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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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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".

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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."

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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".

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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?