Free Crush Live Poker Podcast: Recent Episodes
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.
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).
Learn how to navigate situations and win more money. Featuring Turn Donks, River block bets, bluff catching and turning bluff catchers into bluffs.
Bart plays a $2/$5 NL Hold'em session where he battled it out with a younger asian opponent.
0:00 Intro and Announcements
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.
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.
In this episode Bart covers interesting hands played across all three flights of this year's (2024) $1500 Millionaire Maker at the WSOP.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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?
Bart begins a discussion of donk betting the flop. When should we lead out into the preflop raiser and why?
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.
Bart takes a look at the CLP concept of Depolarization. Why is it so important in live NL Hold'em cash games?
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 #1AJ
43:39 — In Position #2 9h 8h flush
53:00 — Check folding A3s as top and bottom
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?
In this podcast sample, Bart continues concludes his approach to cbet bluffing different board textures in single raised pots based upon different hand classes.
In this podcast sample, Bart continues discussing his approach to cbet bluffing different board textures in single raised pots based upon different hand classes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This week Bart breaks down what an actual "blank" is in a poker hand and why so many players have such bad hand recall.
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.
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.
Barts examines why it is so disadvantageous to be in the middle and out of position in single raised and 3 bet pots.
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.
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.
Bart discusses some of the more interesting hands played from day 1 of the 2022 Main Event at the WSOP.
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.
Bart reviews a few hands from his hellish session on Hustler Casino Live! where there we many extreme multiway pots.
Bart covers some important poker checklists that will help you become a more winning player.
Bart reviews some frustrating hands from his recent appearance on Hustler Casino Live, a $25-$50-$100 No Limit Hold'em cash game.
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.
Bart Hanson examines the spots that will win you the most amount of money in live NL Hold'em cash games.
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.
Bart reviews some of his more interesting hands on his first appearance on Hustler Casino Live!
This week Bart discusses playing paired boards and how to counter your opponent barreling you on them.
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.
Bart dives into Part 2 of an old school CrushLivePoker shotgun episode, this time played at a low stakes Texas Card House game.
Bart dives into Part 1 of an old school CrushLivePoker shotgun episode, this time played at a low stakes Texas Card House game.
Barts gives his thoughts on the best events to play at the 2022 WSOP and how to minimize your time in line while there.
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:
- 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?
- 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..
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bart concludes his big blind series examining headsup and multiway spots from the big blind on the turn and on the river.
Bart covers what he feels is the absolute best approach to multiway big blind play after the flop.
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.