Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 202: Small Mistakes Leading to Larger Losses

This week Bart discusses the small mistakes that can lead to a larger losing session.

In this week's episode Bart discusses several different hands that he played all against winning players. How did he change up his lines against these stronger opponents and how would he have played those spots differently against weaker ones?

In this week's episode Bart discusses volatility in poker and why your short term results are irrelevant. He speaks about his own mental approach to short term downswings.

In this week's episode Bart breaks down a horrible session where nothing went his way. He examines why he made certain plays and how for the most part they didn't work out for the best. How do you keep your head in the game?

On this week's episode Bart opens the show discussing a wild 5/5/10 PLO game that he sat in to begin his session played at Encore Boston Harbor.

In this week's episode Bart discusses hands where opponents are entirely "unknowns". What did he learn through showdowns? Then he discusses a huge bluff against the right type of "known" player and how that led to a nitty check back against the same villain.

On this week's episode Bart talks about the importance of noticing the position of the calling player when double barreling the turn multiway. How does this affect our overall hand reading process?

(0:00) Introduction(1:00) Building a Winning Table Image(3:00) Encore Boston: Game Setup and Stakes(6:00) Hand #1 – The Royal Draw Turns Divine(11:00) Analyzing the Flush and Value TargetingOn this week's episode Bart talks about how he leveraged a god like image at a recent 2/5/10 session allowing himself to bluff effectively and win many non showdown hands.

In this week's podcast Bart takes a look at three unbelievable no limit hands that came about in a 2/5 cash game that ran around a special tournament. He speaks about the "poor" ability of tournament players that might play cash games around such tournaments and tries to get into the head of some of his opponents.

Bart talks about the importance of game selection in this week's episode as he moves from a "dead" 2/5 NL game to 2/2 and then 5/5/10 PLO only to see multiple $5,000 swings in the same session.