Free Crush Live Poker Podcast

Free Crush Live Poker Podcast episodes:

• 04.12.2024

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 119: Incentives and Small Stakes Bluffs

  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...

  
• 04.05.2024

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 118: How Do I Lose This Hand?

  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.

  
• 03.29.2024

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 117: Bart Is Feeling Alive with KQ

  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.

  
• 03.22.2024

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 116: Folding to Late Street Raises?

  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...

  
• 03.15.2024

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 115: Small Stakes Value Bet Sizing

  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.

  
• 03.08.2024

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 114: Gameflow and Cbetting

  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.

  
• 03.01.2024

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 113: Examining In Position Post Flop Raises in Live Poker

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

  
• 02.23.2024

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 112: Winning Plays from in the Blinds

  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.

  
• 02.16.2024

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 111: The Eternal Struggle vs Short Stackers and Button Clickers

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

  
• 02.09.2024

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 110: Nate’s Secrets to Boosting Your Winrate

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

  
• 02.02.2024

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 109: A Multiway River

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

  
• 01.26.2024

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 108: How PLO can Make you a better NL Player Part 2

  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...

  
• 01.19.2024

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 107: How PLO can Make you a better NL Player Part 1

  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...

  
• 01.12.2024

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 106: Razor Thin with Value Cuts

  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.

  
• 01.05.2024

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 105: Race to the Five Dollar Blind -- Premiere Episode

  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...

  
• 12.29.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 104: Bart Plays the Live Micro Stakes (Part 3)

  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.

  
• 12.22.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 103: Bart Plays the Live Micro Stakes (Part 2)

  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.

  
• 12.15.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 102: Bart Plays The Live "Micro Stakes" (Part 1)

  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.

  
• 12.08.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 101: Thinking About Hands As if

  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.

  
• 12.01.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 100: Some Small Stakes Expoit Examples

  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...

  
• 11.24.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 99: One Thirding the Turn

  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...

  
• 11.17.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 98: Bart's Battle with Sia the Bot

  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".

  
• 11.10.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 97: Bart's Small Stakes Session & Non Showdown Image

  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...

  
• 11.03.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 96: Winrate and Game Selection

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

  
• 10.27.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 95: Value Betting When Top Pair Pairs

  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.

  
• 10.20.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 94: When the Board Pairs on Turns After Check Raising

  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...

  
• 10.13.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 93: In the Small Stakes Streets Part 2

  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

  
• 10.06.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 92: In the Small Stakes Streets Part 1

  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.

  
• 09.29.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 91: Forced to Play All PLO

  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.

  
• 09.22.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 90: Shaking Off a Terrible Session

  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."

  
• 09.15.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 89: More Hands from Twin River

  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.

  
• 09.08.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 88: How to Continue After 3 Betting in Position

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

  
• 09.01.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 87: The Philosophy of Hand Reading Using Logic

  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.

  
• 08.25.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 86: Avoiding Prejudice

  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.

  
• 08.18.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 85: Straight Out of 2006

  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.

  
• 08.11.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 84: Bart's 2023 WSOP Main Event

  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.

  
• 08.04.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 83: Bart Plays Half Half Part 2

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

  
• 07.28.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 82: Bart Plays a Half Half Session Part 1

  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.

  
• 07.21.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 81: Low Stakes Bluffing as the Preflop Caller Part 2

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

  
• 07.14.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 80: Low Stakes Bluffing as the Preflop Caller Part 1

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

  
• 07.07.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 79: Going For Thin Value at Hustler

  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.

  
• 06.30.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 78: When and Why to Check Evaluate On The River

  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".

  
• 06.23.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 77: The "Same Bet" Concept and Hand Reading

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

  
• 06.16.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 76: Epic Live Read vs Drunks

  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.

  
• 06.09.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 75: Checking the Turn for Value

  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.

  
• 06.02.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 74: Overbetting in Live Games

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

  
• 05.26.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 73: When to Defend the Button

  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?

  
• 05.19.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 72: Cultivating a Winning Image

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

  
• 05.12.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 71: Hands of $5-$10 NL

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

  
• 05.05.2023

  Free Crush Live Poker Podcast No. 70: Post Flop Check Raising as the Preflop Raiser

  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...