. they fire a lot of hands they should. check back here like if you got eights. here with the eight of diamonds. you probably shouldn't be firing. that's a pretty bad board. but a lot of the times you you'll be. playing like a 50 100 casino tournament. or just the three dollar tournament. online you check to someone they go. yippee skippy and they fire and you just.

Jam and then they go uhoh okay cool and. you'll get a lot of weak. bet calls from just crappy aces and. crappy queens essentially the rule is. with micro stakes low six players if. they can put you on a draw they're. calling so when there's a draw out there. you're trying to maximize the money. going in when you have especially a top. pair top kicker now when he checks back. there. that is a lot of crap. that's a lot of because the person. probably would have bet a lot of their. really good aces. and. probably would have bet their draws so. we're not that maybe not but a lot of. them they didn't and remember there's. not many combos to begin with so. when they check back there what is that. well that's a lot of really crappy aces. queens. and. yeah just some. mediocre pairs that didn't take the bank. so. we don't want to bet our hand here so a.

Lot of times people go crap he checked back okay 10k no no no no your hand's easy to play it's right in front his hand their hand is very important to you your hands right in front of you you know what it is what's their hand they just told you it's terrible so we do a bet that works with micro six players we just do the same bet as before before in a lot of the times that will get them and didn't work that time let's go with the ace nine one player raises another player calls let's go full color raise i did some simple exploits but now we're gonna work let's play some streets we go ahead and call here board comes 6 8 10.

Check check and oh excuse me check. are villain 20 on you. you decide to check there villain 19. checks. and. the turn is. the five. what would you like to do here. a few more seconds to check to you here. would you like to check about. time is up. we check this player checks. river is the king of diamonds villain 20. checks it's on you would you like to. check or bet 10 seconds. time is up. here. and this player bets would you like to. fold call or raise 15 seconds. 10. five. zero. all right you're going to fall there all. right guys now what is going on here. i'm testing you. i'm testing you. so often. when you take a test. from a poker coach every play is going. to end up being some. big old bluff. big old value bet some exciting and well. guess what a lot of your work is not. going to be like that. so you might have been thinking to.

Yourself oh i blocked the nut flush ooh. maybe an over bet will do some no not. with micro sticks players they don't. fold. you guys tell me that to begin with they. do not fold. if they will not fold do not bluff. unless it's a specialized good situation. you know it's. not a specialized good situation. it's going to be a multiway board on a. super connected flop. because most likely someone hits. something and they're not going to be. folding let's go again. did i get you to fall for that one. all right let's pick up the tempo i. think you all are ready for it so we. raise our ace jack here. and villain 26 calls villain 28 calls. the board comes queen a2. villain 28 checks to you would you like. to check or bet. time is up. go ahead and check here. film 26 checks back the turn is the six. of hearts. building 28 leads here would you like to.

Full color raise. this one is very close but something i. want you to know about microsix players. they struggle bluffing. they very much struggle bluffing. so. if they got a weaker ace high there they. gotta draw a lot of times they're just. gonna check and see if they can get it. to showdown so you're up against. a stronger range there than you realize. you still got a player. left act behind now the person could be. poking around with whatever. but with one player to act behind. you can let it go and i i wouldn't get. overly involved in these multiway pots. because you see a lot of people lose. their ass off there and most of the time. in multiway pots with weak players. they're going to check too much and let. you realize your equity so when they're. firing you you can let him take it. wouldn't do much it's a small point but.

I wouldn't be doing my job if i didn't. bring it up so here you raise. the king queen. and you get called by a couple of people. the board comes king jack seven villain. 28 checks you here would you like to. check a bet let's do a couple of. multiway pots because that's what you. guys always tell me nobody ever folds to. me well here we go let's drill it. time's up. now did you bet half pot. did you bet. 1100. 1200. why would you do that. what are they going to continue with are. they going to continue with a6 of. diamonds. no that's a terrible board for a high. card so what they're continuing with is. pairs are they going to fold a pair to. pretty much anything probably not i. guess if you go over 2k you might lose. a seven but you're probably not going to. lose a king or a jack. regardless of what you put out there so.

Bet bigger. when there's flush draws and straight. jaws out there they're not folding pairs. that's not what they. signed up to do people play poker. because i hope you're sitting down for. this they like to play poker people. gamble because again i hope you're. sitting down this one might knock your. socks off people gamble because they. like to gamble nobody goes to the casino. to watch other people play blackjack. they came there to gamble themselves. have you ever seen somebody go to the. casino to watch somebody play slots no. they're there to gamble themselves. when they flop their pair the whole. reason they called you preflop is they. want to see if they hit the flop now. that they hit the flop they're not out. of there especially when they can put. you on a draw get a little bit more. money out of there alright so villain 28.

Calls and villain 28 bets on the ace of. hearts turn on you full call or raise on. your marks get set 15 seconds. 10.. cinco. that's it. you're cooked man it changed. it's over. such is life. moving on. whatever. same thing same same thing we were. discussing the last hand when. loose passive players. all of a sudden get very very interested. that's going to be most your competition. at microsex and truthfully that's going. to be a lot of your competition in low. six casino games if you're playing those. as well. if they all of a sudden get. interested you gotta be a little careful. it's okay. just ask yourself some simple questions. don't don't try to stare through the. internet connection and get a soul read. that's not gonna help you most likely. most people when they're playing live. they just go into a fugue state.

Do i think my hand's good do i. is it good. god why didn't i say you know and it's. not really conducive. ask yourself some logical questions does. he do this with x does he do this with. the best hand that should be does he. just up in league king 10. is he just up in lead queen jack. now don't do this with me. i i yeah i know i've seen people do that. once once once. once. the exception proves the rule. you remember it specifically because. it's so odd. other times you just call down here and. the guy has a little flush you forget. all those because it happens so many. times. so. could this be a weaker hand probably but. not. probably not. maybe but probably not. okay is it a. draw all the draws got there queen 10. got there hard drug got there. so that's not good. okay is he turning a pair into a bluff. that. i'd like to see.

That i'd like to see. i've spent over a decade. teaching poker players how to play do. you know how hard it is to teach a guy. how to turn. his hand into a bluff nobody wants to do. it if you do a bluff. and you get caught. you lose a big pot and everybody sees. what happened. if you do a bluff. and it succeeds you win a smaller pot. and nobody gets to know what a badass. you are. that's a negative emotional free role. that most people won't engage in homo. sapiens don't like that it is this just. a high card is this like a. 10 nine of diamonds again do you see how. thin this sounds the more we think about. it. but you'll play with people you'll even. play one two and people just call here. like it's their job. like yeah i got i got the second pair. man it was top pair on the flop they'll. even say that to you afterwards i had.

Top pair on the flop like what does that. have to do with anything the term. brought in the flush rod the term. brought in the stretcher or the term. brought in an overcard this is a. completely different situation. all right let's keep it going a little. bit more work before i get y'all out of. here today. here. would you like to fold color rays. if you just go ahead and fold when the. short stack opens from under the gun. that's totally fine. now me i got a little bit of an ego so i. decided to take a flop. board comes 288 i know a poker player. with an ego hope you were sitting down. checkerbat. that doesn't exist. does it. for the most humble folks in all of. creation we check here villain 45 goes. ahead and bets 1.6 on you full color. raise. that is time. go ahead and call here. the turn is the jack of diamonds would.

You like to check about. that's it. go ahead and check here this player. checks back. river is the king of diamonds. here. would you like. to check or bet. 10 seconds. time is up. very micro stakes play here but here's. the deal. if you wanted to make an argument for. turning your hand into a bluff on this. river that's a pretty crappy board run. out. pretty bad. if you thought your opponent was paw. controlling with some crappy pairs yeah. all right you got a point i'm not saying. that's what i would do i'm saying you. have a point. if. the player was a touch more. sophisticated if they were the type of. person. who for whatever reason you thought i. was gonna fold nines or tens or sevens. or whatever there. if. you thought this person. just a lot of the time you could get. that play over on them you might have a. point. that being said.

You have a lot more. showdown value than you ever realize in. micro six tournaments. and you have a lot less bluff equity. than you realize. one because they check solid hands all. the time and two. if you shove there's no indication. folding. damn near anything. so. take the showdown on this one. and probably you shouldn't play this one. preflop i was multi-tabling a few. of these trying to get hands for you. guys but i thought that was a good. example because what. please don't bluff. people who don't fold. i know. kind of crazy but i can't tell you. how often. i talk to someone who's just making. their life harder for. themselves just like i tried this bluff. and it should have worked how did he. call me with sixes there and it's like. you're the one who tells me they never. fold just don't do that. so okay here we go.

We go ahead and raise with the nines. filling 46 all. and the board comes ace jack eight it's. on you checker bat. that is time. go ahead and check here this player. checks behind. turn is the ace of spades checkerbot. time is up. go ahead and check here don't turn that. and into a bluff. like we just said. and the river is zoinks it's a nine. checkerbat. ten seconds. five. all right that's it. so. if you did want to bet here how much did. you want to bet too. remember they never fooled you that's. what you're always telling me right how. does this make you feel when they fold. shouldn't make you feel anything the guy. probably totally break the flop. that's it that's literally probably like. ten seven of hearts. or excuse me ten seven of hearts that be. a hand that's like six five of hearts. okay so. but it it's it's almost.

If these players don't fold. two things can't be true at once. okay. they these players can't simultaneously. never full to you. and then. they also are the players who with 85. 000 tournament ships. will fold a jack. to your slightly larger. 5 000 chip pot bet. those aren't the same player. so what does this guy have here when it. goes check check check check most likely. he has nothing most likely he has. nothing so your bet's not going to get. called the question is how often. what and he's not going to block don't. check you're expecting in a bluff these. players are loose passive for reasons so. most likely the person has nothing. they're not bluffing with it okay so. we're going to fire a bet here that is. not going to be called the majority of. the time that's fine now how do we get. the most out of the few times we do get.

Called. think about it. does this person have an ace you might. say that's crazy he would have fired. you would have you're the type of person. who if you're still listening to the. sound of my voice. wow i've been talking a while. you love to work on your game you are. grinding give yourself a pat on the back. i legitimately am proud of you. i'm not joking about that. most people say they want to get better. you. actually want to get better. you want to be a better poker player. that question can only be answered with. action and today you are acting so give. yourself a pat on the back but here's. the deal. a lot of these players are not like you. you know you gotta bet an ace. you know. you got a bed mix. but they. i'll tell you how this works i'll tell. you because i've worked with a lot of. different poker players at different.

Buying levels so this board comes out. and they got like the ace 10 that the. cold called with or the ace queen this. board comes out and they go that's kind. of a dangerous board after you check to. him i don't want to bet here and get. check raised so they check back so the. turns and ace and they really like that. and they're like oh. the flush came in he might have the. flush i don't want to bed and have him. race so i'm going to check back crazy to. you and i right because we're trying to. get money from our hands but to them it. makes perfect sense because the worst. thing that ever happened to them once. was they. recreational players hate when they make. a big hand it loses. that feels terrible to them and if we're. being honest that that felt awful to us. at our first home games remember the. first time we had three of a kind and.

Somebody had a flush. we couldn't shut up about it. we told everybody about it oh my god so. i had three of a kind and the guy turns. it over and he had a flush. so we just got to remember they might. still be at that level okay. so does he have an ace here yeah some. small percentage of the time what's he. gonna call with an ace pretty much. anything that's not an overbat. okay how often does he have a jack here. he has a jack here a lot. he has a jack here a lot why that board. not a lovely board to fire a jack on. after we check so he checks for pot. control that's what they they don't even. know what that word they don't know. exactly what that means but that allows. them to get to showdowns which is what. most recreational players are there to. do. they want to see flops because you know. what when the flop's coming out you're.

Not thinking about your boss shooting. you out at work not thinking about the. problems you're having with your kids. not thinking about your financial. difficulties not thinking about your. weight you're not thinking about how. little sleep you're getting you're not. thinking about your 401k you're not. thinking about any of that. you're free. and at the river when everybody gets to. show down in your hand there's another. moment where you're just. weightless. you feel nothing and truthfully. that's what a lot of gamblers play for. that release. from the stress and monotony of the day. so. they try to get to showdown a little too. much they might say to you paw patrol. paw control paw control they they're not. exactly sure what that means. what's that jp morgan quote. a man does everything for two reasons. a good reason and the real reason.

Now. so this person sees a jack on that board. uh kind of coordinated i want to get the. show now okay i'll check tarn. little. okay the ace paired. could i have an ace spade came in all. right i'll check it back again is the. jack going to fold to anything you put. out there no no no. of course not. no no not when he's got 85 000 chips. he's not folding to a 5 000 6 000 chipot. so you go bigger here and you got to. accept this you can't be afraid to not. get value from your hands if that's the. optimal bet that's the optimal bet. and the more you work through hands like. this the more quizzes you do. the more you work at your game the more. automatic that's going to be. villain 48 goes in and raises. it's on you and the big blind. you got to practice you gotta practice. like every day i still practice pretty. much every day 15 years into this okay.

So it's like you were a hitter a major. league baseball you probably always have. to be doing batting practice. always. go ahead and call here with the king. queen off the board comes five six eight. it's on you would you like to check or. bet. time is up. go ahead and check here no 148's been. opening a little bit. at this table it's been raising quite a. bit preflop it's uh villain 48 goes. ahead and see bets on this board what. would you like to do full color raise. five seconds. okay guys. go ahead and raise here to 10.5. and this player calls. the turn is the three of diamonds would. you like to check about 10 seconds. five. that's time. go ahead and check here and this player. checks back. the river is the six of diamonds. do you like to check or bet. 15 seconds. ten. five. that's it. give it up. handy fires. think you're all folding there the real.

Question was did you run a bluff after. you got caught now this is one of very. few bluffs you can run. what's going on here. so what happened. real quick. and if you've seen me explain to check. raise before and you didn't see this one. coming that means we're not committing. to it. focus feedback fix it. when you're studying focus then you're. going to get feedback from me now that. then you got to fix it you got to take. it into the field with we're. interrupting that process somewhere of. purposeful practice if we didn't see. this one and we've seen a check raise. before let's get to it. so we're not going to go super accurate. on this. but what we will show here. so you got your king of hearts queen of. diamonds. and. homeboy ears opening. a lot we've noticed he's opening a lot. all right. cool. good for him. this is money he can do whatever he.

Wants. so okay let's just give him this and. this is actually a pretty controlled. raising range some guys get a little bit. more out of line than this but okay this. is opening this. micro six players low six players. if you check out of the big line and you. guys are heads up and you just completed. preflight a lot of them see bet 100 of. the time. just all the time there's just. very little. balance and that opens the door for one. of very few bluffs you should be doing. versus weaker players so this board came. what was it five six eight rainbow five. of clubs. six of hearts. and my memory isn't what it wants was. eight of spades. let's take a look so what you're going. to notice here is no mate and is 62.45. percent of the time how do i know that. because people like to raise with big. cards not middle cards not low cards.

You'll notice this is what people like. to raise with if this doesn't match with. this they likely didn't hit if these. hands do not match on the flop with. these cards it is very likely they. missed so. what do i mean by that so what happened. here. if i can figure out how to operate a. computer. jeez come on man. okay so we risked. we risked. 10 10.5 to win 21.7. so. using. our super high tech. calculator here. our bet as a complete bluff needs to. work about 48 of the time meaning. villain 48 here. needs to defend with 52 of their hands. they must call a raise with 52 of these. hands. that's going to be mighty difficult for. him to do. because. let's just see how often he has any pair. any draw. and i mean a real draw like an. openended stretcher well he only has. that about 34.5 percent of the time he's. breaking. this board.

Almost twothirds of the time. okay we'll throw in the gut shots all. right give him some gut shots he wants. to defend with he's still only defending. 43 of the time. which means he's def he's folding 57. percent of the time and by the way once. he calls us we have a lot of equity. because what's he going to call with. mostly it's going to be his eights sixes. and fives. do a lot of those have a queen and king. or queen in their hand no our outs are. pretty clean. they probably didn't raise with. king five off or queen six suited. even if he's a little wild those are. those are pretty far out there. on this one as you can see. i mean it's not impossible it's just not. as likely whereas if we check ray's. bluff. with an ace high it's really likely he. has all the ace eights a6's ace five at. least the suited combination so we do a.

Bluff now here's the thing the whole. reason we do this bluff. is we think. he opens too many hands he see bets with. all of them and he only continues with a. pair are an excellent draw great. once he gets through that. he has an excellent draw or he has a. pair he's probably not going to fold so. we don't wanna just go cowabunga dude. and get rid of all of our money here we. had a angle we took it it didn't work. and i wanna i know some of you guys have. always told me i don't like it when i'm. learning from poker trainers and. everything in their hands works just. perfect everything goes perfect that's. not how my games work they're messy. people are loud people are a lot. annoying there's slots going off in the. background and dale just spilled his. beer on the felt again oh my god no and. you're right no my games are messy too.

They're always messy so this is a really. good lesson as you can see there's a. very good logical reason we went for. that bluff there the 48 was getting a. little live he was getting in there we. we took the fight back to him we had a. lot of outs on the term most likely we. missed all of them he passed the test he. wins good luck to him all right. continuing. all right you got the ace king villain. 12 opens. it's not a drawing hand guys raise it up. villain 12 calls. board comes queen 3 2 it's been checked. to you here here would you like to check. her back. it's been checked to you here yep. checking. check back. turn is the jack of diamonds villain 12. checks to you. you want to check a bet. cinco secondo. i think i said that right. go ahead and check here. the river. is the ace of clubs it's been checked to. you here you like to check about.

That is time. if you did want to bet here how much did. you want to bet. time's up. we're gonna go ahead and bet 1.5 and. this player folds. okay guys what's going on here. we're putting together a lot of. fundamentals again. so remember you always have more. showdown value in microsix tournaments. than you realize and you have a lot less. bluff equity than you realize because. they don't like default. and what that means is the reason that's. true for both of those is let's say this. guy was goofing off with an acetate off. not inconceivable at micro stakes let's. say we three bet him and he decides to. call with aced off. not inconceivable well he wants to get. the showdown too so you guys will likely. just get to down here a lot of the time. now. this. board. is this person after it goes check check. on the flop are they going to lead a lot.

Of the queens on the turn most likely. it's a pretty good. how about the jacks maybe they check. some of them. but once they check the third time on. the river they don't love their hand. they probably would have let an ace at. this juncture. they probably would have better queen on. the turn so. we're looking at a jack or worse a lot. of the time this is a lot of times you. know six is seven so just piddly nothing. bad pair. and once a while it's a paw controlled. pair that's confusing but. remember our hands easy place right in. front of us okay don't go oh my god i. hit my hand 5k now there are situations. that i tried to show you some of the. situations where big bet was appropriate. this one though. pretty damn likely he doesn't have much. anything so we do go for a small bat. right here you got the queens. and.

A little bit deeper in micro6 one this. was. trying to play some tournaments for you. guys this is the one i cashed i believe. yeah. not for a whole heap of chips but anyway. villain58 oh excuse me he limps in here. 58 limps in my bad sorry. misread it i looked at villain 55 and. thought that was the big one so you got. a limp. would you like to do here. oh clearly you're going to raise it up. you got to get this guy involved as much. as possible. and you will see a lot of weird limping. in micro six events even late. because remember these are home game. players these are players playing for. fun now it's been checked to you here. here would you like to check them out. you have more showdown value than you. ever realize you do not need to turn. hands into bluffs if they are weaker. than you they will often just check it.

Down and let you see more cards. they sure as hell are never folding. anything they hit on that board most of. what that board hit it's not good for. you so he checks again do you on the. turn you want to check her bet 10. seconds. five. that's it. check it again. the river is the seven of clubs villain. 58 checks you here would you like to. check or bet. time is up. go ahead and bat. come on guys you know when your hand is. good. wouldn't he have let an ace on the turn. a lot of the time. or at least on the river. wouldn't he have maybe even fired again. fired just once with the king. a flush for sure. so we go ahead and we get that little. value bet in there and he calls so. that's one of the other things. and it comes right back to let's just go. discuss the fundamentals one more time. some exploits. some plays you can use versus micro.

Stakes players and this will work a lot. of the times in your local casino let's. go over all of it. that was a lot that last hand referred. to when they flop pairs they can't fold. so bat big now in that hand you saw they. can't fold damn near anything he called. us probably with very little but you see. they can't even fold that so we didn't. bet big but we bet something we always. got to be trying to get value from these. players because they can't fold now. let's go over the five exploits real. quick that we discussed in this video so. you can just. you can just look at this write it down. and be good to go before you go to your. session remember you got to try to apply. everything we discuss in these videos. you can't learn to swim by reading a. book you got to get in there and fight. it out yourself and learn so limp jam.

2030 x more from the small blood you get. to do that a lot in micro stakes events. because people just want to gamble they. just want to raise they just want to. fire and also jam on that note jam 14 to. 22 xx more with big hands these players. love to gamble give them that. opportunity to go bust let them get it. in all right i want to go watch netflix. with the family great i'll shove my 19x. with the queens you can call with your. ace 8 suited or your jack 7 diamonds or. whatever it is and we'll run it and if. you beat me good luck to you sir or. ma'am raise weeks small donk leads. frequently also i see too many of you. guys just call all the time versus these. doc leads but you got to understand when. micros stakes players do that they're. likely bluffs they are. testing the water they're seeing what. happens they got a really crappy pair.

That they want to quote find out where. they're at with end quote or they just. got nothing and they're hoping this will. get you to give them some cheap cards or. just. fold because you're playing too many. tables do not give into it now when they. flop pairs they can't fold so bet big we. discuss that extensively especially on. boards where it's very coordinated and. it's unlikely anyone's just going to be. calling you with a bare high card if. they got a pair they're not folding. regardless of what you put out there. because it's all funny money to them. it's a very low buying it's fun so bet. big and again guys when loose passive. players start bombing the pot. get the hell out of there they most. likely have it alright guys that's my. time for today i hope you enjoyed this. one take care i'll see you for the next.

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