5.50 Tourneys for review

[Im_new]

Alright, I've tried to get more aggressive. I haven't looked at these tourneys yet. I sure I'm being laggy at some points and/or missing some obvious spots to pick up chips. Not sure if any of these will show anything past the bubble because I'm running kinda bad at the moment.

thanks guys

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[Im_new]

^^^Bump^^^

come'on... anyone, please

[taipan168]

Sorry for the delay, I'll try to look at at least one of these over the next day or two - have been very busy.

[bjsaust]

Tourney 1 - 3694

3 (QQ) - I think this is fine.

8 (AJo) - I might bet the flop slightly smaller, but this is fine.

12 (77) - Just let it go to the 3-bet PF. Not enough implied odds here.

16(AJo) - I dont get checking flop here. PF aggressor has already checked, so chances of you getting a c/r possibility is low. Put out a bet on the flop and hope someone else c/r's you.

18 (23o) - This is +EV I think, but given you've stolen from them a number of times now, I dont hate folding the worst hand in the deck to show them we're not stealing ATC.

21 (ATs) - This is usually +EV so good push. Got a flip, if you'd won you'd be sitting pretty.



Tourney 2 - 3965

4 (AKo) - This is how I've been playing AK lately.

15 (K8s) - Not a fan of this. You've got two big stacks who could come over with better and you need to fold, and a shorty in the BB who if they push you're just about priced to call. Too many bad things can happen here.

16 (A9o) - There you go, shorty pulls a textbook stop'n'go on you, but your hand is too weak to do much about it.

17 (78s) - I hope you know limping here is bad.

21(QKo) - This is terrible. I'm not sure if your plan is to call a push, or to fold to a push, but whichever it is, its a bad plan...

22 (4Jo) - This is fine, pot odds are way too good here even if he calls 100%.

23 (QKo) - God, this is possibly worse than 21. You're way way into p/f mode. I cant possibly see why you'd limp here. Pushing isnt bad, but with the shorty I'd just fold and hope they push and get called.

25 (A7o) - Wtf! This is beyond bad. Just fold.

30 (K6s) - Good push.


I'll leave 3 for someone else .

First tourney was good, second had too many mistakes.

[Im_new]

hand 21 and 23....do I open shove or fold? These guys are playing super weak-tight and i'm annoyed by now. If not a shove, what should I be shoving against weak-tight players right now?

This is what I talked about in my other post. I'm never sure how to play against these bubbles, so I get very aggressive. (clearly, too aggressive). They fold to almost anything preflop, so I try to get "creative" (creative means bad) and see how I can get any action from them...piss them off...anything to get them attacking the other or me.


(hand 25 was a misclick btw...my track pad has been causing those a lot lately.)

[Im_new]

oh and from tourney 1:

hand 12: I should open fold this (77)? Or should I fold to the mini-raise?

[bjsaust]

Nah, I probably raise it up, but fold to the min-raise. I dont mind seeing a flop here, and pushing cant be right this deep.

25 heh, ok that makes sense then. I thought you were doing some kind of backwards implicit collusion thing here which was tilting me.

21 and 23...honestly its tough I think. I lean towards pushing 21 and folding 23, but good arguments could be made either way on both. I just think you picked the worst option for both. 23 I think if you fold there should be a fair chance the shorty will push wide and be called wide by the big blind, which is instant +EV for you just by folding if they do. 21 is harder because they fold a lot, but when they call your hand just isnt very good v's their calling range. OTB I push instantly, but its closer from UTG/CO.

[taipan168]

2. 54o - bet the flop with your trips please! With that many opps seeing the flop, somebody will call allowing you to build a pot. If you had bet the flop and gotten called, you could get all your chips in on the turn without it being an overbet. As played, the rest of the hand is fine - although I am torn between leading the river or check/calling as you did.

3. K6s - I don't even bother calling here since the limper and BB's stacks aren't super deep.

6. KQs - haven't run this in SNG Wiz, but I doubt it's a +EV shove.

7. A9o - I guess this is OK, but you need to be careful about short stacks raising half their remaining stacks as these are sometimes monster hands.

9. K8s - I fire again on the turn (ie. shove). I don't give a free card with a flush draw on board.

12. K6o - if you're raising preflop (which I might or might not) you have to c-bet that flop. It's a relatively safe one to c-bet and you'll take the pot down often enough to be +EV.

14. QJo - personally I don't even bother completing here. Reverse implied odds can be bad on a Q or J high flop.

15. A4s - I don't hate raising here but with three active players left to act and your stack at less than 14x BB I tend to let it go.

18. AJo - I lean towards just open shoving in this spot, your stack is right on the boundary where I would standard raise vs. open shove. Antes make the difference to me.

21. A7o - I don't like raising over the UTG limp. If it was folded to you, for sure - but not here.

T 7 SB (M = 3.19; f+f+F) (between 24 and 25) - I would shove this, you're too short to fold but your stack can do some damage to the BB. Only time I wouldn't shove is if the short stack was very short.

25. KJs - this is a (close) fold unless they all call pretty tight

3 7 SB (M = 3.19; f+f+F) (between 25 and 26) - I would shove this again, I think you're too short to fold.

[Im_new]

Thanks Taipan!

I was too hesitant to c-bet Triep1 because he always seemed to call flop bets (float). I figured whenever I was in a pot with him I'd try to keep it small and see a cheap showdown unless I hit something.

[RML604]

Is there a way to load these (or any for that matter) tournies into PT so that I can watch it rather than reading through the text?

[taipan168]

Is there a way to load these (or any for that matter) tournies into PT so that I can watch it rather than reading through the text?

You need to PM the OP for the raw hand histories and get him to e-mail them to you so you can load them into PT.