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.Par Bart Hanson

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

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.Par Bart Hanson

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.Par Bart Hanson

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.Par Bart Hanson

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?Par Bart Hanson

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.Par Bart Hanson

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).Par Bart Hanson

Learn how to navigate situations and win more money. Featuring Turn Donks, River block bets, bluff catching and turning bluff catchers into bluffs.Par N8Ball (Nate Schmitt)

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

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.Par Bart Hanson

Bart reviews interesting hands from his 2024 WSOP Main Event.Par Bart Hanson

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.Par Bart Hanson

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

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.Par Bart Hanson

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.Par N8Ball (Nate Schmitt)

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.…

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.…

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.…

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

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.Par Bart Hanson

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?Par Bart Hanson

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.Par Bart Hanson

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.Par Bart Hanson

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

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.Par Bart Hanson

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.Par Bart Hanson

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.Par Bart Hanson

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.Par Bart Hanson

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?Par Bart Hanson

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.Par Bart Hanson

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.Par Bart Hanson

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

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.Par Bart Hanson

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

Nate takes over the reigns of the podcast this week and gives some of his secrets on how to boost your winratePar N8Ball (Nate Schmitt)

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

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.Par Bart Hanson

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.Par Bart Hanson

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.Par MikeG

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.Par Bart Hanson

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.Par Bart Hanson

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.Par Bart Hanson

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.Par Bart Hanson

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 scenariosPar Bart Hanson

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 t…