Niman's Live Hand Analysis

Hi! Please move to Canada/or another country that allows online poker so that we can watch your online live session vids again!! I love those and everyday I pray that you will do more so that I won't have to go to bed and cry again. Thanks!

wouldn't you c/r a full house in the final hand (given that most worse hands that are calling are betting themselves)? with your particular hand, doesn't it check through some percentage of the time and you're good?

Very interesting video! Thanks!

Same question for me, re: river lead vs c/r.

You lead the flop in a limped pot from the blinds with a low flushdraw. You c/c the turn with a flush versus two players. You lead the river pot-sized when the top card paired (Q).

OK, I've now looked up the hand. I strongly disagree with a cr for the following reasons. The flop was Q-5-2 and no fewer than seven players saw the flop. This is obviously not a flop in which anyone who entered the pot voluntarily can realistically have two pair. (note that the one exception to this is me in the blind since I am completing the big blind getting a large overlay). ... Now on the turn, the 8c completes the flush. I check, and the first caller bets - with the tight, good player having overcalled on the flop. We've already established that he can't have two pair here, and I made it clear in the video that this player is always raising a set on the flop. So his range here is a flush and a hand like Ac-Qx or Ac-Ax. Now the tight, good player calls again on the button. There is absolutely no chance that he has a hand that is not a set, flush, or exactly Ac-Qx here. ... Now they both see that after having led into a seven way pot on the flop, I now check call the turn. Think about what my perceived range from their perspective is. ... Now when the queen hits, I almost never have the best hand. My one hope was to be against two sets or Ac-Qx and a set. But they can't both have the Ac, so the ONLY combination in which I have the best hand is if one guy has Ac-Qx and the other guy has 4c-3c (note that (and perhaps 4c-2c/3c-2c if they somehow chose to play those hands) are the only two hands that I can beat - and in order for me to be good, they would have to be the exact two hands that both players have: obviously a very unlikely overlay. ... Meanwhile, consider the perceived ranges from the other two guys. They have the same information that I do, so there is absolutely no chance that any hand that is less than the nut flush is going to bet. So there is the chance that the hand checks through and I lose (note that is almost never checks through with me showing the winner). Note that is more likely to happen if the tight good player on the button has the best flush. And more importantly, when I lead into seven players on the flop, then check call on a flush card, and then check raise on a board pairing card, the calling range against my check raise has me crushed. So checking to raise would be the worst possible play in my opinion. I think that my play was very opportunistic and given the parametrics of the situation, the best option. I would rate check folding (which I would have done on any card other than a queen or the 4c or 9c) second, followed by check calling (if the second player bets and the button folds) with check raising as the worst option. I suppose that a check raise could have the twisted benefit of actually getting 22 to fold - but I think that is overreaching a little.

villain had 88. ur hand looked like 77.

oops he had 87cc. im a fish. lol

Very nice 77 fold! Like these Live hand analysis a lot more than the multiable stuff. thx