The Poker Coaching Podcast with Jonathan Little

Garrett Adelstein is a regular in the high stakes cash games on Hustler Casino Live. Today his opponent is a newcomer to the show who is just named as Tim and he has a mystery poker hand! Jonathan talks about what range of hands like to re-raise preflop when playing deep stacked out of position; decent suited connectors fall in this category which is exactly the hand that Garrett ‘Gman’ Adelstein...

If you want to be a profitable poker player (cash game or tournament) you need a solid preflop strategy! In this video I break down 3 of the biggest mistakes small stakes players are making and what you need to do to fix them. This live poker webinar will teach you how to master preflop poker and improve your win rate! You’ll learn when to 3-bet, call or fold according to preflop ranges/charts, as...

Popular poker vlogger Brad Owen finds himself in a dream spot in the Bellagio poker room whilst playing $5/$10 as he flops a flush against a splashy recreational poker player. Can he find a way to get max value? Jonathan discusses what you should think about when deciding to isolate pre-flop against players that like to limp. He also discusses that a Game Theory Optimal (GTO) approach prefers to u...

PokerStars came back in full force with the first trip of 2023 in the beautiful Baha Mar resort in Nassau, The Bahamas. I had a wonderful time playing some poker and a couple of final tables meant it was a profitable trip! In this live poker webinar I’ll take you through some of the biggest hands that helped me run deep in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event as well as the slightly...

In this weekly poker hand Jonathan reviews a spot that Jaman ‘The Drawing Dead’ Burton found himself in at the Bellagio poker room in Las Vegas whilst playing a $5/$10/$20 cash game. Remember that when you are playing in a game that has a straddle that the stack sizes in big blinds are essentially divided in half. Make sure that you adjust your ranges and poker strategy accordingly! When you are l...

Jonathan is joined by PokerCoaching coach JWIN to discuss a hand that he played at the Lodge Poker Club in Austin, Texas. They discuss the interesting choice from the small blind to just flat call pre-flop. Generally in cash games most players will opt for a 3-bet or fold strategy from the small blind. By the small blind just calling pre-flop it gives a lot of information as to the range of hands...

Jonathan has always said that you should find the poker table that looks the most fun and splashy. Doug ‘WCGRider’ Polk has found exactly that as he battles against a poker player that may have drank a few too many cocktails! This poker hand took place at the Lodge Poker Club in Austin, Texas. Doug Polk is now a part owner of the club alongside popular poker vloggers Brad Owen & Andrew Neeme....

Rising poker star Sashimi takes on established TikTok super star Tommy Unold in this weekly poker hand. The hand has everything as a recipe for disaster as both players have a full house on the turn. This poker hand took place on Max Pain Monday which is a show hosted by Hustler Casino Live. It encourages showing bluffs, slow rolls, running all-ins only 1 time and generally trying to cause as much...

I get many questions from my poker students about how best to build their poker bankroll. In today’s live webinar I will walk you through the steps that you need to turn your bankroll into $100,000 in today’s poker climate. It takes a lot of hard work and dedication. Poker is not a get rich quick scheme and all of the top poker professionals have put in hours of study and playing to be at the top...

Two of the biggest poker vloggers battle it out in this high stakes cash game hand. Rampage Poker takes on his good friend Mariano in a $81,000 pot! We view this poker hand from Rampage’s perspective as he wakes up with pocket jacks aka pocket jiggities (coined by the popular Brad Owen!). He faces extreme aggression from Mariano after he faces a 4 bet preflop and then very large bet sizes on the t...

When two big poker personalities clash in a poker hand you know there is going to be fireworks! MrDrBatman, a regular on the Lodge Live poker stream, took on businessman and professional trash talker Eric Persson. This is a huge high stakes poker cash game on the Hustler Casino Live stream as they are playing $200/400/$800 with a $1,600 straddle in this hand! MrDrBatman opens the action with a rai...

This Weekly Poker Hand took place at the Super High Roller Bowl in the pokerGO studios. A $300,000 poker tournament that features most of the toughest poker professionals in the game. Daniel ‘Kid Poker’ Negreanu is well known to the poker community and finds himself battling Bryn Kenney, a strong poker professional with over $45,000,000 in live tournament winnings. Negreanu finds himself in all so...

In this video, I will answer a common question that my poker students often ask me: is poker luck or skill? It is very easy for a poker player to believe that winning one tournament means that you are a great player. While in some cases that might be correct in others it could also be far from the truth! To win any poker tournament, you are going to have to be lucky at some point! You are either g...

The best poker players in the world excel at identifying their opponent’s mistakes and exploiting them for maximum profit. Long before GTO was around, exploitative poker was the root of all poker strategy for poker tournaments and cash games. If you can find a game with plenty of bad poker players, knowing how to exploit their mistakes will take you far. Today, I will be discussing how to best exp...

This is the biggest pot that has ever been played on the Hustler Casino Live at a staggering $870,000! Henri ‘buttonclickr’ Puustinen is no stranger to the high stakes. He is an online heads up end boss and was one of Doug Polk’s coaches when he battled against Daniel Negreanu. Nik Airball is a regular on the Hustler Casino Live stream and is known to lend out huge amounts of money to other player...

This hand features an old school poker legend and a new school poker legend. It’s Phil Ivey vs Garrett Adelstein on the Hustler Casino Live stream! This game was one of the highest stakes that Hustler Casino Live has seen as they were playing $200/$400/$800/$1600 in this particular poker hand! Garrett Adelstein has been known to say that Phil Ivey was one of his favorite poker players when he was...

There is a reason why Phil Ivey is considered to be the greatest poker player of all time! This weekly poker hand shows exactly why! In this poker hand Phil Ivey battles a regular of the Hustler Casino Live stream – Andy Stacks. Andy in his own right is a fantastic poker player but he openly admitted on this stream that he was a big Phil Ivey fanboy and couldn’t wait to play a hand against h...

This Weekly Poker Hand features PokerCoaching.com coach Matt Affleck who is deep in a World Series of Poker event. This poker hand took place in the WSOP – Millionaire Maker with less than 100 players left and over $1,000,000 for 1st! Matt finds himself heads-up against a British poker professional – Nick Marchington. Nick made the final table of the WSOP Main Event so he is certainly...

Unlike poker tournaments, every poker chip at a cash game table has a definite dollar amount. Your entire chip stack can go into the pot at any moment, and you would rather get it in good than bluff off all of your money for no reason. While Garrett Adelstein and Phil Ivey may make it look easy, they have dedicated years to studying poker and reducing the mistakes they make at the poker table. If...

Have you ever dreamed of winning a World Series of Poker bracelet or a World Poker Tour title? If you want to make those dreams a reality, you must be willing to put in the work and study poker tournament strategy. While you always need a little bit of luck to win live and online poker tournaments, you can’t be dealt pocket aces every time! Taking the time to not just play poker but study it as we...

Garrett Adelstein is the biggest winner on the Hustler Casino Live stream having won over $1,000,000. In today’s hand he is battling against a billionaire recreational poker player – Stanley Tang. The hand starts with Stanley raising under the gun (UTG) with AKo and in true aggressive Garrett fashion he opts to 3-bet to isolate the recreational player with A9c. Stanley decides to 4-bet and G...

One of the best preflop strategies you can add to your poker game is exploitatively 3-betting . By knowing when to three-bet, you can give yourself an edge in poker tournaments and cash games. You don’t always need pocket aces to be aggressive at the poker table. By the end of today’s stream, I want YOU to take this quiz and let me know in the comments how you do: https://pokercoaching.com/3betqui...

James Romero is one of the best poker tournament players in the world and here we discuss a hand that he played during the World Series Of Poker (WSOP). This poker hand took place during a $3,000 6-max event. The villain in the hand is described by James as an aggro whale which means they are extremely aggressive and not necessarily very good! Together we share some great tips to beat recreational...

⁣ If you can’t make the right preflop decisions, how can you expect to make the right plays on the flop, turn, or river? Having a profitable preflop poker strategy starts with having a fundamentally sound preflop range. While every poker player knows how to play pocket aces, what other hands should be in your preflop range? ⁣ Your position in a poker hand heavily dictates what your preflop range s...

Stephen Chidwick and David Peters are two titans of the high stakes poker world with almost $100,000,000 in live poker tournament earnings combined. They are playing in a $25,000 poker tournament as part of the US Poker Open in the PokerGO studio in Las Vegas. With just 3 players remaining and both of them having the biggest two stacks there are some heavy ICM (Independent Chip Model) implications...