$5.50 Full Tilt Tournament for review

[pokernewb]

I tried to trim this without the "show all hands" checked, but I got the error "Error: Button seat 3 is not occupied" so I've put a link here to the tournament showing all hands. Anyway JAllenMorris1 was extremely loose-aggressive which made it difficult to steal.

http://www.flopturnriver.com/Online-...ment-5234.html

[taipan168]

Sorry you got no replies up to now. I'll try to have a look at this over the next couple of days if I can.

[golfguy37]

I looked at the first 20 hands and it looks like your playing a little too tight. You should be playing tight early on though so I guess it's ok. Not sure about that hand with 7-3, though. Betting the turn is extremely weak and then not following through on the river is even weaker. Just check-fold down to the river. Betting 70 into a pot of 40, it has to work 2 times to every 1 for it to be profitable and is just not worth it.

[taipan168]

Glad to see that the standard of play at the $5.50 SNGs is as bad as I remember it a few years ago. SO many examples of players donking themselves out with complete garbage (the A8o vs JJ hand was LOLOLOL as was the idiot who spewed off half his stack with 43o HEE HAW)

1. AQo - fold is fine to an UTG raise. If you knew the raiser was LAGG you could cold call but fold is fine without this read.

7. 73o - personally I just check/(fold) this one down.

16. J6o - I wouldn't even bother completing the SB with this trash, just fold it, particularly since blinds are 25/50.

19. AQs - this shove over is read dependent. I haven't looked at the HH before this, but if opp was LAGG I think it's fine, if he's tight I raise/fold.

25. Q6o - if the blinds have been tight you can try stealing from the button

31. A2s - fold is fine obv, but I think this hand is noteworthy to illustrate the fact that players who raise 70% of their stack don't always have a monster hand

35. 33 - fold is fine

43. 53o - I prefer a fold here unless BB is a super tight multitabler who won't want to play postflop. If you get called, miss the flop and want to c-bet it's a lot of your stack in the pot.

47. ATo - I just shove back from the BB, if you standard raise, get called and miss the flop you're in a tough position

Rest later

[lolzzz_321]

hand 52 std push prefop

hand 54 raise/call

right taipan?

[pokernewb]

Thanks guys.

7. 73o - Yeah I shouldn't have bet with the 73o. There was actually 75 in the pot though.

16. J6o - Totally agree, I realized how pointless it was right after I called! Just out of interest though, what kind of hands should I complete the SB with? I'm never quite sure what to go in with. I mean if the whole table calls and my pot odds are good, do I call with ATC or should I still have some quality control?

19. AQs - A definite LAGG!

25. Was Q6o a typo here (it's actually Q9o) or would you try a steal here against tight opp with Q6o?

43. 53o - He was extremely tight. Is it assumed that extremely tight players are multitabling?

50. 44 - Should I have pushed this?

52. 44 - I think this may have been the first time axenrot had opened with a call, so I might have been worried about him having a monster. Also JAllenMorris1 was an unpredictable LAGG so there was a reasonable chance he'd call. He did fold previously to a push by me though.

54. AQo - Yeah probably should have called, although he was really tight so I'm not sure how wide his range would have been. Should I have just pushed this to start with?

[taipan168]

50. 44 - fold is fine. Ran it in SNG Wiz and it suggested 66+, AT+ in this spot, surprisingly not dependent on calling ranges

52. 44 - check is fine. Don't think you have a lot of FE against the big stack limping UTG

54. AQo - wat? Either raise/call shove or open shove. It's actually quite close either way. However, DEFINITELY do not raise/fold, you're raising from the button so he can do this with lots and lots of hands you're ahead of (think Ax, Kx and even better Qx hands).

66. 75o - smells like a draw - with middle pair and a gutshot draw I probably call this

70. J7o - fine I guess, checking is OK too

[taipan168]

16. J6o - Totally agree, I realized how pointless it was right after I called! Just out of interest though, what kind of hands should I complete the SB with? I'm never quite sure what to go in with. I mean if the whole table calls and my pot odds are good, do I call with ATC or should I still have some quality control?

Suited aces, suited connectors, suited gappers, hands with high potential to flop something nice. I'd steer away from hands like K9o and Q8s that have the potential to flop second best hand that you lose a lot of chips with finding out are second best.

25. Was Q6o a typo here (it's actually Q9o) or would you try a steal here against tight opp with Q6o?

Yes, sorry for the typo. Yes I would steal with Q6o as well if the blinds were tight.

43. 53o - He was extremely tight. Is it assumed that extremely tight players are multitabling?

After a while you figure out who the hard core multitablers are and you can pull moves like this with very little risk (because they will shove back with anything decent rather than flat calling).

50. 44 - Should I have pushed this?

52. 44 - I think this may have been the first time axenrot had opened with a call, so I might have been worried about him having a monster. Also JAllenMorris1 was an unpredictable LAGG so there was a reasonable chance he'd call. He did fold previously to a push by me though.

54. AQo - Yeah probably should have called, although he was really tight so I'm not sure how wide his range would have been. Should I have just pushed this to start with?

See my comments below.