Tactical Tuesday Free Poker Training Video: Facing Unexpected Sizings

On this week’s episode, Coach Brad and Jon discuss overbetting the river and go over two of Jon’s hands as examples.

On this week’s episode, Coach Brad and Jon take a look at two recent hands that Jon played at $5/$10 where Jon made an adjustment on the river based on his opponents sizing on the turn.

On this week’s episode Coach Brad and Jon break down two hands where Jon made very strong hands and wasn’t sure whether he could get more value by calling and trapping or raising immediately.

On today’s episode, Coach Brad and Jon each bring in a hand where they bet a small size with a strong value hand in an attempt to induce a raise from villain. Tune in to find out which situations call for an induction bet and how Brad and Jon’s attempts worked out.

You’ve gotten to the river with a hand that has to bluff in order to win the pot.

How do you go about deciding the best size with which to bluff? Should you go big, medium, or small? Should you use the same size in every situation?

Find out how Coach Brad thinks through river bluff sizing on today’s episode!

This week’s episode is inspired by a recent tweet from Coach Brad regarding the large open sizes that are commonly used in low stakes live cash games. Why do players at $1/$2 regularly open to 7 or 8 big blinds? Is there a strategic reason to open so large? If 7x-8x is too large, what size should you be opening to? Coach Brad answers all