Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 127: How to Think About Mega Multiway Spots

CLP coach Nate Schmitt (N8Ball on Discord) covers learning how to continue on different flop textures after we 3 bet from OOP.

This week Bart leads the show off with a financial discussion and then explains why your low stakes live poker approach should be the opposite to your financial approach in life.

In this week's episode Bart covers "mega multiway" spots that can sometimes be typical in loose live games at $2-$5 and below. How should we approach these spots if we are the field caller? How should we approach these spots as the preflop raiser? How does the multiway nature of a hand change the way that we should think about certain situations?

This week Bart plays a full $5-$10 session at the Encore Boston Harbor and gets himself into a very difficult spot flopping top and bottom out of the big blind. The hand begs the question, "How competent is your opponent, where you should be making an exploitable fold?

This week Bart discusses his afternoon with Doug Polk at a Red Sox game and then delves into some advantage play dealing with Ultimate Texas Hold'em.

This week Bart goes over situations where he thinks that it is correct to give up on triple barrel bluffs. In most of these spots it is important to recognize board texture, especially on rainbow boards, and realize that an opponents' range becomes much more compact after calling an overbet on the turn.

This week Nate (N8Ball on CLP Discord) take's over the reigns of the CLP podcast and discusses all about cold calls.

This week Bart decides to turn aggression up an extra notch post flop.

Bart takes a look at interesting hands that he played at $2/$5 NL at the Encore Boston Harbor where he explains how a spot was impossible to bluff catch while at the same time a great spot to bluff. He also discusses why you are often "forced" to lead the river when you complete your draw at the mid to low stakes of live No Limit Hold'em.

Bart examines some of the most common winning and losing plays at the low stakes of live NL by giving hand examples from recent sessions that he played at $1/$3 $500 cap and $2/$5 $1000 cap.