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GG DUDE 6th place for $49,284!!! Awesome scoreFT of million 9/9
Sick last hand, but nothing you can do about that!Had a decent one myself today...PokerStars Tournament #336010447, No Limit Hold'emBuy-In: $100.00/$9.00 USD2184 playersTotal Prize Pool: $218400.00 USDTournament started 2010/10/24 10:00:00 PT [2010/10/24 13:00:00 ET]Dear jjgoldy5,You finished the tournament in 3rd place. A USD 18,496.86 award has been credited to your Real Money account.You earned 809.74 tournament leader points in this tournament. For information about our tournament leader board
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wooooooooooooooooo nice cash bro
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Actually, take me off the alternate list. As much as I want to play because this is an amazing format for a satellite, I'm getting married, taking 1.5 honeymoons, and moving to L.A. (from Ohio) all during June.... don't think I can squeeze in 3 days to final table an event!Good luck all playing.Received on Stars. You're Welcome. -
Put me on the alternate list as well please!Thanks!yup -
Eastgate was originally scheduled to be on the show but he either "forgot" or snubbed them.FWIW, this is a really great podcast that usually comes out on Tuesdays. They get some really successful players and some really interesting people on there to interview. It's actually a really nice mix of poker strategy (and they get into real concepts) and fun stories.Yes, very good castcast all around. Didnt even know DN had won, so congrats!!BTW: Eastgate is also on the show. -
Pretty good podcast that you can get through iTunes or straight off of the 2+2 website...DN talks about small ball and the BCPC win.http://pokercast.twoplustwo.com/
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This is a running good/running really bad when it matters post:Within a two week span (approx) I final tabled the 3r on Stars (3500+ runners each time) 3 times.9th (AA < QQ aipf)9th (AQ < AK... biggest idiot at the table gets AK obv)9th (JJ < AA in blind battle)
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Shove pre and be happy to pick up the 20k pot imo. My reasoning is that you don't want to play a bloated pot OOP with AQo against the chipleader who can pressure you as one of the other top stacks.If you don't shove, I like your raise, and I'd lead at the pot for 25-30k + call a push.I agree w/ the half pot bet. i dont like a check/shove here because what if the villian does check (i know, slim chance). there are a ton of turn cards that can be real bad for our hand here. -
On your betting strategy, I like the idea of making bigger c-bets than some on the flop. If you actually have a hand, the size of the pot grows exponentially based on how many chips get in on the flop. You also may take down a couple pots with these stronger looking bets. As for the turn, if I have a very strong hand I'll look at how big of a bet I need to make in order for a reasonably sized river bet to get all of the chips in the middle.Somewhat related to your question, I have noticed that for the most part, the turn is where the most information can be determined from a hand. If someone is out of position, and fires a second barrel on the turn, you better have some real heat to continue with the hand. A lot of people will go for a pot control check on the turn if they have a marginal holding after being called on the flop. A second barrel is like a brazillion times more likely to be a bluff if the the bet is made from someone in position.Wow, this is excellent reasoning on why to bet the turn. I definitely prefer this line. I need to be thinking about what cards would scare me. I was really lucky that the river blanked or else I wouldn't have been able to raise. Well, really unlucky in retrospect, but you see what I mean.Here's some interesting math, guys. The pot as played is 2385. If I bet 200 on the flop, 340 (half) on the turn, and call 600 on the river as most of you would play it, the pot would be slightly bigger, 2565. If I played it the way I did, but in a more polished way (200 flop, check turn, 300+400 river), the pot would be 2085. I just decided to plug these in to see what would happen 'cause it's interesting.If we play the pot extremely carefully like Slacker, the pot would be much smaller, 1285. I disagree with this play though because I really think we are losing alot of value here, against AJ. I would just hate seeing all those chips still sitting pretty in his stack, when I know he would have called a small reraise.Your responses seem to be fairly kind, so I guess I didn't play the hand too badly. I was extremely confident in my misread though. I wonder how often I show up with the winning hand?Also, I tend to bet like 60-70% of the pot on both the flop and the turn. On an instinct level, I like betting more on the flop and less on the turn more, and so I will start doing that. Can you explain to me why this is a better strategy though so the non-instinctual part of me understands? :)By the way this post was written really late at night so sorry if it's confusing and jumbled. -
The effective stacks here are perfect for this situation, and a weak looking raise from the CO is ASKING to be shoved on. You want to get your chips in here, and standard opening is the best way to do that. You are going to get lots of smaller pairs and Ax type hands to shove on you, whereas if you open shove, you are going to fold out a vast majority of those type of hands.I understand your meta game strategy thoughts, but after you have shoved a couple more times (and not shown) everyone will realize that you have a much wider range. In essence, you are losing SO much value by open shoving this hand, that you cant make up for it with the slight gain you *might* get on another hand or two.This is entirely too deep to be open-shoving with 89s also. With this M you should be standard opening strong hands, hoping to get repopped and restealing when possible. You shouldn't be raise/folding anything at this point, and open shoving 89s from anything but maybe the button or SB has got to be ---ev.Really? No matter what your M is (that is, no matter what the stacks and blinds)? My whole game is pretty much based (in later stages) around open shoving. I'm much more reluctant (as we've been discussing in another thread) to shove when someone has already raised. I am much more into hanging back and attacking weakness and passivity than getting into big preflop battles with players who have already made a move on the pot. My Tournament Indicator tends to show me at late stages of MTTs as raising preflop more than anyone at the table (or top two at least); but the vast majority of the time that is open raising (meaning open shoving if stacks are short enough). -
Played against him a few times on Stars... I'd put him up there with Quasi Fiction and DNA2RNA (who are actually brothers) with players who are sick grinders and play very solid poker 100% of the time, letting other people's mistakes contribute to their win rate, rather than doing anything overly spectacular.
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I read through the past few hands in the hand history on Stars as well.Play tight, get a read on the table dynamics and adjust accordingly. You mention that sometimes the stack-blind ratio doesn't always make that possible. Of course that's true, so play as you normally would under those circumstances absent any reads on the table. If I make any adjustment, it is that I don't like playing post flop (especially out of position) with zero information, so I tend to end hands faster with slightly more shoves than normal (as opposed to standard opening raises).
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Maybe I'm way off base here, but do you guys always bet the flop, check the turn, and only call on the river when you flop a relatively safe top 2? I think you miss a ton of value by not betting the turn.After the flop we can put the villain on a few hands... some type of flush draw, a connected hand that caught a piece (45, 56, 78, 79, 89), or a weaker Ace-x type hand. I wouldn't worry about a set here.When the 8 hits on the turn, I would never ever slow down here, as that card only helped 45 (sure that's what he ended up having, but that's irrelevant). You're still going to get value from a lot of Ax type hands, and you don't want to give the other draws a free card.You should be pretty confident in your hand right now, but its rarely going to improve by the river. You could get counterfeited by an 8, or slowed down by a flush or straight card on the river. So take the opportunity to get chips in the pot while you are likely ahead, as you are going to be frozen on the river by a lot of cards, and won't be able to extract value by checking the turn and raising the river.A6/A8 make sense here. AT maybe too. Other random 2 pair hands/weaker aces maybe.I don't mind checking behind on the turn either, does give him a nice pot sized river shove if he check/calls which is not really what I want to see.As a general point, if I check behind on the turn I'd be MORE inclined to reraise the river with marginal holdings (like you have) than if I'd bet since your hand is underepped. However I don't think this is the case here since there's not a lot which bet/calls here which you beat since a load of weaker 2 pair hands check/call. -
I still can't understand why people call all-ins with QJo or limp/call shoves with 22...Exciting gamePokerStars Game #21521117436: Tournament #113896170, $200+$15 Hold'em No Limit - Level VII (400/800) - 2008/10/26 19:03:09 ETTable '113896170 130' 9-max Seat #9 is the buttonSeat 1: Simon79 (15850 in chips) Seat 2: zadignose (9750 in chips) Seat 3: BJDarter (16201 in chips) Seat 4: chek - raise (7300 in chips) Seat 5: joeaces (40965 in chips) Seat 6: yuPPed (28050 in chips) Seat 7: enakouzi (26350 in chips) Seat 8: banda7381 (49300 in chips) Seat 9: soprano222 (27355 in chips) Simon79: posts small blind 400zadignose: posts big blind 800*** HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to chek - raise [Qh Kd]BJDarter: folds chek - raise: raises 6500 to 7300 and is all-injoeaces: folds yuPPed: folds enakouzi: folds banda7381: folds soprano222: calls 7300Simon79: folds zadignose: folds *** FLOP *** [Js Tc Jc]*** TURN *** [Js Tc Jc] [6d]*** RIVER *** [Js Tc Jc 6d] [9d]*** SHOW DOWN ***chek - raise: shows [Qh Kd] (a straight, Nine to King)soprano222: shows [Jh Qc] (three of a kind, Jacks)chek - raise collected 15800 from pot*** SUMMARY ***Total pot 15800 | Rake 0 Board [Js Tc Jc 6d 9d]Seat 1: Simon79 (small blind) folded before FlopSeat 2: zadignose (big blind) folded before FlopSeat 3: BJDarter folded before Flop (didn't bet)Seat 4: chek - raise showed [Qh Kd] and won (15800) with a straight, Nine to KingSeat 5: joeaces folded before Flop (didn't bet)Seat 6: yuPPed folded before Flop (didn't bet)Seat 7: enakouzi folded before Flop (didn't bet)Seat 8: banda7381 folded before Flop (didn't bet)Seat 9: soprano222 (button) showed [Jh Qc] and lost with three of a kind, Jacks -
I would either raise enough preflop that you're committing to shoving on the flop, or keep the pot smaller so you don't kill yourself by getting check/raised when you miss. I don't like the PF raise size as its right in the middle, and makes the pot difficult to play post flop imo.This is one of those spots when I don't mind putting in a really big raise preflop just to get him to toss it. As you're on the bubble, let someone else get coolered while you pick up some blinds like this without confrontation.
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There's no "right answer" but a decision that is RIGHT more often than the other... agree?I think the only thing we differ on here is that you are leaning towards call/shove and I'm leaning towards fold. There's no right answer here, imo, just a decision that turns out to have either a good result or a bad result. -
Someone has to say it: BBFIDTS!They didn't exactly report the hand properly to get a full scope of how brutal the cooler was: Guy raised to 16k, I call from the cut off with AK, the button calls (rules out AA KK and AK completely) both blinds call for a five way action pot. Flop As Kd 7d. Checked to me and I bet 22k. The button makes it 160k! He has about 360k total so I figure I'm up against A-x of diamonds, 77, or A-7. I go all in and he calls. The fact that the Ace on board was a spade just crushes me. I can't fold because he played his hand like Ad Jd or something like that.
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You do have to be careful when thinking like this... as a good player that "factors in the value of their time" and starts to play differently than they normally do, may no longer be considered a "good" or, in other words, profitable playerThere is an argument to be made for gambling early in a MTT, figuring you want to build a big stack to really contend or else move on to the next one. I don't know if it's necessarily the optimal strategy, but Dan H. mentions this idea in one of the HoH books, that good players also have to factor in the value of their time and they don't want to waste time just muddling along without a lot of chips to work with.Alan -
I saw this hand and I thought it was a snap call. Was surprised so many advocated a fold.You have to put things in context.The guy just limp/called roughly 1/6th of his stack preflop after another caller... so we can figure that he's either A. an idiot (most likely) or B. a decent player playing bad because he's short stacked early.Either way, it makes no difference, this guy is playing bad and we can figure that out just based on his one action shown in this hand.I would push his range much closer to a some sort of connector like 7 8 or 7 9 rather than a king based on the donk-shove. I think we're ahead of him 80-90% of the time here. The interesting element of the hand is the SB still has to act behind us. What is he flatting with? Most likely some sort of middle pair that we're ahead of, as KQ should be folding OOP and AK would often reraise. This sort of donk-bet often puts us in difficult spots when we have a marginal holding and there are players to act behind us... however, I think this is a clear-cut call.Okay, fair enough. I can see calling here. -
Flop texture.I'd c-bet heads up, but I don't like a c-bet 4-way... you can catch a ton of cards on the turn that help you, and in position, you can get paid. Whereas, if you get check raised you have to dump the hand.Get it in on the turn!what makes you like c-betting that flop? is it because of only one high card and how the cards are spread out so it doesn't hit too many straights? -
Don't play crappy pairs and you won't run into as many set over set as the other guy.If it comes AXX you can sometimes get away from middle set, or if you are deep against a nit. If you're against an aggressive player it's very difficult, and almost never correct. -
GO GO GOCrushing faces. 20r 3k for first. 1/6 Vtlaxter09 on FTP. GLGLGLGLGL. -
I play it the same... I just dont think an ace leads into a short stack pre-flop raiser here almost ever.
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You're probably better off waiting for a 4-bet situation on the Russian with a lesser hand when he 3 bets anyone else at the table. Even if the tight guy folds, you can assume his 3b range is significantly tighter in this specific hand since the kid presumably had a few people left to act behind him as well. You obviously have the opener to worry about and from both of their perspectives you are laying them a decent price and giving them the chance to knock out the best player at the table.