March 2007 SNG experiment - Hands 1-25 comments

[taipan168]

Please post comments on SNG experiment hands 1-25 in this thread.

[taipan168]

1-3. Looks like dev really did have the goods, he wasn't kidding!

6. Dev - I would have folded to Paris' re-raise for sure. I don't think you have implied odds to make this call (ie. stacks aren't deep enough to justify calling the extra 80 considering the chance of hitting something that you'll go to the felt with)

16. Sprayed - wow, I was wrong about you having a monster hand to raise UTG. Not a bad play I guess given the tightness of the table. On the flop, I would make it 120-140 to go rather than 180 just in case K2 picked up a hand.

19. Paris - interesting, I folded the best hand here.

23. I thought that fim's push was a little over the top, and particularly dangerous against a tight UTG raiser. There is a non-trivial chance of Random having AA and KK here.

25. zach - agree you should have called my 3x BB raise and played for set value. If the flop came 9 high I would have a hard time getting away from my overpair, at the very least you would have won a lot of chips before I figured it out

[Sprayed]

All played well. I needed to adjust better and become a little more aggressive since the table was full of tight asses minus one (dev). Dev, just some constructive criticism, I think that you play too loose. Playing loose is good with this type of table, but some of your decisions or ideas that you typed were not correct IMO. Raising with garbage early is not effective.

[dev]

In hand 6, A fold to this reraise is correct, I agree, but I kind of wanted to keep with the laggy image. If I fold here, I'm giving up a pot in position, after I raised, with great odds to call. This might be too inviting next time I raise. I should have layed it, but understand I wasn't calling on math here.

I really have no qualms about making people think I'm an idiot.

In hand 12, the 84o hand... I may have bet any 8, club, king, jack, or ten. I probably should have bet the river regardless, but a raise on the flop didn't represent any hand, and a lead out on the turn didn't rep anything unless the card actually improved my hand. By the river I was just happy to see whether or not he was c-betting a board like that.

The lesson learned on that one had nothing to do with the hand. Even while commenting the HH's I didn't make a note of the fact that everyone just saw me call on a scary board with a pretty thin draw.

[FlyingSaucy]

my favorite play of this set is fim's push in hand 23.

[TLR]

Hand 6: Since dev raised 3 of the first 5 hands I dont think raising with a marginal hand was correct, once he was min reraised I would call

Hand 7: With so many limpers I think it was correct for K2 to limp ATC from SB

Hand 15: I think Paris could call the raise with AJ and see a flop

[GatorJH]

Hand 6 - Devr was concerned about table image, but still tried a steal. The steal didn’t work BECAUSE of his table image

Hand 10 is indicative of knowing the table and player. Tai could have stolen the hand here, but probably NOT in a regular SNG

Hand 12 – Devr showing this hand down may pay him back in the future as it sets up a very loose image, unfortunately, against this caliber of player I think it may kill his ability to steal hands in the future.

Hand 16 – Sprayed, great example of using your image against the table

Hand 17 – Dev’s comment about adding to credibility is interesting based on his table image. The comments from other players lead me to believe that his raises were getting less credible by the minute, regardless of position.

Hand 22 – Paris, nice example of adjusting to the table

Hand 23 – Great hand to post based on comments from people not in the hand

All in all pretty solid play so far although I think Devr is too stayed too loose throughout this section.