Episodes

2d ago

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

Dec 12

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?

Nov 28

I n 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.

Nov 21

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?

Nov 7

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.

Oct 31

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.

Oct 24

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?

Oct 17

(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 Targeting On 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.

Oct 10

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.

Oct 3

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.

Sep 26

In this week's episode Bart discusses some line adjustments that he made when playing with a "mix" of good and bad players at $2/$5 $1k cap NL.

Sep 12

This week Bart discusses when it is prudent to check back the turn when you pick up a big draw instead of choosing to semi-bluff.

Sep 5

In this week's episode Bart discusses a session where he was forced to make big time call downs.

Aug 29

Bart reviews his Day 2 exit and the 2025 WSOP Main Event. Even though this episode discusses tournament play he recommends that cash game players not skip the episode

Aug 22

Bart discusses when and why to use preemptive betting

Aug 15

Bart breaks down one of the biggest hero folds that he has made in his career breaking down the math he used in the moment.

Aug 8

In this week's episode Bart discusses what he calls the "CTC" matrix -- counting combos, evaluating board texture and considering configuration in NL cash hands played at the WSOP at the Paris in Las Vegas.

Aug 1

Bart gives a recap of his first week at the 2025 WSOP then talks about a session of $3/$5 $1000 cap played at the Horseshoe in Las Vegas versus a table full of nits.

Jul 25

On Part 2 of 2 on this week's show Bart recaps hands from an insane super session at 2/5 where he won $3000 over the course of six hours.

Jul 18

On Part 1 of 2 on this week's show Bart starts covers seven hands from an insane super session at 2/5 where he won $3000 over the course of six hours.

Jul 11

In this week's episode, Bart discusses a clump of interesting hands involving donk leads from a recent session at the Encore Boston Harbor.

Jul 4

On this week's episode Bart discusses turn decisions. He speaks about how soft the game was at the Encore and how he had total control over the table leading to a possible super session.

Jun 27

This week Bart takes a look at some close turn spots dealing with barreling. He explains his approach to betting the turn as a double barrel leading to tripling off and also discusses when its best to some time pull back the reigns.

Jun 20

In this week's episode Bart examines a few limped pots and explains his approach to certain situations.

Jun 13

Part 2 of a detailed hand review from a recent $2/$5 $1k cap table at Encore Boston Harbor where Bart dissects his own mistakes bringing out the detail that affects winrate.

Jun 6

Part 1 of a detailed hand review from a recent $2/$5 $1k cap table at Encore Boston Harbor where Bart dissects his own mistakes bringing out the detail that affects winrate. The lineup was a mix of good and bad players which created interesting decisions.

May 30

On this week's episode Bart discusses a golden opportunity for players to practice their live game by playing online

May 23

In this week's episode Bart gets into his hands at a recent $2/$5 NL game at Encore Boston Harbor where he deconstructs his thoughts on proper river bet sizing for value.

May 16

This week Bart reviews a recent large winning session where he was able to maximum value in certain spots. However, he still is thinking about the last hand where he feels his opponent effectively leveraged his stack size against him. He also covers a text book delayed double barrel example.

May 9

This week Bart discusses a session where several live "misclicks" lead to some interesting situations. He also dives into some major exploits that can be made against typical live players.

May 2

Bart discusses a recent session of $2/$5/$10 where he played multiple 4bet pots leading to very small SPRs post flop.

Apr 25

This week Bart gets into his recent $2/$5 session and speaks of some big opponent errors with regards to turn play.

Apr 18

Bart gives his take on the best NLHE tournaments to play at the WSOP

Apr 11

Bart discusses a hybrid session of 1/3 and 2/5 NLHE played during the morning. It was the earliest cash session that he started in his career.

Apr 4

This week Bart discusses several hands where he thought it was correct to fold top pair, and also talks about OMC considerations when those types of players are in the lineup

Mar 28

Bart discusses how a single showdown might make you play a subsequent hand in a different manner especially against an unknown.

Mar 21

Bart breaks down a hand from a 5/5 PLO session

Mar 14

On this week's podcast get, into Bart's mind as he "works through" some of the more interesting spots from a recent $2/$5 NL cash game at the Encore Boston Harbor.

Mar 7

Bart discusses the mind games that he sometimes goes through when playing with opponents that are CLP subscribers or other players that might know him. He makes a rare play in the first hand then says that he never would never have taken that line if he had known about the last hand. He also briefly touches on high hand and bad beat jackpot promotions and how they affect your winrate.

Feb 28

This week Bart takes a look at some wet board runouts and discusses when you should turn a hand as good as top pair in to a bluff on such runouts.

Feb 21

Bart covers a selection of hands from a Christmas weekend session played at $5/$10 $2k cap.

Feb 14

Bart discusses the perils of trying to run a multi street bluff with the stiff nut suit when the front door flush comes in. He describes examples of what he called the polarity paradox in live poker.

Feb 7

This week Bart plays a non standard session at $2/$5 3betting almost every possible VPIPed hand

Jan 31

In this week's episode Bart discusses the importance of not out leveling yourself and giving your opponents too much credit. He does this through a hand history where it was very important to examine the details of a given configuration.

Jan 24

This week bart takes a look at a few situations that involve what he calls "combo bets" and goes over a hand at the end of the podcast that demonstrates a key concept that will increase your winrate in live poker.

Jan 17

Bart takes a look at some close check raise river lines for value. He also discusses other spots dealing with thin value and bet sizing tells.

Jan 10

Bart continues a review of a session where he played a mix of stakes and in this episode he speaks a lot on multiway theory

Jan 3

This week Bart cover a clump of hands where he plays 2/2 PLO, 2/5 NLHE and 5/10NLHE. He was gifted a large pot at 5/10 when his opponent slowplayed his hand to death then made a huge mistake trying to get an opponent off of a chop, illogically.

Dec 27, 2024

This week Bart reviews a clump of hands played from a rare Saturday afternoon session at the Encore in Boston Harbor. In this session he encounters several situations which required a bit of creativity in order to get the maximum value against opponents with smaller stacks.

Dec 20, 2024

This week Bart takes a look at some "fishing exploits" that he made at a recent 5-10-20NL game played at the Encore Boston Harbor where most of the lineup were pros but with one big fish at the table. He discusses how he played differently against this fish and how he might take different lines vs the pros.

Dec 13, 2024

This week Bart takes a look at some interesting math spots, mostly dealing with preflop, at 100 big blind stack depths. He found himself playing $5-$10-$20 NL the the Encore Boston Harbor this week where the game has a $2000 max buy-in.

Dec 6, 2024

This week Bart takes a look at interesting hands recently played where the board was paired or contained trips.

Nov 29, 2024

In this week's episode Bart discusses how to play hands when you miss.

Nov 22, 2024

Bart reviews a few PLO hands that he recently played and then discusses situations where you should pull back and not bet thinly or as a bluff.

Nov 8, 2024

On this week's episode Bart covers some bizarre situations that he encountered in a recent $2/$5 NL session at Encore Boston Harbor.

Oct 25, 2024

This week breaks down hands where he found thin value-- but the critical part of the hands had to do with bet sizing which he found through proper hand reading.

Oct 18, 2024

In this week's episode Bart discusses big blind play in limped pots. He covers a situation where he check raised a draw in a limped pot leading to a thin value situation.

Oct 11, 2024

On this week's episode Bart reviews some key hands from a poor session recently played at the $2/$5 $1000 cap game at the Encore Boston Harbor. He talks through his decisions, describes his mistakes and also discusses what he learned from his own session notes.

Oct 4, 2024

On this week's episode Bart discusses his strategy on sometimes showing your hand to gain extra EV at the table. How might showing your hand effect the way that you might play other hands in the short term?

Sep 27, 2024

Bart reviews some of the best hands from a $2/$5 session that he played on the same day as the recording. He is dealt an unbelievable amount of high pairs across several hours leading to interesting preflop and post flop discussion.

Sep 20, 2024

Strategies for playing with a smaller stack at the next stake level.

Sep 13, 2024

Bart continues his review of a $2/$5 session played at the Encore Boston Harbor where he faced interesting spots against what he deemed to be a rare opponent (a battler at $2/$5).

Sep 6, 2024

Learn how to navigate situations and win more money. Featuring Turn Donks, River block bets, bluff catching and turning bluff catchers into bluffs.

Aug 30, 2024

Bart plays a $2/$5 NL Hold'em session where he battled it out with a younger asian opponent. 0:00 Intro and Announcements

Aug 23, 2024

On this week's episode Bart reviews a big $6000 win at a recent $5-$10 session and discusses the influence of bad (fishy) players in a game.

Aug 16, 2024

Bart reviews interesting hands from his 2024 WSOP Main Event.

Aug 9, 2024

This week Bart logs a short $1-$3 $500 max buy in session at a local cardroom and speaks about the odd SPR situations that occurred due to the game being often straddled and the restricted buy in structure.

Aug 2, 2024

In this episode Bart covers interesting hands played across all three flights of this year's (2024) $1500 Millionaire Maker at the WSOP.

Jul 26, 2024

In this week's episode Bart gives a 2024 WSOP trip report and discusses his results from the previous two weeks. He then breaks down interesting hands from a recent $5/$10/$20 NL session that he played in the high limit Kings Lounge.

Jul 19, 2024

This week CLP coach Nate Schmitt (N8Ball) takes over the podcast to discuss advanced strategies to use while playing as the preflop caller. Learn proper bluffs from both in and out of position.

Jul 12, 2024

In Part 2 of this two part episode Bart reviews a recent "super session" where he won nearly 1000 big blinds of the course of a short 4.5 hour afternoon. He discusses why having a winning image will increase your winrate when playing such a session and breaks down the final portion of hands from his big win.

Jul 5, 2024

In Part 1 of this two part episode Bart reviews a recent "super session" where he won nearly 1000 big blinds of the course of a short 4.5 hour afternoon. He discusses why having a winning image will increase your winrate when playing such a session and starts to break down some of the more memorable hands from his big win.

Jun 28, 2024

This week Bart breaks down the math of having too many for profit players in a single game and how that effects overall winrate when factored in with the rake. In his session there was a rare situation where 5-6 winning 5/10 players were grinding it all out waiting for a new 5/10 game to start, something that never happened.

Jun 21, 2024

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

Jun 14, 2024

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.

Jun 7, 2024

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?

May 31, 2024

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?

May 24, 2024

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.

May 17, 2024

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.

May 10, 2024

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

May 3, 2024

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

Apr 26, 2024

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.

Apr 19, 2024

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.

Apr 12, 2024

This week Bart takes a look at four bluffs that he ran in a recent $2/$5 session. He makes note of what is important when structuring good bluffs at the mid to low stakes of live NL and also discusses the concept of incentive as it relates to entering a pot.

Apr 5, 2024

This week Bart covers a 2/5 NL session from Encore Boston Harbor where he starts stuck about $2300 in the first few hours and was able to claw his way back to almost even.

Mar 29, 2024

This week Bart reviews the most interesting hands that he played from a recent session at $5/$10 $2000 max buy in at the Encore in Boston.

Mar 22, 2024

This week Bart takes a look at later street raises at the mid to smaller stakes of live No Limit Hold'em? How do we determine whether or not we should continue with strong hands like top pair and overpairs when we are raised on a later street post flop?

Mar 15, 2024

This week Bart discusses his approach to value bet sizing at the smaller stakes levels of live no limit and discusses why you should sometimes strive to keep weaker players involved in the pot on early streets.

Mar 8, 2024

This week Bart reviews some cusp cbet bluffing spots multiway and discusses how he uses "gameflow" as another factor in his decision on whether or not to make a continuation bet as a bluff.

Mar 1, 2024

In this week's episode Bart plays several hands where he defends to a preflop three bet in position.

Feb 23, 2024

How can you improve your winrate through using better techniques from the blinds? Bart covers his approach to blind play with lessons and hand examples.

Feb 16, 2024

Bart covers annoying situations vs short stackers in a review of select hands for a $2-$5 $1k cap session from Encore Boston Harbor.

Feb 9, 2024

Nate takes over the reigns of the podcast this week and gives some of his secrets on how to boost your winrate

Feb 2, 2024

Bart delves into a 2/5 hand played from MikeG at Parx involving multiway cbetting as well as a top pair board pairing river.

Jan 26, 2024

This is part two of a two part review episode where Bart covers some interesting spots in a recent $2/$5 half NL half PLO session from Chasers in New Hampshire. He discusses some mistakes that he made in reading hands and some small bet sizing errors that he wasn't happy with in his NL hands.

Jan 19, 2024

This is part one of a two part review episode where Bart covers some interesting spots in a recent $2/$5 half NL half PLO session from Chasers in New Hampshire. He discusses some equity discoveries that he made in PLO hands and also speaks on how multiway setups in PLO differ from NL and what we can learn from PLO in our own NL game.

Jan 12, 2024

This week Bart discusses why it is so imperative to make thin value bets if you want to increase your winrate in live poker. He breaks down the most common situations where typical players miss river value.

Jan 5, 2024

The premiere episode of the Race to the Five Dollar Blind podcast. MikeG speaks a bit about his poker background, his transition from limit to No Limit games and reiterates some simple concepts that made his journey possible as he moved up in stakes.

Dec 29, 2023

Part 3 of a "Micro Stakes" live session review. Bart put in a long session in the $1-$3NL, $500 cap streets at Chasers in New Hampshire and covers every single hand from the eight hour session.

Dec 22, 2023

Part 2 of a "Micro Stakes" live session review. Bart put in a long session in the $1-$3NL, $500 cap streets at Chasers in New Hampshire and covers every single hand from the eight hour session.

Dec 15, 2023

Part 1 of a "Micro Stakes" live session review. Bart put in a long session in the $1-$3NL, $500 cap streets at Chasers in New Hampshire.

Dec 8, 2023

This week Bart breaks down NL hands giving his perspective on what he would have done if other cards had fallen, different from what actually came. He explains why this is a good technique to increase your hand reading skills.

Dec 1, 2023

Bart examines hands this week dealing with many small stakes exploits in practice. He also discusses when to raise post flop as the preflop raiser for value when donked into by an opponent out of position both in multiway and headsup scenarios

Nov 24, 2023

This week Bart discusses the concept of "one thirding the turn" which relates to betting one third of the pot, in position when checked to on blank turn cards. He has discussed this concept before using the term "variable turn sizing". What turn cards are truly bricks in given situations and why should we be betting the turn for 1/3rd sizing with three different classes of hands?

Nov 17, 2023

Bart reviews his recent trip to the Hustler Casino where he got mixed up with "Sia the Bot" in some big spots from Hustler Casino Live".

Nov 10, 2023

This week Bart reviews a low takes session of $1-$3 $500 cap buy in. The session was bizarre in that he picked up a lot of big hands but none went to showdown. He discusses how this "aggressive" non showdown image might effect the way that you should play.

Nov 3, 2023

This week Bart discusses the proper way to think about winrate in NL cash games and also touches on game section.

Oct 27, 2023

This week Bart discusses proper considerations of betting for value on the turn when top pair pairs, making trips and the Hero does not have trips.

Oct 20, 2023

This week Bart reviews an interesting hand played after his recent visit to Hustler Casino Live which brings up the topic of proper action after semi bluffing a large draw from out of position on the flop only to have a (bad) board pairing turn come in on the turn.

Oct 13, 2023

This is part 2 of a two part episode where Bart reviews some interesting low stakes spots taken from a session played on a Tuesday afternoon at the Encore's $2/$5 $1000 max buy-in game

Oct 6, 2023

This is part 1 of a two part episode where Bart reviews some interesting low stakes spots taken from a session played on a Tuesday afternoon at the Encore's $2/$5 $1000 max buy-in game.

Sep 29, 2023

This week Bart is "forced" to play all 5/10/20 PLO at Chasers because the half half game did not go off. He gives his take on playing PLO vs NL for long term profitability.

Sep 22, 2023

This week Bart reviews a terrible session at the $5/$10/$20 half half game at Chasers, discusses his bad day and overall bad table image and examines how he "shakes it off."

Sep 15, 2023

This week Bart takes a look at some of the other hands of note that he played at a recent $5-$10 NL session at the Twin River Casino in Providence RI.

Sep 8, 2023

Nate Schmitt makes his debut on the CLP Podcast discussing how to continue in a hand after three betting in position.

Sep 1, 2023

Bart covers his approach to handreading through the use of logic and conditional "what if" situations. He covers a hand where assumptions were so strong that it led to a very extreme river situation.

Aug 25, 2023

This week Bart takes a look at a few key hands from his last session where he feels his thought "prejudice" got in the way of the best way to play the hand.

Aug 18, 2023

Bart reviews a recent $5-$10-$20 HA session at Chasers where some of the "PLO" only players were playing NL like it was "straight out of 2006". Some PLO concepts are covered as well as hand reading and value maximization.

Aug 11, 2023

Bart reviews the most interesting hands that he played from the 2023 WSOP $10,000 buy-in Main Event. He ended up falling 500 short of the money getting knocked out just before dinner on Day 3.

Aug 4, 2023

Part 2 of the hand review from a 5-10-20 HA session from Chasers.

Jul 28, 2023

Bart breaks down a 5-10-20 recent session where the game is played half PLO and half NL Holdem from Chasers Card Room in New Hampshire. Part 1 of 2.

Jul 21, 2023

Bart continues with Part 2 of bluffing as the preflop caller diving into playing from both in and out of position.

Jul 14, 2023

Bart introduces the topic of bluffing as the preflop caller in lower stakes live NL games.

Jul 7, 2023

Bart covers some situations where he went super thin for value from a recently played session at the Hustler Casino playing 5-5-10-20 from the million dollar weekend in Los Angeles.

Jun 30, 2023

Bart reviews the big Rampage vs Handz hand and brings in a hand of his own played from the Hustler at 5-5-10 breaking down his approach on when to "check evaluate the river".

Jun 23, 2023

This week Bart takes a look at the "same bet" CLP concept as it relates to hand reading through a subscriber submitted hand.

Jun 16, 2023

This week Bart reviews a Sunday night $5-5-$10 $1000 max buy in session played at Chasers in New Hampshire, where most of the table was intoxicated.

Jun 9, 2023

This week Bart covers the major things to consider when faced with the decision of betting or checking back the turn for value as the preflop raiser.

Jun 2, 2023

This week Bart takes a look at newer school over-betting theory as it relates to typical live play.

May 26, 2023

This week Bart covers when and why you should be flat calling to raises (not 3 betting) when on the button. Can we and should we be flat calling with stronger hands that we normally 3 bet?

May 19, 2023

Bart discusses his approach to cultivating a winning image at the table.

May 12, 2023

A shotgun review of Bart's recent Sunday session of $5/$10 $2000 cap NL Hold'em from Chasers in New Hampshire.

May 5, 2023

This week Bart goes over his approach to post flop check raises. Most of the time we should making these plays for value at the lower stakes but there are situations to semi-bluff as well. What are the situations that warrant a check raise post flop for value and sometimes as a bluff?

Apr 13, 2023

Bart interviews a CLP subscriber about an incident where he was robbed after leaving a card room in Florida. Bart gives his tips as to what you can do to protect yourself from such situations and best standards and practices in leaving the casino if you are a regular live poker player.

Apr 6, 2023

Bart takes a deep dive into the art of playing limped pots. In live poker, at the $2/$5 blind level and below, limped pots are quite common.

Mar 19, 2023

Bart reviews many different spots where he went very thin for value. He explains why going for thin value in NLHE cash games is so important.

Mar 5, 2023

Bart discusses his approach to draws. When should you pay a draw aggressively? When should you play one passively? How does overall fold equity come into the equation?

Feb 18, 2023

Bart begins a discussion of donk betting the flop. When should we lead out into the preflop raiser and why?

Jan 21, 2023

This is the story from January of 2016 of three Americans being put in local jail in Nassau, Bahamas after not claiming over $10,000 in cash on their way out of the country.

Jan 18, 2023

Bart takes a look at the CLP concept of Depolarization. Why is it so important in live NL Hold'em cash games?

Jan 11, 2023

06:58 -- What is 5th Street Chicken? 16:52 — Out of Position #1 Set of 3s 28:11 — Out of Position #2 AJ as top and bottom 34:52 — In Position #1 AJ 43:39 — In Position #2 9h 8h flush 53:00 — Check folding A3s as top and bottom

Dec 21, 2022

This week Bart examines "donk bets". What does a donk bet usually mean when your opponent leads into you from out of position with different bet sizings and how should we respond?

Nov 28, 2022

In this podcast sample, Bart continues concludes his approach to cbet bluffing different board textures in single raised pots based upon different hand classes.

Nov 20, 2022

In this podcast sample, Bart continues discussing his approach to cbet bluffing different board textures in single raised pots based upon different hand classes.

Nov 16, 2022

In this sample of the first of a multi part episode series Bart examines how you should properly structure your cbets in single raised pots, with a concentration on Cbet bluffing. He takes a look at HU and multiway scenarios, different board textures and different class holdings.

Oct 14, 2022

This week Bart goes over a selection of hands where he gives the listener an insight into the first thing that he thinks about postflop.

Oct 7, 2022

Bart reviews the controversial incident between Robbi Jade Lew and Garrett Adelstein from last week on the Hustler Casino Live! broadcast. Bart was the live commentator and called the hand as it happened, live.

Sep 26, 2022

Bart reviews some hands from a shotgun session played at $2-$5 at Chasers Card Room in New Hampshire and gives his takeaways over each little spot.

Sep 16, 2022

Taken from 2018, Bart describes the chaotic situation that occurred on Live at the Bike when a player originally agreed to run the board two times with less than 5% equity then changed his decision to running it one time and won the entire pot.

Sep 4, 2022

This week Bart breaks down what an actual "blank" is in a poker hand and why so many players have such bad hand recall.

Aug 20, 2022

Bart reviews a recent session at his new home club, Chasers, in Salem, New Hampshire where he derives poker concepts and explains them before the review of each hand. Part 2 of 2.

Aug 12, 2022

Bart reviews a recent session at his new home club, Chasers in Salem New Hampshire where he derives poker concepts and explains them before the review of each hand.

Aug 5, 2022

Barts examines why it is so disadvantageous to be in the middle and out of position in single raised and 3 bet pots.

Jul 29, 2022

Bart wraps up the review of his 2022 WSOP Main Event run resulting in a $17,000 cash.

Jul 22, 2022

Bart covers some of his interesting Day 3 hands from the 2022 WSO Main event that bring up a lot of complex cash game concepts.

Jul 18, 2022

Bart discusses his post Main Event bout with COVID and reviews some key hands played at the $10,000 WSOP Main Event from day 2.

Jul 7, 2022

Bart discusses some of the more interesting hands played from day 1 of the 2022 Main Event at the WSOP.

Jun 30, 2022

Bart discusses the intricacies of play overpairs in multiway pots, postflop.

Jun 24, 2022

Bart discusses situations to get max value in bet sizing with two pair.

Jun 17, 2022

Bart goes over his performance during the middle of the 2022 WSOP including his entries into the $10k O8 and Monster Stack tournaments and also discusses a hand that demonstrates polarity in small pots.

Jun 2, 2022

Bart reviews a few hands from his hellish session on Hustler Casino Live! where there we many extreme multiway pots.

May 19, 2022

Bart covers some important poker checklists that will help you become a more winning player.

May 12, 2022

Bart reviews some frustrating hands from his recent appearance on Hustler Casino Live, a $25-$50-$100 No Limit Hold'em cash game.

May 5, 2022

Bart covers a hand where he thinks he made a major blunder vs Nick Vertucci from last week's $25-$50-$100 NL cash game on Hustler Casino Live.

Apr 29, 2022

Bart Hanson examines the spots that will win you the most amount of money in live NL Hold'em cash games.

Apr 23, 2022

Bart rants about players that walk away from the table when it's not full in raked games and then discusses what should be your approach to turn double barreling as the preflop raiser in single raised pots vs the BB.

Apr 15, 2022

Bart reviews some of his more interesting hands on his first appearance on Hustler Casino Live!

Mar 31, 2022

This week Bart discusses playing paired boards and how to counter your opponent barreling you on them.

Mar 25, 2022

Bart takes a look at the power of bluffing straightening boards when you have more strong hands in a certain situation than the tight range of the preflop raiser.

Mar 17, 2022

Bart dives into Part 2 of an old school CrushLivePoker shotgun episode, this time played at a low stakes Texas Card House game.

Mar 11, 2022

Bart dives into Part 1 of an old school CrushLivePoker shotgun episode, this time played at a low stakes Texas Card House game.

Mar 3, 2022

Barts gives his thoughts on the best events to play at the 2022 WSOP and how to minimize your time in line while there.

Feb 24, 2022

This week Bart goes over a poorly played hand from his brief session at the Hustler Casino's $5/$5 game before he went on to do the Hustler Casino Live! commentary. Hands: 1. 5-5-$10 NL $1k effective +1 t $35 Hero in MP1 Qd Jd 3! to $115, call. Pot: $230 FLOP: 9d 5h 4c . x /$100 call. $430 TURN: 6h x/x RIVER: 3s x and should I bet? 2. 5-5 NL at Hustler $1,000 Effective One limp +1, I open Th 8h MP1 to $30.. SB to 3! to $90. Fold I call. POT: $190 FLOP: 7s 5s 4c .. SB bets $75, I call. $340 TURN: 2h x/x RIVER: 5d x/x he wins w KQdd..

Feb 18, 2022

Bart examines a few unorthodox spots taken from a recent huge Hustler Casino Live game here the player in position raises a continuation bet with a weak hand.

Feb 11, 2022

Bart covers a recent hand played on a super high stakes cash game at the Lodge, on the Lodge live stream where Doug Polk gets counterfeit and his opponent plays tricky with a full house.

Feb 4, 2022

Bart reviews a hand from the $100-$200 No Limit Lodge Live Stream where Doug Polk flops top set of aces but does not get all the money in by the end of the hand.

Jan 19, 2022

Bart and Conlan Ma speak about preflop play. They look at optimal solutions six handed and how we can shape the data to adjust and fit into a live, loose, nine handed game.

Jan 12, 2022

Bart concludes his big blind series examining headsup and multiway spots from the big blind on the turn and on the river.

Jan 5, 2022

Bart covers what he feels is the absolute best approach to multiway big blind play after the flop.

Dec 30, 2021

Bart discusses the type of range you should play when facing a single raise and considering defending when headsup from the big blind. This is one of the most common situations in Nl Hold'em.

Dec 22, 2021

Bart discusses image in live restricted buy-in No Limit cash games and discusses why image is much more of a function of winning or losing in the short term vs looseness or tightness.

Dec 15, 2021

Bart covers his approach to flat calling with certain hands preflop in the field.

Dec 8, 2021

Bart discusses the birth of his first child, challenges with healthcare in the individual marketplace and discusses techniques on how not to get robbed travel to and from cardrooms. Link to Youtube video on Individual Health Insurance for poker players here: https://youtu.be/6dQquhmQvug

Dec 4, 2021

This week Bart takes a look at some special situations where block betting the river from up front may be the correct play and breaks down a super thin value bet he recently made demonstrating the importance of proper flush hand reading on 4 flush runouts. Hand 1 Bart's Qh 9d Hand at 1:48:00 of Lodge Live stream from Nov 27th https://youtu.be/Y0FTqAqO-7A?t=6480 Bart opens HJ Qh 9d $75, Jwin calls, CO (9.4k eff) $190 FLOP: Ad 7d 6s -Bart bets $100, call. $390 TURN: Qd x/x $390 RIVER: Td Bart bets $200.. could the alternative be a block to induce a raise if the Kd is rarely possible in our opponents' hand?

Nov 24, 2021

This week Bart talks about the rules of claiming money in poker and also answers a question about proper tipping and how it can effect your winrate. Video on Poker taxes: Poker Taxation

Nov 10, 2021

This week Bart takes an email and tries to answer the question "How much should we raise preflop, in order to thing the field?"

Nov 3, 2021

This week Bart discusses skipping the Main Event for the first time in 15 years, and discusses what actually is useful information in poker and what is irrelevant. He also examines common mistakes in PLO double board Bomb Pots. 20:15 Hand 1: Hero dealt Qh 9c 9d 8h from early position. $50 ante from everyone pot is $400 with $10k effective stacks FLOP1: Js 8s 3s FLOP2: 9c 6d 2h EP bets $200, I call, CO calls. POT: $1000 TURN1: 2d TURN2: 5h EP bets $900 and I fold. 28:35 Hand 2: Hero dealt Ac Kh 2s 4h from EP. FLOP1: 8c 5c 6d FLOP2: 2d 2c 5h I check, MP1 bets $300, call, call and I fold

Oct 27, 2021

Bart reviews the epic weekend where he commentated on the BIG $200-$400 NL Hold'em game featuring Tom Dwan and Phil Ivey and deconstructs a hand where Durrr made a call down with only 9 high.

Oct 20, 2021

00:05 -- Bart discusses his huge win on Live at the Palms $25-$50-$100 NL 03:31 -- Ivey playing this weekend on Hustler Casino Live Bart commentating 06:13 -- New WSOP Man Event news with extra starting days and entering directly into Day 2 20:28 -- Bart reviews $10/$25/$50/$100 hand w KK and what is a scare card?

Oct 13, 2021

Bart discusses the recent events at the WSOP at the Rio and covers small Stakes Exploit No: 19 "Attacking small preflop raise sizing over several limps." 0:00:05 -- Bart discusses his experience in the $1500 mixed O8 event as well as talks about how the Rio is a shithole. 0:06:05 -- Exploit 19 of the Definitive Guide to Small Stakes Exploits -- "Attacking small preflop sizing over several limps." 0:15:10 -- Smmall Stakes Exploit 20 -- Under defend to preflop 3 bets.

Oct 6, 2021

Bart gives a first week's trip report of the fall version of the 2021 WSOP.

Sep 29, 2021

Bart discusses a few hands that he played from last Saturday night vs vlogger Rampage on a $25-$50-$100 No Limit cash game at the Lodge in Austin. Hand 1: Rampage Huge but then won after stream .. QQ vs JJ on QJ5Q3 And me BTW. I $(26k) open at 25-50-100 UTG $300 Ac Tc , Rampage (covers) 3! +1 to $1100, Bones ($17k) calls btn and I call. Pot: $3400 FLOP: Qh Jd 3h - I check Rampage $1100, Bones calls, I call. POT: $6700 TURN: Qc - I check rampage checks, Bones $3500, I fold, Rampage calls. RIVER: 3c - Rampage checks Bones bets $8k, Rampage jams all-in, Bones calls. Rampage has QQ Bones w JJ. Hand 2: vs Rampage Jc 9c I open ($30k) Jc 9c btn $300 rampage 3! SB to $1500 I call. $3000. FLOP: Qs Tc 7h - He bets $2k I call. $7000 TURN: 9s - x/x. $7000 RIVER: 8h - He bets $2300... my decision point.

Sep 22, 2021

Bart examines how some small stakes players over react to small bet sizing on the flop. Hand 1: A8o vs T7 Jd 8d 5c Kd Hand 2: Qs Qc. Open I 3 bet he calls. FLOP: 853cc X/ $150 call. TURN: Ac x/x RIVER: As. He bets $340 I call he has 23ss

Sep 15, 2021

This week Bart discusses how his appearance on an upcoming Doug Polk Podcast came about and revisits a hand that still gives him nightmares to this day.

Sep 8, 2021

0:00 -- HCL Review and commentary w Nick Vertucci 7:00 -- More WSOP news now no mask mandate 11:35 -- Final explanation as to why all parties have to agree to run it more than once in all pots that they are involved with or else it "steals" someone's equity. 3 way all-in. Short stack has $400, Hero and Player B are $2000 effective. Players get it all-in on the flop. Main pot is $1200, side pot is $3200. Short stack has top set, Hero has middle set but his quad out is exposed so he's drawing dead. Player B has a draw. Scenario 1 -- Short stack wins first run Player A and B lose $400 each in main pot Scenario 2-- Player B wins first run, short stack is dead. Player B wins 50% of $1200 pot or $600 for a net win on ONLY $200. Conclusion: Hero has the opportunity to win half the pot if he loses and player B wins first run, but Player B does not have the opportunity to win half the main if the short stack wins run 1. 21:38 -- 2 Hands from Hustler

Sep 1, 2021

00:20 -- Discussion of Travel to LA and Hustler Casino Live Commentary 07:05 -- WSOP Discussion .. Players now have vaccination requirement but not dealers?? 12:17 -- Hustler Hand from Friday Night 5/10/20 $2500 effective 6 handed CO (guy with baccarat chips) opens to $60, SB calls. I call in Straddle w 3s 3h. $180 FLOP: Tc 8d 3c checked through. TURN: Jh SB checks, I bet $130, fold, SB calls. Pot $450 RIVER: Kh. SB checks, I bet $275.. SB check raises to $1075 total, so $800 more to call. QUESTION: In which position is the villain stronger here, if he had called on the button with the same action and raised the river or where he is by check raising in the small blind?

Aug 25, 2021

0:00:05 -- Bart discusses his history of live stream cash game commentary then discusses his schedule and the fact that he will be commentating on Hustler Casino live on Aug 27th, Sept 3rd and Sept 24th on the Friday night big game. 0:05:45 -- Bart discusses his approach to continuation betting in three bet pots and examines the newer school thought of "volume" betting HAND EXAMPLE: $2k effective $1/$3 NL "Match the Stack" MP raises to $15, Hero in CO 3! JJ to $55, MP calls. FLOP: Ad Qc 4s MP checks, Hero checks. TURN: 8h MP bets $30, Hero calls. RIVER: Kd MP bets $105, Hero raises to $405?? 2 flush boards -- sometimes check back but when you have the front door card in your hand. On AQ4 the JJ or KK checked back is with the suit 85/15 with the front door no backdoor Volume bet on 922r is 60% large, 33% check. On two flush boards 51/23/26

Aug 18, 2021

Bart discusses the math of defending to your opponents 3bets preflop and presents a formula in which you can calculate your own ranges depending upon your position. 0:00 -- Hustler Casino live news and the latest on the 2021 WSOP rules 8:50 -- A discussion on how create your own defense to 3bet ranges, preflop.

Aug 11, 2021

0:20 -- Bart recaps first week of Hustler Casino Live and his commentary 5:00 -- Latest WSOP News and Rule 115 10:30 -- Small Stakes Exploit: Sizing Tells 20:39 -- Small Stakes Exploit: Double Barreling vs Weak Ranges

Aug 2, 2021

PLO Double Board Bomb Pots Number one rule is to not get involved with trips only on one board, especially low ranked trips where an overfull can easily be possible. Hand 1: Full Boat/trips TOP: Q5J5dd BOT: 9737c Bart's Hand: 9d 9h 4c 6c. I bet small on flop a few call. Turn I bet $50 into $125 fold one all-in $60, BB jams he has 9724 other guy AA85 I scoop +$200 Hand 2: TOP: Kc Tc 5h 4h 7h BOT: 6h 4d 4c 2h Qc Bart's Hand -- 6d 6s Jh 2d BB Hand: T473 HJ: KKxx $10 ante x 9 is $90. HJ bets $25 I call 3 others call including the BB. TURN: BB leads out for $215, fold HJ calls, I pot to $1080.. BB calls allin for $700 so about $750 on the side.. RIVER: guy checks I pot he folds.. I win side pot equity blasting

Aug 1, 2021

An interesting hand reading exercise that comes from an email submission to the Crush Live Call-in show. Bart goes through the logic process and boils down the villain's holding to one specific hand. UTG ($50) raise to $10, Hero ($1100) calls Ah Ad. Fold to BB ($900) 3! bets to $40, UTG calls. Hero 4! bets to $120. BB calls, UTG calls all-in for $10. FLOP: Qs 7h 5d ($150/$140) BB checks. Hero bets $175, BB thinks its $75 and calls, doesn’t know its $175 but they force him to keep the $75 in the pot so he calls the $175. TURN: Js ($150/$490) BB checks, Hero bets $250, BB calls. RIVER: Ac ($150/$990) BB checks Hero call-in $350, BB calls. What hand does he have here?

Jul 28, 2021

Bart gives his take on the best events to play at the 2021 WSOP primarily geared towards winning NL Hold'em cash game players.