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Play this hand like a champ:Full Tilt Poker Game #19662209399: $3 + $0.30 KO Sit & Go (150269599), Table 5 - 3000/6000 Ante 750 - No Limit Hold'em - 16:33:44 ET - 2010/03/29Seat 2: MaxStPolish (74,321)Seat 3: Lush Lawn (195,679)MaxStPolish antes 750Lush Lawn antes 750Lush Lawn posts the small blind of 3,000MaxStPolish posts the big blind of 6,000The button is in seat #3*** HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to MaxStPolish [5h 6d]Lush Lawn calls 3,000MaxStPolish checks*** FLOP *** [Kd 3s 2s]MaxStPolish checksLush Lawn checks*** TURN *** [Kd 3s 2s] [3d]MaxStPolish bets 6,000Lush Lawn raises to 12,000MaxStPolish raises to 24,000Lush Lawn foldsUncalled bet of 12,000 returned to MaxStPolishMaxStPolish mucksMaxStPolish wins the pot (37,500)*** SUMMARY ***Total pot 37,500 | Rake 0Board: [Kd 3s 2s 3d]Seat 2: MaxStPolish (big blind) collected (37,500), muckedSeat 3: Lush Lawn (small blind) folded on the TurnJust to result in this hand 2 hands later:Full Tilt Poker Game #19662234592: $3 + $0.30 KO Sit & Go (150269599), Table 5 - 3000/6000 Ante 750 - No Limit Hold'em - 16:34:41 ET - 2010/03/29Seat 2: MaxStPolish (99,821)Seat 3: Lush Lawn (170,179)MaxStPolish antes 750Lush Lawn antes 750Lush Lawn posts the small blind of 3,000MaxStPolish posts the big blind of 6,000The button is in seat #3*** HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to MaxStPolish [3h 6s]Lush Lawn calls 3,000MaxStPolish checks*** FLOP *** [7d 4c 5d]MaxStPolish bets 6,000Lush Lawn raises to 31,500MaxStPolish raises to 93,071, and is all inLush Lawn calls 61,571MaxStPolish shows [3h 6s]Lush Lawn shows [2s 7s]*** TURN *** [7d 4c 5d] [7c]*** RIVER *** [7d 4c 5d 7c] [2d]MaxStPolish shows a straight, Seven highLush Lawn shows a full house, Sevens full of TwosLush Lawn wins the pot (199,642) with a full house, Sevens full of TwosMaxStPolish stands up*** SUMMARY ***Total pot 199,642 | Rake 0Board: [7d 4c 5d 7c 2d]Seat 2: MaxStPolish (big blind) showed [3h 6s] and lost with a straight, Seven highSeat 3: Lush Lawn (small blind) showed [2s 7s] and won (199,642) with a full house, Sevens full of Twosfa;dklsfjasdlkfjasl;kfjaslfkjas

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Hi everybody.I don't play NLHE often. I'm currently playing a 90 man KO on tilt.Get this 1st hand. Plz tell me how I could have played this different to acquire stack(s):feral_cow_icon.gifonce a cow has a taste for violence, it reverts. it becomes feral.Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em t15/t30 - 9 playersSB: t3,000 (Hero)BB: t3,000 UTG: t3,000 UTG+1: t3,000 MP: t3,000 MP2: t3,000 HJ: t3,000 CO: t3,000 Button: t3,000 Preflop: (t45) Hero is SB with :4h:5c (9 players)UTG folds, UTG+1 calls t30, 2 folds, HJ calls t30, CO calls t30, Button raises to t60, Hero calls t45, BB calls t30, UTG+1 calls t30, HJ calls t30, CO calls t30Flop: (t360) :qh:3h:club: (6 players)Hero checks, BB bets t120, UTG+1 calls t120, 2 folds, Button calls t120, Hero calls t120Turn: (t840) :ts (4 players)Hero checks, BB bets t210, UTG+1 calls t210, Button calls t210, Hero raises to t1,890, 3 foldsHero won t1,680
I probably wouldn't have raised so much on the turn. I'd raise to like 1200ish. I think we lose some value by raising that much. If we raise to 1200, it sets up a nice river shove if we get flatted.
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Edit: Good point HWY. My initial thought was being 1st hand a 3.30 to take one more card and let as many of these schmo's get a piece of the board as possible.Is this ATC land? I struggled with my decision. It paid off here, and I think his range is wide enough that I'm getting odds to call.....but i feel like J2 is just bad enough to pitch it.feral_cow_icon.gifFeral Cow Poker Hand ConverterFull Tilt No-Limit Hold'em t1500/t3000 ante t400 - 8 playersSB: t15,944 BB: t48,797 (Hero)UTG: t65,562 UTG+1: t15,506 MP: t37,022 HJ: t16,220 CO: t22,690 Button: t48,259 Preflop: (t7,700) Hero is BB with :5c:D (8 players)6 folds, SB raises to t15,544, and is all in, Hero calls t12,544Flop: (t34,288) :D:ts:D (2 players)Turn: (t34,288) :club: (2 players)River: (t34,288) :jh (2 players)SB showed :4h:qh, and lost with a pair of AcesHero showed :3h:D, and won (34,288) with two pair, Jacks and TwosHero won t34,288
By my calculation you're not quite getting 3:1 (I count ~9000 to call into a pot of ~23000) and the call still amounts to 25% of your remaining stack. I pitch it. But I'm sure Lurbz is going to come along and tell me this is awful.
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By my calculation you're not quite getting 3:1 (I count ~9000 to call into a pot of ~23000) and the call still amounts to 25% of your remaining stack. I pitch it. But I'm sure Lurbz is going to come along and tell me this is awful.
For once you're right, this spot is a fold.
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By my calculation you're not quite getting 3:1 (I count ~9000 to call into a pot of ~23000) and the call still amounts to 25% of your remaining stack. I pitch it. But I'm sure Lurbz is going to come along and tell me this is awful.
if you're getting 3:1 this is ATC....However you're getting < 2:1. (12.5 into like 23)
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And why would leading the flop be awful?
That flop hit no one except another set at which point it's just a cooler, and no one is realistically limp/calling a hand that picked up a draw with it. We can check/value raise or check/call/value lead turn and get a ton more here by letting another card peel off and hopefully someone picks a draw or hits weak. It's a Turbo KO, so we're looking for big value, not small ball. No flushes complete on turn, either, so we're not scared of letting another card peel off to add value.
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That flop hit no one except another set at which point it's just a cooler, and no one is realistically limp/calling a hand that picked up a draw with it. We can check/value raise or check/call/value lead turn and get a ton more here by letting another card peel off and hopefully someone picks a draw or hits weak. It's a Turbo KO, so we're looking for big value, not small ball. No flushes complete on turn, either, so we're not scared of letting another card peel off to add value.
Just to let you know, I much prefer this response to your first one...
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Semi interesting spot.$52 90 man KO on FTP. No real reads other than the guy in MP was looshish - something like 45/14 over a small sample.1 $8 bounty up for grabs!Just a maths problem i guess. I think I snap off 2 people...but 3? How likely is it that a 2 doesn't show up here..feral_cow_icon.gifv1.13A pack of feral cows chewed their cuds for .0043 seconds to convert this handFull Tilt No-Limit Hold'em t30/t60 - 9 playersHJ exxplicit: t2,885 CO lilico: t3,815 Button LANSING14: t3,750 SB Josverdo: t3,495 BB barhoud1: t2,725 UTG Hero: t2,940 UTG+1 white men: t1,370 MP Bodeye2: t2,905 MP2 gmm1st: t6,020 Preflop: (t90) Hero is UTG with :ts: :5c: (9 players)Hero raises to t180, 2 folds, gmm1st calls t180, 3 folds, Josverdo calls t150, barhoud1 calls t120Flop: (t720) :club:: :4h: :3h: (4 players)Josverdo checks, barhoud1 checks, Hero bets t420, gmm1st raises to t900, Josverdo raises to t3,315, and is all in, barhoud1 calls t2,545, and is all in, Hero.

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seems like gmm1st has (KQ,KJ,K..) I think he would raise more with a deuce to get value from draws or kings....very unlikely he's raising a flush draw against 3 players anda UTG raiser....which leaves Josverdo and barhoud1......barhoud1 could have a deuce especially since he's calling from the big blind and he's kinda short.Joverdo hand seems like a flush draw to me. Don't see many people calling with a deuce on the small blind + given the action i don't see him just callling with an ace high flush draw.I would actually like to hear your thought on the hand :club:

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In the moment this is close to impossible to work out - and it's not an easy spot intuitively. I think it all comes down to how likely someone is to have a 2...cause that's all that beats you in theory ... KK seems extremely unlikely combinatorically and based on action.A2s and 22 are probably a part of all their ranges, but other than that there are probably no 2x hands anywhere expect in the BB who could feasibly have a fairly wide range of 2x suited hands and a couple of offsuit, if he's bad (likely since this is FTP). If there's no 2 in there you can probably assume there is at least one flush draw which is going to have 40% equity or so, if there are 2 flush draws, the bigger one is gonna have ~30%. Any Kx hand is drawing to it's kicker or a chop so has around 12% equity - given it needs to fade. So when we get it in good, we're probably around 50-60%. This is something you can probably estimate in the moment.However it's pretty much impossible to guess how likely it is someone has a 2 in the moment. I can't even hazard a reliable guess now and doing the work isn't easy. For an educated guess I'd say around 60% of the time though I could be way off. Very rough maths: we need to call 2.5k to win around (3000+3000+2500+420+720) = about 8750 so 3.5:1 pot odds. This assumes the MP raiser stacks off with whatever he has - probably quite likely.3.5 : 1 means we need about 22% equity to call this off.Assume there has a 2 x% and we are drawing to 1 out (likely someone else has a king) and a couple of running outs - say 5%. Assume we are 55% the other times. So x *0.05 + (1-x)*0.55 > 0.22 for us to make a call. -0.5x + 0.55 > 0.22 leads to x < 0.66So there needs to be a 2 out there less than 66% of the time for us to call.There are a ton of assumptions and estimations so this is probably off by +/-10% easily (or more)After that, I guess I need to look at ranges and decide how much of them is FDs and Kx and how much is 2x. That is not easy...I think vs 2 people (obv we would have different pot odds etc) you're gonna see a FD and Kx probably more than often enough to stack off here. Vs 3 I'm really not sure.So basically, I'm not really sure...I folded in the moment.

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What is villain's range here on the flop? 3x raise to induce a shove from the shorties, should I shove myself instead even though I can comfortably raise 3x here? Villain has been competent so far in this SNG, no real reads other than that.feral_cow_icon.gifFeral Cow Poker Hand ConverterPokerStars No-Limit Hold'em ($3.00+$0.40) t100/t200 ante t25 - 7 playersBB: t3,240 UTG: t1,825 UTG+1: t3,245 (Hero)HJ: t1,675 CO: t1,545 Button: t2,465 SB: t1,005 Preflop: (t475) Hero is UTG+1 with Qs.gifQd.gif (7 players)UTG folds, Hero raises to t600, 4 folds, BB calls t400Flop: (t1,475) 4h.gifKs.gif6s.gif (2 players)BB bets t800, Hero ???BB collected t1475

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If he's competent, he's not going to be playing speculative hands and he would know not to tangle with the one stack at the table that can bust him without the goods to back it up. So I'd say his range is probably very narrow and beating you pretty badly (AA/KK/AK, maybe KQ). I just can't see a competent SnGer playing any hand you beat this way.

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I don't have the hand history for this so I'll try and remember the exact numbers as well as I can, if I find the HH I'll post it.Dealer: Villain 1 1600SB: Villain 2 11200BB: Me 2200$3.40 NL 10-max Tubro on Stars: Blinds 200/400Hero is dealt: __ __Preflop: Villain 1 shoves, Villain 2 calls, Hero (1800 behind) ???.Given the large % of the chips Villain 2 has, I feel that I need to maximize profit by trying to make 2nd place. A flat from me is horrible, so I either shove to maximize the chance that Villain 1 gets knocked out (assume Villain 1 calls my shove 100% of the time as he should) or fold to make sure I see another hand.What range of cards would you shove with in this situation?

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I don't have the hand history for this so I'll try and remember the exact numbers as well as I can, if I find the HH I'll post it.Dealer: Villain 1 1600SB: Villain 2 11200BB: Me 2200$3.40 NL 10-max Tubro on Stars: Blinds 200/400Hero is dealt: __ __Preflop: Villain 1 shoves, Villain 2 calls, Hero (1800 behind) ???.Given the large % of the chips Villain 2 has, I feel that I need to maximize profit by trying to make 2nd place. A flat from me is horrible, so I either shove to maximize the chance that Villain 1 gets knocked out (assume Villain 1 calls my shove 100% of the time as he should) or fold to make sure I see another hand.What range of cards would you shove with in this situation?
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Proper folds of AK ITT:PokerStars Game #43240979964: Tournament #266924681, $11+$1 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XII (800/1600) - 2010/04/26 16:43:56 PT [2010/04/26 19:43:56 ET]Table '266924681 1' 9-max Seat #4 is the buttonSeat 1: chauncy (15894 in chips) Seat 2: Frenzuh (11532 in chips) Seat 3: Zalpha Dog (8727 in chips) Seat 4: Ju4ok (5855 in chips) Seat 6: BBsRJReich (11611 in chips) Seat 7: asgbawler (10568 in chips) Seat 9: BigSlik1971 (3313 in chips) chauncy: posts the ante 75Frenzuh: posts the ante 75Zalpha Dog: posts the ante 75Ju4ok: posts the ante 75BBsRJReich: posts the ante 75asgbawler: posts the ante 75BigSlik1971: posts the ante 75BBsRJReich: posts small blind 800asgbawler: posts big blind 1600*** HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to BBsRJReich [As Kd]BigSlik1971: folds chauncy: raises 14219 to 15819 and is all-inFrenzuh: calls 11457 and is all-inZalpha Dog: folds Ju4ok: folds BBsRJReich: folds asgbawler: folds Uncalled bet (4362) returned to chauncy*** FLOP *** [Th 6c Tc]*** TURN *** [Th 6c Tc] [9c]*** RIVER *** [Th 6c Tc 9c] [6d]*** SHOW DOWN ***chauncy: shows [Jc Jh] (two pair, Jacks and Tens)Frenzuh: shows [Ac 7s] (two pair, Tens and Sixes)chauncy collected 25839 from potBBsRJReich said, "wp nick"

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Does this very short range imply that my premise of "In this situation I should call to try and improve the chances of the knockout" is faulty? Why did you choose that range?
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Does this very short range imply that my premise of "In this situation I should call to try and improve the chances of the knockout" is faulty? Why did you choose that range?
Villain 1 (Shover) range isn't wide enough to risk that, and Villain 2 (Caller) range isn't wide enough either. We still have room to work even if Shover doubles.
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What is villain's range here on the flop? 3x raise to induce a shove from the shorties, should I shove myself instead even though I can comfortably raise 3x here? Villain has been competent so far in this SNG, no real reads other than that.feral_cow_icon.gifFeral Cow Poker Hand ConverterPokerStars No-Limit Hold'em ($3.00+$0.40) t100/t200 ante t25 - 7 playersBB: t3,240 UTG: t1,825 UTG+1: t3,245 (Hero)HJ: t1,675 CO: t1,545 Button: t2,465 SB: t1,005 Preflop: (t475) Hero is UTG+1 with Qs.gifQd.gif (7 players)UTG folds, Hero raises to t600, 4 folds, BB calls t400Flop: (t1,475) 4h.gifKs.gif6s.gif (2 players)BB bets t800, Hero ???BB collected t1475
I dont like the bolded. A 3x is more likely to scare shorties away giving them less fold equity (even though we know there is none) if they jam. i prefer a mini raise, or a 2.5x max. much more appealing to shove a 1500 stack over 400 than shoving a 1500 stack over 600 if you put yourself in their shoes.
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@tbrick: I was 3x'ing to stay consistent with earlier blind levels, even though the competition at this level won't necessarily notice, but I see your point thx.
I don't think you need to worry about balancing anything in these. People mostly play their cards until they get desperate, so like you said, nobody notices anything other than what's in front of them. You should pick your open raise sizes for each blind level and stick with it, and just make specific player adjustments.
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In case anyone decides to drop in...This is from fairly early in a 9-man turbo Step 2 to the WSOP ME on Tilt.Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em Tournament, 40/80 Blinds (8 handed) - Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.comBB (t905)Hero (UTG) (t1315)UTG+1 (t1490)MP1 (t2970)MP2 (t1880)CO (t2790)Button (t880)SB (t1270)Hero's M: 10.96Preflop: Hero is UTG with Qspade.gif, Aspade.gifHero bets t200, 3 folds, CO calls t200, 3 foldsFlop: (t520) Kheart.gif, Jdiamond.gif, Jheart.gif(2 players)Hero ???Do you CB here? If so, how much? Top 5 stay in the system, the rest get nada (5th goes down to step 1, 3/4 play step 2 again, 1/2 win a step 3 ticket).

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Here's another one, from a Step 3 this time.Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em Tournament, 50/100 Blinds (8 handed) - Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.comHero (Button) (t1900)SB (t2400)BB (t1225)UTG (t1640)UTG+1 (t1030)MP1 (t1520)MP2 (t2470)CO (t1315)Hero's M: 12.67Preflop: Hero is Button with Jdiamond.gif, Jclub.gif2 folds, MP1 bets t350, 2 folds, Hero ???Villain had been playing 35/8 through a small sample of 26 hands. Calling could get me in a very tough spot postflop, and shoving could run me into QQ-AA. I have a fairly healthy stack at this point (relative to the rest of the table) and it would absolutely suck to bust out here.

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Hand 1, I probably just ship pre. Pretty close to shove fold so I hate playing flops with 15ish bb. As played, depends on reads. Even though you have a gutter ball and one over, its a pretty ugly flop.Hand 2, all in, gl. No way you flat here.

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