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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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?By 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.By 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.By Bart Hanson

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

Nate takes over the reigns of the podcast this week and gives some of his secrets on how to boost your winrateBy 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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 scenariosBy 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…

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".By Bart Hanson

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.By Bart Hanson

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

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.By Bart Hanson

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.By Bart Hanson

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 gameBy Bart Hanson

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.By Bart Hanson

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.By Bart Hanson

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."By Bart Hanson

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.By Bart Hanson

Nate Schmitt makes his debut on the CLP Podcast discussing how to continue in a hand after three betting in position.By N8Ball (Nate Schmitt)

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.By Bart Hanson

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.By Bart Hanson

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.By Bart Hanson

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.By Bart Hanson

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

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.By Bart Hanson

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

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

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.By Bart Hanson

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".By Bart Hanson

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

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.By Bart Hanson

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.By Bart Hanson

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

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?By Bart Hanson

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