3.40 trimmed tournie

[philly and the phanatics]

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tear it to shreds

[philly and the phanatics]

no love?

[FlyingSaucy]

give it a sec.

[FlyingSaucy]

Hand 2
You really have to be confident the utg limper is a chronic limper and doesn't care about position. This is easy for me to say given the showdown, but even still I rarely push against ep limpers when short stacked with such a weak heads up hand.

Hand 4
Personal preference, I probably just push this instead of 3x it. In particular if sports is a loose caller with broadways.

Hand 5
I don't mind it as much as I probably should. Reasons it bothers me: 1. EP. 2. BB is decent stack. Reasons I like it: gap gives you fold equity pre for a steal, assuming other players are good enough to fold decent hands pre against that ep raise.

Hand 7.
No way am I limping in EP with a lone utg limper ahead of me and desperate stacks in the blinds. At these blind levels I will limp in LP with at least 2 other limpers in already and weak tight blinds.

Hand 8
vn

Hand 10
Careful with all of these pushes lately. Shibley is the big stack and A2 isn't awesome hu. You should be concentrating efforts on 974m.

Hand 12
Perfect. I can't believe he called though and limped pre. He deserves to bubble there.

6A SB (M = 10.76; p+F)
This is one you probably have to be there to know what the right move is, but I tend to like your fold. Edge is too narrow to take a gamble for half your stack.

33 BU (M = 10.42; F)
I'd raise

Hand 14
It's hard to know dsvw56's range here but the call depends entirely on how aggressively dsvw56 plays late game (vs tight).

K 6 BU (M = 8.12; F)
I might raise.

[LordoftheIsles]

Hands 4,5 & 6 have you open raising to 800 from stack sizes of 2.2k to 2.7k. I'm not saying these are wrong, but the size of the bet doesn't seem right to me. A third of your stack leaves you a tough decision if you get played back at: are you folding or calling all-ins? With TT in the first one, you are but KJo and JTo? If you are calling then I guess the 800 raises are fine; if not, then 500-700 might get the same result or allow you to lose less when they play back.

If 600 opening bets were getting calls at this table but 800 ones not, then fair enough I suppose.

Hand 10: I'm with FlyingSaucy (and most of his other comments too). A2s isn't enormous to open bet all-in v the big stack on the bubble. But player dependent - if they were defending their BB to bets of say 1000 then pushing with this isn't so bad, since it's not an easy hand to play on the flop out of position. I might fold it if the BB big stack had shown signs of being a mad gambler.

Hand 12: vomit at 974m's play of AJ.

Hand 19: an M of 8 is kind of an awkward level for sizing a steal attempt. You have to call the all-in of course, having open/bet almost 40% of your stack. Perhaps you should just push yourself - though there may be some justification for the initial bet size that I'm missing (for example, not pushing suggests you want action so he may suspect a monster hand?).

Would I open/bet say 2k and then fold to a push? Not sure, Q9o not too shabby hth. Maybe 1.5k or 1.8k then fold. So much of this depends on your opponent: against someone playing fast and loose hth with blinds this big, Q9o is probably just about good enough to take a stand with. On the other hand, against someone playing passively, I'd try to make regular but smaller steals and give up something like Q9 on the few occasions they played back.

Overall, you did fine IMHO, with just a slight question mark over some of your bet sizes.