$5.50 sng Review

[flopmonkey]

If any of you are bored and want to take a look, I would appreciate any feedback.

Trimmer Output #6003

Thanks

[rong]

Hand 1 - fold pre, no need to be involved this early.
Hand 2 - I'd just check pre, out of position and blinds are too small for me to be bothered getting involved without a beter hand. But the raise pre isn't horrible. But you may as well cbet the flop if you're gonna raise pre.
Hand 3 - fold pre.
Hand 4 - fold pre.
Hand 6 - just fold, don't complete. You can raise as a steel if you really want.
Hand 7 - fold pre, don't complete. You can raise as a steel if you really want.
Hand 8 - Why are you calling pre? Just fold!
Hand 9 - nothing else you caould do.
Hand 13 - now the blinds are big enough to steel, but why the hell are yoiu calling, raise to steel or fold & wait for a better time.
Hand 14 - omg, stop dam calling. I give up.

Here's some general advice. Don't call preflop, ever. Now whilst there are times when it is ok to call, you will improve instantly if you just remove this from your game.

When you raise preflop, make it 4 x bb + 1 bb per limper up until the blinds reach...... hang on, just read Taipans sit n go dos & don'ts. That will cover everything I am about to say only do it better.

[fulksy]

Hand 1: fold AJ, UTG full table is to weak.
hand 2: Just Check.
hand 3: Fold Pre, as played im just calling the turn bet.
hand 4: Easy fold OOP with garbage.
hand 5: Fine
Hand 6: Fold
hand 7: Fold, as played check fold the flop.
hand 8: Fold
Hand 11: I probably raise a bit less, but don't matter
Hand 12: Bet a little less on flop, probably 160 ish a smaller bet might get a 10 or something to call
hand 13: Fold
hand 14: RAISE, why raise KJ OOP early with small blinds but limp AQ when winning the blinds adds ~10% to your stack.
hand 15: i would bet smaller, work on keeping your raises balanced, you seem to raise more with bigger hands.
hand 16: Raise or fold, i prefer a raise here.
Hand 17: Why did you limp with Q9s on the BTN, the previous hand, then Min raise the next hand in worse position? again raises aren't balanced your min raising with a weak hand.
between hands 17 and 18: you fold A9 in the same position that you raised Q9? depending on stack sizes you could raise,
Hand 18: Fine
Hand 19: raise more i like 2.5 BB
Hand 20: i would get out of the habit of min raising.
Hand 23: never Limp, RAISE or FOLD, as played why did you call the turn???
Hand 24: Again don't just call.
between 24-25: I raise A7 here.
Hand 25: I'm really confused by your thinking you just open folded A7 but you called a shove with A6????
Hand 26: Raise or Fold.
Hand 27: standard raise don't over bet: what worse hands are going to call?
Rest of HU: most of the time you should be raising or folding



like Dan said generally quit limping and calling, if you want to enter a pot raise.

balance your raises, you seem to raise quite a bit more with big hands and raise small with weaker hands.

make sure when you raise you think what weaker hands are going to call (value raise) or what stronger hands are going to fold (bluff), you seem to have the mindset i have a pair so i have to bet.

read Taipans post on SNG do's and dont's it will help HUGE.

[flopmonkey]

Now that I read your comments, I can see that I did loosen my range in this one. The last 4-5 games I was playing tight and got blinded out because I was dealt nothing but trash hands. This table seemed pretty tight so I loosened up a bit.

Is it not ok to call at least Sklansky group hands 5 and up as long as your getting good pot odds and have a high m-zone?

Hand 14, your right I should have raised, for some reason I get shy once my zone gets low (2nd to lowest here)

Hand 15, the BB was 100 so is that not a standard blind raise? I find it hard to get people to fold hands at this level so I tend to bet big and at least pot sized.

Hand 16 & 17, I don't know what I was thinking there. Hand 16 I should have raised.

As far as min betting, I never do it unless the BB are 100 or above, which seems to be just as effective as 3bb, but you are right, I should break that habit too.

My bubble play is terrible, I shouldn't have even posted that, at this point, I am just trying to GET to the bubble.

I appreciate your reviews, and I am not arguing or protesting them when I make a response. I am just telling you the thought processes (even if they are wrong) that was going through my head at the time.

[rong]

Hand 14, your right I should have raised, for some reason I get shy once my zone gets low (2nd to lowest here)

That's what you need to change, and is essentially what you take advantage of in others.

My suggestions:

1. Read Tai's dos n don'ts. You'll learn so muich from that.
2. Play more tables, maybe 4 at a time if you aren't already. Makes it easier to play tight, and easier to play more aggressive ie when blinds are high & you are shoving weaker hands, its hard when its a the entire of an hours play riding on it, not so bad when it's a quarter of an hours play.

[fulksy]

2. Play more tables, maybe 4 at a time if you aren't already. Makes it easier to play tight, and easier to play more aggressive ie when blinds are high & you are shoving weaker hands, its hard when its a the entire of an hours play riding on it, not so bad when it's a quarter of an hours play.

sorry, but i don't really agree with this, i can understand your reasoning. But i think that taking your time to think about why your raising, or trying to give players ranges, etc. etc. is far more valuable when your just learning. learning to play TAGG shouldn't come as a bi product of playing more tables. I would recommend just keep posting here.

[fulksy]

Hand 15, the BB was 100 so is that not a standard blind raise? I find it hard to get people to fold hands at this level so I tend to bet big and at least pot sized.

its more about balancing your raising, you raised 2.5X BB with KJ with a limber behind and 2XBB with Q9, and then with AA you raised 4X BB and with JJ you raised 3.5XBB. at this level not many will notice but its a habit you want to get out of, because observant players will catch on especially if you start moving up in stakes.

My bubble play is terrible, I shouldn't have even posted that, at this point, I am just trying to GET to the bubble.

This is the most important part of a SNG, so even if, or i guess especially if you think you have played bad on the bubble, post here. I have found it by far the best way to learn and fix leaks in my game.

[rong]

sorry, but i don't really agree with this, i can understand your reasoning. But i think that taking your time to think about why your raising, or trying to give players ranges, etc. etc. is far more valuable when your just learning. learning to play TAGG shouldn't come as a bi product of playing more tables. I would recommend just keep posting here.

I'd say you're correct here. But 1 table at a time is boring if you play tight, and it gets tempting to start playing more marginal hands.

However you are still definitely right in terms of getting your thinking correct, but I don't think playing more than 1 table will have a negative effect on that, perhaps 4 could be a leap too far too soon.

[fulksy]

I'd say you're correct here. But 1 table at a time is boring if you play tight, and it gets tempting to start playing more marginal hands.

However you are still definitely right in terms of getting your thinking correct, but I don't think playing more than 1 table will have a negative effect on that, perhaps 4 could be a leap too far too soon.

yea it can get very boring, just try and focus on making the right plays, and becoming Tagg will just come.

yea, i think two tables is OK, it still allows you enough time to focus on each game( get reads etc.)

[rong]

yea it can get very boring, just try and focus on making the right plays, and becoming Tagg will just come.

yea, i think two tables is OK, it still allows you enough time to focus on each game( get reads etc.)

I learnt playing 2 tables, I found that just enough action to keep me interested and enough time to focus on what's going on. Took me ages to multitable properly, really struggled with 4 tables for a while.

So yeah, ok, 4 tables def too much straight away.

[fulksy]

I learnt playing 2 tables, I found that just enough action to keep me interested and enough time to focus on what's going on. Took me ages to multitable properly, really struggled with 4 tables for a while.

So yeah, ok, 4 tables def too much straight away.

where you playing now, how man tables you play?

i stick to 4 max still, with no HUD if i play anymore and i have no reads what so ever.

[rong]

Max 9, normally 8, any more is too many for my laptop screen as I never got into stacking. But I'm mainly cash games these days. And always run a hud. Although I used to 6 table with only the sharkscope hud for a while, but just knowing who the long term winners were was enough of a read for torneys.