3.40 Turbo trimmed tourney. Looking for pointers / comments.

[angrystoc]

Anyone feel like providing some feedback on a $3.40 turbo. Looking over it, I feel like I was a little reckless, but the table was playing so weak-tight it felt right.

I played the first 4-5 levels really tight, I think I was running something like 7/7 so when I opened up out of necessity, I was hoping I'd get some credit for my bets (until I showed a couple marginal ones, and then I tried to tighten back up appropriately).

Hand 7 was a misclick preflop.

http://www.flopturnriver.com/Online-...ment-4710.html

I can't post URLs, but I'm hoping this will work.

[taipan168]

Got the tourney, once you get to 10 posts you'll be able to post URLs.

Overall I thought you played pretty well, your preflop hand selection is pretty solid, just a couple of spots where you were a bit looser than would be ideal in my books.

3. K7o - the flop bet is fine with TPGK but once you get called in three places I check the turn and see what happens rather than betting again. In any case your bet is way too small considering the size of the pot, you bet less than 1/4 pot, nobody will fold to that! Such a tiny bet is essentially a pot sweetener that you might make if you had the nuts but not with a (now marginal) hand like TPGK. That's why I check since any reasonable bet will be pot committing to you.

4. KJs - personally I fold from UTG+1, particularly with your stack. As played, I like raising opp's flop donkminraise if you've seen him donkminbet previously and fold to raises.

5. J5o - don't like the flop bet with two opps in the hand and one to act after you. It'd be better if you had position on both

7. 65o - hate those misclicks!

8. A9o - this shove isn't terrible but you have to realise that you often don't have a huge amount of fold equity here

9. 73o - haven't run it in SNG Wiz but I am pretty sure this isn't a good shove. It'd be fine SB vs BB but not with two to act

10. A9o - probably OK as a shove but it wouldn't be hugely +EV

12. 66 - fine, antes make a big difference

13. AKo - I just shove preflop rather than standard raising, the pot is plenty big enough preflop for you to be happy to take it down without a fight with AK. If your raise gets called and you miss the flop then what?

15. K2o - don't really like this from the CO with two shortstacks still to act and the BB with half his stack in the pot already

17. K7o - fold preflop, don't like playing this one OOP when opp has 40% of his stack in the pot already. As played I guess the stop 'n' go is OK but you have to realise that opp is getting big pot odds to call

20. 76o - easy fold preflop, as played the flop shove is pretty ballsy and will get called a lot of the time

[angrystoc]

Got the tourney, once you get to 10 posts you'll be able to post URLs.

Thanks for the prompt response and the feedback! (and now I'm up to 10 posts)!

3. K7o - the flop bet is fine with TPGK but once you get called in three places I check the turn and see what happens rather than betting again. In any case your bet is way too small considering the size of the pot, you bet less than 1/4 pot, nobody will fold to that! Such a tiny bet is essentially a pot sweetener that you might make if you had the nuts but not with a (now marginal) hand like TPGK. That's why I check since any reasonable bet will be pot committing to you.

Yeah, I agree that the turn was bad. Thankfully not crippling.

8. A9o - this shove isn't terrible but you have to realise that you often don't have a huge amount of fold equity here

9. 73o - haven't run it in SNG Wiz but I am pretty sure this isn't a good shove. It'd be fine SB vs BB but not with two to act

For these two, I was counting on the fact that I was roughly 7/7 at this point, and the SB and BB behind me were very tight at ~15/5. Particularly the 73, I thought that as tight as the table was playing and the blinds creeping up, I was +EV with ATC. It's not a play that I would like to make very often.

13. AKo - I just shove preflop rather than standard raising, the pot is plenty big enough preflop for you to be happy to take it down without a fight with AK. If your raise gets called and you miss the flop then what?

Fair point. At the time, I felt like I wanted a call, and limper was 55/10 with a really weak postflop. (Same villain who donk bet min. and folded earlier).

17. K7o - fold preflop, don't like playing this one OOP when opp has 40% of his stack in the pot already. As played I guess the stop 'n' go is OK but you have to realise that opp is getting big pot odds to call

Excellent point.

20. 76o - easy fold preflop, as played the flop shove is pretty ballsy and will get called a lot of the time

With that flop I felt like it had a good chance, since 17. showed that he was either very tight or didn't have a strong grasp on pot odds. Q high seemed like a great flop for it, since AQ, KQ, QQ, and maybe QJ are the only parts of his range that hit it, and JJ- and AK, AJ, AT, etc make a large part of his range.

Thanks again for the feedback!

[taipan168]

8. A9o - this shove isn't terrible but you have to realise that you often don't have a huge amount of fold equity here

9. 73o - haven't run it in SNG Wiz but I am pretty sure this isn't a good shove. It'd be fine SB vs BB but not with two to act

For these two, I was counting on the fact that I was roughly 7/7 at this point, and the SB and BB behind me were very tight at ~15/5. Particularly the 73, I thought that as tight as the table was playing and the blinds creeping up, I was +EV with ATC. It's not a play that I would like to make very often.

OK, in that case it's not too bad, but I wouldn't rely on $3.40 opps noticing how loose or tight you've been playing

13. AKo - I just shove preflop rather than standard raising, the pot is plenty big enough preflop for you to be happy to take it down without a fight with AK. If your raise gets called and you miss the flop then what?

Fair point. At the time, I felt like I wanted a call, and limper was 55/10 with a really weak postflop. (Same villain who donk bet min. and folded earlier).

Even more reason to just shove it against a limptard player like this who won't fold to your raise. Remember you miss the flop 68% of the time and any c-bet is going to pot commit you.