what's up guys Jeff Boski here this is my first installment of a special poker
hand series called the Boski breakdown this hand comes from alive at the bike
episode featuring Garrett Edelstein sloppy Claude and a few regulars few
recreational Zahl so the blinds are 25 50 with a 100 straddle action folds to
Chris Claude Nikki also known as sloppy Claude on line he opens to 300 Francisco
on the button casually puts him to call there is some speculation that Chris
cloud Nicky saw Francisco's hand as he looked at it so let's keep that in mind
Bob comes Jack 7 to 3 with two spades Chris does have the ace of spades he
doesn't find much value in bedding his ace high is gonna be good here some of
the time so he elects to check Francisco things he's given up so he wants to go
for a little bet with his king 8 off suit he does he can turn a flush draw or
a straight draw so it's not too bad of a call although I would probably fold
preflop the turn brings a 5 of Spades giving both of them flush draws Chris
continues with his check line and Francisco quickly checks at this point I
think it's important to realize that Francisco should be barreling all-hands
that pick up additional equity such as straight draws flush draws I think Chris
really realizes this so when the river comes in offsuit 10 Chris knows his ace
high is probably not good because Francisco probably has showdown equity
with one pair type hands so Chris elects for a polarizing sized bet of 1700 a pot
size bet he's repping top pair plus possibly two pair or a straight but the
most important thing to take away from his hand is his nut flush blocker since
he has that he knows Francisco can't have it and blockers are very important
part of No Limit Hold'em nowadays some may argue that there
far more valuable and pertinent in pot limit Omaha due to having four cards and
more opportunities to actually have the nuts as it's a lot harder to just get
the nut flush and Texas Hold'em so Francisco goes into the tank and I
think a lot can be learned from his body language here the way he's counting out
his chips the way he's hesitant you have to really figure out if he's giving away
genuine tells or false tells is he trying to make himself look weak or is
he genuinely thinking with his actions and he can't control how he's really
feeling at the moment he does have a great hand for bluffing this river since
he has the eighth blocker that blocks the eight nine and the
second nut flush blocker he figures that Chris is gonna see bet a lot of his ace
high flush draws on the flop so you can discount those from his range francisco
goes deep into the tank weighs his options he knows he can't really call
with king high now that the question is is he gonna shove or doesn't make it
look like a value race with only about 7,500 and his stack I think the best
play is to show and polarize your hand completely the problem is chris is a
very thinking player and he's gonna be tough to give him credit for eight nine
or a flush in this spot after checking back the turn Chris gives away something
in his reaction here like he just doesn't believe the story francisco is
telling francisco only has about three thousand behind Chris takes a look at
this and deduce is that he's just clicking buttons and he can't call a
shove he might have been turning his one pair into a bluff Chris jams all-in with
just the ace of spades just the nut flush blocker and Francisco
quickly folds an incredible play a very rare line to be taking but I like it
chris is a very good player mixed games tournaments cash games he knows what
he's doing he knows his opponent he knows Francisco would probably be
barreling most turns if he did turn a straight or make
a flush he didn't think Francisco's mind made
sense the pieces of the puzzle didn't add up so he put him to the test for his
whole stack an excellent high level bet shove lying on the river from Chris it's
rare enough to see River bet bluff raises but to see a bluff are' bluff and
a rebuff is incredible hats off to Chris for making the spectacular play on the
live at the bike stream on this episode of the boesky breakdown we're featuring
a hand that happened on live at the bike the blinds are 50-100 with a 200 dollar
straddle a very tough lineup a lot of good pros so the play level is gonna be
very high hold on to your seats this is gonna be a good one action starts with
Garrett Edelstein aka g-man online a longtime stars 2550 high-stakes no-limit
crusher he makes it 500 two and a half X seems a little small but its standard
for his playstyle he does a lot of things that are unorthodox action folds
around to Gary on the button areas east Jack and he hasn't he's a lot of options
here he could definitely three bet he elects just a smooth call maintain his
positional advantage he doesn't want to face a four bet Alex Rowley just puts in
the flat and the big blind and Martin also comes along in the straddle with
the a7 suited everything pretty standard so far except for maybe Alec electing
not to 3 bet his jacks when the flop comes Queen 10 9 this is where things
really get interesting it's an action flop it's very what Garrett wants to
protect his middle set and get value from all the drawers and other two pairs
pair Plus straight draw a pair plus flush draw type hands so he bets large
1800 Gary elects just a call I definitely could raise here to his hand
into a bluff with the big draw but he deluxe just a call and play in position
when action folds to Alex he has a tough decision all right Esther figure he's
beat and even if he hits his draw I'd be pretty obvious that he
as a straight and he's gonna be playing out of position as weak as it seems even
with the Jack of Hearts I think it's best just to lay the jacks down here but
he eventually puts in the call a seven gets out of the way and we're three ways
to a turn the turn brings an absolute brick the four of diamonds
Alec's gonna play and flow and check now the action is to Garrett and Garrett
should choose a big size in here to charge all the draws very wet board when
the board is wet you want a bet big if the board is dry bets small in general
because you don't have to protect against much and there's not that much
action to be had so you wanna really entice action after Garrett bets 6,000
Gary's in a pretty tough spot he does still have position he does have the ace
of hearts so he can rep a nut flush if it happens to hit on the river and a
king is a great card because he'll definitely stack anybody that has just
Jack acts like Alec in this situation so hopefully he thinks Garrett is semi
bluffing or betting fourth in valley with the queen jack type and bottom to
pay or something like that and he can really get a ton of value on the river
Alec does put in the fold and the river is the six of Hearts
completing the flush Gary has the ace of hearts oh he knows Garrett cannot have
the nut flush with 20,000 in the pot and about 45,000 behind this is a very tough
spot for Garrett he doesn't think he can bet for value he thinks he's gonna just
probably Bluff catch at this point because Gary might turn Jack ten or jack
nine into a bluff so he doesn't find the value wants and betting although I could
see him some merit for a small blocker but with his set here as strange as that
sounds Garrett likes to check now the action is
to Gary ace I never good here no hand he can never be that Gary would
bet twice and two more people so now he has to figure out is he gonna go for the
fake value bet or is he go for the completely polarized value
shove wrapping the nut flush and pretty much the nut flush only any shelves all
in and Garrett is not happy and this is when the tilt really kicks in
Gary Wow Gary just shoved over 2x pot are you kidding me man I told you like
it's made a good hand out help it's just way too greedy it's obnoxious we're
greedy he's got like 20 Queens to right oh no I play as ace fucking King high
what is it 30 44 24 inch change well two things
often happen I either don't have the best hand or I will make the wrong
decision between those two things that often happen it's hard to say if I
occasionally make the right decision change just one in a million look at the
cojones on Gary willing to put in $45,000 on a stone cold Bluff against
Garrett Adil see him Garrett is really vocalizing his inner thoughts the
frustration the there's the tough six spot that he's been put in and he's been
running bad for the last few weeks of making kind of the wrong decisions
things haven't been working out and it all kind of compounds when your mindset
I goes like this and poker it's time to take a break reevaluate some things I
take some coaching from some other players watch your friends play watch
other successful people win even drop down limits and get that winning feeling
back again because it's a downward spiral when you're on a losing streak
and you got to do something to break that streak the same goes for a winning
streak if you're running hot you're winning tournaments or with crushing
cash games keep playing don't take a vacation don't spend all your winnings
keep hammering stay in that same mindset because that's the winning mindset and
that's the confidence that you need to be a winning poker player Garrett's very
frustrated he doesn't know what to do he feels no matter what he does it'll be
the wrong choice either he calls seize the nut flush or he folds and gets
bluffed by the nut flush blocker I don't like honestly I'm not even
considering putting I think that's the thing like I'm probably wrong and I
Justin like 96% and this brings into play why blockers are so important in
poker not only does Garry have the nut flush
blocker he also has the jack which does block a lot of combos with jack 8 and
king jack which Garrett could have been betting for Valley on previous streets
Garret frustratingly makes the fold Gary shows no emotion and takes down the pot
Garrett just tries to shake it off and move on to the next hand but it's never
easy sometimes you make a decision you gotta live with it sometimes you have to
live and learn but other times you have to recognize the power of the blockers
the nut flush blocker put into play once again with the polarizing over double
pot bat Jam I hope you guys enjoyed this episode of the boesky breakdown make
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