C ONTENTS Beginners Guide to HU SnG.................................................................................................. 3 HU SNG Bible ....................................................................................................................... 7 A Guide to the 25-50 Blind Level Part 1: Basic Play .............................................................. 8 Proper HU SNG PF ranges ..................................................................................................13 Playing with 20BBs or less ...................................................................................................15 The Anatomy of a Continuation Bet ......................................................................................17 Dealing with limpers; dealing with constant min-bettors ........................................................20 Check Raise Bluffing Flops ..................................................................................................25 When Overbetting is Nash Equilibrium .................................................................................28 Rake, tournament equity and hourly rate ..............................................................................32 Critical Points of Villain's 3-Betting Behavior.........................................................................39 Finishing an opponent heads-up: sage, nash and chubukov. ...............................................43 Three bet shoving with 25BB effective ..................................................................................49 Poker Success .....................................................................................................................53 BR Management and You ....................................................................................................64 Success, Failure, and the Downswing Mindset .....................................................................67 You suck at poker.................................................................................................................72 mjw006 spews random thoughts... .......................................................................................77 spamz' first hand history review ............................................................................................81 spamz' second hand history review ....................................................................................127 spamz' third hand history review.........................................................................................185 spamz' fourth hand history review ......................................................................................237 spamz' sixth hand history review ........................................................................................326 spamz' seventh hand history review ...................................................................................391 spamz' eighth hand history review ......................................................................................429 spamz' ninth hand history review ........................................................................................463 spamz' tenth hand history review........................................................................................498 spamz' eleventh hand history review ..................................................................................524 A Bad Habit of 3-betting and Range Choice .......................................................................558 A Discussion on Bet Sizing .................................................................................................561 Suited Connectors, Implied Odds, and You ........................................................................567 Shania, balancing, and what you really need to know ........................................................573
22 Flawed Reasonings in HUSNG Poker ...........................................................................578 22 Flawed Reasonings In HUSNG Poker (Part 2) ..............................................................582 Indy's interview with Stevesbets .........................................................................................586 Indy‟s interview with BCM11 ...............................................................................................591
B EGINNERS G UIDE TO HU S N G So why should you play HU sngs? Basically there is no other form of poker where you can make so much money per hour with a relatively small bankroll. If you are a 10% ROI or higher player you could easily take $500 and play the 22s on FT for a little under $20 an hour 1 tabling with almost no risk of ruin. If you were to compare that to other forms of poker you would need a $1k+ bankroll 4 tabling 50nl or about $1500 playing the 16 9-man turbos 8 tabling to make a similar hourly rate (dont get on my ass about numbers Im just giving you an idea). Clearly this is a great way to build a bankroll if your starting low.
Where should you play? The two main choices are Full Tilt and Pokerstars, Ive never played at UB so I cant comment on that but I know they have a rematch button. If hourly rate is your goal in playing HU sngs Full Tilt is cleary the best choice, it has a super fast structure relative to PS and the players are worse IMO. Over my career I averaged 7.5 matches per hour at the FT 33s and below and 7 at the 110s (PS turbos average about 5 per hour) and higher now imagine that with a 10% ROI your making 75% of a buyin per hour which is sick good and thats not even the ceiling if you are really good. One thing you should note, you should never try and play on a site that offers HU sngs with a 10% rake, there is practically no way the amount of fishy players on the small site can compensate for the extra 5% in rake. How should you keep track of your matches? Ive only used PT, HEM but it works very well and it will give you everything you need and I imagine a lot of you already have it. It will tell you your hourly, matches per hour, ROI, win %, help you review hands, bring up stats from old matches etc I love it
Should you multitable? 99% of the time I played one table and I was able to make over $100 an hour doing so I never worried about multitabling. Not to mention I never got comfortable playing more than one so I never did but I know for a fact there are people successfully grinding 2, 3, 4 and more HU sngs at a time, but you should note that multitabling different villains in HU sngs is a very different skill from multitabling other forms of poker, I have 16-tabled 9man SNGs but I couldnt handle more than one table of HU sng profitably. Its really a factor of how quickly you can think and make accurate reads rather than your clicking speed not to mention your ROI will be lower and variance will be higher which are two of the really big factors that appeal to people who play HU sngs. What about the variance? The thing about variance in HU sngs is that the actual swings can be fairly large relative to swings in buyins you would experience in like a 6max NL cash game but the high hourly rate tends to soften this quite a bit. I personally have lost 10 straight matches at the 33s where I averaged 17.5% ROI over 400 matches lifetime and I was really happy with all my play and never tilted in any of the 10 matches. My biggest downswing top to bottom was 17 buyins. Now I know that sounds quite harsh but think about it this way, if you work hard you could easily put in 40 matches a day so my biggest downswing would have lasted about half a day, not so bad dont you think? What skills does HU take? One thing that is difficult about HU is that it takes a very different skillset from your normal shorthanded or full ring poker. So as a fun exercise Ill rank the skills I think are most important. 1. Hand reading-This encompasses a lot things including being able to put together a strong accurate read of villain and understand how he is thinking through hands. If you cant read your opponent as well as he reads you, you are the fish even if you have a good general strategy and he has lots of leaks. When you are playing HU you can compensate for a lot of shortcomings if your a great hand reader, too bad this is probably one the hardest most ambigious skills to develop. I started to really develop in this area when I began to read my
entire HHs front to back 2-3 times a day, lots of work but its rewarding. 2. Tilt Control-Tilt is going to hurt you fast HU because you never have time to take a back seat and stop making decisions. This is the undoing of a lot of players who never tilt when they play normal cash games or SNGs, HU is going to test your mental toughness for sure. 3. Adjusting-The faster you adjust your game to meet how your villain is playing this hand in the moment the bigger your edge is going to be, this was always very hard for me I always love to open a wide range from the button even when its not always correct. 4. Playing a 14-25bb effective stack-This is what I like to call the red zone of HU sng's you can get a HUGE edge here because almost everyone I know plays like crap with these stack sizes, including 2p2ers. If you play turbos this is where you are going to be playing a majority of the time. Strategy here is not clear cut and it is going to test pretty much all your poker skills to the maximum, these stacks sizes are also a major reason I think its super hard to multitable HU sngs. What else should you know? -SAGE which is a game theory perfect system for 8bb or less. Note game theory perfect means its unexploitable but does not mean it is the most profitable strategy against a villain with an incorrect strategy.
-Tilt control, I told you this was an important skill but I am going to share my thoughts on this. Tilt is always going to be with you when you play poker its going to be a constant battle no matter how good you are at controlling yourself. You need to learn what your personal triggers are because its going to be different for everyone, for me personally losing a lot of money just doesnt get me angry but there are things that send me off the wall into super tilt monkey mode. One thing I learned personally is that burnout is a very dangerous tilt inducer, I dropped out with a 3k bankroll and forced myself to work very very hard at first but I wasnt getting the results I wanted and the money swings hurt
more. When you have a balanced life if you run bad at poker its not going to hurt as much and on the same token when something bad happens outside of poker dont expect to continue playing your same game unaffected.I hope this helps you all and I also hope this encourages those of you who may have been hesitatant to start contributing to do so. -
Cwar
HU SNG B IBLE
HUSNG = Heads Up Sit N Go BB = Big Blind SB = Small Blind OOP = Out of Position 3-bet = A reraise or raising when a player raises your bet. Effective Stacks = The stack size of the player with the least amount of chips, or the maximum amount of chips either player can win if they both are all in. Two barrel = Betting the flop and then the turn. Implied Odds = The ratio of your total expected win when your card hits to the present cost of calling a bet (TOP P. 55) - ChicagoRy
A G UIDE TO THE 25-50 B LIND L EVEL P ART 1: B ASIC P LAY This is the first of a four part series on how to play in the 25-50 level of Heads Up Sit N‟ Gos. In the first article you will learn some of the differences that separate the 25-50 level from the earlier blind levels. For clarity‟s sake, these articles will mainly apply to situations you face in the 25-50 level, regardless of the stack sizes in other levels of play. For example, there is one key difference between being 25bb deep in the 25-50 level and being 25bb deep in the 10-20 level: How your opponent is going to play. Most opponents are going to play very differently in these two cases even though they should play nearly identical in both. For this main reason I want to focus on situations that come up in the 25-50 level. When identifying the basic differences between this level and previous levels, you will notice the effective stack sizes are generally 15-30 big blinds at the start of the 25-50 level. At the earlier levels you are usually deeper stacked and have more room to “maneuver” with bets and raises. At the 50-100 level most of your play is going to be shove or fold preflop with a little bit of exception. But in the 25-50 level of play you‟re often stuck in between. This often puts additional pressure on players and makes a lot of decisions unclear in their mind. Another thing you should realize is that a mistake in this level is very costly. In the earlier levels of play you can make a mistake or two and lose 10-15% of your stack in doing so. In the 25-50 level you‟ll regularly see players lose 25-50% or more of their chips on one bad play here. Fortunately, if you pay attention to these articles and work hard to improve your game, your opponents will be making many more costly errors than you. Let‟s take a look at preflop raising. A common mistake players make is committing too many chips into the pot preflop. As the blinds go up and the ratio to your stack sizes goes down, position starts to matter less. Common raise sizing when 20-
30bb deep should be 2-2.5x the big blind, or 100-125 chips in this level. Under special circumstances a 3x raise may apply, but this is rare and unnecessary to go over in this article. You will notice many players raising to 150-200 chips during this level with stack sizes of any amount. We will learn why this is usually bad and how to exploit it in the third article. Now that you‟ve got a handle on preflop raise sizes, we can talk about the difference in preflop hand values. In the 25-50 level a lot of hands that were valuable to raise in previous levels will go down in value. Hands like suited connectors (56s, 78s) go down in value as the stack to blind ratio goes down. These are speculative hands and the main advantage of these speculative hands is the implied odds that you have with them. Your implied odds go down as the blind-stack ratio becomes smaller, meaning hands that make top pair are going to be going up in value while lower-card hands that need to make flushes, straights and two pair hands are going to go down in value. So does this mean you should fold hands like 67s on the button when effective stacks are 20-25bb? Not necessarily. You have to be careful on overplaying them and committing too many chips to the pot in certain situations. We‟ll get into when you should minraise, limp and fold this type of hand in the next article. We‟ve covered some of the preflop differences in this level, so let‟s get into some postflop play. In one word, you postflop play in the 25-50 level should be “aggressive.” As a whole, you want to be stabbing out at a lot of pots against most players in this level. Players generally respond to aggression by being very over aggressive in this level or by playing very weak. You should be able to identify which kind of player you are playing very early on in this level. Article 2 will go into greater detail about how to adjust accordingly to this. Continuation-bets should rise in frequency, but not necessarily value. If anything, you can sometimes continuation bet as low as half pot in this level. This, of course, is player dependent. A 150
cbet into a 250 chip pot is probably the standard, or a 125 into a 200 pot. You‟re also going to want to turn down your two barrel bluffing percentage. As the pot builds from preflop to the flop and then the turn, players will feel more pot committed when calling a street. The more bets they call the more of their stack is in the pot, therefore they will end up calling with a wider range of hands. There are still spots to bluff/semi-bluff, but it is generally harder and less frequent in this level. Since we‟ve gone over the main facets of preflop and postflop play, let‟s put it all together and go over a couple of basic hand examples. Reads on villain: Villain rarely folds preflop OOP. He will reraise his big hands preflop and raises a lot of limps. He has become more aggressive post flop as the game has gone on. Hero (2100 chips) Villain (900 chips) Hero is in the small blind with (Kd7s) K7o is a pretty strong hand 18 big blinds deep. Villain is calling a lot OOP and will reraise us with most, if not all of his premium hands preflop. Add in the fact that he raises limps aggressively and this hand is a clear raise preflop. Hero raises to 100 chips. Villain calls. Flop Kh8d4d (Pot is 200) Villain checks, Hero bets 125 chips, Villain raises to 800 and is all in. Villain has been very aggressive postflop. If the effective stacks were deeper it would probably be incorrect to move forward in this hand because villain would be less aggressive, meaning the range of hands he would be raising would include more Kx hands that have us dominated and more two pair or three of a
kind hands. In this situation villain has shown more aggression as the stacks have become shallower compared to the blinds and the board has a clear flush draw out there. Villain may think his 8 is good here or may even be raising with some sort of gutshot straight draw. In this case we will call and feel confident that we are ahead of villain‟s range. Hero calls 675 chips. Villain flips over 9d7d. Hero‟s pair holds and he wins the game. This hand demonstrates the problem of calling OOP with too wide a range of hands when the blinds to stack-ratio is small. The hand also shows the difference in strength of hands in “short” stack to blind areas compared to situations in which we are deeper stacked.
----------------------------------Reads: Villain has been pretty loose and aggressive in the early part of the match. He has seemed to slow down lately but is still raising often preflop. Hero has been card dead most of the game and has won very few pots. The pots hero has won have been medium-large sized pots. Hero (1200 chips) Villain (1800 chips) Hero is in the BB with 5s2c. Villain calls 50 chips. Hero checks. Flop KdTh4s Here the flop has completely missed us. There are few draws on the board, a possible straight draw, but no flush draws. Villain has been raising often preflop so a lot of Kx and some Tx hands are not in his range. QJ is not likely in his range either. A lead bet here is good and should take down the pot very often.
Hero bets 70 chips. Villain folds. If Villain had called here, we would give up on our hand and check/fold the turn and river almost all of the time. If villain had raised we would certainly fold. The two hands above and the concepts described before them should give you a good idea of the key differences between the 25-50 play and the earlier levels of the game. The difference in starting hand values, preflop raises and controlled aggression are important to becoming a winning 25-50 player.
P ROPER HU SNG PF RANGES You want to raise as many BTNs as you can get away with before/unless villain adjusts. So theoretically you can start off by opening 100% and seeing how villain responds. Some people will start off at 85-90%, because opening 100% has a certain feel to it that causes some villains to play back faster ('omg he's blindly clicking raise every time he has the BTN') than if you occasionally fold your BTN ('oh he has some standards, even if they're minimal.') You may want to start reducing your BTN opens if villain starts 3betting a lot and is hyper-aggro in 3-bet pots / doesn't fold easily to positional pressure and is generally hyper-aggro OOP / will pay you off lightly but will not go away often enough when you have air unless you put stacks into play every time. In such cases, opening super-wide might still be profitable if you're skilled post-flop, but the match becomes much easier to play if you reduce your opens to like 60%-75%, especially since most villains of the type I described won't adjust well. (For example, there are hugely losing villains whose basic approach is to try to win every pot, literally, no matter how many chips they risk and almost no matter what kind of resistance you put up. Opening super-wide against them can get really tough if you're not running hot or sick good, because you basically have to show them a hand or bluff for stacks or fold and bleed off chips every time you enter a pot.) As far as raise-sizing pf goes, I recommend HokieGreg's advice (which I presume is standard) when getting started, until you design a scheme of your own that you prefer for whatever reason. The key is that your pf raise-sizing should take effective
stack size into account. You don't want to be opening 3x when too shallow, because it's pretty easy to exploit by 3-bet shoving, unless you open a ridiculously low percentage of hands. There are posts about this on this forum; search for "3-bet shoving 25 bbs deep" by Insane_Steve. Anyway, HokieGreg's advice: raise 3x between 75-51 bbs deep, raise 2.5x between 50-30 bbs deep, and raise 2x between 30-13 bbs deep. Below that, a lot of people start playing push-or-fold preflop, using the Nash Equilibrium tables as a guide. As far as limping is concerned, some people never/rarely do it, and stick to raise-or-fold pf, and do just fine. Others will limp anything they're not raising, until villain starts attacking their limps, and then they'll mix in some strong hands into their limps and fold the very worst of their limping hands, in order to make life harder for villain. I typically don't limp until the effective stack is less than 23bbs, then I start doing it with many weakish and some strong hands. So there's a lot of flexibility in this arena. Finally, you say OOP you call anything remotely decent and raise all decent hands to 3 bb. I'm not sure exactly what ranges you mean here, but I strongly recommend starting out by playing very tight OOP. You can call min-raises a little wider than 3x raises, but the key is to play OOP pots much less frequently than pots in position. Look for hands that flop well, where both cards can make a decent pair, so K9s > A2o. Also watch how frequently your opponent raises; you don't want to be calling with dominated hands against a nitty BTN-raiser (they do show up.) Your OOP play is of course conditioned but how well or poorly villain plays post-flop. Some guys will give you free turns when they miss and check/fold when they don't connect and you fire turn or river. Others will c-bet 100% but play very weakly against frequent check-raises. But please, please start off by playing tightly OOP. And if someone limps into your BB, don't raise their limp with a wide range until you know exactly what you're doing. Start off by only raising limps with something like 88+, QJ+, KT+, AT+, and taking free flops with the rest of your hands. -
Lagdonk
P LAYING W ITH 20BB S OR LESS At 20 bbs down to which ever stack depth you think pure pushor-fold* should start (whether it's 10/9/8/7/6 BBs -- villain dependent, ideally): Typically, you should try a mixture of limps and min-raises on the BTN. The earlier phases of the match should give you some clues about how villain will respond. Any of these BTN pf strategies can be appropriate against the right villain: 1) Min-raise ~70%+ of hands, fold the rest -- because villain rarely 3-bet shoves, folds many of his big blinds, and/or plays fitor-fold on the flop when you c-bet. 2) Min-raise ~40% of hands, limp a whole bunch more, and fold trash -- because villain is a bit more active in raised pots, so you want your range to be stronger, and to be able to call a 3-bet shove pf more often than a 70% range can; but villain will let you limp without punishing you, and lets you take down limped pots reasonably often with a simple stab on the flop. 3) Similar to the above, but mix in some strong hands into your limping range -- because villain perceives it as weak and has begun attacking limps pf pretty often. 4) Raise very few hands, because villain is very aggro spewy in raised pots due to drug use or whatever reason, and he will shove 52s when you make your first min-raise with AQo after limping the last gazillion hands 18 BBs deep. OOP: Tighten up your flat-calling range from the BB. Playing fitor-fold is way too expensive and unsustainable at this stage. You want to enter pots OOP armed with significant flopping power and/or an ability to handle villain when he has position post-flop.
Maybe he has some exploitable traits you've spotted, like only cbetting if he hits, or c-betting very often but folding non-strong hands to smallish check-raises, or three barrel spewing too often when you take a check-call line, such that hitting a pair will net you his bluffed off stack. Also, monitor his BTN raising frequency as you get shallow, and review all of the hands that are +EV 3-bet shoves against someone who opens too often when stacks are short. You can also mix in some small 3-bets against against semithinking, nit-at-heart players who aren't very comfortable lagging it up (in this case, opening more BTNs than they'd like), and are doing so half-heartedly because they think they should as blinds go up. (That was a retardedly specific villain profile; small 3-bets when shallow can work against a number of opponent-types, especially if you balance them, but this is not my area of expertise. More of a growth area for me.) Post-flop: Keep a very close eye on stack-to-pot ratios if you and villain start putting bets in on the flop or beyond. It is very easy to cross commitment thresholds inadvertently, and to be priced in to make correct calls with one over and a gutshot, or other weak draws/hands, as the pot grows relative to remaining stacks. In short, constantly look ahead before putting chips into the pot and adjust your future continuing/folding plans accordingly. Try to avoid taking lines that involve calling a bet (or two) on earlier streets and folding to further pressure on later ones. Such lines are sometimes inevitable, but stacking off sooner when you feel more certain of your equity becomes more correct as the stackto-pot ratio shrinks, especially since you can still get called by worse (or draws) as pot odds become better for villain. Compare this to taking a more inducing/pot-control/way-ahead-way-behind type check-call line earlier in the match when stacks are deeper against a barreling villain. -
Lagdonk
T HE A NATOMY OF A C ONTINUATION B ET 450 effective stacks wha raised 4 3 to 12 OTB in a 1/2 HU cash game BB called and the flop came: K J 4 MLJ and I got into a discussion about whether to c-bet this flop or not which sparked my interest in this topic. DISCLAIMER Im not presenting any of this as fact I am actually trying to improve my own understanding of the factors that lead to a c-bet decision, take it as you will. So lets dissect a c-bet in this spot against a loose villain. Lets assume we use 18 here (75%) as a standard cbet and we never get check raised (its just going to be simpler that way). I went through pokerstove and clicked on what I thought was a reasonable starting hand range for a loose villain in this situation (doesnt really matter exactly what they were) and I came up with 42.3% of all starting hands (I assumed he would 3-bet stronger hands and picked a very reasonable range). Then I assumed villain would call the flop with anything that included a gutshot or better (all pairs not A hi). This came out to 22.7% of all hands which means villain would call approx. 53.7% of all continuation bets. Doing some quick math assuming the hand stopped after your c-bet you would show an immediate profit of $1.74 for each c-bet. That means if you have 32o here you would show an immediate profit by c-betting. I am sure this is obvious to many of you so bear with me. Now lets assume a tighter villain preflop with the same calling standards I picked out a reasonable calling range of 25.5% of all
hands which would lead to him calling c-bets with 19.2% of all hands or approx. 75% of all c-bets. Now each c-bet shows a profit of -$7.5. So what did I learn from all this? Preflop range has a huge impact on c-bet success (LDO) but what did surprise me is that a loose preflop player that plays the same postflop as a tight preflop player can be c-bet against more aggressively. I tried this idea on a couple different flop textures and the impression that I get is that this is probably universally true. Clearly assuming tight players will call gutshots and and any pair is a pretty strong assumption (far from reality) so if we use the same flop as in wha's hand and the same tight player (25.5% preflop) and assume he plays a much tighter range after your cbet to the tune of 14.6% (again came up with a reasonable range fiddling with pokerstove) of all hands which would mean our cbet gets called 57.3% of the time for a total immediate profit of approx. -$.07. This is great for a couple reasons, it shows that postflop tightness increases the profitability of c-bets (obviously) and we found a realistic ratio that is very near the break even point of the c-bet in this hand. ***Obviously when we c-bet there are other factors at stake than the immediate success of the c-bet as a bluff on the flop. A lot of times when we c-bet the flop we will be called but still go on to win the hand in some manner later on ands its good for our metagame to be betting strong hands as well as weak hands, all very obvious stuff. Now that leads us to what kind of hands we should c-bet in this spot given how they play later on in the hand. How is 43 different in this spot than an 87 or a 55-88? Basically given some very rough estimates of how often you get to showdown like this I think its worth about $1.3-$2.5 on average (I just took a rough estimate of how often this would happen I assumed about 10%-20% here). Add in the 11% of the time we improve on the turn and 22% by the river for 43 and we have very solid value for c-betting this flop. Interestingly with either 43 or 55 most of the value comes from their draws to two pair or trips even though this only happens rarely (this is pretty revealing to me as I think many of us would prefer to c-bet the 87 thinking that it has no value on this flop so its better to bet and give up). Given these loose approximations with some added double/triple barrel equity its probably profitable to c-bet against the tight preflop player who plays loose postflop, thats a pretty stunning
revelation to me.
I know that was confusing so let me try and sum up my approximations quickly: -$.7 c-betting immediately on the flop against tight/tight -$7.5 c-betting against tight/loose +$1.74 c-betting against loose/loose +$1.3-2.5 for showing down a pair against a whiffed draw (only accurate against a tight/tight adjust upwards against tight/loose and loose/loose) +$4-5 for both 43 and 55 (only accurate against a tight/tight again adjust up against tight/loose and loose/loose) +$x for improving on the river +$x for v-betting when our 'draw' hits, who knows probably worth at least $2 +$x for double and triple barreling (lets not even get into it) +$x for metagame One important thing to note is that the numbers really arent important (dont check my math) I used specific examples to try and make the factors that make a c-bet profitable more concrete and clear. I think understanding these factors and adjusting them correctly for the situation can help you make better decisions about c-betting. -
Cwar
D EALING W ITH LIMPERS ; DEALING W ITH CONSTANT MIN - BETTORS
"Dealing With Min Bettors The first question in the Q and A is from Marchy in Germany. Question: How do you handle players who minbet (1/4 to 1/3 of the pot about) 90% of the flops? At the moment i play the 33s on FullTilt and there are lots of these guys. I just cant stand them because i really dont know what the best strategy is against them.
Response: This is a very good question. This is something I struggled with early on in my husng progression and I'm sure many others have or do struggle with as well. There are a few things I like to keep in mind when dealing with min bettors: 1) We're usually dealing with a very wide range of hands, so we should not try to narrow their hand range down based on actions that do not warrant it. 2) Our odds of calling a min bet on the flop are much greater than on the turn, therefore we'll probably be calling a lot more often on the flop and we shouldn't be worried about folding turns. 3) We want to be careful about getting overzealous about raising them too often in small pots and folding to the min bet too often in bigger pots. Keeping those points in mind, here are a few things I like to do against min bettors: - Figuring out if they will min bet 3 streets with strong hands (top pairs+), good draws (flush draws, OESDs, weaker pair combo draws), weak draws (low flush draws, gutshot straights, overcards) and outright "bluffs" (weak hands that need runner runner to beat most hands that will play a big pot). If they are not following the same betting pattern with all of these hands, then I want
to try to find out which hands that they are deviating from their min bet strategy with and what they are doing instead. - I want to also figure out how they react to a raise. I generally want to raise a stronger hand first, because most min bettors are going to be too loose and call with a lot of hands they should not on the flop, at least in the early portion of our match. If I notice a fold I'll try again, perhaps with an outright bluff or semi bluff, if they fold again I start to see they are weak and will throw in a good amount of bluff raises along with semi bluff and strong hands and wait until they adjust. While I may not always get action on my strong hands, the raises are most likely going to frustrate the player. - It might not be too difficult to win when you are hitting cards/boards vs these players, but what about when you are card dead and the boards just aren't hitting your starting hands? In these cases, you really have to pay attention to how you are playing your high cards, how often you are chasing without the correct odds and other decisions you make in marginal/close spots. If a player is going to min bet every street with any hand, it's going to be correct to call down with a hand like A high. If you notice he is starting to check hands that are really weak or that have no showdown value, you're going to want to adjust and starting folding high cards to his bets. A few things you'll want to avoid are bluffing off a lot of chips because "I haven't bet big in awhile, he has to respect me here" or "he bets every street, he can't call a few raises from me." Be careful on taking raises too far. If you bluff raise his min bet on the flop and he calls, be weary about following through on the turn. Don't blindly spew chips against these players, that is how they are going to win because they usually don't get enough value out of their bigger hands and end up letting you build pots when you want with stronger hands. A few other lesser points that I want to make about playing min bettors: - Don't over or under raise them. For example, if they bet 30 into a 200 pot on the turn, raising your weak top pair to 400 is going to be an over raise. On the flip side, raising 3x to 90 is going to probably be an under raise. Often times against constant min bettors, I almost "ignore" their small bet and just raise them to what I would bet if they had checked. In this case it would be a 130-160 type turn bet (raise) that I would make. - Like I said earlier, be aware of the odds you are being offered compared to their presumably very wide range of hands. You also want to be aware of the odds you are offering them. If their drawing hands are 20-25% likely to hit the river, you don't want to "keep them in the pot" with an under raise that offers them the correct odds to draw. They will likely make the mistake of calling without odds, so don't be too
worried about pushing them out of the pot with a 4-5x raise. In fact, your raises will often be over 4x the bet against min bettors. In conclusion, since this is a player and situations you're probably not dealing with on a regular basis, you might have to think a little longer/harder when facing the min bettor. While I gave a lot of general advice, you should find enough above to effectively combat the min bettor and to get you thinking in the right direction against almost all of them. I'd say above all, awareness is key against these players, and the most common mistake is a lack of discipline and emotional control when dealing with these players. The same can go for the opposite end of the spectrum, the aggro-maniacs, though it is not just a simple "take this advice but apply it in the opposite direction." That, however, is another day and another blog post." -------------"Facing A Limp (Or why you should resist the temptation of raising limps over and over and over again) You probably get what I'm going to advocate in this post. First, the following is a response to another question from Spacko about "when you should raise limpers." It's a very general question but I notice that even good players often have a general problem with how they approach this area of the game. Lets begin by looking at reasons why people raise limps. **We'll assume that effective stacks are a relatively deep 40-75bb, unless otherwise noted. 1. Our hand is better than the range of hands villain will call with. 2. We think villain will fold a tremendous amount of time and we will raise for the fold equity. You could call this a bluff-raise. 3. We have a great read on villain and have found an exploit in their game (fairly rare early on). For example, a player that calls almost ATC preflop but is very weak/tight postflop. You would want to get chips in the pot preflop to steal postflop. There are no doubt other reasons you can raise a limp, but the most common will be similar to the 3 above. We'll start with raising for pure hand value. A common reply to "why did you raise his limp with that hand (we'll say a hand like QTo)?" is "he'll call with worse hands." That is probably true, a lot of villains will limp and then call a 3-5x raise with a lot of worse hands. But unfortunately, many people don't consider other factors of the hand besides the hand values. The first factor of the hand that a lot of people ignore is position. You're out of
position, so you're at a disadvantage (the deeper you are the more this is true). This will weaken your holding/value somewhat. Another factor is postflop play. How does your opponent play postflop? What is his calling range? What is his limping range? If you're having trouble answering any of those questions, raising a medium-strong hand like QTo OOP for around 4x the bb is probably not going to put you in good spots postflop. As an example of how crucial it is to know most if not all of these things about your opponent, I'll point you to a thread in 2+2. In this thread, Skates (a 220-550 regular) raised Heir Apparent's (a very solid 200/220 regular) limp with what you could call a "medium-strong" hand. He assumed that Heir would raise any ace preflop, so therefore an ace could not be in his calling range. Based on that assumption, it would be a pretty easy call based on Heir's line (call, c/c, c/bet). However, Skates even admitted that he was pretty confused about the hand/line and it turns out Heir had a weak ace. Throw aces into Heir's range and it would be a pretty clear fold on this river. Moving on, the other big reason people will give when raising a limp is "he's only limping weak hands, he'll probably fold." While this is fine reasoning, this is generally not worth doing until effective stacks (in bbs) are pretty small (think like < 30bbs deep). Most players will adjust after you raise their limps a few times, so you're not going to want to pick up their 20 or 30 chips once or twice when you have 1500 chips and then have to figure out how they are adjusting later on. Knowing they are limping weak and/or folding often is going to be much more valuable when you can pick up 50-100 chips each time or more appropriately, 5-15% of their stack a pop. I'll touch on one other point about limp raising before I conclude, and that would be to think about what it means to face a limp. Are you really worried about a player limping his button when stacks are deep? You shouldn't be. Most players are losing value by constantly limping their button when stacks are deep, so why should you abuse that leak early on and force them to raise more often in position and generally play more aggressively throughout the game? It is my belief that you should not. Now lets quickly touch on when you should raise limps. -The blinds are a big % of the effective stacks. 5-15% is probably a good rule of thumb for when you really want to be paying attention and looking for spot to raise limps for fold equity. -You really have a good grasp on this villain and his calling range as well as his postflop play. -Your hand is very strong. I would never suggest checking a hand like 99 or AK in the big blind when a player limps. With a hand like this, your hand is just too strong to not want to build a pot, position or not, good reads or not.
Building off of that, my default raising range for low-mid stakes husngs would be 55+, A9s, ATo+, KJs+, KQo+. That range would change as effective stacks, game flow and reads developed and changed, but on the first hand of a 22 dollar husng that would be my suggest raising range facing a limp from a random player. To conclude, in general I would suggest letting players limp early but especially paying attention to limp ranges, reactions to aggression and postflop play of villains so that you can take advantage of poor play as effective big blinds get shallow and leaks grow tremendously. A good way to gain this information is to mainly only raise strong hands early on when facing a limp, and to deviate from that strategy as the conditions above warrant." -ChicagoRy
C HECK R AISE B LUFFING F LOPS - What does the opponent's hand range look like going into the flop? If your opponent is open folding 30% of hands, you can safely assume that weaker hands such as 42, 52, 62, 72, 82, 73, 83 are not open raising. This will automatically narrow your opponent's range of hands down before you even see the flop. - How does that hand range line up with the board? You want to identify habits above such as "limps K-rag, Q-rag, A-rag hands" so that you can look at the flop and get a general idea not only of the types of hands in your opponent's range, but how well they did (or did not) connect with the flop. Intermediate/Advanced Note - I left out the variable of "how often does your hand range hit this flop." I don't consider it particularly important unless you're playing against an opponent that can hand read good/well. If you're unsure of your opponent's caliber and you don't play $50+ levels, assume they are not a good hand reader. That's not fully correlated (good hand reader/ability to realize you didn't likely hit a flop you're bluffing) but it's an assumption that won't likely hurt you (and over time you will notice how often players rebluff you versus how often they have a rare value hand on dry boards that miss most of their hand range and you can adapt by default without reads accordingly once you have that experience to reach from). For a lot of you, the above was rather obvious. If it wasn't, you've already learned something important. So what are some other common things to look out for when deciding whether or not to check raise bluff? Here are some
more things to think about that build upon the two basic tips above: - Continuation bet range. There are many ways you can take advantage of opponents that offer severely unbalanced continuation betting ranges. A common c-bet "leak" would be opponents that cbet most boards with a range similar to: any good middle pair or better, any good draw and any air except high cards with showdown value. In many cases, this represents a c-bet range that is much too weak, and thus should often be check raise bluffed frequently. Another common c-bet "leak" is from players that check back dry boards with most pairs; the strong pairs they can consider won't get enough value on the dry board and the weaker pairs are "only called by better." If an opponent is checking back A92 rainbow boards with any pair, what does that tell you about the times that they c-bet? How should you react? - Bet sizing. This one comes up a little less frequently, but is still valuable. You can dissect bet sizing "leaks" the same way as cbet leaks, though it can be a bit more complicated. For example, many opponents like to bet a little bit smaller with their bluffs on a drawy heavy/"scary" board; to try to get a cheap fold. Similarly, many opponents like to bet a bit larger on those same boards, to maximize value from any potential pairs or draws that rarely fold, even to larger bets. In that simple example, even though you might not normally bluff a 50% open raiser that cbets a QJT board, if they c-bet to a large size for value and like to make cheap bluffs when they miss, you would be throwing away money not bluff raising often when they bet small. I don't often consider these leaks (it's situational), as I do it myself at times and believe it is correct against a lot of opponents (fit or fold, for example, especially coupled with loose preflop). Which leads me to... Conclusion At the end of the day, you'll find that even the best players will have ranges that are not balanced in many areas. Over thousands of games of experience, great players will realize that
balance in of itself is not the best way to win the most money. Properly building a strategy that exploits your opponent's tendencies and frequencies is the best way to win. As such, great players will often present to you ranges that (at least for a brief time) can be exploited. Pay attention, good players constantly adapt their hand ranges based on how their opponent is responding. But many players (including some winning players) have more set in stone or rigid hand ranges. Many players will not recognize that you are exploiting them. So learn how to recognize and exploit a leak, often times you'll find a consistent stream of added edge in your games that will translate into profit sooner or later. Afterthoughts (and ABC Poker) The above, even if you weren't fully aware or thinking about it previously, probably seems quite simple, basic and obvious in hindsight. But that doesn't mean it is not helpful. Many a time in threads, videos or every day conversations, players lament "ugh, ABC poker, this is so boring, running bad." More often than not, when insight is available, I'll find that these players are not taking full advantage of what is being given to them by their opponents, even in the most basic of ways. ABC poker is not check folding when you miss, check raising with strong hands and keeping the pot small with weak pairs and high cards. ABC poker is a sound strategy to beat the average opponent whom you have no real reads on. Ask yourself how long that lasts for. How long do you have no meaningful information about your opponent? The answer, in my mind, is not very long. Next time you're feeling uncreative, or feel like you're playing a boring button crunching game, quit your session. If you can't get yourself to do that, at least pay attention to your opponent, because you're certainly not being honest about what your opponent is actually doing, and how you can counter that in a way that maximizes your edge in the match. And if you're not actively looking to make the best decisions, you're not actively
looking to win, nor should you expect to profit as fast as you would probably like to. - ChicagoRy
W HEN O VERBETTING IS N ASH E QUILIBRIUM MersennearyPoker.com $10000.00 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - 2 players - Blinds t5/t10 - The Official Reddit.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t3500 BTN/SB: t2500 Pre Flop: (t15) Hero is BB with A 5 BTN/SB raises to t20, Hero calls t10 Flop: (t40) 5 A Q (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t40, Hero raises to t160, BTN/SB calls t120 Turn: (t360) 7 (2 players) Hero bets t320.00, BTN/SB calls t320 River: (t1000) Q (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets ? Suppose, further, that both players know that the BB has Ax here always (this isn't the best hand to demonstrate this, as BB has plenty of busted draws, but whatever, pretend it's a standard ace high board with no draws and it's gone c/c c/c c/b if you're hung up on that), and that BTN has 50% Qx+, and 50% air. This is, naturally, an idealized situation, but we'll get to the practical applications at the end. For now, you should all know what the Nash Equilibrium of this situation is (Equilibrium isn't just an endgame thing). Do you? If not, let's calculate it. For demonstration purposes: Let's assume as the button, we have three choices on some site with crummy software: Betting t500, betting t1000, or betting t2000 all-in to the pot of t1000. Let's say we decide to bet t2000, or not at all. In Nash Equilibrium, after you make your river bet, your opponent should be indifferent between calling and folding. Hence, as the button, along with betting t2000 for all of our value hands, we want to bet t2000 with the percentage of our air that makes it so folding and calling have the same EV for our opponent. The math on that: Code:
-500 = (2500)x - (2500)(1-x) -500 = 5000x - 2500 2000 = 5000x x = 2/5 Thus, at Nash Equilibrium, BTN shoves what makes a BB call correct 2/5 of the time. So, BTN shoves 100% of her value and shoves 2/3 of her air. This makes BB indifferent between calling and folding, meaning that 5/6 of the time, BTN has an expectation of +t500, and 1/6 of the time, BTN concedes the pot for an expectation of -t500. Hence, EV playing this strategy is +t333. Let's note what happens if we try to make our bets only in 1000, or only in 500: If we're betting 1000, again, we should be doing so with 100% of our Qx+, and some % of our air. BB should be indifferent between calling and folding in equilibrium. Code: -500 = (1500)x - (1500)(1-x) -500 = 3000x - 1500 1000 = 3000x x = 1/3 Thus, we want to bet what makes BB call correctly 1/3 of the time. So, we shove 100% of our value hands and 50% of our air. This makes BB indifferent between calling and folding, meaning that 3/4 of the time, we have an expectation of +t500, and 1/4 of the time, we concede the pot for an expectation -t500. This means our expectation playing this strategy is +t250. At equilibrium, betting pot is inferior to overbetting 2x pot. If we're betting 500, you know the drill... Code: -500 = (1000)x - (1000)(1-x) -500 = 2000x - 1000 500 = 2000x x = 1/4 So we bet what makes BB call correctly 1/4 of the time, which means betting 100% of value and 33.3% of air. 2/3 of the time we have an expectation of +t500, 1/3 of the time it's -t500. Expectation playing this strategy is +t167. The bigger the bet, the bigger the EV. Let's take it to the extreme, though. Say we're really deep-stacked, perhaps at a cash game with 10k behind and this river decision. This is also applicable in smaller HUSNG pots. If we make a big overbet shove (crazy, reckless stuff, right?), what's our EV? Code:
-500 =(10500)x - (10500)(1-x) -500 = 21000x - 10500 10000 = 21000x x = 47.6% Which means we bet 100% of our value and 90.8% of our air, giving us an expectation of +453, the best yet. The general theme: When it's clear your opponent is highly unlikely to have anything other than bluffcatcher, your chipstack is a weapon. You want to use your chips to allow you to remain unexploitable as you bluff with a bigger percentage of your air hands. Two quick points to make, which I won't bother to show the math on: 1. At equilibrium, overbetting is better than any combination of small/large bets with different types of hands. 2. Shoving is still a Nash Equilibrium regardless of what percentages BTN has air and value; it doesn't have to be 50/50. OK, you get it. But you read 2+2 strat so you can take more maney. When does this help me take money? The downside: I am a strong advocate that in the vast majority of games, Nash Equilibria are going to be useless. Nash relies on both players having perfect information about each other's strategies. This is ridiculous. If a Nash Equilibrium calls for you to do something 90% of the time, you might as well do it 100% of the time - nobody's going to know. Mediocre players who have no history, aren't attempting to balance ranges, and do not respond appropriately when you unbalance yours, make it a critical error to not go for MORE than the +t300 expectation that t2000 overbet shoving guarantees you in this hand. There also will be concerns about variance and putting your stack at risk for too slight of edges. All these are legitimate concerns: There's simply no reason to play any Nash, be it end-game or earlygame, if deviating from it affords you a better winrate because of the incompetence of your opponent. However, as you move up in stakes and get more and more history between common opponents, who tend to understand and react appropriately to your frequencies, you need to start
playing more equilibrium strategies. The Nash Equilibrium here is overbetting, and that's a significant part of why you see it at higher stakes, taking advantage of players who would never, ever check the river with a big hand in the example above. Stop thinking about Nash in poker as only relevant to the endgame and start thinking more about it in early-game decisions when you're up against a tough opponent, especially one you have history with. I would argue that the "you only have a bluffcatcher" situation is pretty commonplace, but regardless, there are numerous other spots that make thinking about equilibrium and how its occasionally counterintuitive conclusions more than mental masturbation, but hookers and blow from all of the bing blang blaow you're going to be singing. -
Mersenneary
R AKE , TOURNAMENT EQUITY AND HOURLY RATE On the first hand of a heads up sit and go, your opponent moves all-in. You estimate your hand to have 50% equity against this player's range. Should the fact that this would result in an expected loss for the tournament after the rake is accounted for nudge you into folding? No, it shouldn't. The rake (and indeed the buyin) is a sunk cost. Sunk costs should not be factored into rational decision making. There is a prize pool and that's all you're interested in. All either things being equal you should want the highest probability of winning it. If that happens to be 50%, you should take it. But wait, you surely couldn't apply this overall? If your long run winrate was 50% you'd eventually go bust due to the rake. So what's the difference? The rake in future SNGs are not sunk costs. Since they have yet to be incurred, you can account for them in your decision making. So how do you do so? Getting back to basics: your goal in poker is to make as much money as you can. (You can certainly have either objectives, such as fun or playing better opponents for the sake of learning in order to hopefully make more in the future, but those are for you to evaluate). There is a finite amount of time that you can play poker, so maximising your hourly expectation will maximise the amount of money you make. (Note that there is nothing special about the use of hours, it's just the standard way of measuring earnings over time). Every decision you make in a SNG should be evaluated on its effect on your hourly expectation. Rake matters because it reduces your expectation on future SNGs. Notably, it matters in
the exact same way as you playing a particularly fishy opponent. In both cases, you have a higher expectation from trying to keep the current tournament going than you than you would starting a new one against a random opponent. Thus, I will evaluate both of them together. Let's start with a simple example. When should you chop a HUSNG? For this example, we'll have a $200 + 10 SNG, assume an even chop and ignore rakeback. (In reality, you must account for rakeback and any other bonuses arising from playing as fully as you would anything else. Note that the value of a VPP is not the average benefit of its effect on your VIP status, but its marginal benefit. If you are planning to play a lot of poker anyway, you can't count it for much. If you're struggling against the clock to rack up VPPs, you might rate a VPP quite highly). What is your opportunity cost for playing the SNG to completion? It is your hourly rate for one table divided by the expected time the SNG will take. Note that it is your expectation for games played now, not "overall". If it is a fishy time of the day and you're playing well, your expectation will be higher than an off-peak time in which you're on your C game. Let's suppose for divisibility's sake that your hourly rate per table is $60 an hour. If the expected time for the SNG is 15 minutes, by playing the SNG you are foregoing $15 in expected profits and must make at least that in the current one to justify continuing playing. Currently, you are being offered $200 to end the SNG right now. Therefore, you must expect to win at least $215 by playing the game out. This equates to a 53.75% winrate. At anything less, you should chop. Interestingly enough, this winrate is large enough to beat the rake. Even someone +EV to play against after the rake can be still be so far from being the most +EV that it's worth taking even money to free yourself up to play someone else. In fact, the rake in this example wasn't important. It was your hourly rate, which all the rake did was presumably to reduce it. Rake here isn't distinguishable from any other characteristics that might serve to change your hourly rate. (Uneven chops are possible if both players acknowledge a reasonable skill gap existing. However if done properly they
would result in players only concerned about money chopping 100% of the time. Poker is mutually a waste of time for two people only interested in money, since any money exchanges must be at the expense of the other. Both players could be made better off if they proposed an uneven chop. The fact that games are not chopped show that at least one player overestimates his/her edge and/or they are not playing for direct monetary reasons (which are outside the scope of this post)). Let's continue to evaluating specific implications of this to poker hands. Since the chopping example already highlighted both players getting all-in, I'll move straight ahead to uneven stacks. Suppose the pot is 200 chips, you have 900 chips, your opponent has 1900 chips and has just moved all-in. How much equity does your hand need to have against his or her range in order to justify calling? You're looking for what has the highest expected value over time. To calculate this you need to determine the probability of winning the SNG under each distribution of chips that could arise minus the loss of EV that occurs from the time it would take to play out the rest of the tournament.
Expected value of calling: ((Probability of winning after calling and winning * Prize Pool)-(Hourly Rate * Expected time in hours for SNG to take after calling and winning))*Probability of winning when called + ((Probability of winning after calling and losing* Prize Pool)-(Hourly Rate * Expected time in hours for SNG to take after calling and losing))*Probability of losing when called Expected value of folding: (Probability of winning after folding * Prize Pool)-(Hourly Rate * Expected time in hours for SNG to take after folding)
(I've ignored the possibility of a chopped pot for simplicity of calculations but you can calculate it in the exact same format). So let's plug some numbers in. Assume you're playing a $200 + 10 SNG, with an hourly rate of $60 an hour 1-tabling. If you call and win, you'll have 2000 chips and figure you'll win according to your chip equity, 66.67% of the time, with an average game length of 10 minutes. If you call and lose, you'll win 0% of the time in no time (after the hand is finished). If you fold, you'll have 900 chips and figure you'll win 30% of the time of the time with a slightly smaller game time (due to a smaller stack) of 9 minutes. So how often do you need to win when you call? ((0.67*400)-(60*(10/60)))*PrW + 0 = (0.30*400)-(60*(9/60)) (266.67 - 10)*PrW = 120.00 - 9 256.67*PrW = 111 PrW = 0.43246 This is less than the 0.45 equity you would need in a standard chip equity calculation. Despite the fact that you're not playing against a player who has an edge against you, it's still worth getting the money in somewhat lighter. You could plug numbers into the above equations, altering them as you wish to describe different scenarios (like the equity of betting yourself and getting called) and get the right answers. However, it may be somewhat difficult to estimate your win percentage at given stack sizes and the expected time to finish a SNG. One way to do so is empirically - if you have a large enough database of SNGs, you could go through all of them and find out your win percentage/time taken at each stack size against opponents of various skill levels. This is probably unrealistic, however. One method is using the "Theory of Doubling Up" from the Mathematics of Poker, Chapter 26. If you can estimate what your overall winrate will be against a player, you can estimate your equity for any stack size. If E is the probability of a player winning the tournament, N is the number of times that player will
need to double up to win and C is the constant probability of that player doubling up, you have the relationship: E = C^N Suppose you know your E to be 55% for an entire SNG against a given player. What is your equity when you have 20% of the chips? For a full SNG, N is 1, since you have to double up once to win. 0.55 = C^1. C = 0.55. Note that N for 40% of the chips is not 2.5. To work out N, take a log to the base 2 of the number of times you will need to multiply your stack to win. N = log2 2.5 = 1.321928 Plug these values into the equation to solve for your equity: E = 0.55^1.321928 E = 0.45371. So this model projects that with 40% of the chips, you will win 45.371% of the time against someone that you would beat 55% of the time with 50% of the chips. Note that both proportionally and absolutely this is a higher return. However, it is not so simple to infer that this means you should be willing to take slightly the worst of it in order to get to this spot. This does not take account the effect on time. When you win a SNG from 40% of the chips, it should on average take longer than winning one from 50% of the chips – there is more ground to make up. If you are the big stack, the gap in equity will not be so large that as a short stack, but the average game length will be smaller as you are more likely to eliminate your opponent than vice versa. I am not sure exactly how to quantify this in a model: if someone else wants to propose one, I‟m open to it.
The problem with this model is that it assumes a constant probability of a double up. This is almost certainly not the case. At low stack sizes, the blinds are larger relative to the effective stacks, so it‟s more likely that your chip equity will be closer to your tournament equity at some levels. However, tournaments go faster whenever blinds are relatively higher. This is the major reason for playing turbos and indeed HUSNGs in general (compared to cash). Both of these factors will need to be accounted for. Nonetheless, we can still infer a number of concepts: - All other things being equal, against players that you have a positive overall winrate against, you should pass up slightly +EV spots in order to avoid stack sizes from becoming too unequal. Conversely, against players that you are an underdog to, you should be more willing to get into spots with shorter stacks all other things being equal. You can see the effect of this by plugging small and large numbers in the equation above. With 10% of the chips, your equity is 13.72%, with 90% it is 91.31%. These numbers are not so useful because they include the higher equity that occurs after double-ups have occurred and stacks become larger. It is perhaps better understood intuitively: it is bad to play with effectively small stack because your potential upside is limited to the size of the short stack. Now, a small stack can be accompanied by factors that you might find desirable (such as higher blinds relative to the stacks, which you may find to increase your hourly rate), but that can be modeled separately. Controlling for the blind/stack ratio shows it clearly: you would rather have 1500 chip stacks and 75/150 blinds for someone you have an edge against than a 50% chance of 2700/300 or 300/2700 stacks and 15/30 blinds. - All other things being equal, you should be willing to make slightly –EV decisions if they result in net favourable blind/stack ratios. Conversely, you should pass up slightly +EV decisions that will result in unfavourable such ratios. The type of tournament you play is evidence as to what this may be: if you play turbos, you‟re presumably doing so because you think your hourly rate will be higher with increased blinds, and the opposite if you play regular speeds. However this is only true on average.
There will be some opponents whom you would have a highly hour rate playing deep stacked, others you would have a higher hourly rate playing short stacked. When combined with the absolute stack size effect above, you have a way to calculate your tournament equity from the chip distributions that arise from a decision. - When you're attempting to estimate your probability of winning and/or the expected time the SNG will take, you need to do so taking into account that you will also be making these calculations in the future. You cannot, for instance, reason that "The average length of a SNG that I've played against a winning player is 10 minutes. Therefore, the expected length of this SNG is 10 minutes." This is incorrect because the fact that you're willing to get the money in slightly bad later will reduce this length. Additionally, you should consider whether your opponent might be aware of these concepts (and also if he or she believes that you are, too). Two winning players who are 50/50 against each other should both be willing to try to shorten game lengths by making slightly -EV raises and calls. But if both are aware of these concepts, they'll shove slightly lighter for value and call slightly wider against their opponent's new lighter shoving range. It's what you might call "implicit chopping." This should tend to an equilibrium, as the more frequent all-in situations make the SNGs shorter and thus reduce the value of getting the money in wider in the first place. -
Nichlemn
C RITICAL P OINTS OF V ILLAIN ' S 3-B ETTING B EHAVIOR Skates Points: Critical Points of Villain's 3-Betting Behavior These are the critical effective stack depths at which your villain makes dramatic adjustments to their preflop ranges when facing a minraise. A good, balanced player should not have these, but most do. Before explaining why, I should define them. There are two: 1) Skates Calling Point (SCP) - This is the effective stack depth at which your villain switches from an all-in or fold strategy to one that incorporates calling. When facing a minraise at 2BB, your villain can only go all-in or fold. At 5BB, nearly all villains will either go all-in or fold. At 10BB, some will mix in calling with some hands. The effective stack depth where the calling frequency becomes significant is the SCP. 2) Skates 3-Betting Point (S3BP) - This is the effective stack depth at which your villain switches their 3-bet sizing from always being all-in (or committing) to having a significant fraction of their 3-bets being non-committing. At 15BB, if a villain 3-bets when facing a minraise, they will almost certainly go all-in with the majority of their range. At 22BB, some villains will keep going all-in, but others might switch to smaller 3-bets. The effective stack depth where the frequency of the non-committing 3-bet size becomes significant is the S3BP. When I say "majority" and "significant", I am referring to a range that does not incorporate AA and KK. Many players play in unbalanced ways with those two hands, and in this case, we would like to remove them from consideration. Some people, when you minraise at 10BB, will flat or min-3-bet with AA or KK and only those hands. This is not what we are looking to isolate. When talking about SCPs and S3BPs, it might be helpful to refer to them as "hard" and "soft". A "hard" SCP is what most players have. If Mr. StandardVillain has been reading 2+2 for the past year, he might have learned that when facing a minraise at less than 20BB, he should either go all-in or
fold. At 20BB though, he should start to call with most hands because he does not want to risk more than 19BB to pick up 2BB. This means that StandardVillain has a hard-SCP of 20. This is a very common behavior among weaker players and mediocre regs at this point in time. Historically, I think this is because the average hero often had a very wide open % (say, 80%), and a very tight call % (say, 12%). Playing the way the StandardVillain played was incredibly profitable. Now, the average hero at higher stakes might still open very wide, but has often adjusted to having a wider calling range, neglecting the primary source of equity won by StandardVillain. As such, many of the stronger players today do not have SCPs at 20, but rather closer to 15. If instead of having a hard-SCP, StandardVillain were to start gradually incorporating hands into a calling range at 18BB, he would have a soft-SCP at 18. Very strong players have soft-SCPs that are very hard to define because they adopt mixed-strategies (they do not always play a given hand the same way). S3BPs are almost always extremely hard (non-gradual), and are usually in the range of 22-25BB. Sure, StandardVillain might always jam 33 if hero limps into him, but the rest of StandardVillain's 3-bet range is likely to have a 3-bet size between the range of 4BB to 6BB. Most people have a fixed 3-bet size that they switch to when the first incorporate non-committing 3-bets. I can not think of one villain I have come across who does not. Of course, we ignore behavior with AA and KK. Now that we've defined these... can you think of any forum members or coaches that have well-defined SCPs or S3BPs? Are they hard or soft? How many of them that have easily recognized hard-SCPs play high-stakes? The answer is probably close to zero, and here's why: If I can notch you into a box, I can read your frequencies and exploit you. Over the course of a match or series of matches, a good hero attempts to best understand the frequencies with which their villain takes each possible action on each street, then utilizes that information to make estimations of villain's range on each street, then utilizes that information to come up with a maximally exploitive strategy to combat those ranges. Although I would be happier putting a lot of caveats and footnotes in there, that is some very rudimentary poker theory. As a consequence, anything that allows the hero to get a better estimation of those frequencies enables the hero to make more precise adjustments to better exploit their villain. ***** ***** ***** ***** *****
Stop here, take a breather. You should be able to extrapolate the rest of this article from what I've said already. I will walk you through it, but I strongly encourage you to step back and not continue reading until you try to figure it out on your own. ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** Hello again! If you play within a well-constructed set of rules, or box, your easily observed frequencies no longer tell a part of the story; they tell the whole story. If after one game with you, I observe what I think to be a hard-SCP at 20, I am immediately estimating a 3-bet frequency I think you have at each depth below that. If I've played many games with you, I can just look at my database and pull the information directly. Then, what do you think my adjustments look like? Fix a stack depth and consider a range of villain 3-bet frequencies. Take a moment to try to come up with my opening range with respect to those frequencies on your own. ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** Anddddd here you go: If your frequency is lower than 50%, I will raise any two cards. I'm not going to spell that one out for you. If you don't see why that is the case, you need to step back and think about it more. If your frequency is higher than 50%, I will raise any hand that I am also calling a jam with, and fold all hands I would fold to a jam with. So what is the result? I have a raise/fold range if and only if I think your 3-bet frequency is less than 50%. ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** Now... here is where things really get interesting, despite the simplicity of the topic. Notice that my adjustment is not continuous; I don't gradually add hands into my opening range. Since you are playing within this box that you have defined for yourself, my adjustments are effectively in the binary. I either raise everything, or I raise my calling range, and which strategy I adopt is dependent solely on your 3-bet frequency. (Of course, the size of my raisecalling range will vary based on your 3-bet frequency and the effective stack depth). If I think you 3-bet all-in with 50% of all hands at 15BB, then my raising frequency at 16BB is likely to be 100%, but my raising frequency at 14BB might be something like 40% (and raise-calling my J9s ). If someone were to isolate my hands from 14-16BB, they might see my raising range at something
like 70%. Do you see why their adjustments might be mistaken or flawed? Do you see where I might be able to pick up an edge from this? Do you see how difficult it is for someone with a hard-SCP to compete with me? So what about S3BPs? These are much more interesting because this part of the game is not wel-evolved. At this time, most strong high-stakes HUSNG players have soft-SCPs that are extremely hard to discover. On the other hand, hard-S3BPs are still found in virtually everyone; I'm currently thinking of only a few exceptions. When thinking about a hard-S3BP and the adjustments you can make relating to it, consider how a villain views your calling frequency and 4-bet frequency when facing a non-committing 3-bet. When they 3-bet non-committing, are they polarized? Are they merged? What does their 3-bet frequency look like below the S3BP (when they are only going all-in). Does it increase or decrease on the other side of the S3BP? What does that say about their calling range around the S3BP? What does that mean your opening range should look like? What kind of tricks can you pull? I'm not going to spoon-feed this one to you... figure it out .
-Skates
F INISHING AN OPPONENT HEADS - UP : SAGE , NASH AND CHUBUKOV . Stuff in advance: If you have t2700 and villain t300 and blinds are 15/30, you are indeed the chipleader but this shouldn't adjust your play AT ALL. You're still only 10bb's and should treat it like you both have t300 in chips. Obviously if you make an ev- shove or call here you're going to lose less $$$ in ev than if stacks would be t2000 and t1000 and blinds 50/100 but you're still 10bb's deep and evdecisions stay ev-! Don't think about "I can gamble, if he doubles up, I'm still big chipleader!" make sure your moves are ev+. Maybe I've been a bit to harsh about "it shouldn't affect your play" because sometimes it can. However, this will not be because of your play, but because of villain's play. Some people will shove ATC when they have the chiplead with the 2.7k in chips because they indeed want to finish you quickly, so your callingrange should get wider by a decent percentage. Also if you just won a big pot from villain one way or another this will affect metagame and he may be tilted so you should try and add these into the equation when you calculate ranges and odds and stuff. Just keep in mind that in the end you should only look at the amount of bb's you have. Even if you play a big mtt, there won't come any ICM into play. Suppose first prize is €2k and second prize is €1k, then you already have won the €1k and can just look at the end-game as being a €500 hu sng. Doesn't matter how big the difference between first and second place is really. Sage: Most people have probably heard about this already, you can find a lot of links about it if you google for a bit. Here's an example.
Sage works with a chart and a power-index which is really easy to memorize. You just have to know how shallow effective stacks are and calculate the power index for your hand and see whether you push or fold. Power index is easy to calculate, just take the value of your highest card (ace is 15, not 14, face cards are 11,12,13 obv) and double it; add the value of the other card to it and if it's suited add an additional 2. If you have a pocket pair you add 22 to the number. Then you look in the chart and see if you can push/fold from your button and if you can call if villain openshoves. Note that this becomes slightly ev- for the sb to push starting from 7bb's. Small negative ev, but still ev-. So you should only adapt this when really shallow imo. Also note that this is far from optimal play. If you think villain shoves tight your calling range should be a little tighter but you can shove wider. Basically (since it only works for 6bb's or shallower) this is just a crapshoot and it's almost a "push any two cards" and hope villain folds. 6bb's is really nothing, and you barely need fold equity preflop to make shoving ATC ev+ because there's already 1.5bb's in the pot. Some higher stakes winning players actually DO shove ATC in these spots because villain will often have a way too tight callingrange. Nash equilibrum: Something a little more worked out and interesting is the nash equilibrum.
problem is you just see a chart there and while the chart itself is still pretty easy to figure out, you still need some info to go with it to know what you're doing. Why are we shoving 54s for 20+bb's for example, but not J8o? Let's just say we're playing headsup, we're 100bb's deep and I'm on the button. You know 100% sure I only openshove AA on the button. If I openshove what's your callingrange? Obv only the
other two aces. When I openshove KK+ what's your callingrange? Still, only AA. When I openshove QQ+ your callingrange is KK+ (although KK only has 49.995% equity vs QQ+ it's still an ev+ call due to the sb + bb in the pot). Okay that's for strong hands, now let's look at a range of {AA,54s}. What's your callingrange now? You call with KK? equity win tie pots won pots tied Hand 0: 58.174% 57.94% 00.23% 59530656 236778.00 { AA, 54s } Hand 1: 41.826% 41.60% 00.23% 42734028 236778.00 { KK } Appearantly calling with KK will lose you money in the long run. A lot of people think that in the nash pushing chart shoving a hand like 54s is 20bb's+ and 54o for 2.1bb's is because 54s has more equity because of the possibility to hit a flush. This BARELY has anything to do with it. In the small example I gave here the only reason why KK is not an ev+ call is because there's 6 combo's of AA and only 4 combo's of 54s. There's 12 combo's of 54o, so... equity win tie pots won pots tied Hand 0: 39.788% 39.56% 00.23% 73162224 417762.00 { AA, 54o } Hand 1: 60.212% 59.99% 00.23% 110931084 417762.00 { KK } this makes KK a snapcall if your range would be {AA,54o}. So they started like this and in the end they came up with an entire chart of all hands you can openshove which is unexploitable for 20bb's or shallower. There's a decent amount of hands which say 20bb's+ but the maker of the chart just assumed that you shouldn't play push/fold deeper. Openshoving A2o for 200bb's would be very likely ev- if villain has a different callingrange than the "nash equilibrum" calling chart. So this is an equilibrum, which means a stalemate position: if both hero and villain use the pushing and callingrange you're gonna be ev0 against each other. If one of the two deviates from one of the charts, he's gonna be ev- against the other. What does this mean? Do NOT use the CALLING chart against a random opponent. Actually, it's better not to use it vs ANY
opponent unless you know 100% sure he uses the nash pushing chart, which is a really rare occassion. Just forget about the callingrange and you'll be better off imo. It only is ev0 if villain uses the pushing chart and will be ev- in pretty much all other cases. Another important thing you have to remember: don't deviate from it if you want to use it. Suppose you're 11bb's shallow and you have Q7o. Nash says you can openshove this and it will be ev0 at worst. HOWEVER, what would you do with QQ+ in this spot? Would you also openshove it? Or limp or minraise in order to induce a shove from villain? If you would also openshove these hands, you can indeed openshove the Q7o as well. If you would play any other hand differently from the chart it becomes totally worthless and would have to be recalculated entirely before the equilibrum can be reached. Can you still openshove this? Hard to determine a new equilibrum so you should go to Chubukov instead. I wouldn't really recommend using this above 12bb's, where there's still room to manoeuvre a bit preflop. Usually 10-12bb's is the part where I start openshoving a lot of my buttons, because minraise/folding becomes too expensive and you need some specific gameflow for your opponent to allow limping (however, if villain allows you to limp, do it as much as possible and try to just stab at it postflop; i sometimes limp some hands which i could shove ev+ for sure but i just don't want to change the dynamics of the match and let villain see some flops because it keeps him passive and happy). One last thing is that you have to take the bb and sb posted with the effective stacks in the chart (so looking for push/fold BEFORE blinds are posted actually). Chubukov: Okay, let's just say you're in a spot now with K3s, there's an aggro push/fold dynamic already and you are on the button with 12bb's effective stacks. Nash says this is a push, but let's just face it, you're probably not gonna openshove QQ+ vs this aggrotard who has attacked all your limps preflop already and will just limp in most of the time. Can you still openshove the
K3s? Look at Chubukov imo.
What is this? This is a chart which says how deep you can be EXPRESSED IN SMALL BLINDS to openshove a hand and be still ev0 at worst when villain has a perfect callingrange due to flipping over your cards (the amount of small blinds is shown in the right column, so just cut in half for bb's obv). Obv AA you can shove for infinite bb's as you chop in worst case. KK will only get called by KK+ so that's a tiny fraction of a random hand and you still have equity when called (like you always do). So you look up K3s and see that you can openshove it for 14.2bb's! That's a whole lot, even though nash gives us almost 20bb's, we can still openshove a ton here without openshoving the top of our range. Basically his callingrange will be any pocket pair, any Ax and K3s+/K4o+ hands. What are the important things to remember from this chart? The fact you can openshove K2o for 10bb's preflop imo. So shoving a pocket pair, Ax or Kx hand for 10bb's or less is always gonna be ev0 at worst, irregardless of villain's callingrange. Again, don't overdo this, even with aggro dynamics there's a lot of play left from 12-20bb's and you can limp/openshove/minraise/fold instead of just openshoving. Given, this will take some time to master because it depends a lot on villain and gameflow but if you get some experience in it it shouldn't be THAT hard to quickly see how villain plays and adapt to it. Cliffnotes: 1) Sage is a bit outdated. Just use nash for 6bb's or shallower because you will probably openshove QQ+ anyway with these stacksizes. 2) Use nash only if you use it correctly, and preferably 12bb's or shallower. 3) Use Chubukov if you dislike minraise/calling a shove, or limp/folding, or folding in general, but openshoving is appearantly ev+, also don't use it over - say - 14bb's imo. Openshoving 33 or K3s for 13bb's is something I do from time to time, against certain opponents it's going to be the easiest way to play these hands. 4) When your opponent openshoves his button for x bb's, don't
use any chart, but estimate a shovingrange and see if you have odds to call with the dead money in the pot. -
Spamz
T HREE BET SHOVING W IT H 25BB EFFECTIVE Situation: You are playing a hypothetical aggressive opponent who is raising his button 2/3rd of the time. Blinds are 25/50, effective stacks 1250 (25 BB). Villain makes his raise. You have: 1) 2 2) A 3) J 4) 7 5) 3
2 2 T 5 2
(for ****s and giggles)
Which of these hands are good to shove over his raise? Depends on what he's calling with: Scenario 1: Villain is a solid (but a bit too tight) player, this is your first three bet shove, and he's going to respect your first raise. He's calling with 66+, ATo+, A9s, KQ. This is 10.4% of hands. He's folding 1 - 10.4/66.7 = 84.4% of the time. You get 150 chips for free when this happens, so add 126.61 to your cEV for this move. What if he calls, though? Here's the equity for each of those hands agaisnt this tight range: 1) 2 2) A 3) J 4) 7 5) 3
2 2 T 5 2
37.94% win, 61.31% lose 29.59% win, 66.68% lose 36.52% win, 62.67% lose 32.29% win, 67.07% lose 25.46% win, 73.82% lose
So the 15.6% of the time you are called, you're obviously a dog.
Here's the loss in cEV for each scenario (equals 15.6%*1250 chips lost * (%lose -%win)): 1) 2 2) A 3) J 4) 7 5) 3
2 2 T 5 2
-45.57 -72.33 -50.99 -67.82 -94.30 (!)
What have we learned from this? Well, if your opponent is opening wide and calling this tight, 3-bet shoving ANY TWO is +cEV. Also, against a tight calling range, the suited connector hands play better than the weak ace, but the pair is of course the best hand to shove against a tighter calling range. This is also why raising to 3x at 25 BB effective is generally a leak -- if you raise to 100 or 125, the P(fold) chip expectation falls to 84.4 and 105.5 respectively. As you can see, in the former case shoving 32o is now bad (lol). Of course, minraises will get called a bit more often, but this post will not deal with post-flop play for now. It's already going to be long enough. Of course, you can't just keep shoving over this raise, because a smart villain is going to adjust, and a dumb villain is going to get pissed off that you're shoving so much and call lighter anyways. Scenario 2: Either you've shoved a couple times over the villain in scenario 1, or you're playing someone who doesn't respect you as much. Villain is now calling 44+, A8o+, A5s+, KJo+, KTs. We repeat the calculations. Villain is now calling with top 15.8% of his hands. You still get a fold 1 - 15.8/66.7 = 76.3% of the time, for a P(fold) chip EV of 114.47. Wooooo. Let's see how your shoving hands are holding up now if called. 1) 2 2) A 3) J 4) 7 5) 3
2 2 T 5 2
win 40.38%, lose 58.74%, cEV = -54.39 win 31.40%, lose 62.13%, cEV = -91.04 win 39.05%, lose 60.06%, cEV = -62.24 win 34.51%, lose 64.75%, cEV = -89.59 win 27.62%, lose 72.44%, cEV = -132.78
Everything but that 32o is still +EV here. The most surprising find
is that A2o fares worse than the low suited connecter here, and that JTs isn't too far off the pair in equity. This is because A2o is crushed by all your opponent's range but the Kx hands, while JTs is still doing OK against the weak aces and low pairs. Moving on... Scenario 3: Villain is tilting or just likes to gamble. He's calling your shove with any pair, any ace, KTo+, K9s+, QJ, QTs, JTs. You know the drill: This is top 26.1%, so P(fold) = 1 - (26.1/66.7) = 60.9%. cEV for folds is 91.3. Your shoving ranges will fare as follows: 1) 2 2) A 3) J 4) 7 5) 3
2 2 T 5 2
win 43.8%, lose 54.97%, cEV = - 54.59 win 32.1%, lose 53.3%, cEV = -103.615 win 31.12%, lose 53.09%, cEV = -107.38 win 37.08%, lose 62.05%, cEV = -122.04 win 27.95%, lose 71.06%, cEV = - 210.70
Yikes, now only the pocket pair is profitable against this range. Let's add a stronger but not amazing Ax hand to this mix: 6) A
8
win 41.98%, lose 47.75%, cEV = -28.2
A ha! Against a wide calling range, a middling A-rag hand fares pretty well. Better even than that low pair. Let's do two more examples before I get to the point: Scenario 4: Villain is a drunk monkey. He's calling that shove with any pair, any ace, K7o+, any suited king, Q8o+, Q6s+, J9o+, J7s+, T7s+, 97s+, 87s, 76s. This is a whopping 39.7% of hands! You only get a fold 1 (39.7/66.7) = 40.8% of the time, and only have 60.72 in +cEV in folding. Let's see how your hands fare. I think I've convinced you that connector hands are bad against a wide call range, so I'll throw out 75s and 32o, and show 22, A2, A8, and JTs, along with a slightly better pair (55): 1) 2 2) A
2 2
win 45.71%, lose 53.04%, cEV = -54.242 win 41.24%, lose 49.54%, cEV = -61.42
3) J 6) A 7) 5
T 8 5
win 43.56%, lose 53.39%, cEV = -72.74 win 48.88%, lose 44.41%, cEV = +33.078 (!) win 51.81%, lose 47.26%, cEV = +33.67 (!)
You can now 3-bet shove A8 and 55 type hands for VALUE here, never mind the small chance you have of a fold! The difference between A8 and A2 and 55 and 22 is HUGE if villain is calling you mega-wide! One more example: Scenario 5: Villain is tight from the button. He's only raising 25%, and calling the same range as the villain in scenario 1. The equity calcs are the same, but your fold EV drops a lot: P(fold) = 1 - (10.4/25) = 58.4%, cEV of a fold is 87.6. Against this villain it is wrong to 3-bet shove A2, but not JTs. Hmmmmmm. Your edge against this opponent comes from him playing mega-passive on the button, of course. What have we learned from this example? 1) Against an opponent you suspect is not calling your 3-bet very often, your edge in 3-bet shoving comes from FOLD EQUITY. On the off-chance you are called, it is best to have a pair or a middling suited connecting hand than a bad ace. 2) Against an opponent you suspect will call your 3-bet shove somewhat wide but not a lot, your edge is still in your fold equity, but suited connector hands drop a bit in value, and marginal aces increase in values. 3) Against an opponent you suspect will call with a lot of his raising range, your EV in shoving comes from the fact that a middling Ax hand or a low-ish pair is a FAVORITE against whatever trash he's calling with. Suited connectors should not be shoved against these opponents. 4) 3-bet shoving any pocket pair over a 3x raise with 25 BB effective is almost never a mistake. -
Insane Steve
P OKER S UCCESS Part I: Introduction We all aim for success in just about every area of our lives. When we are successful, whether it be with friendships, our careers, our physical health, or our sex lives, our overall sense of well being increases. Whether you play poker recreationally or for a living, undoubtedly most of you are trying to achieve a high level of success at the game. We all have different goals: some of us just want to be winners at the $10 husng level, and others are aiming for $500,000 years. As such, while we can make statements like "Spamzor has had a successful couple of years of poker" or "[insert random fish] should probably consider giving up the game or getting coaching", success is something that can only truly be felt from within. At the same time, certain players achieve a high enough level of achievement that they earn the respect of the greater poker community, or in the case of HUNL, the greater sub-community. Players like Skilled_sox, Livb112, Jungleman or Durrrr have achieved such high levels of success that nearly anyone in the know would label them an excellent, and highly successful, heads up player. Being well respected by your peers is a strong indicator of success in any field. While the skill sets required to achieve that particular level of success are likely beyond the scope of my knowledge, I feel I have a pretty good understanding of what it takes to be a successful poker player. In some respects, I've achieved a good amount of success in poker, but ultimately I feel that I've fallen short of my goals so far in my career. Nonetheless, I have a good grasp on the areas in which I've
struggled, and believe I have a solid understanding on the qualities that build a successful poker player. I've broken these qualities down into four pillars, each of which is critical in furthering your success as a player. It's extremely difficult to determine which of these pillars are more important, but because I have a fascination with numbers and percentages, I've decided to give it a shot. Note that these percentages are just estimates and that they may vary depending on your personal goals. For exmample, to achieve a Jungleman-like level of success might require more of an emphasis on "Natural Talent". They are: 1. Natural Talent - 17% 2. Work Ethic - 25% 3. Professionalism - 40% 4. Life Balance & Confidence - 18% It would be almost impossible to achieve a high level of success in poker with high marks in only two of these pillars, and even being weak in one area can be a huge setback. I will now go into detail about each of the pillars, and discuss how they have related to me personally in my poker career.
Part II: The Four Pillars of Success
1. Natural Talent Natural Talent refers not only to your born natural qualities, but also to your upbringing, the types of activities you were exposed to, and your interest in, and propensity for, learning poker.
From a very young age, it was clear that I had a talent with numbers. I remember walking home from school at the age of five and doing two digit by two digit multiplication in my head.
This was when the rest of my class was learning, and trying to memorize, that 6 + 3 = 9. This fascination with numbers remains, and to this day I often assess and analyze daily events or situations in a numerical fashion. Seeing that I was an intelligent and keen-to-learn child, my parents taught me bridge at the age of six. Bridge is an incredibly complicated game, but I had both the mind for the game and the interest; most of my friends were playing with lego or power ranger toys, while I was playing chess, doing puzzles, or playing cards. I would rather solve puzzles out of a MENSA book than watch a Star Wars movie. Every summer, for two months, I would hang out at my cottage with my mother, aunt and uncle, and two cousins. We would play bridge nearly every day, often for hours on end. Without a doubt, this early and frequent exposure to cards has helped my poker career immensly. In addition, I've always been interested in the way people interact socially. One of the reasons that I rarely smoke marijuana these days is that it increases this tendency of mine such that I'm singularly focused on analyzing both my relationships with people and the interpersonal relationships of others that I'm unable to enjoy the present moment or activity. So while this quality can at times be a social burden, it has undoubtedly be instrumental to my success in live poker. I've been fortunate enough, both in my genetic composition and in the way I was raised, to have a skill set that lends itself very naturally towards poker. Poker plays to my strengths in problem solving, logic, numerical evaluation, and human psychology. Nonetheless, you can see that I rated Natural Talent the least important of the four pillars. I believe that Natural Talent on its own is not nearly enough, and that it is merely a seed of potential that requires the other pillars to grow into anything worthwhile.
A strong natural skillset, interest in the game, and plentiful experience in related activities throughout my youth make this my strongest category.
Self Grade: A
2. Work Ethic Work ethic refers to the amount of effort you put into playing, studying, and learning the game of poker. People with a high level of work ethic often study the game away from the tables, talk poker with their peers, and devote a significant portion of time to the game.
In many aspects of life, work ethic has been a problem for me. My grades slipped from middle school to high school, and then even moreso, from high school to college. I simply wasn't inspired by the material, and couldn't be bothered to work hard just for the sake of getting good grades. I've had other goals in life (gaining weight for instance) that I haven't achieved to the extent I wished simply because I didn't put in the required work. Ever since our childood, we're taught that if we work hard, we can accomplish our goals, but the truth is that if you don't find the work at least satisfying and enjoyable to an extent, it can be incredibly difficult to self-motivate. Luckily, my work ethic in poker has always been extremely strong. Over the past three years, I've played nearly every day, and put in 40+ hours most weeks. I am fascinated by the intellectual nature of the game, and driven to play and put myself in new situations that stimulate me. I discuss poker with a number of friends, read threads and post strategy on 2+2, watch training videos, and put in a ton of hours. Nonetheless, while I have a strong work ethic and passion for the game, undoubtedly some of the hours I've spent playing and learning poker have been hours wasted. That is to say, my work ethic is strong, but sometimes misguided. Putting in long sessions when I'm tired or tilted is counter-productive to achieving success in poker.
I've also been quite lazy about reviewing full hand histories. I'll often discuss individual hands or situations with friends, or post difficult spots, but I rarely go through and dissect a full HUSNG or replay a cash session or MTT I've played. While this work can be monotonous, it is crucial in the process of detecting leaks, as sometimes it is in the most seemingly basic spots where we can be making huge errors. This kind of work is akin to going to the driving range - it'll never be as fun as playing a round of golf, but it can often be ten times as helpful.
Overall, I have a love and passion for poker, a strong drive to put in hours and further my understanding of the game, and these qualities give me strong mark in this category. Self-grade: B+/A-
3. Professionalism This pillar is perhaps the broadest of the four, and refers to all the concepts that go into how you manage yourself as a poker player both at and away from the poker table. Related concepts include discipline, self control & playing conditions, money management and spending habits, your setup, and your extracurricular gambling
The most important pillar, and also the one that I've continually failed at. My pitfalls have been numerous, and while it is somewhat painful to even put them to words, if I ever expect to improve in this category, it's mandatory to be honest with these shortcomings and work hard towards improvement. I'll go through each of the concepts I mentioned and briefly outline how they have affected or shaped my poker career. Discipline, Self-control & playing conditions: Definitely not a strong suit of mine - I have always been an impulsive person, which has led to both some amazing opportunities and life experiences (deciding spontaneously to go to Europe, and then
deciding while there to live in Amsterdam for three months ranks highly) and also to some negative points in my life (impulsive actions ruining friendships, etc.). Discipline manifests itself in a number of ways as a poker player - quitting when tilted or tired, playing a manageable number of tables, not going on facebook or surfing the web while playing, and having a set schedule would all be examples of engaging in good discipline as a poker player. Playing while stressed about major life occrurences, playing simply for the sake of gambling, or playing while drunk or under the influence of drugs can be even more harmful. I have, at various times in my career, made nearly all of these mistakes.
Money Management & Spending Habits: Depending on whether or not you play for a living, this is relevant to your poker play only in terms of your poker roll if you are a recreational player, and to both your poker roll and life roll if you are a professional player. I sometimes wonder how someone with as poor money management skills as myself is even able to call himself a professional player. I rented an apartment from June 2009 til June 2010 in Boston. Instead of taking a day or two to find someone to sublet the apartment, I merely paid the rent while I travelled the world. I spent a total of $10,000 on rent and stayed in the apartment for about twenty days. This is quite bluntly a disgusting display of recklessness and poor money management. Other examples include paying expensive phone bills because I use my American phone in Canada at ridiculously high roaming charges, thousands of dollars I've lost in overdraft fees and credit card interest, and an estimated $-85,000 lifetime in table games and recreational gambling (I'll cover this more later) In terms of my poker bankroll, I blatantly disregard conventional bankroll management guidelines, confident that I'll either be able to get a stake or rely on my skill when playing games outside of my roll. It's astonishing that after three years I still exhibit this
recklessness, but it's also difficult to take smaller games seriously after playing higher for so long. My main problem with money management definitely relates to my life roll and my willingness to spend money frivolously on just about anything. This is something I've made some progress on in the last six months or so, largely out of necessity, when a pretty large online downswing depleted my roll. Recently, I've pulled out of this downswing, in large part due to focusing on some of the other factors I'll touch on in this pillar. Setup: It wasn't until the past month that I truly realized how important a good setup is. My best month ever in online poker was August, 2008, when I was living in my hometown of Halifax. I had a very comfortable chair, two monitors and a clean desk. I made $40,000 mostly playing 1/2 NL HU. I had a 48 buy-in day at 100 and 200nl. I kid you not. Up until last month, my setup has been abysmal for the past year. In Amsterdam I had a desktop computer and two monitors, but was working on awful and inconsistent internet, and in an uncomfortable chair. After that, I was playing out of a laptop, often laying in hotel beds, or friends couches, and using inconsistent internet. I returned to Halifax, and to essentially the same setup I had in 2008 (bought 2 new monitors) a month ago, and have made about $45,000 since then (including my 25k bink in the WCOOP HU). It is clear to me that this is no coincidence. I can't stress enough how important it is to be working out of a comfortable chair that supports your back, drinking fluids, playing with a mouse and keyboard you enjoy, and using a large screen. These concepts are often overlooked and I certainly overlooked their importance over the last year of my poker career. Extra-curricular gambling: This might be the most painful thing for me to talk about of all. I'm easily down $85k in extra-curricular gambling over the course of my life. I'm probably down 20k in recreational prop betting (a lot of this was from ping pong), down 45k from blackjack, and 20k from roulette and other table games. Most of this was done in the period of one year from August
2008 until August 2009. This type of behavior is completely unacceptable. Stu Ungar and TJ Cloutier are two examples of excellent poker players (well, maybe not TJ) who had their bankrolls decimated by gambling addictions. One of the problems with gambling for a living is that you are constantly exposed to other forms of gambling, most of which are at best OEV, and usually -EV. For me personally, there is no question that I have a gambling addiction. The obvious awkward irony is that if I were to rid myself of this addiction entirely, I wouldn't be able to gamble for a living. It's imperative that I treat poker like a business, and am driven by success, earning potential, my passion for the game, the competitition, the sense of community, etc., and not by the gambling associated with the game, even while just playing poker. Outside of poker, it's important that I decide what kind of gambling is acceptable and set clear limits for myself. Right now, I'm effectively self-banned from all table games for the next two months ($500 bounty if anyone catches me, and I'll make it a $2k bounty if I break it once). I'm still allowed to prop bet and sports bet, though I'm trying to limit this to an extent too. Not only does table games degeneracy deplete my bankroll considerably, but its also a very unattractive quality. I think when I was a bit younger and first starting to make money playing poker, I thought of dropping 2k at blackjack as somewhat baller. Now I think of it as stupid. Nonetheless, I still sometimes feel the urge to play table games, especially when drunk and at a casino. Until I fully conquer this addiction to table games and recreational gambling, my bankroll will suffer.
Professionalism is by far my weakest pillar. As the most important pillar, it is also the one that has held me back more than any other in terms of achieving success as a poker player. In the past, I've often speculated about how much money I could
have made had I controlled this aspect of the game. Now, I'm aiming to take a much more proactive approach and find out by actually patching up these massive leaks. I've taken several measures already - improved my setup, signed up for a gym membership, gotten better about quitting when tired, and selfbanned myself from table games. The process must only continue if I want to achieve my goals in poker. Self grade: D
4. Life Balance & Confidence Life balance refers to having activities and outlets outside of poker, exercising well, and paying attention to sleep and diet. I include confidence in the title as I feel these quailties lead to an overall sense of personal confidence, which quickly translates to the poker table.
I actually salute my mother for helping drive home how important this concept is. She has always encouraged me to exercise, eat and sleep well, play fewer hours of poker and maintain a life balance. While I have definitely struggled in all of these areas, I have come to realize that her words were not just those of a nagging mother, but in fact the truth. It's very difficult to assess how I've done in this category, because I think in some respects I've done quite well, and in others I've done extremely poorly. While I've played a lot of poker (probably too much poker) in the past few years, I've also done quite a bit of travelling, and have quite a few activities outside of poker that I partake in. I'm lucky to have quite a few good friends spread out over North America (and in a few cases, internationally). This is great because I love travelling, so it's fun having the flexibility as a poker player to travel and see them. In the past year, I've spent at least three weeks in each of the following locations: Amsterdam, Sydney, Melbourne, NYC, Boston, LA, Halifax. I've
also spent smaller amounts of time in Italy, Paris, London, San Fransisco, and Lake Tahoe. I'm also planning a trip to Southeast Asia and Australia with a friend of mine in November. I have a bunch of interests, such as golfing, boating, exploring cities, eating out, seeing movies and shows, bowling, going to the gym, and going out to bars and clubs. Even when stationed in one location for a while, most of my days include at least one of these activities. However, I usually play at least five hours of poker every day, on top of this other stuff. As such, what often happens in an otherwise activity-filled day is that instead of sacrificing poker hours, I sacrifice sleep hours. My sleep schedule is constantly changing as a result of playing long sessions of poker. My diet is another concern. I'll often play long blocks of MTTs (particularly on Sundays) without properly accounting for in advance my eating schedule. I'll typically order junk food as a result, or even go long periods of time without food. Without question, sleep and diet are two issues that I need to work on. Exercise is something that I've been working on lately. I've always golfed a lot, though I'm not sure that qualifies as exercise. Over the summer, I golfed a bunch, played tennis five or six times, did some running, lifted weights a couple times, and went mountain biking once. Not the most athletic summer overall. However, I recently signed up for a gym membership, and my goal is to go 4-5 times a week.
Overall, I am happy with the non-poker activities I have going on in my life, but still think I am playing too many hours of poker overall, and not propertly thinking about a schedule, or taking enough proactive steps to improve my sleep, diet and exercise. Self Grade: C+/B-
Part III: Conclusion
It's been said that golf is a tough way to make an easy living. That quote couldn't be more applicable to poker. In so many ways, what we do as a poker player is easy, and we should never take it for granted. I click buttons for a living, and can make my own schedule and play anywhere in the world. I play cards for a living -- just think about that for a second. But if you don't give poker the respect it deserves, you will never achieve the success you deserve. This is an ongoing process and complacency will only stunt your growth. Never stop evaluating yourself as a person and as a player. Never be satisfied with simply "getting by". Like any job or pursuit, becoming a truly expert poker player takes a large amount of effort and, as I hope I've shown, it's important that this effort is guided and channeled in a positive and effective way. Success is within grasp for all of us, we just need to go out there and get it. -
Rumnchess
BR M ANAGEMENT AND Y OU dboy:*Hey Jimmy, what are you up to?* Little Jimmy:*Playing HU sngs LDO.* d:*Whoa there Jimmy, thats a $33+$1.50* lj:*Yeah I know can beat this level!* d:*That's great Jimmy, but you're BR is only $53.72* lj:*Omg hacker. Well what level should I play?* d:*Let's take a look at some options.* So you want to build a roll playing HU sngs? BR management is absolutely key. Consider using one of the following BR management rulesets. Option #1 Best Option if: You can't stand or would prefer not to have to move down levels. You like to have a very padded roll to feel comfortable playing. Losing a decent portion of your BR tilts you. You are still learning how to own HUSNGs and you aren't quite comfortable playing them yet. BR:$30 - $99 Play $2s BR:$100 - $199 Play $5s BR:$200 - $399 Play $10s BR:$400 - $599 Play $20s BR:$600 - $999 Play $30s BR:$1000 - $2499 Play $50s
BR:$2500+ Play $100s
Option #2 Best Option if: You are fine with having to move down. You want to move up the ranks semi-quickly. BR:$20 - $49 Play $2s BR:$50 - $99 Play $5s BR:$100 - $199 Play $10s BR:$200 - $299 Play $20s BR:$300 - $499 Play $30s BR:$500 - $999 Play $50s BR:$1000+ Play $100s
Option #3 Best Option if You are comfortable playing and adjusting to any stakes and player. You are or have good reason to believe you are a solid winner. (Think 63%+ winrate here) You have very minimal tilt issues. You want to take on a bit more risk and build a roll quickly. You are ok with having to redeposit if you bust early on. BR:$10 - $24 Play $2s BR:$25 - $49
Play $5s BR:$50 - $99 Play $10s BR:$100 - $149 Play $20s BR:$150 - $249 Play $30s BR:$250 - $499 Play $50s BR:$500+ Play $100s Beware of option 3. A 15 buyin downswing (although rare) will knock you down through 3 levels. But something else to consider is that if you believe yourself to be +EV at the 100s, then it might be +EV to sacrifice a little risk of ruin in order to get up to that level. There is an opportunity cost of sticking around at the lower levels for a long time. So that is something to think about. I like option 2 and think it is a nice balance. I have used option 2 to build a roll from the 5s up to the 50s twice with no problems. Option 3 definitely has some gamble in it, but the reward to the +EV player is definitely worth the risk. That said, if you can't redeposit you should not consider option 3. Option 1 is more for helping a player who is more prone to tilt. It causes less dramatic BR swings and should keep you more cool in your sessions. It will definitely take longer to reach the higher buyin games, but if you are highly prone to tilt it may be the best option for you. -
Dboy23
S UCCESS , F AILURE , AND THE D OW NSW ING M INDSET In my last few and most successful years as a poker player I‟ve come to notice that my outlook on the game contrasts that of many others. I‟ve struggled over the past few weeks to put into words where my thinking differs and what I believe is the reason for my calm disposition. The tangents I indulge support my explanation, as well as cover my thoughts on success and failure. As I don‟t have the humility to prevent me from voicing my opinion on this subject, I feel obliged to do so.
Being a perfectionist, it is ironic that I should first start by excusing the imperfection of my post. However, writing is similar to poker in that perfection is impossible, much to my dismay in both cases. I‟ll quote John Steinbeck: Quote: Very few people ever mature... But sometimes... awareness takes place- not very often and always unexplainable. There are no words for it because there is no one ever to tell. This is a secret not kept a secret, but locked in wordlessness. The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness. This is something you need to understand for yourself in order to appreciate the mindset I take when approaching the game and the variance that comes with it. Downswings are especially difficult to recover from because there are multiple forces working against you. Most visibly, you‟re stuck and need to win to recover what you‟ve lost. The simple financial loss is only the beginning, though. Secondly, you‟re frustrated and stressed. (Especially when you‟re playing for a living where winning is a necessity) Thirdly, you‟ve lost confidence in your abilities- the second worst part of the nightmare. And lastly, feeling sorry for yourself is the final nail in the coffin. Like using multiple drugs simultaneously, the effects are multiplied and can be catastrophic. In the midst of such a trying time, “it will all even out in the long run” is hardly reassuring. After reading both Irieguy‟s "The Difference Between Success and Failure"
and Gigabet's "Almost There With Success and Failure"
I‟ve come to the conclusion that both players have a good sense of variance yet have no teachable methods to weather the storm. (Or rather, outlooks to take) Irieguy touches on some important yet under appreciated subjects. Among reminding us that complaining is bad and musing that emotional stamina varies from person to person, he leaves us this little gem of brilliance. Quote: Everybody will eventually run worse than they thought was possible. The difference between a winner and a loser is that the latter thinks they do not deserve it. This could be one of the most important statements ever posted on 2+2, measuring by how much it can help most players. (I‟ve only been reading since late ‟03, but this is certainly up there with the most helpful of what I‟ve read). Feeling sorry for yourself is the single worst thing that can happen as a result of a downswing. I see it on the forums every day- it consumes players. Posting downswing graphs for sympathy, comparing who runs worse, all in a desperate attempt to prove your own abilities to yourself because of the doubt your recent misfortunes has instilled in you. Gigabet responds to Irieguy‟s statement, Quote: This statement is truer than anyone can know(even though I think most of you do know, it just seems impossible for me to believe that someone else can understand). What he says about winners and losers though, will keep you from attaining a more complete game. There are no winners or losers, to think that, is to let yourself be affected by negative variance. If you are not in the positive for the day, then you therefore must be a loser, and so the downward spiral begins. All of those negative ideas must be eliminated from your mind, or you will not perform to your potential. The trick is recognizing these negative ideas, since there are so many and so commonplace in our society, it is a large task indeed to sort them out as real, or just ideas created by the masses. Our labels for winners and losers simply identify individuals who play the same game a different way. Just because one person doesn't achieve the same goal that I strive for, doesn't make that person a "loser." Everyone is the same, and everyone has the same potential, some just direct their energies in different directions. The sooner you can get that into your head and really believe it, the sooner you will start to have a real understanding of the game. Now here‟s where Gigabet and I differ in our opinions of approaching variance. He believes that by eliminating “winners” and “losers” from the equation, we become content with our own set goals and abilities, despite others‟ more impressive results. However, everyone is not the same, and everyone has a different potential as a player. On a very basic level, before becoming a winner, one must figure out what is preventing success. Eliminating successful people from the equation is not
a good place to start. The difference between winners and losers is that some people are able to overcome the delusionality that results from downswings, whereas others are not. Never in my life have I seen such delusionality as I have in poker. The poker world runs on it, because losers are given a taste of what they believe is success, when in fact it is simply the deceiving placebo. (And yes, I know some players play for enjoyment while recognizing they are outmatched, but I think the percentage of players who truly believe they have an edge is generally underestimated). What is unbelievable to me is to what extent such delusionality can reach. For example.
What kind of close-mindedness does it take to guard your poker prowess with such insistence upon bad luck? As winning poker players, we profit from others‟ delusionality and so the less delusional we become, the better off we are. Keeping an open mind to the reason(s) for your downswing is as important as learning how to properly balance your preflop 4-betting range. I‟ve experienced a collective sense of open-mindedness in the heads up forum, where people aren‟t afraid to concede their opinion as ludicrous, and quickly default to well-intended questioning. I believe this is because of the nature heads up poker. There is no quick-learn formula to grind out a few bb/100 while playing heads up; you need to learn for yourself what works and doesn‟t, and having an open mind to different strategies is imperative. Occasionally in other forums, posters will fiercely defend their position, contradicting themselves often as they attempt to strengthen their argument, which eventually leads to a huge waste of time and energy. But worst of all, they fuel their delusionality. Poker is a competition, but nothing near the competitive level that conventional sports are, such as basketball or golf. (At least at this point in time, anyway) Poker players lack the healthy competitive nature created by these atmospheres because of the
influence luck has on the game. When losing a tennis match, you generally respect your opponent because of his superior abilities. Very seldom in poker do we credit someone‟s poker prowess for beating us, because we‟re usually playing against others who are worse; which is the nature of the game. Athletes are able to overcome the difficult times generally due to the fact that there is little luck involved in their sport; their failures are a direct result of their personal shortcomings- igniting their determination to work that much harder in order to achieve success. Poker players on the other hand experience a different breed of failure that is often very much not their fault. It is difficult to recognize when we‟re at the peak of our poker prowess because we are seldom know whether or not to credit our successes to variance. Similarly, when we cannot take responsibility for our failures with any degree of certainty, it‟s not easy to work harder than before to prove ourselves successful. Doubt in your cause weakens the determination to become successful. Humans were not designed to bear the type of variance that comes with poker. We don‟t innately understand how long-run odds work, and our frustration is a result of what we believe should not have happened. We don‟t think it should happen because of our built-in shortsighted outlook on bad luck. It was never necessary for us as a species to understand this type of bad luck because any one who experienced a string of misfortune would simply not survive. What you need to do as a poker player to survive the variance is to treat it as a challenge to yourself. Where you can‟t physically push yourself as in other sports, you need to mentally push yourself to not be bothered by the variance. When you don‟t care whether variance is being equally fair to you and everyone else, losing in poker is just a competition of how strong you are mentally. When you don‟t need others‟ sympathy and confirmation of your misfortune (rather than your own lack of abilities) your confidence has finally reached its prime. Personally, I enjoy proving that after I hurricane off ten buyins, I can talk to a friend as if I just won the lottery. I take pride in having physical endurance, and I have developed the same ecstasy for my strong mental endurance.
So treat variance as an entity that has the sole purpose of upsetting you to the point where you fall to your knees and cry like a four-year-old, blurry eyes squinting at an EV graph that is in fact the crooked, satisfied smile of variance. -
Scansion
Y OU SUCK AT POKER I have been thinking about what to write for a pooh-bah post for sometime. I don't think many of you know who I am, outside of this forum. I will start by saying I do not have a lot of new content as far as strategy goes. This is very TLDR, and it's probably full of grammar mistakes, or something... but I tried to make it easy to read. I've been around the forum for a long time now, and started playing poker before the UIEGA. I've played many different games in my goal to become great at poker, and it never really took off for me. I make consistent money now, but I don't play the super high stakes games, and I don't really think I am the best poster when it comes to strategy. However, I haven't had a formal job for many months now, and have no intentions of getting one anytime soon. So, I still feel obligated to give something back, or better yet, pay it forward. Looking back on the years I have spent on this game, and the numerous ups and downs in a poker career that has been less than stellar up to this point makes me wonder what kept me going. One of the hardest things I have ever done in my life was being a mediocre poker player. When you are marginally above break even, you still take the same swings that everyone else does, but you also don't really make any serious money doing it. You get to a point where you should realize you aren't very good, but your ego won't let you. So you end up being gratified and tortured by your results. One month you win 10K and you think "finally this game makes sense", then midway through the next month you get hit by negative variance in the cards and your play. Of course, at the time you won't admit that your play has everything to do with your results. And one night, you tilt off 40 buyins because you can't accept losing. Your ego just won't let you.
Yeah, that's right 40 buyins over one 20hr session. I mean, no breaks, no food, not missing a single hand. It's not the first time either... or the last. You read numerous posts that if you lose that much in one session, you should quit, or you are horrible at poker if you take those kinds of downswings, but you can't quit. You think you have a borderline gambling problem, but you still made some money. And you are doing something that society generally feels as being pretty stupid, so you better ****ing succeed. You think... if I just didn't tilt... I would have $XXXXXX.XX. I would be playing $10-20 or 25-50 by now. But you aren't... you are busto. You know you aren't stupid. You have an engineering degree, so why are these idiot dropouts making all this money and you aren't? How can they be better at a game like this? Well, I got news for you, they are better. If you are tilting, or otherwise not playing your A game, that is all part of who you are as a poker player. It took me a long time to learn this. Every time you sit down at the table, you are demonstrating who you are as a poker player(even sometimes when you are away from the table). If you play amazingly well, then once a month you go on tilt and you take your entire roll and put it in a high stakes game, you have a major leak and that means you aren't an amazing player, despite playing amazing for most of the month. Most players don't have leaks this severe, but I hope you get my point. You can't pick and choose how good you are based only on when you are playing well. You need to look at all your play and all your skills. Even if you are only playing when you are feeling good; you are missing out on money and good games, and you aren't giving yourself a chance to improve your B and C game. And trust me, if you need to play one day and aren't feeling tip-top, you will really wish you spent some time working on those aspects of your game. I went through all of this... then I hired a mental coach and actually started winning constantly and figured out my tilt game. I am still working on it all, but it is coming along.
Now I focus on other things. I am working on taking my ego out of the game. I also decided that I don't care about the stakes I play, or the money I make, as long as I have enough to live on. I stopped compulsively checking my cashier, and don't even know if I am up or down for the month. This act alone takes money out of the game, and you can focus on what really matters. So when thinking about what to write, I wanted to offer the community something that I have that most others don't seem to have. Then I realized that that is a pretty arrogant thing to even think about, considering how much I have struggled to get to where I am. Instead, I took the selfish way out and decided to write something that I want to write about. Or more accurately, what I would tell myself back when I was starting out. So this is a note to the old me, hopefully by sharing it someone else may learn from my mistakes: You are not as good as you think you are. But that is okay. In fact, it is amazingly powerful if you can truly understand just how much you suck. It's even more powerful if you can understand why you suck. This is the first step in learning to improve and improving is what this game is all about. I know things have always come easy for you in school and all the way through university. You never applied yourself for more than a few weeks and you did fine. People always told you how smart you are, and how they wish they could learn as quickly as you. This is the first time in your life that you are facing something that you really have to work at to succeed intellectually. And don't kid yourself... YES! You need to work! ALL THE TIME! Trust me, it's sooo much easier that way. I know you are reading this, and you think it is for someone else. But it's not.... believe it or not, I am talking to you. I am you! I was where you are right now years ago. Sure, you have had some success at this game, but what if you could do more? I
know you've thought about it...but do you really know how to get there? Do you even know the things you need to improve? Do you really know why you lose? Do you know your biggest leaks? Do you have a plan to fix them? Is it working? Do you tilt? Do you know why? I do... I know something even bigger about you. You hate making mistakes. It makes me smile knowing this, I wish you could understand why... You hate making them so much, that you justify losses to yourself by saying you ran bad. How many times have you seen people complain about running bad? How many threads have you read about bad beat stories, EV graphs, doomswitch complaints, and chat window beratings? Now think about how many times you've seen someone say, “I have these mistakes, how do I fix them?” Poker is weird that way... If we were playing basketball and couldn't make a free-throw we would probably ask someone better than us to help us with our technique. We would probably get a lot of weird looks if we just complained about our unlucky free-throw or how bad we run at basketball. You know this game rewards skill over the long run. But when you are losing, you complain, you grind and you try to win it back in one shot when you KNOW you aren't playing your best... Essentially, you try to get lucky. You don't realize that losing is the BEST thing for your game! If this game was easy, and you won all the time from the start, how much effort would you put into improving? If you make a big call, suckout, or sniff out a bluff and got lucky you probably won't think twice about it. It would be like school, and you would just coast through. But if you lose and lose and lose, you can start asking questions. Failure doesn't exist if you keep trying and keep improving. Failure happens when you keep doing the same damn thing, and keep getting the same stupid result until you can take no more and you give up. Mistakes are necessary and are the best opportunities for growth. Seek them out and be proud!! Because
when you find one, you can fix it and that means more money and confidence. You have a long way to go and a lot to learn. But remember, every thing you learn compounds on itself in this game. You don't learn to win overnight, you pick up little things here and there, and eventually, you have built a game that wins and continues to grow. Your Best Bud, You.
I ****ing love this game. I realize I am far from an amazing player, but it doesn't matter. This game challenges a person on so many levels and I can't think about how much I have grown and learned from this game outside of poker. Taking my ego out and realizing that I suck at poker has been one of the best things that ever happened for my game. When you know you suck, you can work and improve. If you are 'just running bad', there isn't a ****ing thing you can do. Now this next part is going to sound weird to a lot of good players. I don't lose confidence when I am running bad. Seriously. The cards I am dealt have nothing to do with how I interpret my skill, and that is what confidence means to me. If I do lose confidence, it's because I am not analyzing my game enough. Try it. The next time you feel like crap from a session, go over every hand and WRITE DOWN all spots you got unlucky and all the mistakes you made. Find out exactly why you lost, and don't make any excuses. It might sound odd, but if you force yourself to do it, you will feel better. It is a privileged to play this game everyday, and I am very grateful that it is my job. I know this post isn't likely to help anyone a huge amount, but I also know that it might help someone a little and little improvements reap big rewards in this game. -
Hince
MJW 006 SPEW S RANDOM THOUGHT S ... Now that you‟ve opened this thread, let me warn you... Unlike some of the smart individuals around this forum, I‟m unable to deliver a long-winded, well thought out, and constructed article on something strategy specific in this pooh-bah post. So if that is what you‟re looking for, then hit the back button and slowly slink out Instead, I am going to do something very typical of myself. I‟m going to write something generalised, certainly non-factual, and what will at some point become the definition of nonrevolutionary. Yes. I will be spewing my opinions in this thread. Being serious though, I have learnt a lot in my time as a poker player and as a member of these forums. What I intend to do is to share some of the things I have learnt along the way. It won‟t be strategy specific, nor will it be mind-blowing. But there are some things that I really believe in and I guess my intention is to share them with whoever cares...
#1 Opinion: Finding your Niche This applies in a much broader sense when you first decide to play poker. Do you play MTT‟s, 6m cash, SNG‟s etc etc... I went through several different forms of poker before I found one that I felt really comfortable with (which was obviously husng). In regards to HUSNG‟s, you obviously have the option of playing many different formats if we take into account the different structures on different skins. Although poker is a skill and all formats can be learned by a competent individual, I personally believe that we will have a natural propensity to be better at a certain format than another. Many factors obviously influence which it is that we are going to be better at, but I think it‟s important to try to establish what your most profitable format is. It‟s kinda like how people (fish) see
their hero (Phil Hellmuth) on the tv and want to be like him so they automatically play MTT‟s, and likely never venture into trying out other games. Well that could be you! You play turbos on FTP because of X,Y and Z reason, yet you have never tried out any other format... Do you beat the game you chose? Yeah sure, but it doesn‟t mean it‟s necessarily your best game. People are scared of change, and if something ain‟t broke, why fix it??? Well why not give yourself the opportunity to upgrade it?
#2 Opinion: The Different Sides of Variance People tend to think of variance in one way only, and I think that is an ignorant approach. People say “eh i‟m running so f****** bad right now. Stupid variance” (and this is the only type of variance). In reality every time we sit down and play we are experiencing variance, whether it be good, bad, or ugly. The first side of variance is the one we most often consider and that is how we are running in all-ins. Are we getting sucked out on? Are we holding? Etc etc... The second side of variance is the coolers and setups. I guess this is the second most complained about scenario (because we rarely hear when hero is getting the good side of it). The third side of variance is the situational variance that we encounter. By this I mean, are we just getting no hands or are we missing every single flop. Conversely, are we getting a ton of hands and hitting a ton of flops...? Or is it somewhere in between? I hear you thinking, „yeah I‟m no idiot, I know all of this!‟... Well have you ever considered the fact that it‟s likely that all of these factors are working at the same time? Every time we sit down for a match we are experiencing all of these factors, which leads me to my real point. Don‟t think that just because you‟re a ton below EV that it is your true expectation. It‟s easy to review your game and say well I got 3-outered 6 times in 10 matches so obviously i‟m just running bad. Ask yourself also, “was I running good situationally?”, “were all of the coolers and setups in my favour to begin with?”. When trying to examine the variance that we are
being affected by we must consider more than just the factors that are blatantly obvious, and instead try to understand everything that was out of our control to best critically examine what we can control.
# 3 Opinion: Poker Friends This has probably been the most influential factor of my poker life. 2p2 is a good place to learn but it‟s full of ****ty posters and equally ****ty posts. When you can filter out the crap you can find a lot of smart individuals who are also good people. I‟ve spent a lot of time talking to numerous people online over MSN, AIM, and Skype. This has allowed me to keep my sanity when I‟m sitting in front of a computer grinding by myself for so many hours. I am a very social person, so it‟s hard for me to go from constantly being around people at work and university to sitting in front of a computer for many hours of the day for work. To go with this, I have learnt an absolute ton from the people that I talk to on a daily basis, more than I could learn from some training site, coaching, or from the forums themselves. Obviously I have been lucky in the people I associate with, but this will be true in a lot of cases. We don‟t always talk about poker, in fact it makes up a pretty small % of the conversations we have. But it does allow me to keep my sanity and have some fun along the way with people I truly consider friends.
#4 Opinion: STOP being results oriented Here we go again...! No not really, I‟m not going to go into this really as too many people have done so in the past. However, I cannot emphasise this enough... STOP WORRYING ABOUT YOUR RESULTS!!! STOP LOOKING AT YOUR SHARKSCOPE!!! STOP THINKING ABOUT BEING DOWN FOR THE DAY/WEEK/MONTH!!!! START THINKING ABOUT YOUR PLAY AND CRITICALLY ANALYSING IT~!!!!!!
#5 Opinion: Maintaining life balance This is so simple but I cannot stress the importance of this enough. If you are not happy in yourself and your life then it is very unlikely that you are going to be in a positive frame of mind when it comes to playing poker. Grinding mindless amount of hours is not going to make you happy, even if you are making a ton of money (except in some very rare circumstances/people). You really should try to interact with real people and you should try to do things that make you happy outside of poker. They say that exercise etc makes you more focussed and so on (which could be true), but in reality it should be amended to doing things that make you feel good about yourself or doing things that make you happy will make you more focussed and relaxed at the tables.
#6 Opinion... If anything stands out in this post I guess it should be to not lie to yourself. I know that I‟m no poker genius; hence, I‟m not attempting to write anything super deep rooted. I understand that there are many players better than me and that I have a ton to learn. I also know who I am as a person, and I don‟t attempt to hide my true nature so that I look like something I am not... (If you haven‟t worked out that I‟m mildly sarcastic, don‟t take myself too seriously, and that I‟m an utter smart ass by now then maybe you need to work on your hand-reading skillz). Don‟t kid yourself into thinking you‟re smarter, better, or know more than you do... There is also no point in trying to convince others that you are smarter, better, or know more than you do... The only way to move forward in both life and poker is to be honest with yourself and focus on learning to become a better person and/or a better poker player. -
Mjw006
SPAMZ ' FIRST HAND HISTORY R EVIEW Quote: Hand #1 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289439 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1500 M = 50 BB: t1500 M = 50 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 Hero raises to t60, 1 fold Final Pot: t40 Hero mucks 8 Hero wins t40
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Obviously a "std" raise though just pointing out that I'm still planning on doing something about betsizing in the future and minraising vs raising 3bb's will defenitly come up there as well. Just pointing out for now that at 10/20 level I prefer 3bb's as well, just because there's still a lot of room (read: more room than at 15/30 level) to manoeuvre postflop when pot is 6bb's with 72bb's behind. Quote: Hand #2 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289440 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1520 M = 50.67 BTN/SB: t1480 M = 49.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 8 1 fold Final Pot: t30 Hero mucks 8 Hero wins t20 (Rake: t10)
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Quote: Hand #3 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289441
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1530 M = 51 BB: t1470 M = 49 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with T 8 Hero calls t10, BB raises to t60, Hero calls t40 Flop: (t120) 7 7 5 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t120) A (2 players) BB bets t40, Hero folds Final Pot: t120 BB wins t120 Great, you limped! I think it's a good idea to limp early on. Mainly because it's good/cheap info you get about villain what he does in general vs limps, something which you can (and should) use later on when stacks get shallower and/or blinds go up. I also think T8o is a good hand to do it with, mainly looking for weakest part of medium strength hands to limp, 96s, K2o, stuff like that. Either hands which can still flop toppair/middle pair or some sort of draw or can be checked down and still be the best hand (K-high or Q-high usually) on some boards. Ok, so you limped and he raised to 3bb's, what do we do here? I think calling preflop isn't the best way to play here, I think it's important you fold here for future purposes. Let's just start with pointing out that vs a really aggro opponent limp/calling here can defenitly be a good play (someone who 3bets a ton and raises most limps) because we have a semi-decent hand which can still flop something decent + we have position. However, in this spot, we have absolutely no idea what type of opponent we're dealing with here. Given the fact that he folded two previous hands, I don't think he's the type of guy to "bully" and start raising almost any two cards here tbh; this could be the case, some opponents just look at the limp and see "oh, he's weak, let's raise him off his hand!" but when he folded first two hands (one on the button) I think that you're looking at a more tightish range. Another thing why I wouldn't call preflop is for the fact I want to test and limp some more hands in before blinds go up and see what he does. Let's just say you fold here, you limp again in 8 hands, will he blindly raise again because we folded here or not? If yes, you can safely fold again (only invested t10 again) and use this to limp/shove a ton of hands in later stages of the game. If he checks, you can easily limp a bunch of (even) trashy hands till blinds get really high. Vs people who are passive vs limps you can probably limp/fold as low as 7bb's shallow imo, though you have to know that they let you do this and for that, it's important to notice this early on. As far as postflop goes (if you do indeed decide to limp/call), I think you played it fine. I don't think he's folding any pocket pair or broadway cards on a low paired flop like that, and I wouldn't try to bluff early on in general. On turn there's a decent chance
we're drawing dead so easy fold. If he checks turn again and you pick up an openender I would bet though, because he will have A-high or two mere overs a lot on a coordinated board and getting better hands to fold is pretty valuable at that point. Quote: Hand #4 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289442 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1470 M = 49 BTN/SB: t1530 M = 51 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 6 BTN/SB raises to t80, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40 Weird, all of a sudden he opens 4bb's. I'm really not used to this but can imagine it happens more on stars due to lack of potbetbutton. I like your fold here, especially since we have close to 0 postflop reads except for that he represented an A oop (but nothing concerned cbetting in position/doublebarreling/etc.). I think my defendingrange here would be like two broadwaycards, probaly A9/A8s as well and pocket pairs. 3betting with AQ+TT+ here I think, 99 being close, probably mix up between flatting/3betting. You're mainly looking for toppair here obv, since pot will be quity big postflop already, and a range of AJ-A9/KT+/QT+/JT will defenitly work for that. Quote: Hand #5 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289443 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1450 M = 48.33 BB: t1550 M = 51.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with K Hero raises to t60, BB calls t40
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Flop: (t120) 7 9 3 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t80, BB folds Final Pot: t120 Hero mucks K 8 Hero wins t120 Again, quite standard hand, but a short thing about cbet-sizing here. I think anything from 60-80 is good to cbet (on a board like this, but in general as well, don't make it too big). Thing to keep in mind is that it's headsup, and most of the hands you will be
playing will be no pair vs no pair; it doesn't take a genius to figure out your cbets will be (semi-)bluffs most of the time so we want to keep them as small as possible so they become as good risk/reward as they can; half pot is my standard most of the time, 80 into 120 is good as well but I wouldn't really do any bigger (unless you have a read/note that villain doesn't care about betsizing and will call/fold for pot or 1bb, this way you can obv bet bigger for value etc, but we don't have that read here). Quote: Hand #6 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289444 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1510 M = 50.33 BTN/SB: t1490 M = 49.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 3 1 fold Final Pot: t30 Hero mucks 3 Hero wins t20 (Rake: t10)
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Quote: Hand #7 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289445 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1520 M = 50.67 BB: t1480 M = 49.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with T Hero raises to t60, 1 fold Final Pot: t40 Hero mucks T Hero wins t40
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Quote: Hand #8 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289446 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1540 M = 51.33 BTN/SB: t1460 M = 48.67
Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 3 1 fold Final Pot: t30 Hero mucks 3 Hero wins t20 (Rake: t10)
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Ok, so far he seems to be pretty nitty, defenitly something to keep in mind. He folded 5/8 hands, I know this is a really small sample but he's defenitly not going to be a maniak and most of the time he will end up being quite tight for rest of the match. Quote: Hand #9 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289447 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1550 M = 51.67 BB: t1450 M = 48.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 Q Hero raises to t60, BB raises to t140, 1 fold Final Pot: t120 BB wins t120 Given that we just noticed how nitty this opponent has been so far, I would try and start raising close to 100% of my buttons, again, still with the occassional limp mixed in. This wouldn't be a bad hand to limp in with either fwiw, though in general you should try raising as much as you can if he folds his bb a lot. Obv fold vs his 3bet pre, your hand worth nothing. Note that he opened to 4bb's once, and he 3bet you now, so I suspect him to play all the hands he plays (or at least most of them) quite agressively. Quote: Hand #10 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289448 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1490 M = 49.67 BTN/SB: t1510 M = 50.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 5 1 fold Final Pot: t30 Hero mucks 5 Hero wins t20 (Rake: t10)
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Quote: Hand #11 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289449 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1500 M = 50 BB: t1500 M = 50 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 Hero raises to t60, 1 fold Final Pot: t40 Hero mucks 8 Hero wins t40
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Quote: Hand #12 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289450 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1520 M = 50.67 BTN/SB: t1480 M = 49.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 2 BTN/SB calls t10, Hero checks
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Flop: (t40) 3 8 4 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t40) 2 (2 players) Hero bets t20, BTN/SB folds Final Pot: t40 Hero mucks 2 Hero wins t40
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Haha, ok, so appearantly he's not as tag-ish as I thought he would be. He probably just happened to have a hand last couple of times as far as I'm concerned. Check preflop is fine, even though I suspect his limping not to be THAT strong, I still think it has a decent amount of limp/calling hands in there given that he folded a bunch of buttons before I can't imagine him limping hands like 82o, and will defenitly have some hands like J9s included. Vs buttonlimps in general, I think the best way to act vs them is with "selective agressiveness" as bluemage would put it. Don't blindly raise them, fish will limp/call a bunch anyway and it sucks being oop with a marginal hand which doesn't flop too well. You can raise bluff him once (after checking first 3 times for example) but don't overdo it. Just try to widen your valueraising range a bit (like include hands like Q9o for raising limps if you think villain is weak most of the
time) and you will not need to raise them that much. Flop check is also fine, fwiw I would probably check/fold here if he bets pot. We just have a really marginal hand and not a lot of cards which improve us, and we don't know if (any) of our outs are good (two pair could give him a straight etc). If he bets 1bb I would be more inclined to call. Reason why I don't lead here is to see if he bets 100% when checked to him, which is why I check most of the time the first couple of buttons villain limped. He checked back, so we should be inclined to (bluff) lead out some more in the future given that he's not autostabbing. Turn is obviously a mustbet. I don't mind your 1bb bet tbh. I think he would bet flushdraws on flop, as would he bet toppair and middle pair before more overcards come, so mainly looking at straightdraws and bottom/3rd pair to get value from and you're doing great against pretty much all those hands. Sucks a bit if he calls and river is a 6 but I think you can safely check/fold given that I doubt he's turning a lot of onepair hands in a bluff (76o for example) and if he valuebets them he's probably going to bet them pretty small (which I doubt a random fish does a lot, valuebetting thin). Quote: Hand #13 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289451 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1540 M = 51.33 BB: t1460 M = 48.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with A Hero raises to t60, BB calls t40
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Flop: (t120) 3 7 Q (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t80, BB folds Final Pot: t120 Hero mucks A Q Hero wins t120 I don't mind your bet of 80 here because in general there's no need to balance your range vs a fish, however note that the board of is REALLY dry and a bet of 60 will probably work just about as much to make him fold just because there's not much he can call you with here. Quote: Hand #14 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289452 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1600 M = 53.33 BTN/SB: t1400 M = 46.67
Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with K BTN/SB calls t10, Hero checks
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Flop: (t40) J Q 7 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t40) A (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t40) Q (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Final Pot: t40 Hero shows K J (two pair, Queens and Jacks) BTN/SB mucks 3 T Hero wins t40 Ok, so this is the part where you raise. Even if his limpingrange consists of medium strength hands, you're doing GREAT vs those, and have them dominated A LOT. So just raise for value, to like 60-80, any amount is reasonable from 60 to 80 imo, you actually WANT him to call so 80 may be too big imo. Given that he didn't autobet last time we checked to him in a limped pot, I think this is a good spot to lead out for 30 yourself. If he has nothing, it's unlikely he's going to put more money in the pot anyway himself. So just lead, try and get value from weaker Jx, 7x, flushdraws and straightdraws too. If you don't bet flop, I would defenitly minbet the turn. There's a second flushdraw out there and if you just bet 1bb a lot of people will call with Kx (while drawing to 4 outs to chop) because they have a bit of showdown as well with their highcard. After checking 3 times, river is indeed a check though I would defenitly put some more money in the pot if I were you at some previous point in the hand. Just try and have him bet his T8 as a bluff or whatever he checked back twice. I don't expect him to bet a lot on this river fwiw, though I don't see too much value in betting either given that you chop with Jx so only looking at 7x (which villain may bet himself) so yeah try to bluffcatch now. Quote: Hand #15 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289453 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1620 M = 54 BB: t1380 M = 46 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 2 1 fold
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Final Pot: t30 BB wins t20 (Rake: t10) Yeah probably one of the 5% of hands I would consider just folding vs him.
Quote: Hand #16 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289454 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1610 M = 53.67 BTN/SB: t1390 M = 46.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 4 1 fold Final Pot: t30 Hero mucks 4 Hero wins t20 (Rake: t10)
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Quote: Hand #17 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289455 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1620 M = 54 BB: t1380 M = 46 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 6 Hero raises to t60, BB calls t40
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Flop: (t120) 6 9 9 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t120) T (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t80, BB calls t80 River: (t280) 2 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Final Pot: t280 Hero shows 6 7 (two pair, Nines and Sixes) BB shows Q 3 (a pair of Nines) Hero wins t280 I would defenitly cbet here. You flopped two pair, it's unlikely he has something better on this board so just bet for value against straightdraws/flushdraws/acehigh/overcards/low pocket pairs. Vs some opponents you can check back because they will autostab turn, but against this guy, I wouldn't count on it since he doesn't seem to stabbing when he didn't hit anyway. So only way some money is going to go in on turn/river if he hit something better (like JT and a J pops up on turn). It's going
to be pretty rare like in this case that he's going to turn a flushdraw (or straightdraw sometimes) and that's going to c/c it again. Just bet flop, take it down and be done with the hand. I know this sounds like "bet for protection" against this kind of opponent and betting for protection in general is a stupid reason to bet, but you can take down the pot and there's actually some worse hands he can call here with. It's also good info if he c/c's with - say - A3o and checks it down unimproved. Or he just calls with a flushdraw on flop and doesnt bluff river (something I expect him to do, not bluff very much, but we can't be sure of that just yet in a raised pot. Quote: Hand #18 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289456 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1760 M = 39.11 BTN/SB: t1240 M = 27.56 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with T BTN/SB raises to t90, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60 Hmmmz, really weird here imo. So far he seems to be pretty "passive" preflop and nitty too, so I think indeed his raising range is quite strong. However, I think I would still defend, just because we're not doing that miserable againts a decent amount of his hands and he's just so easy postflop to play. He doesn't seem to bluff, and even if he does know the concept of cbetting I doubt he's going to double barrel a lot unless he has a real hand. I don't mind a fold preflop because he's kind of nitty, but calling looks better given how he plays post. Quote: Hand #19 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289457 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1730 M = 38.44 BB: t1270 M = 28.22 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with T 5 Hero raises to t75, BB raises to t150, 1 fold Final Pot: t150 BB wins t150 Ok, 2.5bb's is good, again not going to go deeper into raise sizing preflop but I think the shallower you get indeed, the smaller you should raise and from 40bb's I think indeed 3bb's is a bit too big so I would either minraise or make it t75 here as well.
Then, he clicks it back, hmmmz. Ehm, you're getting 3 to 1 on your money here, I don't expect you to have the best hand here a lot but odds are just to good given the way he plays postflop. As far as I'm concerned, I'd try and play as much pots as possible vs this guy because he doesn't seem to tricky, and that includes calling preflop here. I wouldn't be too surprised if he has a hand like KQ, will check/call it on a 358cc board, and check down the rest of the hand when the board runs out Ax turn and 6x river. 3-1 is decent enough odds to call with a lot of holdings in position vs this villain. Quote: Hand #20 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289458 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1655 M = 36.78 BTN/SB: t1345 M = 29.89 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 4 BTN/SB calls t15, Hero checks
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Flop: (t60) K 9 9 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t30, Hero folds Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60 Given that you checked all limped pots to him so far I would lead out here and I think he'll give you at least some credit for it. If you would've lead out a couple of times already I think c/f'ing this board would be best just to keep him passive/honest and to show that you don't try to win every pot but you haven't lead out a single time on flop so I would do it here. Quote: Hand #21 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289459 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1625 M = 36.11 BB: t1375 M = 30.56 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 Hero raises to t75, BB calls t45
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Flop: (t150) 5 6 2 (2 players) BB bets t60, Hero raises to t150, BB folds Final Pot: t270 Hero mucks 9 Q
Hero wins t270 Wow, I really didn't expect any fold equity here with your raise. Or at least very little. I know his betsizing makes him look weak (and he will be weakish a decent percentage of the time), but I just don't think you can make him fold with an extra 90, he will be getting good odds, and we don't even beat a hand like K4o here. He just seemed too fit/fold in previous hand to try and go for a cheap bluff here. I would just fold vs his donkbet tbh, just let him win this pot here, so he will give some respect if we raise next time when he leads. If you DO decide to bluffraise here, I would make it sligthly bigger, 180 or 190 or something, to try and maximize fold equity on the flop since we rarely have showdown value here after getting called here. Quote: Hand #22 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289460 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1760 M = 39.11 BTN/SB: t1240 M = 27.56 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 5 1 fold Final Pot: t45 Hero mucks 5 Hero wins t30 (Rake: t15)
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Quote: Hand #23 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289461 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1775 M = 39.44 BB: t1225 M = 27.22 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 2 1 fold
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Final Pot: t45 BB wins t30 (Rake: t15) Quote: Hand #24 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players -
View hand 289462 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1760 M = 39.11 BTN/SB: t1240 M = 27.56 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with Q 1 fold Final Pot: t45 Hero mucks Q Hero wins t30 (Rake: t15)
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Quote: Hand #25 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289463 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1775 M = 39.44 BB: t1225 M = 27.22 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 Hero raises to t75, BB calls t45
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Flop: (t150) 2 7 K (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t90, BB folds Final Pot: t150 Hero mucks 5 8 Hero wins t150 Looks fine; again, dry board, so a little smaller (half pot) will do the trick here as well. Quote: Hand #26 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289464 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1850 M = 41.11 BTN/SB: t1150 M = 25.56 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 4 BTN/SB calls t15, Hero checks
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Flop: (t60) 7 4 9 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t30, Hero raises to t110, BTN/SB raises to t1120 all in, Hero calls t1010
Turn: (t2300) J River: (t2300) A
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Final Pot: t2300 Hero shows 4 4 (three of a kind, Fours) BTN/SB shows K 6 (a flush, King high) BTN/SB wins t2300 Ehm, given that you haven't raised so far vs his limps preflop, I think this is a good spot since he will fold a decent percentage of the time. I don't hate a check either fwiw, I think here it can go either way and I would probably do both ingame from time to time. Flop: LEAD, really, lead! I think he will be checking back some holdings like T6o which have great implied odds vs our hand and will check back a ton but will defenitly call a bet from time to time. Vs someone who stabs 100% (or close to it) this is an easy checkraise on flop given that it's unlikely for him to have bottom pair since we hold two casecards so villain's range will be draws/nuts/air and he won't check back too much with showdown value. Vs this opponent however, I would just lead out 50 here given the drawyness of the board. As played, raisesize on flop looks a bit small since he probably has a piece of the board you can go a little bigger here (120-150). Obv snapcall shove and try to pair the board next time. Quote: Hand #27 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289465 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t700 M = 15.56 BB: t2300 M = 51.11 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 3 1 fold
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Final Pot: t45 BB wins t30 (Rake: t15) Quote: Hand #28 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289466 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t685 M = 15.22 BTN/SB: t2315 M = 51.44
Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with K BTN/SB calls t15, Hero checks
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Flop: (t60) K J 5 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t60, Hero calls t60 Turn: (t180) A (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t180) 4 (2 players) Hero bets t100, BTN/SB calls t100 Final Pot: t380 Hero shows K T (a pair of Kings) BTN/SB mucks K 8 Hero wins t380 Again, you're being a little too passive here. There's defenitly some value in raising preflop. With these stacksizes, I wouldn't make it too big. You can minraise (keeps in a lot of hands) or go to 3bb's or anything in between (anything bigger will make you committed too much either pre- or postflop with these stacksizes). Ok, now flop. Ehm, we know now that he indeed bets a flushdraw on the flop, but will probably check back his airhands. I think both checking and leading can go here. However, if you do check, it's too checkraise! He raised a couple of times preflop, so KJ+/AK/KK+/JJ is probably not in his range. I know it's the first time he bets pot but you're mainly only afraid of K5/55/J5 here and if you checkraise he'll jam his flushdraws a bunch of the time (or call with them), and will very likely stack off with any Kx hand here as well and he will have you beat only a real small percentage of the time. I think you missed out a great double up spot here tbh, even if you check preflop, it's not too hard to put in 22bb's if villain pots it on the flop. Quote: Hand #29 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289467 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t875 M = 19.44 BB: t2125 M = 47.22 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with Q Hero raises to t60, 1 fold Final Pot: t60 Hero mucks Q Hero wins t60
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Minraising looks fine, but limping to see what he does vs limps when stacks get shallower would be fine too. Quote: Hand #30 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289468 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t905 M = 20.11 BTN/SB: t2095 M = 46.56 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with T BTN/SB raises to t90, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60 Quote: Hand #31 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289469 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t875 M = 19.44 BB: t2125 M = 47.22 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with K Hero raises to t60, BB calls t30
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Flop: (t120) 7 Q A (2 players) BB bets t90, Hero raises to t240, BB raises to t690, Hero raises to t815 all in, BB calls t125 Turn: (t1750) 4
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River: (t1750) 3
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Final Pot: t1750 Hero shows K A (a pair of Aces - King kicker) BB shows A 6 (a pair of Aces) Hero wins t1750 Raise-size looks fine, nh sir. Quote: Hand #32 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289470 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
Hero (BB): t1750 M = 38.89 BTN/SB: t1250 M = 27.78 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 9 1 fold Final Pot: t45 Hero mucks 9 Hero wins t30 (Rake: t15)
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Quote: Hand #33 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289471 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1765 M = 23.53 BB: t1235 M = 16.47 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with J Hero raises to t100, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t100 Hero mucks J 4 Hero wins t100 Given that he seems so fit/fold postflop you can defenitly raise here. I don't expect him to shove over minraises a lot either so you can try stealing a lot vs this opponent. Quote: Hand #34 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289472 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1815 M = 24.20 BTN/SB: t1185 M = 15.80 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with A Q BTN/SB calls t25, Hero raises to t175, 1 fold Final Pot: t100 Hero mucks A Q Hero wins t100 I think you want to keep this opponent in preflop so I would just make it 150 here. He's not tricky and we have a little more room to manoeuvre postflop. Quote:
Hand #35 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289473 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1865 M = 24.87 BB: t1135 M = 15.13 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with 4 1 fold
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Final Pot: t75 BB wins t50 (Rake: t25) Quote: Hand #36 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289474 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1840 M = 24.53 BTN/SB: t1160 M = 15.47 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with A BTN/SB calls t25, Hero checks
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Flop: (t100) 6 A J (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t100) J (2 players) Hero bets t50, BTN/SB folds Final Pot: t100 Hero mucks A T Hero wins t100 Again, really passive how you played this hand. I would make it 150 again preflop and expect to get called by a ton worse. Flop is fine if you check though, given that he bets any piece/draw so far and if he has nothing he checks anyway so yeah. Turnbet is unnecessary once flop goes check/check imo, he just has nothing and it's really unlikely he has a hand he can call turn with, let alone call turn AND river with on this board. Just check, hope he hits a pair on river and try to get a small bet there. Quote: Hand #37 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289475
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1890 M = 25.20 BB: t1110 M = 14.80 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 Hero raises to t100, BB calls t50
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Flop: (t200) 9 Q 7 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t200) 8 (2 players) BB bets t100, Hero calls t100 River: (t400) 4 (2 players) BB bets t250, Hero folds Final Pot: t400 BB wins t400 Preflop fine obv vs him. However, although I'm sure this is a checkback/give up vs a ton of players, this particular opponent just seems to lead out with a made hand a decent percentage and still defends with some more marginal hands so I think cbetting is in order here. You don't have a lot of equity when getting called but betting 100-120 here seems fine and he will defenitly fold enough of the time to make it ev+. If you don't cbet I think turn is a clear fold, you be drawing very thin/dead here and he doesn't seem like the person to lead with a weak range or with draws here. You only have 3rd pair and most rivers will suck basically and his betting is ranged towards better made hands a ton if you ask me. Either cbet and give up or just give up from flop (unless you turn a K obv). Quote: Hand #38 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289476 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1690 M = 22.53 BTN/SB: t1310 M = 17.47 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 5 BTN/SB calls t25, Hero checks
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Flop: (t100) 7 K 2 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t100) 3 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t100) A
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Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Final Pot: t100 Hero shows 5 J (high card Ace) BTN/SB shows 6 Q (high card Ace - King+Queen kicker) BTN/SB wins t100 I'm not saying you should lead out here, but you should defenitly see it as an option. IMO too much people expect villain to "cbet" (there hasn't been a raise preflop so you can't really talk about cbetting) while this is not standard for a lot of villains and sometimes it's just better to lead out. Here it can go either way, since he checked down T-high before I don't mind just c/f'ing. You haven't lead out in any spot before, I don't advise it TOO much but defenitly see it as something you should try implementing in your game. Quote: Hand #39 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289477 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1640 M = 21.87 BB: t1360 M = 18.13 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with 7 Hero raises to t100, BB calls t50
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Flop: (t200) 9 3 K (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t110, BB folds Final Pot: t200 Hero mucks 7 2 Hero wins t200 Quote: Hand #40 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289478 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1740 M = 23.20 BTN/SB: t1260 M = 16.80 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 8 BTN/SB raises to t150, 1 fold Final Pot: t100 BTN/SB wins t100 Quote:
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Hand #41 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289479 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1690 M = 22.53 BB: t1310 M = 17.47 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with K Hero raises to t100, BB calls t50
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Flop: (t200) 2 3 4 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t200) A (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t120, BB folds Final Pot: t200 Hero mucks K J Hero wins t200 I think you can profitably cbet any type of board vs this opponent, though I can see why you checked back here and would do it myself a decent percentage of the time. Thing is he will be floating wide-ish here (any pair, openender, gutshot, and probably overcards too) but he will unlikely bluff them as far as we know, but in general his callingrange will consist of more pairhands than draws here. If you check back flop I don't mind the turnbet, since he's now very likely to be folding his weak/marginal pairs anyway. Quote: Hand #42 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289480 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1790 M = 23.87 BTN/SB: t1210 M = 16.13 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with K Q BTN/SB raises to t150, Hero calls t100 Flop: (t300) K J Q (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t300) T (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t300) 3 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t150, Hero calls t150
Final Pot: t600 Hero mucks K Q BTN/SB shows 6 6 BTN/SB wins t600
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Given stacksizes, I think leading flop and shipping every good turn is by far best play. Even if you don't lead out flop a lot in limped pots, I would've expected that you do it at least in some spots with hands like this when it's a raised pot. Board is really drawy and there's defenitly a ton of hands he's calling with that we're in decent shape against. Turn obv is a c/f, so is river imo. I really really doubt he is ever bluffing here, or valuebetting a worse hand even... You only need to be good once every 4 times but you really don't get there vs this opponent. Quote: Hand #43 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289481 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1490 M = 19.87 BB: t1510 M = 20.13 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 6 Hero raises to t100, BB raises to t250, Hero calls t150 Flop: (t500) 2 3 Q (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t240, BB folds Final Pot: t500 Hero mucks 5 6 Hero wins t500 Well, he's really easy to play postflop, but imo this is a fold preflop. I know I advised you to call with the T5s but you got better odds there, and blinds were lower so effective stacks deeper than here. 65o is really a marginal hand and you can't expect him to c/f the flop as often as he did here. You only have a little over 2 potsized bets left postflop, which is too little for a hand like 65o. Quote: Hand #44 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289482 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1740 M = 23.20 BTN/SB: t1260 M = 16.80 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 2 BTN/SB calls t25, Hero checks
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Flop: (t100) 8 8 J (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t100) Q (2 players) Hero bets t60, BTN/SB calls t60 River: (t220) J (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t150, Hero folds Final Pot: t220 BTN/SB wins t220 Interesting hand here. Preflop looks fine, given you checked so much and that he folded to the one time you raised, I think raising here would be fine too. Flop you can again, lead out, don't fall into the habbit of autochecking flop. Given you checked each time before, I would lead out here some percentage of the time at least. Turn is a good card fire with some equity, yeah, he's defenitly folding some Kx/Ax hands here so leading looks good. River I would make a fake blocking bet fwiw. I'd expect him to bet Jx or 8x a bunch on the flop, so he either has Tx/9x/KT/flushdraw/Qx here. Just make a small bet, like 90 or something, and let him fold his chops or better hands (KXcc for example). This move doesn't need to work too much for it to be profitable and he will have a busted draw enough of the time and will rarely bluffraise you. Quote: Hand #45 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289483 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1630 M = 21.73 BB: t1370 M = 18.27 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with K Hero raises to t100, BB calls t50
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Flop: (t200) 8 Q 5 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t120, BB folds Final Pot: t200 Hero mucks K 7 Hero wins t200 Quote: Hand #46 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289484
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1730 M = 23.07 BTN/SB: t1270 M = 16.93 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with Q 1 fold Final Pot: t75 Hero mucks Q Hero wins t50 (Rake: t25)
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Quote: Hand #47 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289485 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1755 M = 23.40 BB: t1245 M = 16.60 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with Q Hero raises to t100, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t100 Hero mucks Q 4 Hero wins t100 Quote: Hand #48 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289486 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1805 M = 24.07 BTN/SB: t1195 M = 15.93 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 5 BTN/SB raises to t150, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t100 BTN/SB wins t100 Quote: Hand #49 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 289487 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
Hero (BTN/SB): t1755 M = 23.40 BB: t1245 M = 16.60 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with K K Hero raises to t100, BB raises to t1245 all in, Hero calls t1145 Flop: (t2490) 9
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Turn: (t2490) 4
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River: (t2490) Q
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Final Pot: t2490 Hero shows K K (a pair of Kings) BB shows 4 4 (three of a kind, Fours) BB wins t2490 Obv std, run better though Quote: Hand #50 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289488 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t510 M = 3.40 BTN/SB: t2490 M = 16.60 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with K 1 fold
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Final Pot: t150 Hero mucks K 7 Hero wins t100 (Rake: t50) Quote: Hand #51 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289489 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t560 M = 3.73 BB: t2440 M = 16.27 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 1 fold Final Pot: t150
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BB wins t100 (Rake: t50) Too bad we all of a sudden gotten from 20bb's to 5bb's. Obv fold here though... Quote: Hand #52 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289490 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t510 M = 3.40 BTN/SB: t2490 M = 16.60 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with 7 1 fold
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Final Pot: t150 Hero mucks 7 T Hero wins t100 (Rake: t50) Quote: Hand #53 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289491 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t560 M = 3.73 BB: t2440 M = 16.27 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with J Hero raises to t560 all in, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t200 Hero mucks J 4 Hero wins t200 Yeah nash says this is 5.4bb's but I highly doubt his callingrange is perfect (and probably too nitty). Quote: Hand #54 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289492 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t660 M = 4.40 BTN/SB: t2340 M = 15.60 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with A
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BTN/SB raises to t600, Hero raises to t660 all in, BTN/SB calls t60 Flop: (t1320) A
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Turn: (t1320) J
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River: (t1320) J
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Final Pot: t1320 Hero shows A 6 (two pair, Aces and Jacks) BTN/SB shows K T (two pair, Jacks and Tens) Hero wins t1320 Std getting it in with Ax for <7bb's, nh. Quote: Hand #55 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289493 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1320 M = 8.80 BB: t1680 M = 11.20 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with 7 Hero raises to t200, BB calls t100
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Flop: (t400) 7 T A (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t200, BB folds Final Pot: t400 Hero mucks 7 A Hero wins t400 I don't mind a minraise here vs this villain. Even if he flats a bunch he's so easy to play against postflop that we don't even need to flop something nice that much. Quote: Hand #56 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289494 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1520 M = 10.13 BTN/SB: t1480 M = 9.87 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with 8 BTN/SB calls t50, Hero checks
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Flop: (t200) 4 5 4 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t100, Hero folds
Final Pot: t200 BTN/SB wins t200 Again, very good board to lead out on with your hand. Mainly because we have 8high and still some equity when called and defenitly a good amount of fold equity vs a ton of better hands (mainly talking about highcard hands but it's a paired board so he will not have hit anything here most of the time and will unlikely float his J7o). Quote: Hand #57 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289495 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1420 M = 9.47 BB: t1580 M = 10.53 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 Hero raises to t200, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t200 Hero mucks 5 3 Hero wins t200 Yeah I think minraising here vs him is fine. I'd try and limp in a bunch of hands too frow now on with these stacksizes, like Kx hands, to see if he allows you to do it. Quote: Hand #58 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289496 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1520 M = 10.13 BTN/SB: t1480 M = 9.87 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with 5 3 BTN/SB raises to t1480 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t200 BTN/SB wins t200 Quote: Hand #59 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289497 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1420 M = 9.47 BB: t1580 M = 10.53
Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with J Hero raises to t200, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t200 Hero mucks J A Hero wins t200 Quote: Hand #60 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289498 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1520 M = 10.13 BTN/SB: t1480 M = 9.87 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with A A BTN/SB raises to t200, Hero raises to t400, 1 fold Final Pot: t400 Hero mucks A A Hero wins t400 Hah, yeah too bad he doesn't have anything here. I think your move is good though, his raising range in general is quite strong so a lot of preflop value to be gained. Quote: Hand #61 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289499 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1720 M = 11.47 BB: t1280 M = 8.53 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with 2 1 fold
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Final Pot: t150 BB wins t100 (Rake: t50) wtf? rake? is this first time this shows up or first time i noticed there's a small bug in converter? Quote: Hand #62 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289500 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
Hero (BB): t1670 M = 11.13 BTN/SB: t1330 M = 8.87 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with Q 1 fold
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Final Pot: t150 Hero mucks Q 8 Hero wins t100 (Rake: t50) Quote: Hand #63 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289501 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1720 M = 11.47 BB: t1280 M = 8.53 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with 2 Hero raises to t200, BB calls t100
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Flop: (t400) 9 6 8 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t200, BB raises to t1080 all in, Hero folds Final Pot: t800 BB wins t800 Meh I would just give up on this board. You don't need to win every pot and with these stacksizes on a board like this villain is going to check/jam a ton (or check/call), I doubt you have a lot of fold equity on flop here. Main value comes from minraising preflop and taking his blind anyway, don't cbet this with these stacksizes, almost all hands hit here. Quote: Hand #64 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289502 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1320 M = 8.80 BTN/SB: t1680 M = 11.20 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with 5 1 fold Final Pot: t150 Hero mucks 5 T
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Hero wins t100 (Rake: t50) Quote: Hand #65 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289503 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1370 M = 9.13 BB: t1630 M = 10.87 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 Hero raises to t200, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t200 Hero mucks 9 K Hero wins t200 Quote: Hand #66 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289504 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1470 M = 9.80 BTN/SB: t1530 M = 10.20 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with 7 BTN/SB raises to t200, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t200 BTN/SB wins t200 Yeah vs this guy folding seems best, calling being a good second because he's easy to play postflop. Quote: Hand #67 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289505 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1370 M = 9.13 BB: t1630 M = 10.87 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with 3 Hero raises to t200, 1 fold Final Pot: t200
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Hero mucks 3 7 Hero wins t200 Quote: Hand #68 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289506 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1470 M = 9.80 BTN/SB: t1530 M = 10.20 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with Q J BTN/SB raises to t200, Hero calls t100 Flop: (t400) J 5 A (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t200, Hero calls t200 Turn: (t800) 4 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t800) 9 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Final Pot: t800 Hero shows Q J (a pair of Jacks) BTN/SB mucks 8 6 Hero wins t800 Looks std, I'd defenitly gave up if he bets turn or river though. Quote: Hand #69 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289507 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1870 M = 12.47 BB: t1130 M = 7.53 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with A Hero raises to t200, 1 fold Final Pot: t200 Hero mucks A K Hero wins t200 Quote: Hand #70
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Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289508 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1970 M = 13.13 BTN/SB: t1030 M = 6.87 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with 7 3 BTN/SB raises to t1030 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t200 BTN/SB wins t200 Quote: Hand #71 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289509 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1870 M = 12.47 BB: t1130 M = 7.53 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with 3 Hero raises to t200, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t200 Hero mucks 3 2 Hero wins t200 You have been minraising a lot and your hand is really trash so I would just fold one before villain gets frustrated and stars shoving wide(r) over your minraises. Quote: Hand #72 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289510 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1970 M = 13.13 BTN/SB: t1030 M = 6.87 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with 8 A BTN/SB calls t50, Hero raises to t1970 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t200 Hero mucks 8 A Hero wins t200 Yeah, played fine. His limpingrange will be pretty weak here and if he trapped you with a big hand you almost always have at least one livecard with A8. Quote:
Hand #73 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289511 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t2070 M = 13.80 BB: t930 M = 6.20 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with 7 Hero raises to t200, BB calls t100
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Flop: (t400) K 9 9 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t200, BB folds Final Pot: t400 Hero mucks 7 6 Hero wins t400 Again, really really shallow to be minraise/folding here imo. Given you minraised almost all hands so far I would defenitly fold either this hand or the 32o hand just to show that you don't autoraise any button at this point and to keep him a little more passive. Flop bet is fine obv, he'll c/f a lot. Quote: Hand #74 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289512 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t2270 M = 10.09 BTN/SB: t730 M = 3.24 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BB with 3 1 fold
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Final Pot: t225 Hero mucks 3 2 Hero wins t150 (Rake: t75) Quote: Hand #75 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289513 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t2345 M = 10.42 BB: t655 M = 2.91 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BTN/SB with 2
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1 fold Final Pot: t225 BB wins t150 (Rake: t75) K, so you fold here, good previous buttons imo. Quote:
Although you shouldve folded at least one of your
Hand #76 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289514 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t2270 M = 10.09 BTN/SB: t730 M = 3.24 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BB with 8 BTN/SB raises to t730 all in, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t300 BTN/SB wins t300 This is really close imo, because he's to tight. Blinds 150 so you have to call 580 here in a pot of 880 which means you need less than 40% equity (39.726% to be exact). Vs a range of 22+,Ax,Kx,any two broadwaycards you only have 36.58% equity so folding looks slightly better if you dont think he'll spazz with suited connected hands (which I think he will for SOME part but not enough to make it worth it). Quote: Hand #77 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289515 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t2120 M = 9.42 BB: t880 M = 3.91 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 Hero raises to t300, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t300 Hero mucks 9 3 Hero wins t300 Wow, what are doing here? Minraise/folding <6bb's deep or what? Or minraise/calling? Both seem inferior to just plain folding and jamming yourself. Thing is if he shoves over your minraise than you will be getting a little over 2-1 on your money so you just need to have two livecards to call here which makes minraise/folding so brutal. If you want to minraise/call then I think openshoving is a bit
better because he's going to fold some hands he may shove over a minraise (thinking he has fold equity). I'd just push/fold at this point, using nash, and here I would just fold although he's kind of nitty so you can probably openshove close to ATC (or at least wider than nash, because he's pretty nitty). Quote: Hand #78 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289516 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t2270 M = 10.09 BTN/SB: t730 M = 3.24 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BB with T BTN/SB raises to t730 all in, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t300 BTN/SB wins t300 Quote: Hand #79 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289517 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t2120 M = 9.42 BB: t880 M = 3.91 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 1 fold
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Final Pot: t225 BB wins t150 (Rake: t75) Quote: Hand #80 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289518 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t2045 M = 9.09 BTN/SB: t955 M = 4.24 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BB with 6 1 fold
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Final Pot: t225 Hero mucks 6 9 Hero wins t150 (Rake: t75) Quote: Hand #81 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289519 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t2120 M = 9.42 BB: t880 M = 3.91 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BTN/SB with 7 Hero raises to t300, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t300 Hero mucks 7 A Hero wins t300 Given stacksizes I just shove. I'd hate for him to do a stop&go vs a hand like A7 on a decent amount of boards. Quote: Hand #82 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289520 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t2270 M = 10.09 BTN/SB: t730 M = 3.24 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BB with 4 BTN/SB raises to t730 all in, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t300 BTN/SB wins t300 Quote: Hand #83 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289521 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t2120 M = 9.42 BB: t880 M = 3.91 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BTN/SB with Q Hero raises to t1350, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t300 Hero mucks Q J Hero wins t300 Quote: Hand #84 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289522 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t2270 M = 10.09 BTN/SB: t730 M = 3.24 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BB with 9 BTN/SB raises to t730 all in, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t300 BTN/SB wins t300 Pretty much same situation as the J8 though T9 has slightly better equity vs 22+,Ax,Kx,ATBC range and he seems to be shoving a bit wider lately from his buttons himself so I can imagine at least SOME suited connectors or hands like T8o which make this a call. Quote: Hand #85 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289523 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t2120 M = 9.42 BB: t880 M = 3.91 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BTN/SB with K Hero raises to t1650, BB calls t730 all in Flop: (t1760) 7
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Turn: (t1760) J
(2 players - 1 is all in)
River: (t1760) 8
T
2
(2 players - 1 is all in)
(2 players - 1 is all in)
Final Pot: t1760 Hero shows K 2 (a pair of Sevens - lower kicker) BB shows 2 A (a pair of Sevens) BB wins t1760 Quote:
Hand #86 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289524 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1240 M = 5.51 BTN/SB: t1760 M = 7.82 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BB with Q 1 fold
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Final Pot: t225 Hero mucks Q 7 Hero wins t150 (Rake: t75) Quote: Hand #87 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289525 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1315 M = 5.84 BB: t1685 M = 7.49 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BTN/SB with T Hero raises to t300, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t300 Hero mucks T 9 Hero wins t300 Ugh, I really hate minraising with a hand like this with these stacksizes. Minraise/folding isn't really an option imo given stacksizes and the fact that your hand has decent equity to call it off. So I'd just openjam hoping for a little fold equity from hands like JTo which may shove over a minraise but fold vs an openshove (because of imaginary fold equity they think they have). Just jam/fold when you're 10bb's shallow vs most opponents unless there's a limping metagame going in which case you can defenitly limp/fold this. Quote: Hand #88 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289526 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1465 M = 6.51 BTN/SB: t1535 M = 6.82 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BB with Q
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BTN/SB raises to t1535 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t300 BTN/SB wins t300 Quote: Hand #89 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289527 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1315 M = 5.84 BB: t1685 M = 7.49 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BTN/SB with 2 Hero raises to t300, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t300 Hero mucks 2 Q Hero wins t300 Again, just push/fold here, and this is a push according to nash. Quote: Hand #90 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289528 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1465 M = 6.51 BTN/SB: t1535 M = 6.82 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BB with 9 BTN/SB raises to t300, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t300 BTN/SB wins t300 Quote: Hand #91 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289529 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1315 M = 5.84 BB: t1685 M = 7.49 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BTN/SB with 4 K Hero raises to t300, BB raises to t1685 all in, 1 fold
Final Pot: t600 BB wins t600 This is why minraise/folding is so brutal, just openshove here as well. I know he folds a lot to your minraise but you can't minraise/fold here imo. Just look at pot odds, you need to call 1000 more into 1600-ish pot which means you need around 38% equity and you have K-high so you're not often going to be in that bad a shape! Quote: Hand #92 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289530 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1015 M = 4.51 BTN/SB: t1985 M = 8.82 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BB with 7 J BTN/SB raises to t1985 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t300 BTN/SB wins t300 Quote: Hand #93 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289531 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t865 M = 3.84 BB: t2135 M = 9.49 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 Hero raises to t865 all in, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t300 Hero mucks 8 8 Hero wins t300 Quote: Hand #94 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289532 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1015 M = 4.51 BTN/SB: t1985 M = 8.82
Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BB with 8 K BTN/SB raises to t1985 all in, Hero calls t865 all in Flop: (t2030) 3
A
K
(2 players - 2 are all in)
Turn: (t2030) T
(2 players - 2 are all in)
River: (t2030) 8
(2 players - 2 are all in)
Final Pot: t2030 Hero shows 8 K (two pair, Kings and Eights) BTN/SB shows 5 J (high card Ace) Hero wins t2030 Quote: Hand #95 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289533 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t2030 M = 9.02 BB: t970 M = 4.31 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BTN/SB with 4 1 fold
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Final Pot: t225 BB wins t150 (Rake: t75) Quote: Hand #96 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289534 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1955 M = 8.69 BTN/SB: t1045 M = 4.64 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BB with A 1 fold Final Pot: t225 Hero mucks A J Hero wins t150 (Rake: t75) Quote:
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Hand #97 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289535 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t2030 M = 9.02 BB: t970 M = 4.31 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BTN/SB with K Hero raises to t1650, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t300 Hero mucks K 9 Hero wins t300 Quote: Hand #98 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289536 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t2180 M = 9.69 BTN/SB: t820 M = 3.64 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BB with T BTN/SB raises to t820 all in, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t300 BTN/SB wins t300 Again, close spot, given that he openjammed J5s before I think you can profitably call here for <6bb's. Quote: Hand #99 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289537 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t2030 M = 9.02 BB: t970 M = 4.31 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 Hero raises to t1500, 1 fold Final Pot: t300 Hero mucks 5 5 Hero wins t300 Quote:
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Hand #100 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289538 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t2180 M = 9.69 BTN/SB: t820 M = 3.64 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BB with 7 BTN/SB raises to t820 all in, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t300 BTN/SB wins t300 Quote: Hand #101 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289539 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t2030 M = 9.02 BB: t970 M = 4.31 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BTN/SB with 7 1 fold
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Final Pot: t225 BB wins t150 (Rake: t75) Quote: Hand #102 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289540 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1955 M = 8.69 BTN/SB: t1045 M = 4.64 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BB with 7 1 fold Final Pot: t225 Hero mucks 7 5 Hero wins t150 (Rake: t75) Quote: Hand #103
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Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289541 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t2030 M = 9.02 BB: t970 M = 4.31 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BTN/SB with 2 1 fold
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Final Pot: t225 BB wins t150 (Rake: t75) Quote: Hand #104 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289542 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1955 M = 8.69 BTN/SB: t1045 M = 4.64 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BB with 7 BTN/SB raises to t300, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t300 BTN/SB wins t300 Quote: Hand #105 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t100/t200 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289543 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1805 M = 6.02 BB: t1195 M = 3.98 Pre Flop: (t300) Hero is BTN/SB with 4 1 fold
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Final Pot: t300 BB wins t200 (Rake: t100) Quote: Hand #106 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t100/t200 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289544
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1705 M = 5.68 BTN/SB: t1295 M = 4.32 Pre Flop: (t300) Hero is BB with 3 J BTN/SB raises to t1295 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t400 BTN/SB wins t400 Quote: Hand #107 Poker Stars $11.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t100/t200 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 289545 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1505 M = 5.02 BB: t1495 M = 4.98 Pre Flop: (t300) Hero is BTN/SB with 6 4 Hero raises to t1505 all in, BB calls t1295 all in Flop: (t2990) 8
9
7
(2 players - 2 are all in)
Turn: (t2990) A
(2 players - 2 are all in)
River: (t2990) 5
(2 players - 2 are all in)
Final Pot: t2990 Hero shows 6 4 (a straight, Five to Nine) BB shows 9 A (two pair, Aces and Nines) Hero wins t2990 Given he's tightish I think openjamming is fine here though in general I think you should've started playing push/fold a bit earlier since villain was doing the same thing. With <10bb's stacksizes raise/folding is just brutal in a lot of spots with hands like Kx or T9 and math shows you can openshove those hands anyway so just make yourself easy and villain difficult (especially if he's jam/folding too). -
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SPAMZ ' SECOND HAND HISTORY REVIEW I think this villain is slightly more interesting than the one in the first hh. I tried explaining how to exploit someone who just shows blind agressiveness and how to react to it. Quote: Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em 2+2 Hand Converter Powered By DeucesCracked Hand #1 Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1500 M = 50 BTN/SB: t1500 M = 50 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 6 BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40 Ok, first of all, most people know that I'm not familiar with the 10/20 level but still should be able to give some decent advice here. I know you're kind of "nitty" oop but your hand isn't a bad hand to defend with for "only" an extra 40 in chips. I don't mind being nitty-ish oop, though while stacks are still deep enough, it's important you can try and get some postflop reads as early as possible. Does villain cbet? Does he 2nd barrel a scarecard? What's his betsizing postflop like? All these things are kind of easy to try and gain info on with a hand like 76s since we're gonna flop middle pair most of the time (or bottom pair or a weak toppair some of the time) or some kind of draw and we will have an easy c/c re-evaluate turn here. Some people just don't cbet, some will fire once and give up, if we get to know what opponent we're dealing with after defending like 2-3 hands oop then we're gonna have a real good edge when stacks get shallower vs a random villain, just because most people fail at adapting, a lot of them will just play the same throughout the entire match.
So yeah, I think defending here preflop is even better due to the information we get at the earliest stage of the game.
Quote: Hand #2 Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1480 M = 49.33 BB: t1520 M = 50.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with Q Hero raises to t50, BB calls t30
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Flop: (t100) 2 J T (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t50, BB calls t50 Turn: (t200) A (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t150, BB folds Spoiler: Final Pot: t200 Hero wins t200 W00t, raise preflop looks nice/std, I think either 2.5bb's or 3bb's with these stacksizes works best indeed. Flop betsizing: I kind of like it tbh, keeps the pot not too bloated, if he checkraises we can easily peel a card and see what he does on the turn given that we have position, and if we do hit we can still build a nice pot on turn/river. Since in headsup games opponents usually dont have a strong hand (or any hand), I just feel that half pot is a good risk/reward to bet with almost any kind of hand. 50 or 60 here and I wouldn't make it any bigger, nice bet. Turn: ehm, here I think you bet a LITTLE too big, I would probably just make it 120. Thing is if he has a hand of the AKQJT type (read: gutshot + gutter or two pair), he's obv not going anywhere. But because your raise preflop was just 2.5bb's I feel that his defending range will be slightly wider than a "normal/tightish" defendingrange. The A is a scarecard for a reason, and if you bet it that big, villain will give you some credit readless, even fish, unless he's a huge callingstation which we don't know yet given that it's only the second hand. 150 is just too big a bet, if you bet 120 here I can easily imagine a hand like T8 or a weak Jx to peal a second time hoping you're bluffing or thinking he has "odds" to outdraw you. No need to balance your betsizing range vs fish or anything, just think betting 120 here will get calls way more often than a bet of 150 which looks really big/strong.
If you had a hand like 97cc I would actually think a bet of 150 is better because we're semibluffing obv and all the extra fold equity helps us. Quote: Hand #3 Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1580 M = 52.67 BTN/SB: t1420 M = 47.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 6 BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40 Yeah, obv fold, K6o plays like crap oop. Quote: Hand #4 Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1560 M = 52 BB: t1440 M = 48 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t20 BB wins t20 I expected you to open less buttons than I expected but can't blame you for just folding a craphand like that. Quote: Hand #5 Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1550 M = 51.67 BTN/SB: t1450 M = 48.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with A 2 BTN/SB raises to t60, Hero calls t40 Flop: (t120) 3 A 5 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t120, Hero raises to t390, BTN/SB folds Spoiler:
Final Pot: t360 Hero wins t360 Ok, villain opened pot 3x on the button so far, so that's probably gonna be what he will be doing most of the hands. We don't have any postflop reads so far, but what the hell, we need them at some point so why not now? A2o is quite a bit ahead of "ATC" (which I assume he raises his buttons with so far). Note that it's actually gonna be "easier" to play 76s oop than A2o because we will suffer from reverse implied odds with A2o a ton more. If you flop an ace, are you good? You probably won't get too much action unless you're beat anyway. If you have 76s, you're obv not going to put your money in (or a lot of money at least) with just a pair, so you're looking for two pair/trips/flush/straights with a hand like 76s and it's very unlikely that villain will have you beat when you have one of those hands. It's going to be a lot easier for villain to have a second best hand when you have a monster with 76s than when you flop TPNK with A2o. Ok, so we flop our toppair, and a gutshot, great. You check to villain (std so far since we don't know anything about his cbetting and would like to know), and he bets, pot! Hmmmz, this is usually like nuts/air kind of thing though we can't be sure of that. I don't get your really big checkraise here, what are you afraid of or what are you trying to get value from? Especially with the gutshot yourself I don't see any reason to raise the flop here, especially not that big. If you flat AJ preflop for example and try to get some value/get it in here with TPGK vs a weaker TP than that would be fine imo, but if you checkraise here with this size you're really folding out all worse hands imo, and getting it in vs a range of Ax or better (two pair/sets/straights). Also you're gonna get folds a ton here, villain will just have missed this board A TON since he seems to be raising close to ATC on the button, so we can only hope that he improves with his T8o-kind of holding to a pair on turn/river and pay off a (small) bet from Hero. Only "bad" thing is if he has 4x and that's about it, because a 2 will give us some reverse implied odds and I wouldn't put villain necessarily on a straight when one of the 3 remaining deuces rolls of on turn or river. The way you size your bet I even doubt you get floated by a medium sized pocket pair or a hand like 54o, who don't do too well vs your hand even. Let's just say you flatted AJ again pre and you're willing to stackoff here (which I don't mind at all, au contraire, the purpose of flatting a big hand like that is to try and get value from weaker hands on a board like this) then I would just make a raise to around 320, defenitly not more. Try to let him float you as wide as possible, with like 2-5 outs or something, if he has more outs or has you beat or has top pair as well he's not folding anyway, you just try and need to get value from the really weak part of his range (or even total air floats) and bet accordingly. Quote: Hand #6 Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1730 M = 57.67 BB: t1270 M = 42.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 3
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1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t20 BB wins t20 Meh, again, don't hate the fold, but if you fold here I think you should be opening ATC your next button since even fish notice someone being tight or not. I'm not saying they adapt by folding more preflop (some will, most won't) but you'll have an easier time representing a hand postflop and you will get bluffed on way less often (or floated) and if the board runs out like with the KQ hand (xJTA board) then you're gonna get a ton of folds on the turn irregardless of your betsizing being 120 or 150 actually. Quote: Hand #7 Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1720 M = 57.33 BTN/SB: t1280 M = 42.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 2 A BTN/SB raises to t60, Hero calls t40 Flop: (t120) K J J (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t100, Hero raises to t340, BTN/SB calls t240 Turn: (t800) 7 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t360, Hero folds Spoiler: Final Pot: t800 BTN/SB wins t800 Wow, k, preflop looks fine, he seems to keep opening 100% of his buttons to 3bb's and A2s plays a little easier than A2o. Preflop looks standard and best choice imo. Postflop... let's see... You check, which is fine, given that he cbet last time on an A35 board (probably with air/weak hand given that he folded) so since he opens 100% of his buttons I expect him to fire almost 100% of his range on a board like this. He bet 5bb's into 6bb's, you raise to 17bb's. I really don't get what you're doing here. Let's just look at some examples. He has Jx or Kx, no way he's folding EVER here, especially because you checkraised last hand as well (and people just dont fold two pair or trips in general) + your hand has a decent amount of equity + decent implied odds vs those hands anyway so why checkraise here and put ourself in a difficult spot when he calls or jams? Let's just say he has air here, then he has like 4-5 outs given that his unpaired holecards can only hit a couple of cards which suckout on you, so vs like 80%+ of his range you have around 85% equity anyway, why would you want to raise him of his marginal/hopeless hand anyway? If he has a weaker flushdraw (or straightdraw) you
defenitly don't want to be raising them out of the pot. I doubt he's folding a hand like 87cc here to a checkraise obv, but that's like the only hands we can get value from besides if we hit and they hit too, money is going in which is wheeeeeeeee fun fun fun obv! If he has a pocket pair, he might fold it on flop, but meh, 2 checkraises in two hands, I think he peels at least one street with it and we're like 50% vs those hands anyway so no real "raise for value nor bluff here". If you had like 67cc and defended I wouldn't have minded your play, mainly because we can fold out a TON of better hands (mostly highcard hands obv) and we still have a decent amount of equity when called and an easy fold when we get shoved on. HOWEVER, I think your raisesize is too big again, you basically get the same amount of folds when you just raise to 280. This is a board where villain will either float on or not imo, if he's floating AQ/88 type of hand, I doubt he'll call 280 and fold for 340, so just making your semibluffs a little cheaper on boards like this helps a ton. If the board was a little more "random" as I like to call it (hey, I'm not a native english speaker, sue me), like J86hh and you want to pull a checkraise semibluff, you can go make it a bit bigger, trying to get some folds from weak pairs but on a board like this this just barely makes any difference. Just flat the flop imo with your nutflushdraw, see a turn. Quote: Hand #8 Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1320 M = 44 BB: t1680 M = 56 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with J Hero raises to t50, BB calls t30
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Flop: (t100) A 6 4 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t100) 5 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks River: (t100) K (2 players) BB bets t100, Hero folds Spoiler: Final Pot: t100 BB wins t100 Ok, preflop looks fine, as said before, raise ATC here. However, i can NOT see how you do not cbet here, really. You have somewhat of a nitty, although agressive image, it's very hard for villain to have hit a big hand (or anything) on a board like this, just because it's so dry. BET IT, take down the pot, he's gonna give you credit for a decent hand most of the time here given you didn't raise your button that much before so I can't see him start floating randomly with a hand like KT for example.
Idk what you're trying to accomplish really by checking back flop/turn and folding river, board is almost perfect for a cbet here. You know as well as I do that most villains call you preflop with crappy hands, totally unconnected and sometimes close to ATC, you can't just check it back and hope to win the pot by checking it down up till river unimproved, either villain will outdraw you or if he doesn't hit he will likely bluff you of the best hand a ton of the time. You really need to start exploiting your opponent when he's calling too much oop by cbetting a decent percentage on board he's unlikely to have hit on (like this one for example). Will he fold better hands? Yeah defenitly some better highcard hands, maybe some pair hands too (bottom pair/underpair some percentage). Quote: Hand #9 Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1270 M = 42.33 BTN/SB: t1730 M = 57.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with T 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t20 Hero wins t20 Quote: Hand #10 Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1280 M = 42.67 BB: t1720 M = 57.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 Hero raises to t50, BB calls t30
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Flop: (t100) K A 2 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t100) A (2 players) BB bets t80, Hero folds Spoiler: Final Pot: t100 BB wins t100 Again, same story as hand before, especially when there's a big gap on the board between two cards, STAB AT THE POT. If it's a limped pot you can stab in position or out of position, if you raised pre you can (and should) cbet most of your range here. It's really hard for villain to have hit anything here (again), especially if he
defends wide (which he seems to do so far, 3/3 times he defended), so take down the pot before he bluffs you off it! Quote: Hand #11 Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1230 M = 41 BTN/SB: t1770 M = 59 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 4 BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40 Quote: Hand #12 Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1210 M = 40.33 BB: t1790 M = 59.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 Hero raises to t50, BB calls t30
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Flop: (t100) K 6 9 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t75, BB folds Spoiler: Final Pot: t100 Hero wins t100 Your betsizing is a little big against an opponent who defends really wide (4/4 so far) imo, against a somewhat nittier opponent it's very likely that he will have hit some sort of draw here or a second best hand (9x usually) so I wouldn't mind your bigger bet to get some more value from all the draws on the board. But against him, he just has ATC, so unlikely he has a (strong) draw or any piece of the board at all, try to keep him in with as wide a range possible. Don't get me wrong, I don't think 75 is a huge mistake or anything, but it's about the biggest I would do against this particular opponent, usually like 50-75, more likely close to half pot. Quote: Hand #13 Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1260 M = 42 BTN/SB: t1740 M = 58
Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with J BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40 He opened 100% to 3bb's so far so I wouldn't mind a bluff3bet the next time he raises his button. I don't expect him to fold his button all that much (maybe he will, maybe he won't) but even if he does defend wide, we're gonna take it down with a cbet postflop A LOT of the time (so either he doesnt defend wide vs 3bets in which case we have a ton of fold equity preflop, or he defends wide and his handrange is so weak/unconnected that we can pick up the pot a lot postflop). Quote: Hand #14 Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1240 M = 41.33 BB: t1760 M = 58.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 7 Hero raises to t50, BB calls t30
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Flop: (t100) A 3 3 (2 players) BB bets t80, Hero folds Spoiler: Final Pot: t100 BB wins t100 Preflop looks fine, I wouldn't hate a bluffraise on this flop tbh. It's kind of hard to calculate in what his donkingrange is exactly because it rarely happens that i just check back twice and give up after raising preflop so I don't hate your fold here. Could be that he donks a real hand here because you dont cbet often and he doesnt want you to check back and potcontrol, could be that he just wants to bluff you off your hand immediatly by leading out flop since you give up so easily it appears. In general however, I don't mind a fold vs villain's first donkbet, just because he will probably try to do it again later on and you will be given more credibility if you folded once or twice and then decide to take a stand on almost any type of board. Quote: Hand #15 Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1190 M = 39.67 BTN/SB: t1810 M = 60.33
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t20 Hero wins t20 Quote: Hand #16 Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1200 M = 40 BB: t1800 M = 60 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with K Hero raises to t50, 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t40 Hero wins t40 W00t, didn't expect you to raise K2o fwiw, important thing to notice is villain folded preflop. I wouldn't mind a limp here either, as I said in the previous handhistory, just because I think it's good to notice early on how villain reacts to limps and/or plays in limped pots. Quote: Hand #17 Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1220 M = 40.67 BTN/SB: t1780 M = 59.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 2 BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40 Quote: Hand #18 Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1200 M = 40 BB: t1800 M = 60
Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with K Hero raises to t50, BB calls t30
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Flop: (t100) 7 6 6 (2 players) BB bets t100, Hero calls t100 Turn: (t300) K (2 players) BB bets t180, Hero calls t180 River: (t660) 3 (2 players) BB bets t320, Hero raises to t870 all in, BB folds Spoiler: Final Pot: t1300 Hero wins t1300 w00t w00t, nice flop, now he donks again, pot! Nice! Although I said that he would likely give you some respect when you raised a 2nd donkbet of him, I think this is still a mustraise on the flop. I wondered how you didn't raise here because you're always eager to protect your hands. Tons of straightdraws and a flushdraw out there. Let's just see why you would raise here: - A donkbet on a board like this is usually not a random total bluff from a hopeless hand (like J2ss) although it could be. - If he has a 7, we want some money into the pot on the flop before a random bull**** card like 9h comes. He might even 3bet jam a 7 trying to protect his hand, you see it a ton. - If he has a draw, again, we want some money in the pot. He might fold if he has like 54o but I cant see him fold any other draw here tbh. - Since we have trips, and the board is drawy, it really sucks to be giving free cards because villain has huge implied odds when he hits his straight or flush. - If we make a smallish raise, I wouldn't be too surprised that a hand like QJ still tries to float and hit one of his "overcards". - Etc etc So no real benefits in flatting flop imo, only bad things can happen from there on (not getting action from 6x or people outdrawing you). Just raise it up to like 260 and try lure him in with his entire range, you have position so you control what happens on later streets. Obv once you flat flop flatting turn is best because we're crushing the deck now and if villain hits his draw he's probably bet/calling a shove and if he he misses he's very likely to bluff at it again. And if he has 7x he's gonna c/c a ton on river. Quote: Hand #19 Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1850 M = 41.11 BTN/SB: t1150 M = 25.56
Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with A 9 BTN/SB raises to t90, Hero calls t60 Flop: (t180) A 3 4 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t180) Q (2 players) Hero bets t140, BTN/SB folds Spoiler: Final Pot: t180 Hero wins t180 Looks fine given that he cbet 2/2 times before. Again your betsizing looks a little big given that I doubt he has a lot he can call with, I'd just make it around 100 here and hope he calls with his weak pair or gutshot. Quote: Hand #20 Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1940 M = 43.11 BB: t1060 M = 23.56 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 6 Hero raises to t75, BB calls t45
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Flop: (t150) T J 8 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t150) K (2 players) BB bets t90, Hero folds Spoiler: Final Pot: t150 BB wins t150 I usually would check back and give up this flop against a lot of opponents but I think this one defends superwide and there's defenitly some really weak uncoordinated hands in his range which will fold flop but will bluff you off your hand on turn or river. I know that you're turning your hand into a bluff this way (sort of), but I just don't think it's the best/easiest board to try and bluffcatch on. I can't blame you for checking back because it's my std vs a lot of opponents but when villain defends superwide I feel it's important to cbet as much as possible because in general their handrange will be very very weak. Quote: Hand #21 Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players
Hero (BB): t1865 M = 41.44 BTN/SB: t1135 M = 25.22 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with T Q BTN/SB raises to t90, Hero calls t60 Flop: (t180) 5 2 7 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t180, Hero calls t180 Turn: (t540) Q (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t540) J (2 players) Hero bets t400, BTN/SB folds Spoiler: Final Pot: t540 Hero wins t540 Wow, wtf are you doing? We know he cbet 2/3 times before, and opens close to all buttons to 3bb's and that's about it. Preflop looks fine, but wtf are you doing at flop? I know I'm constantly talking about how weak his handrange will be in general and all, but still, he bets pot, so we have ****ty odds to call with just our two overcards and even against ATC I doubt we have the odds to call, let alone we have NO clue whatsoever about his doublebarreling range. He seems to be really aggro so far when we show weakness (by cbetting a lot, raising most buttons and stabbing when there's no cbet) so I expect him to fire a second barrel on a TON of turncards tbh. I think your intention here was to just float with some outs (very likely i know), and try and take the pot down anyway on the river if he checks back turn. However, given his agressiveness so far, I think this is a very ev- play from your part because in general this type of opponent will fire turn a ton of the time, on a lot of cards, and you will just sit there, c/f'ing your Q-high. And "as played", again, your river bet is too big. No need to balance vs the times (what I think your strategy was for floating flop) you want to bluff on the river vs a fish with a bigger betsize. His handrange is pretty weak, like always, just bet smaller and try to get a call from any pair by betting 300-ish. Quote: Hand #22 Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t2135 M = 47.44 BB: t865 M = 19.22 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 2 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t30 BB wins t30 Quote: Hand #23 Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t2120 M = 47.11 BTN/SB: t880 M = 19.56 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with A K BTN/SB raises to t90, Hero raises to t860, 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t180 Hero wins t180 Nobody's argueing that shoving isn't ev+ here imo, pretty flawless given how much he opens his buttons. I think you can even shove ATC here over his 3x range given the fold equity we have, although we don't know what exactly his callingrange would be (some people will snap here with QTs fwiw, on all levels, $5 or $1ks, doesn't matter), but it's your first 3betshove so I figure he's going to give you some "respect" and not call it off too lightly (besides he's opening close to 100% so his foldingrange will be huge no matter what). Ok, so I think you should make it like 320 here preflop. Again, supersuperweak range he has, and I can defenitly see some hands he calls a little over 1/3 of his stack with and we can openshove practically any board ev+ (unless we flop a monster like A27r or KK4cc board or something we can just bet smaller hoping to get a spazzshove from air or whatever). I'd c/f some boards like T98tt for example because I think it just hits his range too hard and I don't think he's going to defend stuff like J-crap or Qcrap too much vs your big 3bet (unless he's totally braindead or something, which can always be the case obv ). Just make it 300-330 here, and if he outflops you, so be it... Most of the time it's gonna be you who has the best hand postflop or who picks it up on a random board with a little under a PSB shove. Quote: Hand #24 Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t2210 M = 49.11 BB: t790 M = 17.56 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with Q Hero raises to t75, BB calls t45 Flop: (t150) J J 9 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks
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Turn: (t150) A (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks River: (t150) 8 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t75, BB raises to t210, Hero folds Spoiler: Final Pot: t300 BB wins t300 Once again, CBET, you get all these great boards to cbet and don't take any advantage of them at all. He's gonna c/f here so much imo... I also don't get what your riverbet is trying to accomplish fwiw, I would just take the little piece of showdown value you have (which I "kind of" doubt you have after him checking 3 times since he used to be stabbing after you showed weakness with checking back the flop). Just bet the flop, take the pot down a lot imo. Quote: Hand #25 Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t2060 M = 45.78 BTN/SB: t940 M = 20.89 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with A 6 BTN/SB raises to t90, Hero calls t60 Flop: (t180) 7 T Q (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t120, Hero folds Spoiler: Final Pot: t180 BTN/SB wins t180 I would just jam here preflop as well. Just to show you how profitable it is: he opens around 90% let's say, and let's just put his callingrange on perfect (22+ A6+) which is 15.5% of all hands. Against that range we have 32.284% equity. So when he folds, we win 120 right there, which will happen 82.78% of the time. When he calls, we are all-in in a t1880 pot with 32.284% equity which means we'll lose t333 on avg in that case. SOOOOOOO... 0.8278 x 120 - 0.1722 x 333 = 42 Shoving equals an avg chipgain of 42 chips considering he's opening 90% (likely to be pretty accurate), and calling perfectly (VERY unlikely). Reason why I think openshoving is best is because he cbets close to almost always, and it's gonna be hard to bluffcatch on a ton of boards (like this board for example). I know there's some boards we can easily c/c on (paired boards mainly, or when we flop middle pair with our 6) but only thing we know about his double barreling is that he didnt do it in one occassion. A6o is just a little too poor of a hand vs an agressive
opponent who bets a lot (and bets big most of the time) while our preflop edge is pretty big (42 chips). Quote: Hand #26 Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1970 M = 43.78 BB: t1030 M = 22.89 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with Q Hero raises to t75, BB calls t45
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Flop: (t150) 8 J K (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t150) 9 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks River: (t150) 4 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t75, BB calls t75 Spoiler: Final Pot: t300 Hero shows Qs 6c (King Queen high) BB shows Qc 4s (a pair of Fours) BB wins t300 Again, cbet! Just looking at results proves what I'm saying all through the first 25 hands, he just plays ATC and doesn't connect with a board like this that often like you see. Cbet, take it down, profit! Also note that this is a pretty good board with pretty good stacksizes to do a bet/bet/shove on vs an opponent where our image is quite nitty against. If he c/c's flop, main part of his range is gonna be draws and weak pairs (usually not toppair), bet like 80-90 on flop. On turn his hand will have improved to pair + weak draw most of the time, so he'll call again on turn. Then when river bricks he'll fold almost all his weak pairs because it's the first time you represent strength and if he had a flush/straight/two pair on turn he wouldve let you known earlier in the hand most of the time. Quote: Hand #27 Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1820 M = 40.44 BTN/SB: t1180 M = 26.22 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with K
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BTN/SB raises to t90, 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60 Quote: Hand #28 Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1790 M = 39.78 BB: t1210 M = 26.89 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 2 Hero calls t15, BB checks
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Flop: (t60) 9 Q 3 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t45, BB folds Spoiler: Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60 Well, I dont mind you limping against him all that much tbh. We don't know how he reacts to it but we'll find out soon. Vs a competent player it's best not to limp weak hands like you did here but he doesn't seem to competent from what we've seen before. Flopsize stab looks good, well played. We now also know that he doesn't randomly attack limps (usually when villains do that, they either do it right from the start or not at all given he will likely think your first limp will be pretty weak; OR they do it after losing a big hand, also possible). Quote: Hand #29 Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1820 M = 40.44 BTN/SB: t1180 M = 26.22 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 9 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t30 Hero wins t30 I wouldve defended here if he raised to 3bb's. Our hand plays pretty easily and given the size of his cbets most of the time, this is a great spot to checkraise bluff a decent
amount of boards. Suppose the board is like K43 and he cbets 150 into 180 we can easily checkraise to 380-390-ish and pick up the pot A TON because villains usually don't have the balls to reshove bluff there. Quote: Hand #30 Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1835 M = 40.78 BB: t1165 M = 25.89 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with J Hero raises to t75, 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60 Quote: Hand #31 Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1865 M = 41.44 BTN/SB: t1135 M = 25.22 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with A T BTN/SB raises to t90, Hero raises to t270, 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t180 Hero wins t180 Your 3betsize is a little awkward here imo. When he flats he'll have 865 left with a 540 pot so you'll be committed on a ton of boards with only 1 or 2 overcards you could be drawing too. I would advise to make it either bigger to be able to openshove a decent amount of boards or make it smaller to "play some poker" and keep his dominated holdings in. Quote: Hand #32 Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1955 M = 32.58 BB: t1045 M = 17.42 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with 6 Hero raises to t100, BB calls t60 Flop: (t200) 4
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BB bets t120, Hero folds Spoiler: Final Pot: t200 BB wins t200 Yeah, I'd just fold given that he checked the Q4 on the KJ8 board before I think it's a little more likely for villain to just indeed donk a hit or draw. Quote: Hand #33 Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1855 M = 30.92 BTN/SB: t1145 M = 19.08 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with T T BTN/SB raises to t120, Hero raises to t1145, 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t240 Hero wins t240 Again, just make it smaller here to openshove a ton of boards, around 415 or something, hoping he'll spazzshove or flat with hands with one overcard some of the time. Pretty much same as the AK hand earlier. Quote: Hand #34 Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1975 M = 32.92 BB: t1025 M = 17.08 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with K 6 Hero calls t20, BB raises to t120, 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t80 BB wins t80 K, you limped, he raised "only" pot (which I expected to some extent), I like a fold too, to encourage him from attacking our limps a bit more so we can limp/shove a ton of hands. Just keep in mind he's probably not autopotting ATC, he did it 1/2 but given we folded now I think it's a little more likely for him to start doing it more and more. Quote: Hand #35 Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players
Hero (BB): t1935 M = 32.25 BTN/SB: t1065 M = 17.75 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with K BTN/SB calls t20, Hero checks
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Flop: (t80) 8 K Q (2 players) Hero bets t60, BTN/SB folds Spoiler: Final Pot: t80 Hero wins t80 Wow, he limped, fwiw, like this guy plays, I think he has a TOTAL crap hand here. I wouldn't raise preflop, just because he's easy to play and all, but given his raising frequency on the button, I highly doubt he even has hit any pair here so I would just check and let him try to take a stab at the pot and call his bet. I like leading out here vs certain opponents, but not vs him, given that in best case he has an 8 and in most cases nothing at all. Quote: Hand #36 Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1975 M = 32.92 BB: t1025 M = 17.08 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t40 BB wins t40 Quote: Hand #37 Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1955 M = 32.58 BTN/SB: t1045 M = 17.42 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 2 BTN/SB raises to t120, 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t80 BTN/SB wins t80
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Quote: Hand #38 Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1915 M = 31.92 BB: t1085 M = 18.08 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with J Hero calls t20, BB checks
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Flop: (t80) 7 4 7 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t80) 9 (2 players) BB bets t60, Hero folds Spoiler: Final Pot: t80 BB wins t80 Again, limp is fine, don't overdo it though, although this is a pretty "decent" hand to do it with. He checked preflop, so that's 1/3 he raised oop so far, keep that in mind for later on. Ok, so flop is somewhat drawy but paired, just stab it imo, take it down a lot. He seems to give up a lot once you show a little bit of interest in the pot so far and I doubt that'll change a lot. He will fold some better hands, and some worse hands here, doesn't matter that much. If we check behind, we lose the pot most of the times, if we bet, we win it most of the times. Also, I wouldn't fold that turn. He could be betting a way weaker draw (as weak as gutshot) or basically anything here (since he does that a lot when he spots weakness) and we have a flushdraw with an overcard so you can defenitly peel to see a river imo, and even if we miss you can bluff villain of a better highcard on fifth street. Quote: Hand #39 Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1875 M = 31.25 BTN/SB: t1125 M = 18.75 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 3 BTN/SB calls t20, Hero checks
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Flop: (t80) 3 2 8 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t80, Hero calls t80
Turn: (t240) J (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t240) 9 (2 players) Hero bets t60, BTN/SB folds Spoiler: Final Pot: t240 Hero wins t240 Preflop fine, flop is fine (given I think he bets 100% of his range), turn fine. River is weird, I've seen you do this a ton, blockbetting like that. I actually don't hate it tbh. Best case he has a 9 or an 8 which checked the turn but with your kicker you can actually valuebet vs a worse 3 or even a 2 since I think most of his limpingrange is gonna be really weak and include at least one card 5 or lower. Std would be to check for me, betting like 1.5bb's looks actually pretty cool here with the info we have. Quote: Hand #40 Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1995 M = 33.25 BB: t1005 M = 16.75 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with T Q Hero raises to t100, BB raises to t240, 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t200 BB wins t200 Hmmmz, weird, although it's a small 3bet, I kind of like a fold. I think he actually has a pretty strong hand here considering he usually just mashes the pot here and wouldn't be too surprised when he shows up with JJ+ here or something. If he wants to bluff he'll do it either bigger, or try and stab postflop. Quote: Hand #41 Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1895 M = 31.58 BTN/SB: t1105 M = 18.42 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with T J BTN/SB raises to t120, Hero raises to t1200, 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t240
Hero wins t240 Again, like I said I would defend the J9 hand before, I would just call here as well. His handrange again pretty weak (notice he started limping some so probably not SUPERweak like 90%+ anymore but obv still big enough to make shoving ev+ here) but it's way more valuable to keep dominated holdings in preflop and stacksizes are good for a checkraise bluff again on certain types of board textures. Quote: Hand #42 Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t2015 M = 33.58 BB: t985 M = 16.42 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 Hero raises to t100, BB calls t60
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Flop: (t200) T J Q (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t150, BB folds Spoiler: Final Pot: t200 Hero wins t200 Bet looks too big again, just bet smaller for value against this player, he'll never notice, we want to keep his weak hands in, not out. Quote: Hand #43 Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t2115 M = 35.25 BTN/SB: t885 M = 14.75 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with K A BTN/SB raises to t120, Hero raises to t885, 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t240 Hero wins t240 Given stacksizes and fact that he just pots button and only has 22bb's and you shoved a couple of times before (so he'll call you a little lighter now) I think shoving is by far best option here with AK. If you had like QQ+ here I would just flat tbh, just because he seems to be cbetting most of the times anyway and with these stacksizes I can't see him get away from any pair or draw postflop if we checkraise. Quote:
Hand #44 Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t2235 M = 37.25 BB: t765 M = 12.75 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with J Hero raises to t100, 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t80 Hero wins t80 I would start minraising here. I've taken a quick preview through rest of hh's and I see that you still 2.5x your button when like REALLY shallow. I know you don't raise too light on your buttons and all, but still, easiest/cheapest way to steal his blind is to minraise and give him worse odds to shove his stack over your buttonraise. If you raise to 2.5bb's while being 20 or less bb's shallow then villain can shove a VERY wide range profitable over your buttonraisingrange. Quote: Hand #45 Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t2275 M = 37.92 BTN/SB: t725 M = 12.08 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with A 5 BTN/SB calls t20, Hero raises to t140, 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t80 Hero wins t80 Meh, I kind of hate all options here with these stacksizes, don't think you can do anything wrong though tbh. Given his limpingrange is really weak in general, I don't mind a regular raise, enough flops we can take it down. I wouldn't mind a shove preflop for like 18bb's here either, he's gonna be limping a monsterhand close to 0% of the time here I feel (and even if he did, we will have one livecard almost always anyway). I wouldn't mind a check here either, just play a pot postflop, he seems to stab (big) once and then give up unless he has something so he's quite easy to play postflop imo. Flip a 3sided coin imo, all pretty close. Quote: Hand #46 Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t2315 M = 38.58 BB: t685 M = 11.42
Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with K 8 Hero calls t20, BB raises to t120, 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t80 BB wins t80 Ok, don't mind the limp, with these stacksizes, limp/folding is by far best option. I would probably minraise here though, let him still call with a bunch of hands where he'll c/f flop with. Quote: Hand #47 Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t2275 M = 37.92 BTN/SB: t725 M = 12.08 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with K BTN/SB raises to t120, 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t80 BTN/SB wins t80 Meh, he seemed to start limping some hands too and given that we don't have any relevant/recent/good reads on his openingrange (which I still think is gonna be big, but whatever), we also have no idea of his callingrange if we shove (does he call KTtype of hands for example?), I don't mind your fold here. I think shoving is probably slightly ev+ but defenitly high variance and if we're a little off on either opening/callingrange gonna be ev-. Quote: Hand #48 Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t2235 M = 37.25 BB: t765 M = 12.75 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with 2 Hero raises to t100, BB calls t60 Flop: (t200) 2 Q 2 (2 players) BB bets t200, Hero calls t200 Turn: (t600) A (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t300, BB folds Spoiler: Final Pot: t600
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Hero wins t600 Again, minraise pre. I don't mind trying to steal here given that I think he will defend a ton and c/f most boards. Flop looks fine, it's hard for him to have like anything, if he has a flushdraw, money is going in on any street anyway imo, just flat, hope he spazzes with random air on turn or hit a pair or something. Your turnbet looks kind of big though with these stacksizes, again his handrange will be a lot of air but the hands with a little bit of showdown value/equity will likely call/shove over a bet of 220-ish here imo. Quote: Hand #49 Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t2535 M = 42.25 BTN/SB: t465 M = 7.75 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 9 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t40 Hero wins t40 Quote: Hand #50 Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t2555 M = 42.58 BB: t445 M = 7.42 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 Hero raises to t100, 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t80 Hero wins t80 I don't expect him to defend THAT much but A8 isn't exactly the hand that plays well vs a stop&go (which is something I think this opponent is still likely to do). Quote: Hand #51 Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t2595 M = 43.25 BTN/SB: t405 M = 6.75
Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 9 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t40 Hero wins t40 Quote: Hand #52 Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t2615 M = 43.58 BB: t385 M = 6.42 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 Hero raises to t385, 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t80 Hero wins t80 Std, unexploitable irregardless of his callingrange. Quote: Hand #53 Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t2655 M = 44.25 BTN/SB: t345 M = 5.75 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with K 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t40 Hero wins t40 Quote: Hand #54 Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t2675 M = 44.58 BB: t325 M = 5.42 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 Hero raises to t325, 1 fold Spoiler:
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Final Pot: t80 Hero wins t80 Given that you seem to be in push/fold mode from 10bb's or shallower, looks fine using nash. Quote: Hand #55 Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t2715 M = 45.25 BTN/SB: t285 M = 4.75 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with T J BTN/SB calls t20, Hero raises to t285, BTN/SB calls t245 all in Flop: (t570) 9
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Turn: (t570) 2 River: (t570) 6 Spoiler: Final Pot: t570 Hero shows Th Jd (King Jack high) BTN/SB shows Ah Td (Ace King high) BTN/SB wins t570 HE TRICKED YOU! 7bb's, JT, money going in no matter what obv. Std shove over his limp, you like barely need any fold equity here. Quote: Hand #56 Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t2430 M = 32.40 BB: t570 M = 7.60 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with 7 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t50 BB wins t50 Quote: Hand #57 Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players
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Hero (BB): t2405 M = 32.07 BTN/SB: t595 M = 7.93 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 3 BTN/SB raises to t150, 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t100 BTN/SB wins t100 Quote: Hand #58 Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t2355 M = 31.40 BB: t645 M = 8.60 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 J Hero raises to t130, BB raises to t645 all in, 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t260 BB wins t260 This is why you just minraise pre imo. Quote: Hand #59 Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t2225 M = 29.67 BTN/SB: t775 M = 10.33 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 5 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t50 Hero wins t50 Quote: Hand #60 Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t2250 M = 30 BB: t750 M = 10 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with 2
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1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t50 BB wins t50 Quote: Hand #61 Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t2225 M = 29.67 BTN/SB: t775 M = 10.33 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 7 BTN/SB raises to t150, 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t100 BTN/SB wins t100 Quote: Hand #62 Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t2175 M = 29 BB: t825 M = 11 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with 2 Hero raises to t130, 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t100 Hero wins t100 Don't mind a steal, but please please please minraise. Quote: Hand #63 Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t2225 M = 29.67 BTN/SB: t775 M = 10.33 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with A A BTN/SB raises to t150, Hero raises to t775, 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t300
Hero wins t300 I don't mind a shove here, again a little deeper and I would flat but I think he's going to feel committed with a bunch of hands preflop. Quote: Hand #64 Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t2375 M = 31.67 BB: t625 M = 8.33 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with 4 Hero raises to t130, BB calls t80
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Flop: (t260) 6 2 Q (2 players) BB bets t495 all in, Hero folds Spoiler: Final Pot: t260 BB wins t260 Minminminraise. Quote: Hand #65 Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t2245 M = 29.93 BTN/SB: t755 M = 10.07 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 2 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t50 Hero wins t50 Quote: Hand #66 Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t2270 M = 30.27 BB: t730 M = 9.73 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 Q Hero calls t25, BB raises to t150, Hero calls t100 Flop: (t300) 7
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t1460 Hero shows 8d Qd (a flush, Ten high) BB shows Jd Ah (a flush, Ace high) BB wins t1460 He doesnt seem to attacking your limps randomly. I don't mind either minraise/folding or limping but then it is to limp/fold because you're too shallow to defend and see a flop because his range will probably dominate your holding quite a bit. Quote: Hand #67 Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1540 M = 20.53 BTN/SB: t1460 M = 19.47 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with A T BTN/SB raises to t150, Hero raises to t1460, 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t300 Hero wins t300 Pretty std, given he has some more stack again I expect him to 3x his button a bunch and there's 200 in the pot already which we don't mind taking. Quote: Hand #68 Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1690 M = 22.53 BB: t1310 M = 17.47 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with 6 Hero raises to t130, 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t100 Hero wins t100 Quote: Hand #69
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Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1740 M = 23.20 BTN/SB: t1260 M = 16.80 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 6 BTN/SB raises to t150, 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t100 BTN/SB wins t100 Quote: Hand #70 Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1690 M = 22.53 BB: t1310 M = 17.47 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with 4 A Hero raises to t130, BB raises to t400, 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t260 BB wins t260 2nd time he 3bet you which wasn't a 3bet shove so i figure his range is quite strong again (maybe not as nut-like as last time) but still your A4o is doing pretty bad against his range obv. Quote: Hand #71 Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1560 M = 20.80 BTN/SB: t1440 M = 19.20 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 3 A BTN/SB raises to t150, Hero raises to t1440, 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t300 Hero wins t300 Yeah, defenitly ev+ given he raising close to 100% again lately and A3s isn't the easiest to play with these stacksizes. Shoving is just making life easy for yourself and hard for him so yeah best choice here. Also if you start shoving a bunch over his 3x he might start opening a smaller range which is defenitly good for you too. Quote:
Hand #72 Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1710 M = 22.80 BB: t1290 M = 17.20 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with 3 Q Hero calls t25, BB raises to t250, 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t100 BB wins t100 I don't mind to mix in a limp, I'd minraise most of my hands though. Quote: Hand #73 Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1660 M = 22.13 BTN/SB: t1340 M = 17.87 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with Q BTN/SB raises to t150, 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t100 BTN/SB wins t100 If your hand was a little more connected like Q9 or QT I would defend here probably, can't blame you for calling but vs someone who opens a huge range and is very predictable postflop I would probably call this a decent percentage of the time ingame and see a flop and play some poker. Quote: Hand #74 Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1610 M = 21.47 BB: t1390 M = 18.53 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with 2 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t50 BB wins t50 Quote:
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Hand #75 Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1585 M = 21.13 BTN/SB: t1415 M = 18.87 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 2 BTN/SB raises to t150, 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t100 BTN/SB wins t100 Yeah he's opening like a madman again. Quote: Hand #76 Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1535 M = 20.47 BB: t1465 M = 19.53 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with 7 Hero raises to t130, 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t100 Hero wins t100 Quote: Hand #77 Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1585 M = 21.13 BTN/SB: t1415 M = 18.87 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with A 8 BTN/SB raises to t150, Hero raises to t1415, 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t300 Hero wins t300 Yeah stacks are almost equal like with the A6o before (15/30 and 900-ish stacks) so I kind of wonder why you flatted there and shoved here? Looks fine, I'd only defend with hands which play easy postflop against him and shove good all-in equity hands (Ax, small pocket pairs mainly) because they play poorly postflop. Quote:
Hand #78 Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1735 M = 23.13 BB: t1265 M = 16.87 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with Q Hero calls t25, BB raises to t150, 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t100 BB wins t100 I'd just try and keep stealing vs this guy. He 3bet you sometimes already but not that much and he c/f's flop a bunch. Quote: Hand #79 Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1685 M = 22.47 BTN/SB: t1315 M = 17.53 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 7 BTN/SB calls t25, Hero checks
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Flop: (t100) A 3 6 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t100, Hero folds Spoiler: Final Pot: t100 BTN/SB wins t100 Okay, so he limped again, quite an interesting spot. Ehm I think (although his limpingrange will be weak in most cases and could've hit the 3 and 6 a bunch), I still think you should either checkraise or lead the flop. I think I prefer checkraising smallish to - say - 285 here would be best against this opponent because he seems to be autostabbing and there's almost NO way he ever has toppair here as far as I'm concerned. If you get called, you still have some outs, and you have a ton of fold equity on the flop given you've been semi-passive so far. You can also lead for like 80 and bet a bunch of good turns where it's gonna be hard for him to call down with 3rd or 4th pair after a while, though I'd prefer him to stab his total air and put some money in the pot while giving up when he feels ANY sort of resistance. Quote: Hand #80 Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1635 M = 21.80 BB: t1365 M = 18.20
Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with 7 Hero raises to t130, 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t100 Hero wins t100 Quote: Hand #81 Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1685 M = 22.47 BTN/SB: t1315 M = 17.53 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 5 A BTN/SB raises to t150, Hero raises to t1315, 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t300 Hero wins t300 Again, std, as before. You're lucky you get a lot of easy shovehands in these spots though. Quote: Hand #82 Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1835 M = 24.47 BB: t1165 M = 15.53 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with K Hero calls t25, BB checks
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Flop: (t100) 7 T 7 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t50, BB folds Spoiler: Final Pot: t100 Hero wins t100 I'd minraise here, I can defenitly see him defend a bunch of stuff. Ok, so he didn't raise pre. I really wouldn't stab this flop. I think if he has an ace he would raise pre, so you're only "afraid" of Q/J overcard to come. If he had some sort of draw he would've donked the flop anyway imo. No need to balance vs fish, one of the most important rules in poker imo, just check back here, and see him lead like 90% of turncards and just let him bluff! You'll show "weakness" and he'll stab, just let him put money in the pot when he has 0 equity imo.
Quote: Hand #83 Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1885 M = 25.13 BTN/SB: t1115 M = 14.87 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 3 BTN/SB raises to t150, 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t100 BTN/SB wins t100 Quote: Hand #84 Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1835 M = 20.39 BB: t1165 M = 12.94 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BTN/SB with K Hero raises to t150, 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t120 Hero wins t120 I wouldn't mind a limp with a hand like this either. Good showdown/bluffcatching material (on paired boards mainly) and so far he stabs once and that's it (small sample though where he had option of 2nd barreling). Quote: Hand #85 Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1895 M = 21.06 BTN/SB: t1105 M = 12.28 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BB with 9 BTN/SB raises to t180, 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t120 BTN/SB wins t120 Quote:
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Hand #86 Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1835 M = 20.39 BB: t1165 M = 12.94 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BTN/SB with A Hero calls t30, BB checks Flop: (t120) 8 6 Q BB bets t60, Hero folds
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t120 BB wins t120 Hmmz, he doesn't attack limps too wide, so I would just raise preflop for value. I know he raises like around 30% so far but I just feel like he's going to call a bunch pre (or jam a worse hand) and you lose value by limping in spots like this. Flop fold looks fine, awful board for your hand if you ask me. Quote: Hand #87 Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1775 M = 19.72 BTN/SB: t1225 M = 13.61 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BB with 2 A BTN/SB raises to t180, Hero raises to t1225, 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t360 Hero wins t360 Yeah std once again. Keep attracking Ax hands imo Quote: Hand #88 Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1955 M = 21.72 BB: t1045 M = 11.61 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 Hero calls t30, BB checks Flop: (t120) 6 4 A (2 players) BB bets t120, Hero calls t120
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Turn: (t360) 6 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t180, BB folds Spoiler: Final Pot: t360 Hero wins t360 Same as with the AJ hand, just raise pre for value vs him, he doesnt raise all that much vs limps anyway. Flop flat looks fine given biggest part of his range is air. I'd just check this particular turn though, only thing he can call with is 4x anyway and you're not getten 3 streets of value from that anyway. Maybe he'll try a desperate bluff on river once you check back turn because he thinks you have a busted straightdraw or something. The only most likely hand he could pay you off for maybe 3 streets (6x) just outdrew you so I don't see any point in betting. Quote: Hand #89 Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t2135 M = 23.72 BTN/SB: t865 M = 9.61 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BB with 5 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60 Yeah you won last two (medium sized) pots so I wouldn't raise here; he'll spite shove a ton I think. Quote: Hand #90 Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t2165 M = 24.06 BB: t835 M = 9.28 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BTN/SB with T Hero calls t30, BB checks Flop: (t120) Q 2 6 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t90, BB calls t90 Turn: (t300) 3
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BB checks, Hero bets t230, BB folds Spoiler: Final Pot: t300 Hero wins t300 Again, WHY ARE YOU LIMPING? 2 hands of him checking pre not enough? Just raise, he seems to defend superwide, probably defends undercards to your pocket pair as well. "As played", played okay imo, I doubt he ever has you beat with that line (assuming he'll donk Qx or a gutshot on flop most of the time), so he can only have turned two pair or something. Quote: Hand #91 Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t2315 M = 25.72 BTN/SB: t685 M = 7.61 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BB with K 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60 Quote: Hand #92 Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t2345 M = 26.06 BB: t655 M = 7.28 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BTN/SB with 2 Hero raises to t655, BB calls t595 all in Flop: (t1310) T
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Turn: (t1310) 9 River: (t1310) 9 Spoiler: Final Pot: t1310 Hero shows 2c Ac (a pair of Nines) BB shows Qh Ad (two pair, Queens and Nines)
BB wins t1310 Yeah looks fine, for 11bb's, easiest/best way to play, especially if you think there's a chance he'll flat pre imo. Quote: Hand #93 Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1690 M = 18.78 BTN/SB: t1310 M = 14.56 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BB with J 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60 Quote: Hand #94 Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1720 M = 19.11 BB: t1280 M = 14.22 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t60 BB wins t60 I think after him doubling up I would minraise here because I feel like he's defenitly not going to 3bet light in this spot. Quote: Hand #95 Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1690 M = 18.78 BTN/SB: t1310 M = 14.56 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BB with 4 BTN/SB raises to t180, 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t120
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BTN/SB wins t120 You can probably shove here though I think it's marginal and will change gameflow a bit by him shoving over your steals too so I wouldn't do it. Quote: Hand #96 Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1630 M = 18.11 BB: t1370 M = 15.22 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BTN/SB with 3 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t60 BB wins t60 Quote: Hand #97 Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1600 M = 17.78 BTN/SB: t1400 M = 15.56 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BB with J A BTN/SB raises to t180, Hero raises to t1400, 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t360 Hero wins t360 Quote: Hand #98 Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1780 M = 19.78 BB: t1220 M = 13.56 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BTN/SB with 7 Hero calls t30, BB checks Flop: (t120) K 9 K (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t120) J
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BB bets t120, Hero folds Spoiler: Final Pot: t120 BB wins t120 Bet flop lol, he will c/f 90% of time and will lead turn 90% of time. If you had Kx or 9x you could opt to check back here imo. Quote: Hand #99 Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1720 M = 19.11 BTN/SB: t1280 M = 14.22 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BB with J K BTN/SB calls t30, Hero raises to t210, 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t120 Hero wins t120 Yeah sizing looks good here, I would do 180-220 here too. Quote: Hand #100 Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1780 M = 19.78 BB: t1220 M = 13.56 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 Hero calls t30, BB checks Flop: (t120) A 7 9 (2 players) BB bets t90, Hero calls t90 Turn: (t300) 2 (2 players) BB bets t120, Hero calls t120 River: (t540) 5 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Spoiler: Final Pot: t540 Hero shows 8d 8c (a pair of Eights) BB shows Th 5c (a pair of Fives) Hero wins t540
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Ugh, once again, raise pre!!! So much value, I even think he would defend his T5o here. "As played" I think it's played fine, his bets look like 7x or something and you get great odds to bluffcatch. Betting river for value looks a little too thin to me and I think you barely beat his c/c'ing range so a check (also for the info what hand he b/b/c with) looks fine. Quote: Hand #101 Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t2050 M = 22.78 BTN/SB: t950 M = 10.56 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BB with K BTN/SB calls t30, Hero checks
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Flop: (t120) K 6 5 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t120, Hero calls t120 Turn: (t360) 2 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t180, Hero raises to t770, BTN/SB folds Spoiler: Final Pot: t720 Hero wins t720 Preflop is fine, flop too given he bets a bunch, however this is a GREAT spot to lead turn. We haven't seen him double barrel at all (unless previous hand where he bet smallish with total air) but apart from that I think he just checks back a bunch on turn with any gutshot or hand he would call a bet with or spazz shove against. Just lead turn for value here, expected to get called/jammed a bunch and if he folds he wasn't putting anymore money in the pot anyway unless he draws out on you on the river. We have a bit of info on his 2nd barreling frequency so we should use it to our advantage imo. Quote: Hand #102 Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t2410 M = 26.78 BB: t590 M = 6.56 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BTN/SB with 4 Hero raises to t590, 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t120
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Hero wins t120 Std, nh. Quote: Hand #103 Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t2470 M = 27.44 BTN/SB: t530 M = 5.89 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BB with 3 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60 Quote: Hand #104 Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t2500 M = 27.78 BB: t500 M = 5.56 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BTN/SB with T 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t60 BB wins t60 Quote: Hand #105 Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t2470 M = 27.44 BTN/SB: t530 M = 5.89 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BB with J Q BTN/SB raises to t530 all in, Hero calls t470 Flop: (t1060) 2 Turn: (t1060) T River: (t1060) 6
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t1060 Hero shows Js Qd (King Queen high) BTN/SB shows 7s As (Ace King high) BTN/SB wins t1060 I don't think he's shoving all too light tbh but still looks like a std call. Worst hand I'd call here is like Q9/JT I think, should do the math but it's close. Quote: Hand #106 Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1940 M = 16.17 BB: t1060 M = 8.83 Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 Hero calls t40, BB raises to t240, 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t160 BB wins t160 Don't mind a limp, doubt he's raising a bunch after doubling up. Quote: Hand #107 Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1860 M = 15.50 BTN/SB: t1140 M = 9.50 Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BB with Q K BTN/SB raises to t240, Hero raises to t1140, BTN/SB calls t900 all in Flop: (t2280) 6
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Turn: (t2280) 3 River: (t2280) 9 Spoiler: Final Pot: t2280 Hero shows Qd Ks (two pair, Queens and Sixes) BTN/SB shows As Qc (two pair, Queens and Sixes) BTN/SB wins t2280 Stop running into a better hand imo. Pretty std though, well played obv. Quote:
Hand #108 Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t720 M = 6 BB: t2280 M = 19 Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BTN/SB with Q Hero raises to t720 all in, 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t160 Hero wins t160 Obv fine with nash. Quote: Hand #109 Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t800 M = 6.67 BTN/SB: t2200 M = 18.33 Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BB with 2 A BTN/SB raises to t240, Hero raises to t800 all in, 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t480 Hero wins t480 Lol at having fold equity here. I've seen it before but it surprises me again and again, obv stackoff though, nh. Quote: Hand #110 Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t1040 M = 8.67 BB: t1960 M = 16.33 Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BTN/SB with 6 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t80 BB wins t80 Quote: Hand #111 Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players
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Hero (BB): t1000 M = 8.33 BTN/SB: t2000 M = 16.67 Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BB with 6 BTN/SB raises to t240, 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t160 BTN/SB wins t160 Quote: Hand #112 Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t920 M = 7.67 BB: t2080 M = 17.33 Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BTN/SB with A Hero raises to t200, 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t160 Hero wins t160 I'd just openjam for like 11.5bb's fwiw, no need to let him stop&go (he did it before) when we have a hand like this. Quote: Hand #113 Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1000 M = 8.33 BTN/SB: t2000 M = 16.67 Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BB with 2 BTN/SB calls t40, Hero checks
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Flop: (t160) 6 9 Q (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t160) K (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t120, Hero folds Spoiler: Final Pot: t160 BTN/SB wins t160
Weird that he didn't stab flop here, given that his limpingrange is ultraweak imo, he probably has a monster or a weak hand like 6x with some showdown. Just because he didn't stab flop I doubt you're getting him away from any piece of the board on turn/river. Quote: Hand #114 Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t920 M = 7.67 BB: t2080 M = 17.33 Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BTN/SB with T Hero raises to t200, 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t160 Hero wins t160 Again, just openjam, 12bb's- I usually play push/fold which is easiest thing to do by far. Quote: Hand #115 Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t1000 M = 8.33 BTN/SB: t2000 M = 16.67 Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BB with T BTN/SB raises to t240, 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t160 BTN/SB wins t160 Quote: Hand #116 Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t920 M = 7.67 BB: t2080 M = 17.33 Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 Hero calls t40, BB raises to t240, 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t160 BB wins t160
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Again, openshove here, I don't really mind a limp but 12bb's or shallower just using nash push/fold is going to be easiest thing to do. Quote: Hand #117 Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t840 M = 7 BTN/SB: t2160 M = 18 Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BB with J 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t80 Hero wins t80 Quote: Hand #118 Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t880 M = 7.33 BB: t2120 M = 17.67 Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BTN/SB with A Hero calls t40, BB checks
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Flop: (t160) Q 6 9 (2 players) BB bets t880, Hero folds Spoiler: Final Pot: t160 BB wins t160 Wow, 11bb's and you're limping this? I doubt you're a favorite over his raising range here imo, just openjam again! Unexploitable no matter what his callingrange is. Quote: Hand #119 Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t800 M = 6.67 BTN/SB: t2200 M = 18.33 Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BB with T 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t80
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Hero wins t80 Quote: Hand #120 Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t840 M = 7 BB: t2160 M = 18 Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BTN/SB with 6 Hero raises to t840 all in, 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t160 Hero wins t160 Idk what your cutoff stacksizes are to play push/fold but if you don't push/fold all your hands here, openjamming this can defenitly be ev-. Just stick to nash imo when 12bb's-, if you don't know what I mean here (re)read my post about sage/nash/chubukov which I made while you were gone. Quote: Hand #121 Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t920 M = 7.67 BTN/SB: t2080 M = 17.33 Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BB with 9 A BTN/SB raises to t240, Hero raises to t920 all in, 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t480 Hero wins t480 Snapshove obv, nh. Quote: Hand #122 Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players] Hero (BTN/SB): t1160 M = 9.67 BB: t1840 M = 15.33 Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BTN/SB with 7 7 Hero calls t40, BB raises to t240, Hero raises to t1160 all in, BB calls t920 Flop: (t2320) K
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Turn: (t2320) J River: (t2320) 7 Spoiler: Final Pot: t2320 Hero shows 7h 7c (three of a kind, Sevens) BB shows Ad 8s (Ace King high) Hero wins t2320 Again, I would just minraise for value and call a shove. Worked out this time but you limped like 3 or 4 hands already that you were planning on limp/shoving and it's the first one which worked and villain still had 2 overcards. Quote: Hand #123 Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t2320 M = 19.33 BTN/SB: t680 M = 5.67 Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BB with 4 BTN/SB calls t40, Hero checks
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Flop: (t160) A 8 7 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t160) J (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t160) 5 (2 players) Hero bets t80, BTN/SB folds Spoiler: Final Pot: t160 Hero wins t160 Given shallowness of stacks I don't mind how you played the hand; when a little deeper you can opt to lead or checkraise really small on flop given he usually stabs a bunch but with these stacksizes looks best to just check and hope he checks back and we hit. Can't really do much else, with these stacksizes he's not folding any pair or draw to a crai and we're in terrible shape. We can try and lead maybe, but even then I feel we will get jammed on way too much to make it profitable. Quote: Hand #124 Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t2400 M = 20 BB: t600 M = 5
Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BTN/SB with K Hero raises to t600, 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t160 Hero wins t160 Quote: Hand #125 Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t2480 M = 20.67 BTN/SB: t520 M = 4.33 Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BB with T BTN/SB calls t40, Hero checks
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Flop: (t160) J 7 7 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t160, Hero folds Spoiler: Final Pot: t160 BTN/SB wins t160 Quote: Hand #126 Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t2400 M = 20 BB: t600 M = 5 Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BTN/SB with 3 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t80 BB wins t80 Quote: Hand #127 Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t2360 M = 19.67 BTN/SB: t640 M = 5.33 Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BB with 7
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BTN/SB calls t40, Hero checks Flop: (t160) J 6 2 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t160) 5 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t160) T (2 players) Hero bets t120, BTN/SB folds Spoiler: Final Pot: t160 Hero wins t160 I think his limps are pretty weak, I know he limped AT before when 7bb's shallow but you checked like last 2 times he limped so I doubt he's ever limping a hand like that in a spot like this again and will either pot button or just openjam himself. That's why I would just jam preflop, tons of fold equity if you ask me and you still have a decent amount of equity when called with 87s. I like your riverbet fwiw if you chose to check pre. I think he'll have no diamond enough of the time to take a stab there. Quote: Hand #128 Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t2440 M = 16.27 BB: t560 M = 3.73 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with 3 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t100 BB wins t100 Quote: Hand #129 Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t2390 M = 15.93 BTN/SB: t610 M = 4.07 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with T Q BTN/SB calls t50, Hero raises to t610, 1 fold
Spoiler: Final Pot: t200 Hero wins t200 Yeah, std to ship. Quote: Hand #130 Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t2490 M = 16.60 BB: t510 M = 3.40 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 Hero raises to t510, 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t200 Hero wins t200 Gogo nash! Quote: Hand #131 Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t2590 M = 17.27 BTN/SB: t410 M = 2.73 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with 2 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t100 Hero wins t100 Quote: Hand #132 Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t2640 M = 17.60 BB: t360 M = 2.40 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 Hero raises to t360, 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t200
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Hero wins t200 Quote: Hand #133 Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t2740 M = 18.27 BTN/SB: t260 M = 1.73 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with 8 Q BTN/SB raises to t260 all in, Hero calls t160 Flop: (t520) 8
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Turn: (t520) 6 River: (t520) A Spoiler: Final Pot: t520 Hero shows 8s Qs (two pair, Aces and Eights) BTN/SB shows 4d Ad (a flush, Ace high) BTN/SB wins t520 Don't let him keep coming back imo! Quote: Hand #134 Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t2480 M = 16.53 BB: t520 M = 3.47 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 Hero raises to t520, 1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t200 Hero wins t200 Quote: Hand #135 Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t2580 M = 17.20 BTN/SB: t420 M = 2.80 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with 7
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1 fold Spoiler: Final Pot: t100 Hero wins t100 Quote: Hand #136 Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BTN/SB): t2630 M = 17.53 BB: t370 M = 2.47 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with Q Hero raises to t370, 1 fold
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Spoiler: Final Pot: t200 Hero wins t200 Quote: Hand #137 Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players Hero (BB): t2730 M = 18.20 BTN/SB: t270 M = 1.80 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with A 3 BTN/SB raises to t270 all in, Hero calls t170 Flop: (t540) A
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Turn: (t540) 7 River: (t540) J Spoiler: Final Pot: t540 Hero shows Ah 3h (two pair, Aces and Threes) BTN/SB shows Kd Tc (Ace King high) Hero wins t540
SPAMZ ' THIRD HAND HISTORY R EVIEW Quote: Hand #1 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308861 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1500 M = 50 Hero (BB): t1500 M = 50 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 6 BTN/SB calls t10, Hero checks
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Flop: (t40) 4 9 K (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t60, Hero folds Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40 Yeah, okay first hand villain limps. Given that we have close to zero reads, I think checking is by far best option with your hand. Problem is a pair of sixes isn't going to be the easiest hand to play oop in a bloated pot without any postflop reads so checking is fine. Fwiw I think first hand vs a limp my raising range would be something like any two broadwaycards and 77+, maybe a hand like K9s if I feel like it, varies from day to day I guess but definitly not too wide first hands. Thing is also that because villain limped he's very likely to limp in future hands as well so we're better off getting some postflop reads/notes in limped pots. Ok, flopcheck std, not really much we can "get value from" imo and it's always interesting to know IF villain bets and if yes, how much. Okay, c/f standard as well, no reason to win this pot here, we just note his tendencies of overbetting. Quote:
Hand #2 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308862 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1520 M = 50.67 Hero (BTN/SB): t1480 M = 49.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 6 Hero raises to t60, BB calls t40
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Flop: (t120) T 9 5 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t60, BB calls t60 Turn: (t240) T (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks River: (t240) A (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t120, BB folds Final Pot: t240 Hero mucks 6 A Hero wins t240 Ok, well played, 3x raise @ 10/20s looks standard. Flop isn't really my favourite board to cbet but we don't know anything about him and imo it's important to cbet almost ALWAYS the first (few) hands to see how he reacts. Half pot is good too, just "stab", see what he does, by betting half pot, he doesn't need to fold much for it to be super ev+. Turn is bad card to barrel, can't see him fold any piece of the board really, so checking back is defenitly standard. Betting to get value here is way too thin without any significant reads so far. In general I wouldn't try and barrel people early on too much either; for all we know he could be biggest station alive. River, good valuebet, I think you'll get looked up by 9x almost always and 5x or some pocket pair a decent percentage; again, this is for thin value we're going, so half pot is best way to go. Given that he folded he probably had a draw but obv we can't be sure of that. Quote: Hand #3 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308863 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1400 M = 46.67 Hero (BB): t1600 M = 53.33
Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 5 5 BTN/SB raises to t60, Hero calls t40 Flop: (t120) 7 3 6 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t120) T (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t120) T (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Final Pot: t120 BTN/SB mucks K Hero shows 5 5 Hero wins t120
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Ok, he raised now instead of limping. I think 55 is a fine hand to defend with to get some postflop reads at this stage. Wouldn't really 3bet here, again, first 10 hands are where we gather information as I point out in every hh so far I think. Flop isn't too bad, all highcardhands missed, if he's passive, we can lead out perhaps, but would like to know if he cbets and how much (given that he overpot last time I think his cbet size will be off again). He decides to check back, fair enough. Turn isn't really best of cards, however, there's 2 flushdraws out there now, tons of onecardstraightdraws and he might even peel with mere overs so I think betting turn is good option, yes, for value. If you check and he bets you don't really know if he's just stabbing trying to represent the overcard or not. Some people will autobet when you check twice, some will just check back there showdown value. You would be surprised how ev+ leading turn is here. He'll call with a bunch of hands, mainly 3x and A-highs and hands like A9/A8/3x/22 will just check back river for showdown value unless they improve. Checking back from a random villain on flop usually means showdown value, in this case probably one of the hands mentioned before, sometimes they check back a hand like T9 because they have a gutshot and don't want to get checkraised, or check back QT because they only bet when they hit something; but in general, checking back = showdown, at least that's what you should be thinking about most villains you have no notes on. So in this case, turn would go bet, he may/may not call and we see this river and he'll check back with most holdings. Fwiw, I'd probably c/f on this particular river, he needs to have checked back like total air/crap, maybe hand like 94 or something to not have you beat here. I don't see too much valuehands he could be betting with, but people check back this river so much that when they do bet, they actually have Tx or maybe some weirdly played higher two pair most of the time (or a flushdraw which didnt cbet). Quote: Hand #4
Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308864 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1340 M = 44.67 Hero (BTN/SB): t1660 M = 55.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with A Hero raises to t60, 1 fold Final Pot: t40 Hero mucks A Hero wins t40
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Quote: Hand #5 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308865 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1320 M = 44 Hero (BB): t1680 M = 56 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 7 5 BTN/SB raises to t40, Hero calls t20 Flop: (t80) Q 6 2 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t40, Hero folds Final Pot: t80 BTN/SB wins t80 Meh, given that he didnt cbet AK before, I dont mind defending superwide (especially vs a minraise) if we can see a trend going on in either a: his cbet tendencies (only bet when hit? only bet when no showdown or hit?) b: his raising/limpingrange (2x raise = weaker hand? 3x raise = stronger hand given that 3x was AK before?) Okay, flop isn't too bad to checkraise on vs a non-thinkingplayer; however, he didn't cbet before and now he does so we'll just assume he has a piece and won't immediatly fold it anyway (you should assume that people don't fold pairs they bet in general imo, really, they rarely do) + when stacks get shallower our checkraises on good boards will be given more credit. Quote: Hand #6 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308866 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
BB: t1360 M = 45.33 Hero (BTN/SB): t1640 M = 54.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 4 Hero calls t10, BB raises to t40, Hero calls t20 Flop: (t80) J J J (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t80) Q (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks River: (t80) 2 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Final Pot: t80 BB shows 9 6 (three of a kind, Jacks) Hero mucks 5 4 BB wins t80 Woot, you limp, okay, nothing wrong with that. With these stacksizes behind obv no real point in folding pre vs the minraise. Interesting how this hand played out, I really don't mind the checking down although we obv have like ZERO showdown value. Flop is like the worst to bluff on imo, people dont fold anything here (not even talking about pocket pairs, also about a hand like his) because they're trying to fill up. Turn you might stab but then again, meh, he raised preflop so he'll have something imo. I don't see people fold Ax or Kx on this board just yet, also no pocket pairs are folding and we shouldn't be results oriented and think there are a lot of suited connectors in his range. Yes, he'll fold most of those, however, we have no real clue about his range at this point so getting to showdown can be really valuable. River again total **** card to let Ax or Kx fold, if it was 4 or 5 on river I prolly would bet like 40 for value against highcard hands but here I just give up and take a note. Quote: Hand #7 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308867 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1400 M = 46.67 Hero (BB): t1600 M = 53.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with K 1 fold
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Final Pot: t30 Hero mucks K Hero wins t20 (Rake: t10)
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Quote: Hand #8 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308868 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1390 M = 46.33 Hero (BTN/SB): t1610 M = 53.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with J Hero calls t10, BB checks
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Flop: (t40) Q 5 8 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t40) T (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks River: (t40) 4 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Final Pot: t40 BB shows 3 6 (high card Queen) Hero shows J 2 (high card Queen - Jack kicker) Hero wins t40 Ok, limp again, fine. I wouldn't overdo it though. Obv this is only hand 8 (4th on button) but imo you lose a lot of value from people either a: being to tight and folding too much bb's b: being to loose and c/f'ing too much flops Vs like 80% of the fish you will be playing, either a or b will be true. Rest is just overaggro and will either 3bet a lot or checkraise flop a bunch or lead out with a wide range etc. Fwiw, I would probably stab flop for like 30, not as cbet or hoping to get called, just to see what he does with certain hands. There's a bunch of people who lead out (usually potbet) with ANY flopped pair so there's a good chance you'll pick up the pot on the flop. If he c/c's 2nd or 3rd pair or a (weak) draw, make a note how he plays this and exploit in future stages. If you don't bet flop I agree with just checking it down and see what he has. He had like nutlow here (or close to it) and didn't feel like fighting for the (small) pot with no showdown. Quote:
Hand #9 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308869 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1370 M = 45.67 Hero (BB): t1630 M = 54.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 8 1 fold Final Pot: t30 Hero mucks 8 Hero wins t20 (Rake: t10)
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Quote: Hand #10 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308870 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1360 M = 45.33 Hero (BTN/SB): t1640 M = 54.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 6 8 Hero calls t10, BB raises to t40, Hero calls t20 Flop: (t80) 4 9 T (2 players) BB bets t40, Hero folds Final Pot: t80 BB wins t80 See, here, you're overdoing it. Raising preflop is not just for value in most cases, it's mainly because villain will make a lot of (maybe not big, but really frequent) mistakes both pre and/or postflop. Again, "as played" calling minraise is fine. I think he has a piece of the board given that he bets and drawing to (possible) 3 outs isn't the best thing to do so fold flop is pretty std. Quote: Hand #11 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308871 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1400 M = 46.67
Hero (BB): t1600 M = 53.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 4 1 fold Final Pot: t30 Hero mucks 4 Hero wins t20 (Rake: t10)
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Okay, he folded like 3 buttons in a row now? Probably nitty and I think the size of his raises on the button give away his hand a bit (if he raises them at all) but we can't be too sure of that. Quote: Hand #12 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308872 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1390 M = 46.33 Hero (BTN/SB): t1610 M = 53.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with Q 1 fold
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Final Pot: t30 BB wins t20 (Rake: t10) Why fold? Really, I'd try and play like any hand vs this opponent on my button, I would probably also raise almost all of them, just because he looks easy to play against postflop and it's probably a fit/fold player so don't worry about him getting tricky. Quote: Hand #13 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308873 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1400 M = 46.67 Hero (BB): t1600 M = 53.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with A BTN/SB calls t10, Hero checks Flop: (t40) 8 7 3 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t40) 5
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Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t40) 5 (2 players) Hero bets t20, BTN/SB folds Final Pot: t40 Hero mucks A Hero wins t40
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Ugh, I'm really in between leading flop for like 20-30 or c/f'ing. Thing is this guy won't stab at the pot with nothing, so if he bets he probably has an 8 or a 7 (or a straightdraw which has 40-50% equity vs our hand). I think both are fine and really close in ev. Given it got checked down betting 1bb on river to get value from weaker 3x (maybe 22/highcard?) looks okay. Quote: Hand #14 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308874 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1380 M = 46 Hero (BTN/SB): t1620 M = 54 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 3 Hero calls t10, BB checks
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Flop: (t40) 8 2 K (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t20, BB folds Final Pot: t40 Hero mucks 3 Hero wins t40
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Stop limping, really, don't overdo it as explained before. Flopstab looks fine, he's really sstraightforward so against this type of opponent I don't see too much difference in between 20 or 25 or 30 (some people will start spazzing/floating vs a 1bb because it looks like a stab too much but not this one). Quote: Hand #15 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308875 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1360 M = 45.33 Hero (BB): t1640 M = 54.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with A
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His limpingrange will probably be weak so I would try and keep him in preflop (he's really ez to play postflop) with some dominated Jx hands or something and raise to either 3 or 3.5bb's here. Quote: Hand #16 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308876 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1340 M = 44.67 Hero (BTN/SB): t1660 M = 55.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with J Hero raises to t60, 1 fold Final Pot: t40 Hero mucks J Hero wins t40
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K, now start raising more imo. Quote: Hand #17 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308877 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1320 M = 44 Hero (BB): t1680 M = 56 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with Q BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40 Given his frequency, probably a strong(-ish) hand. Quote: Hand #18 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308878
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1340 M = 29.78 Hero (BTN/SB): t1660 M = 36.89 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 3 1 fold
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Final Pot: t45 BB wins t30 (Rake: t15) Don't fold too much buttons against him imo. I don't play 100% vs anyone (a fold now and then vs a fish will let them know that you don't raise ATC fwiw) but vs this guy you can defenitly go 90%+. Quote: Hand #19 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308879 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1355 M = 30.11 Hero (BB): t1645 M = 36.56 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 4 BTN/SB calls t15, Hero checks
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Flop: (t60) Q J 6 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t60) 8 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t60) T (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB mucks 2 3 Hero shows 4 7 (high card Queen) Hero wins t60 Woot, blinds finally up. ^^ I would probably lead the flop here. His limpingrange will be pretty weak and he's not the type of player to float you randomly. There's defenitly a bunch of better highcards we can fold out by leading flop. Quote: Hand #20
Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308880 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1325 M = 29.44 Hero (BTN/SB): t1675 M = 37.22 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with J Hero raises to t80, BB calls t50
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Flop: (t160) 9 7 5 (2 players) BB bets t60, Hero calls t60 Turn: (t280) 4 (2 players) BB bets t90, Hero calls t90 River: (t460) J (2 players) BB bets t210, Hero calls t210 Final Pot: t880 BB shows 8 T (a flush, Ten high) Hero mucks J A BB wins t880 Okay, preflop looks fine, definitly raise, I wouldn't mind a bigger size with stronger hands vs this opponent tbh, I think he'll barely notice it. Flop/turn looks fine too, I don't see any reason to raise here vs straightforward player. River is such a ****ing sick spot, for real. I talked with some people over msn about it and it's so ****ing close, we get great odds but really, imo, he's like a: rarely valuebetting worse (one hand maybe like JxTh or something? Jx8h?) b: rarely bluffing (really, this player is not bluffing a lot here) I wouldn't mind his betsizing here, I don't think we can read a lot from it tbh, could be 2 pair, could be straight flush. On flop/turn, could even be 9x but no way he's betting 9x like that on river here. Looking back we got to agreement that river is very probably best to fold but we were all honest to say that in-game we would probably call anyway. Call because **** you that's why I call. If he checks, it's an ez valuebet for around same size as his, maybe bit smaller, to get 9x hands to call or weaker Jx or maybe even 7x/88/66. Quote: Hand #21 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308881 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1765 M = 39.22 Hero (BB): t1235 M = 27.44
Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with Q BTN/SB calls t15, Hero checks
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Flop: (t60) 8 T 7 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t60, Hero folds Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60 Ehm, I wouldn't mind a raise pre here, but think checking is fine too; it's really close and can go either way but I just feel that his limpingrange is quite weak and we can get some value. If you check however, it's to c/f the flop vs this type of opponent because he's not betting a lot worse and drawing to a straight on 3flushboard is usually pretty suicidal so nice fold. Quote: Hand #22 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308882 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1795 M = 39.89 Hero (BTN/SB): t1205 M = 26.78 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with K Hero raises to t80, BB calls t50
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Flop: (t160) T 2 9 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t90, BB folds Final Pot: t160 Hero mucks K 5 Hero wins t160 Yeah, just raise and bet him out of the pot like you did here. Sizing looks good (though I minraise pre usually, I don't mind 80 tbh). Flop between 50-60%, perfect imo. Quote: Hand #23 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308883 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1715 M = 38.11 Hero (BB): t1285 M = 28.56
Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 3 BTN/SB raises to t90, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60 Quote: Hand #24 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308884 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1745 M = 38.78 Hero (BTN/SB): t1255 M = 27.89 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with A Hero raises to t80, BB calls t50
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Flop: (t160) J 6 5 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t90, BB folds Final Pot: t160 Hero mucks A 6 Hero wins t160 Same as last button, appearantly he defends kind of wide-ish (obv not a big sample but still...) and gives up quite easily. Quote: Hand #25 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308885 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1665 M = 37 Hero (BB): t1335 M = 29.67 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 9 BTN/SB calls t15, Hero checks Flop: (t60) 9 K Q (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t60) Q (2 players) Hero bets t30, BTN/SB folds Final Pot: t60
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Again, same as the Q9o before this is really close in raising pre and since you haven't done it last time I think it's good to do it here. He'll fold a ton preflop so we get the 60 in the pot and he's easy to play postflop (and our hand isn't too hard to play out either) so raising is definitly something you should consider with a hand like this from time to time. I would probably lead out the flop here tbh for couple of reasons: 1) If he doesn't have anything he's not going to be putting a lot of money in the pot anyway. He doesn't seem to stab those hands and even if he DOES turn a pair I doubt he's going to be putting a lot of money in the pot (I can imagine him folding 54o if turn is 4 and we bet out tbh). 2) On a board like this, he can easily peel with Tx or Jx or worse 9x hands but will not bet them. The reason why he would call on flop is because he will think he'll have the chance to see 2 more cards because he's in position. Also if he has a hand like 33 then this is the street where he might call a bet, not when there's 4 overcards on turn. So yeah just lead out flop imo. If you don't lead flop I see very little reason in leading turn except for the occassional flushdraw he turned. He's not peeling with Jx/Tx here imo, and you're barely ahead of a random 9x hand so meh. He prolly has undercards and after the board pairing I could actually see him call a tiny riverbet when he paired one of his cards because he knows he's not going to face any future bets. Quote: Hand #26 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308886 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1635 M = 36.33 Hero (BTN/SB): t1365 M = 30.33 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 T Hero calls t15, BB raises to t60, Hero calls t30 Flop: (t120) Q 4 K (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t120) 8 (2 players) BB bets t60, Hero folds Final Pot: t120 BB wins t120 Again, I don't really like the limp for reasons already stated.
As played, I don't mind a check on the flop but once he bets turn I'm obv out. If he checks twice to you I would definitly take a stab at the pot. Quote: Hand #27 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308887 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1695 M = 37.67 Hero (BB): t1305 M = 29 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 2 BTN/SB calls t15, Hero checks
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Flop: (t60) 3 7 3 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t60) K (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t60) A (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB mucks 5 9 Hero shows 2 T (a pair of Threes) Hero wins t60 You could lead flop but I think turn is a perfect card to lead. If you lead flop you could get a call from mere overs or gutshot type of holdings, but once you bet this specific turn I think you can actually fold out a decent amount of better highcard hands again (Qx/Jx or better Tx) so I would stab for like t40 there. Quote: Hand #28 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308888 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1665 M = 37 Hero (BTN/SB): t1335 M = 29.67 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 6 Hero calls t15, BB checks Flop: (t60) J 7 3 (2 players) BB bets t30, Hero folds
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Final Pot: t60 BB wins t60 STOP LIMPING vs him lol. I think flop is close tbh, given that he leads out he probably has a piece (I think more weighed towards toppair and good middle pair), however there's a flushdraw out there as well and we don't know how much implied odds we really got vs him (probably not enough with a gutter getting 3-1) or how easily we can bluff him from a hand if say an overcard comes. But we shouldn't even be in this situation because you should raise preflop and if he leads then it's a pretty easy fold. You can probably raise here as well, I don't see villain 3betting with anything less than two pair so we can try and bluff him of a ton on turn (any A/K/Q we can bet; also a bunch of diamonds or 4x when we hit obviously) though I don't expect him to fold flop a lot and we don't know how much he falls in love with his hands when he does hit something (which I think will be the case here, players like this rarely bet but when they do have something they just rarely fold). Quote: Hand #29 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308889 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1695 M = 37.67 Hero (BB): t1305 M = 29 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 8 BTN/SB calls t15, Hero checks
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Flop: (t60) 7 A J (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t60) T (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t60) J (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB shows T 5 (two pair, Jacks and Tens) Hero shows 8 5 (a pair of Jacks) BTN/SB wins t60 Again, try stabbing oop, especially on this flop there's quite a bit which doesn't connect since he raises good hands preflop (or so we assume so far) so let him fold his crap uncoordinated hands. Note how this hand played out though and that he never bet it.
Quote: Hand #30 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308890 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1725 M = 38.33 Hero (BTN/SB): t1275 M = 28.33 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 2 1 fold
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Final Pot: t45 BB wins t30 (Rake: t15) Yeah probably one of the 5-10% hands I'd fold on button. Quote: Hand #31 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308891 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1740 M = 23.20 Hero (BB): t1260 M = 16.80 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 2 1 fold Final Pot: t75 Hero mucks 2 Hero wins t50 (Rake: t25)
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Quote: Hand #32 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308892 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1715 M = 22.87 Hero (BTN/SB): t1285 M = 17.13 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 Hero raises to t100, BB calls t50 Flop: (t200) 3
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BB checks, Hero bets t100, BB calls t100 Turn: (t400) J (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks River: (t400) J (2 players) BB bets t200, Hero folds Final Pot: t400 BB wins t400 K, this hand is played fine and you should do it more often vs this opponent. Minraise, cbet 2bb's and pick up the pot a lot. Against most I would contemplate a river call because all draws missed and you beat all of them, but I think this opponent is a bit too passive and I don't think he's betting busted draws on river too much. Note that people can actually have trips here, and not just JsXs, but also float with stuff like QJ because they have two overcards. From this villain I expect to see either trips, some 9x hand or a pocket pair which bets river most of the time. Quote: Hand #33 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308893 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1915 M = 25.53 Hero (BB): t1085 M = 14.47 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 8 1 fold Final Pot: t75 Hero mucks 8 Hero wins t50 (Rake: t25)
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Quote: Hand #34 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308894 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1890 M = 25.20 Hero (BTN/SB): t1110 M = 14.80 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with T 1 fold
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Final Pot: t75 BB wins t50 (Rake: t25) Yeah don't fold here. I wouldn't mind starting to limp SOME hands at this point with shallower stacks but I would still raise a bunch on the button. A hand like this can go either way imo, I'd prefer to minraise it though since it gives us some initiative and he minraised a couple of your limps before. Quote: Hand #35 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308895 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1915 M = 25.53 Hero (BB): t1085 M = 14.47 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 6 1 fold Final Pot: t75 Hero mucks 6 Hero wins t50 (Rake: t25)
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Quote: Hand #36 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308896 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1890 M = 25.20 Hero (BTN/SB): t1110 M = 14.80 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with K Hero raises to t100, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t100 Hero mucks K 3 Hero wins t100 Quote: Hand #37 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308897 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
BTN/SB: t1840 M = 24.53 Hero (BB): t1160 M = 15.47 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with Q K BTN/SB calls t25, Hero raises to t175, 1 fold Final Pot: t100 Hero mucks Q K Hero wins t100 Why raise so big, seriously? I would make it 150 max here I think. His limpingrange was quite weak so far and a ton of Kx or Qx hands we want to keep in the pot. I wouldn't mind minraising vs this guy or just making it something like 120 or 130 either but 175 is way too big, especially with these stacksizes it's easy enough to get stacks in when you flop TP2ndK when you just make it 120 or 150. Quote: Hand #38 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308898 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1790 M = 23.87 Hero (BTN/SB): t1210 M = 16.13 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with Q Hero raises to t100, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t100 Hero mucks Q 9 Hero wins t100 K, just keep minraising, works really fine vs this opponent so far and he doesn't play back at all. Quote: Hand #39 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308899 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1740 M = 23.20 Hero (BB): t1260 M = 16.80 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 9 BTN/SB calls t25, Hero checks Flop: (t100) 3 T J (2 players) Hero bets t50, BTN/SB folds
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Final Pot: t100 Hero mucks 9 J Hero wins t100 Preflop: ehm, as said before, vs a weak openingrange, you can raise again here for value given how easily he plays postflop. Raising again can be anything from minraise to 3bb's but not too much. Floplead looks fine because he doesn't stab too much and he definitly calls with 3x and Tx but will not certainly bet them (or any straightdraw). Quote: Hand #40 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308900 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1690 M = 22.53 Hero (BTN/SB): t1310 M = 17.47 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 1 fold
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Final Pot: t75 BB wins t50 (Rake: t25) Yeah, 93o again a hand I would probably fold as well. Quote: Hand #41 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308901 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1715 M = 22.87 Hero (BB): t1285 M = 17.13 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 6 BTN/SB calls t25, Hero checks
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Flop: (t100) 3 K J (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t100) K (2 players) Hero bets t50, BTN/SB calls t50 River: (t200) A (2 players) Hero bets t100, BTN/SB raises to t225, Hero calls t125
Final Pot: t650 BTN/SB shows K T Hero mucks 6 A BTN/SB wins t650
(three of a kind, Kings)
Pre and flop look standard, he doesn't seem to betting a lot but will call with pairs on the flop. However, why are you betting turn? We seen him check back nutlow hands in spots like this and there's like 1 or 2 straightdraws we can get "value" from and 0 flushdraws. Just check it hope to win unimproved. As played, river is a fold imo. I don't mind the half potbet to get called by Jx (I expect him to fold some percentage of the time with Jx though), but really, fold to the raise. This guy is just too passive, I know you're getting great odds but I don't think he's ever bluffing and rarely has Ax in this spot and he could have limped AQ some percentage of the time. We don't need to chop a lot but we chop to rarely, this is trips/boat/straight A TON. Note that he limped KT and didn't bet TPGK and flatted when he turned trips though. Quote: Hand #42 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308902 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t2040 M = 27.20 Hero (BTN/SB): t960 M = 12.80 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with A Hero raises to t100, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t100 Hero mucks A K Hero wins t100 Quote: Hand #43 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308903 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1990 M = 26.53 Hero (BB): t1010 M = 13.47 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 5 1 fold Final Pot: t75
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Hero mucks 5 Hero wins t50 (Rake: t25)
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Quote: Hand #44 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308904 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1965 M = 26.20 Hero (BTN/SB): t1035 M = 13.80 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 Hero raises to t100, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t100 Hero mucks 8 J Hero wins t100 Quote: Hand #45 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308905 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1915 M = 25.53 Hero (BB): t1085 M = 14.47 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 9 1 fold Final Pot: t75 Hero mucks 9 Hero wins t50 (Rake: t25)
K
K
Quote: Hand #46 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308906 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1890 M = 25.20 Hero (BTN/SB): t1110 M = 14.80 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with K Hero calls t25, BB checks
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Flop: (t100) 5 K 4 (2 players) BB bets t50, Hero raises to t150, BB folds Final Pot: t200 Hero mucks K 4 Hero wins t200 Again, raise, he seems to get really nitty, including on his buttons. I don't mind the flopraise, given that he has any a piece of the board anytime he bets himself so far I think raising is by far most ev+ play here. Unfortunately he folded though. Quote: Hand #47 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308907 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1790 M = 23.87 Hero (BB): t1210 M = 16.13 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 8 BTN/SB raises to t100, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t100 BTN/SB wins t100 Quote: Hand #48 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308908 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1840 M = 24.53 Hero (BTN/SB): t1160 M = 15.47 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with K Hero raises to t100, BB calls t50
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Flop: (t200) 7 5 7 (2 players) BB bets t50, Hero raises to t100, BB calls t50 Turn: (t400) 5 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t175, BB calls t175 River: (t750) J
(2 players)
BB checks, Hero checks Final Pot: t750 BB shows 8 7 (a full house, Sevens full of Fives) Hero mucks K 2 BB wins t750 What are you doing here on flop? Even if he has a draw on flop (which I doubt, but could be), then he has like 50% vs your hand and he could even be miles ahead with K or A-high flushdraw. Just fold vs his flop donkbet imo, especially in raised pots all we know so far is that he leads out weak with a flopped flush, rest he c/f'ed and c/c'ed once. Could be 5x yeah but he's not folding it imo. Just fold flop, no need to start bluffing passive villains who are all of a sudden interested in putting money in the pot. Quote: Hand #49 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308909 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t2215 M = 29.53 Hero (BB): t785 M = 10.47 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with K 9 BTN/SB calls t25, Hero raises to t785 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t100 Hero mucks K 9 Hero wins t100 Ehm, although he limped KT before I don't mind this. It's kind of hard to determine a good limpingrange for him because he folds a ton of buttons as well. However, I think his callingrange would have to be close to perfect even if his limpingrange is tight-ish for this not to be ev+. I play it the same I think, but not much deeper though. Quote: Hand #50 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308910 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t2165 M = 28.87 Hero (BTN/SB): t835 M = 11.13 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with J Hero calls t25, BB checks Flop: (t100) 5
A
T
(2 players)
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BB checks, Hero bets t50, BB calls t50 Turn: (t200) A (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks River: (t200) 7 (2 players) BB bets t100, Hero folds Final Pot: t200 BB wins t200 Yeah with these stacksizes I don't mind limping a bunch and taking it away postflop. I like how you played the hand, you can use all the extra chips and although he's unlikely calling flop with worse, adding the 100 to your stack is very valuable here. River is clear fold though, trips or Tx, nh well played. Quote: Hand #51 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players View hand 308911 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t2265 M = 30.20 Hero (BB): t735 M = 9.80 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 6 BTN/SB calls t25, Hero checks
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Flop: (t100) 8 2 8 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t100) 2 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t100) K (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Final Pot: t100 BTN/SB shows 4 6 (two pair, Eights and Deuces) Hero shows 6 J (two pair, Eights and Deuces) Hero wins t50 BTN/SB wins t50 Yeah if his limpingrange was a bit weaker then I wouldn't mind a river stab to get him to fold a chop. Thing is he will probably call with 2x/Kx/Ax and flushes and his limpingrange definitly includes Ax/Kx hands which aren't folding. Flop you could argue to stab but there are better boards; i don't think he's folding two overcards here and those are in his limpingrange for sure. However, don't just autocheck flop, try stabbing it from time to time in limped pots. Quote:
Hand #52 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308912 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t2265 M = 15.10 Hero (BTN/SB): t735 M = 4.90 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with 4 1 fold
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Final Pot: t150 BB wins t100 (Rake: t50) No way I'm folding here. Limp would work or minraise too. I don't expect to get shoved/raised on too often and all chips we can add to our stack are from great value. Edit: I just noted that blinds went up and therefore this is a MUST shove vs this guy. If his callingrange is perfect than it's ev- to shove, however his callingrange will be WAY too nitty imo so shoving would definitly be ev+ here, especially since it's your first shove. Even nash has it as a shove, chubukov doesn't but chubukov implies perfect callingranges which isnt true at all for this opponent. Quote: Hand #53 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308913 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t2315 M = 15.43 Hero (BB): t685 M = 4.57 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with 6 1 fold
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Final Pot: t150 Hero mucks 6 8 Hero wins t100 (Rake: t50) Quote: Hand #54 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308914 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t2265 M = 15.10
Hero (BTN/SB): t735 M = 4.90 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with 7 Hero raises to t735 all in, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t200 Hero mucks 7 7 Hero wins t200 Std, well played. Quote: Hand #55 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308915 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t2165 M = 14.43 Hero (BB): t835 M = 5.57 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with J 1 fold
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Final Pot: t150 Hero mucks J A Hero wins t100 (Rake: t50) Quote: Hand #56 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308916 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t2115 M = 14.10 Hero (BTN/SB): t885 M = 5.90 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with 6 K Hero calls t50, BB raises to t2115 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t200 BB wins t200 Interesting that you limped here, hmmmz. I must say I don't hate it. Obv openshoving is always gonna be ev+, no doubt about that. However, this guy will unlikely jam a lot over limps and we can try and play a pot in position. Meh, I still like openshoving more. Thing is if we do hit something postflop villain won't be putting any money in with bottom pair or something so yeah when we bet at it postflop we will probably have the best hand anyway when he folds...
Quote: Hand #57 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308917 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t2215 M = 14.77 Hero (BB): t785 M = 5.23 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with J 5 BTN/SB raises to t2215 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t200 BTN/SB wins t200 Ok so he seems to play push/fold as well. Kind of weird the way he played previous hands but okay... Quote: Hand #58 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308918 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t2315 M = 15.43 Hero (BTN/SB): t685 M = 4.57 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 1 fold
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Final Pot: t150 BB wins t100 (Rake: t50) Quote: Hand #59 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308919 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t2365 M = 15.77 Hero (BB): t635 M = 4.23 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with 4 A BTN/SB calls t50, Hero raises to t635 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t200
Hero mucks 4 A Hero wins t200 Ok now he changed back to limping while 6bb's shallow (lol). Ez shove, well played. Quote: Hand #60 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308920 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t2265 M = 15.10 Hero (BTN/SB): t735 M = 4.90 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with K 1 fold
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Final Pot: t150 BB wins t100 (Rake: t50) WTF are you doing? Haven't you read my nash/sage/chubukov post about lategame? You're 7.35bb's shallow here, you have a King, ALL-IN! Not even close, you can probably openjam almost ATC here vs this opponent and you fold a king? Wtf? K2o can be openshoved profitably vs a perfect callingrange for 10bb's and you have a slightly better hand with way shallower stacks. Quote: Hand #61 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308921 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t2315 M = 15.43 Hero (BB): t685 M = 4.57 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with 3 A BTN/SB calls t50, Hero raises to t685 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t200 Hero mucks 3 A Hero wins t200 Same as two hands before, well played. Quote: Hand #62 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308922 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
BB: t2215 M = 14.77 Hero (BTN/SB): t785 M = 5.23 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with 3 1 fold
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Final Pot: t150 BB wins t100 (Rake: t50) Quote: Hand #63 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308923 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t2265 M = 15.10 Hero (BB): t735 M = 4.90 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with T BTN/SB calls t50, Hero checks
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Flop: (t200) 5 6 7 (2 players) Hero bets t150, BTN/SB folds Final Pot: t200 Hero mucks T 7 Hero wins t200 Interesting hand. With these stacksizes and the fact that he doesn't stab a lot himself I kind of like your (big) flop lead just to jam a bunch of brick turns. Fwiw, if turn puts 4to straight on board I would just give up. I don't expect him to turn a made hand into a bluff EVER and he's not betting worse for value either. Quote: Hand #64 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308924 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t2165 M = 14.43 Hero (BTN/SB): t835 M = 5.57 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 5 Hero calls t50, BB raises to t2165 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t200 BB wins t200
Depending whether you would be following Nash or chubukov this is a shove/fold spot but you seem to be following neither for some reason... Ugh you're really making it difficult for yourself here imo. I don't even like the limp in this spot. I know he's kind of passive and all but you've just attacked almost all his limps so far and so did he so I wouldn't expect him to check preflop all that much anymore unless with total trashhands. <12bb's in general is easiest by far to play push/fold, especially in a spot like this when <10bb's. Whether it is nash or chubukov, doesn't matter that much. Quote: Hand #65 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308925 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t2265 M = 15.10 Hero (BB): t735 M = 4.90 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with A 6 BTN/SB raises to t2265 all in, Hero calls t635 all in Flop: (t1470) 7
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Turn: (t1470) K
(2 players - 2 are all in)
River: (t1470) 5
(2 players - 2 are all in)
Final Pot: t1470 BTN/SB shows Q Hero shows A 6 Hero wins t1470
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(2 players - 2 are all in)
J (high card King) (high card Ace)
K, nh, important to notice is that he openshoved QJo while this is a hand a player like this would actually be able to limp this (and either fold/call when you shove). Quote: Hand #66 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308926 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1530 M = 10.20 Hero (BTN/SB): t1470 M = 9.80 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with 4 Hero raises to t200, BB calls t100 Flop: (t400) Q 9 7 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t250, BB folds
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Final Pot: t400 Hero mucks 4 Q Hero wins t400 Yeah I think both minraising and limping are things you should start doing again. I prefer minraising slightly, flopbet looks a bit big given how fit/fold he is I think, you don't want him to fold bottom pair here so 200 would do the trick just as well. Quote: Hand #67 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308927 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1330 M = 8.87 Hero (BB): t1670 M = 11.13 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with Q 9 BTN/SB raises to t1330 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t200 BTN/SB wins t200 Ez fold yah. Quote: Hand #68 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308928 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1430 M = 9.53 Hero (BTN/SB): t1570 M = 10.47 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with 4 1 fold
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Final Pot: t150 BB wins t100 (Rake: t50) Again, wouldn't mind a minraise. I still expect a ton of folds preflop, a bunch of defends with c/f on flop too and not too much shipping over your minraise. Quote: Hand #69 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308929 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
BTN/SB: t1480 M = 9.87 Hero (BB): t1520 M = 10.13 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with 4 BTN/SB calls t50, Hero checks
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Flop: (t200) J A 6 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t200) Q (2 players) Hero bets t100, BTN/SB raises to t200, Hero folds Final Pot: t400 BTN/SB wins t400 I'd probably stab the flop, although it would depend a little on my flopstabbingfrequency in previous limped pots but given you never did it so far I think (unless you flopped TP with T7), this would be a pretty good spot. Would probably make it SLIGHTLY bigger, like 120, to have a little more fold equity vs like Kx or 6x here. A lot of people seem to have this. Almost never leading out, even though villain doesn't stab a lot because they expect a continuationbet while there was no raise preflop and then stab the turn because villain didn't "cbet". Quote: Hand #70 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308930 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1680 M = 11.20 Hero (BTN/SB): t1320 M = 8.80 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with 7 Hero calls t50, BB checks
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Flop: (t200) 2 2 K (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t200) 7 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t100, BB folds Final Pot: t200 Hero mucks 7 9 Hero wins t200 Don't mind a limp from time to time, though this is hard to review tbh. Like if you minraised last two hands I wouldn't mind a limp here and vice versa (given that you
don't follow the limping/minraising strategy I would use it's kind of awkward gameflow thingy which is really hard to explain). Like I would've minraised the J4o 2 hands ago and now would limp here I think yeah. Given how fit/fold he is, ez flop stab though, he'll fold like 90% here imo. Quote: Hand #71 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308931 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1580 M = 10.53 Hero (BB): t1420 M = 9.47 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with T J BTN/SB raises to t235, Hero calls t135 Flop: (t470) A K 9 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t470) 2 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t100, Hero folds Final Pot: t470 BTN/SB wins t470 Hmmmz, weird hand. He openshoved like 14bb's some time ago so this probably is a strong hand. I think folding is best here looking afterwards, though I would probably call in-game too because it's close given how easy he is to play against postflop. I would play it the same like you did postflop tbh. Problem is if you flop toppair and get action you're not going to be good all that often here, meh. =/ Folding looks really weak but against this opponent is probably best because his raising range will be quite strong here. Uhmmmz, ugh, whatever, defending doesn't look too bad. If he has like AK and doesn't improve he'll just check it back so yeah, can't see why defending would be bad here though stacks are pretty shallow. Quote: Hand #72 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308932 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1815 M = 12.10 Hero (BTN/SB): t1185 M = 7.90 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with J T Hero raises to t200, BB raises to t1815 all in, 1 fold
Final Pot: t400 BB wins t400 Bleh bleh bleh. God such a crapspot. =/ I'm not trying to be resultsoriented here but I think I just openjam a ton myself here for following reason: a: When you get shoved on, you have a ****ty spot. You need like 41.56% equity to call here and he doesn't need a lot of A-rag or K-rag in his range to justify calling. Vs a range of Ax,22+ and any two broadways you have 38.41% so adding some hands like Kx and T9 and we got the equity we need here to call his shove. b: Stacks are getting really shallow, I don't expect him to flat a ton anymore when <12bb's. At 14-15bb's I can imagine him calling but 12bb's starting to get really shallow and is the cutoff for a ton of fish to stop calling, especially with a push/fold metagame going on you shouldn't expect to much flats preflop anymore. Quote: Hand #73 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308933 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t2015 M = 13.43 Hero (BB): t985 M = 6.57 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with K Q BTN/SB calls t50, Hero raises to t985 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t200 Hero mucks K Q Hero wins t200 Std, well played. Quote: Hand #74 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308934 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1915 M = 12.77 Hero (BTN/SB): t1085 M = 7.23 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with J 1 fold Final Pot: t150 BB wins t100
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(Rake: t50) Kind of awkward here imo. Like <7bb's you can openshove ATC vs most villains because they will be calling way too tight but 10bb's is a bit too deep to be start jamming hopeless hands. Quote: Hand #75 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308935 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1965 M = 13.10 Hero (BB): t1035 M = 6.90 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with J 1 fold
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Final Pot: t150 Hero mucks J 8 Hero wins t100 (Rake: t50) Quote: Hand #76 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308936 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1915 M = 12.77 Hero (BTN/SB): t1085 M = 7.23 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with 6 1 fold
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Final Pot: t150 BB wins t100 (Rake: t50) Quote: Hand #77 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308937 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1965 M = 8.73 Hero (BB): t1035 M = 4.60 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BB with K 1 fold
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Final Pot: t225 Hero mucks K 8 Hero wins t150 (Rake: t75) Quote: Hand #78 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308938 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1890 M = 8.40 Hero (BTN/SB): t1110 M = 4.93 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BTN/SB with A Hero raises to t1110 all in, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t300 Hero mucks A 8 Hero wins t300 Quote: Hand #79 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308939 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1740 M = 7.73 Hero (BB): t1260 M = 5.60 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BB with 9 5 BTN/SB raises to t1740 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t300 BTN/SB wins t300 Quote: Hand #80 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308940 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1890 M = 8.40 Hero (BTN/SB): t1110 M = 4.93 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BTN/SB with 9
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Hero raises to t1110 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t300 Hero mucks 9 9 Hero wins t300 I would actually prefer a limp here. Your limp will look so weak after openshoving a couple of times before and so far he attacked like all of them and he will probably get sick of you a bit because of all the openshoving. If he doesn't jam over your limp, well, we still have a pretty strong hand to continue postflop. I don't do this a lot but I think this is a good spot for it though. Edit: god I should pay more attention to blindlevels changing. Ehm, yeah with these so shallow stacks shoving becomes way closer to limping because there's a ton more dead money in the pot. Still think both are valid options. Quote: Hand #81 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308941 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1740 M = 7.73 Hero (BB): t1260 M = 5.60 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BB with 6 A BTN/SB calls t75, Hero raises to t1260 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t300 Hero mucks 6 A Hero wins t300 K so he keeps trying to limp really shallow which is pretty lol imo. Quote: Hand #82 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308942 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1590 M = 7.07 Hero (BTN/SB): t1410 M = 6.27 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BTN/SB with 7 1 fold Final Pot: t225 BB wins t150
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(Rake: t75) This is an easy jam with these stacksizes, n/o. Nash says to shove it (given you shoved 99 before I assume you just push/fold from here on) and even chubukov has it as 8.5bb's which requires a perfect callingrange which is not the case from villain (by far). Quote: Hand #83 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308943 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1665 M = 7.40 Hero (BB): t1335 M = 5.93 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BB with 7 BTN/SB calls t75, Hero checks
K
Flop: (t300) 6 8 9 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t300) 7 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t300) 2 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t150, Hero calls t150 Final Pot: t600 BTN/SB shows 2 2 Hero mucks 7 K BTN/SB wins t600
(three of a kind, Deuces)
Wow, 9bb's and he limps again. Close to all his limps were weak so far, so just jam preflop and pick up the pot A LOT like you did before. I know people will start limping stronger hands here as well, but there's way more craphands in his range than nuthands. Given his shoving frequency I don't think a player like this "traps" with A6o by limp/calling. So just jam preflop, and please, do NOT call river here. 4 to straight, this guy isn't betting worse than your hand ever. Quote: Hand #84 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308944 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1965 M = 8.73 Hero (BTN/SB): t1035 M = 4.60
Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 Hero raises to t1035 all in, 1 fold
K
Final Pot: t300 Hero mucks 9 K Hero wins t300 Quote: Hand #85 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308945 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1815 M = 8.07 Hero (BB): t1185 M = 5.27 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BB with Q BTN/SB calls t75, Hero checks
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Flop: (t300) K 4 5 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t300) 4 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t300) 9 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Final Pot: t300 BTN/SB shows T 9 (two pair, Nines and Fours) Hero shows Q 2 (a pair of Fours) BTN/SB wins t300 Yeah I don't mind a checkdown here, he's not a stabber anyway and we have some showdown value. Quote: Hand #86 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308946 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1965 M = 8.73 Hero (BTN/SB): t1035 M = 4.60 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BTN/SB with 4 1 fold
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Final Pot: t225 BB wins t150 (Rake: t75) Quote: Hand #87 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308947 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t2040 M = 9.07 Hero (BB): t960 M = 4.27 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BB with 2 2 BTN/SB raises to t2040 all in, Hero calls t810 all in Flop: (t1920) 5
T
Turn: (t1920) 5
(2 players - 2 are all in)
River: (t1920) 9
(2 players - 2 are all in)
Final Pot: t1920 BTN/SB shows K Hero shows 2 2 Hero wins t1920
5
(2 players - 2 are all in)
3 (three of a kind, Fives) (a full house, Fives full of Deuces)
Std, not too keen on calling all-ins with 22 but given stacksizes I don't see how you can fold this ever. Quote: Hand #88 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308948 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1080 M = 4.80 Hero (BTN/SB): t1920 M = 8.53 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BTN/SB with K Hero raises to t1800, 1 fold Final Pot: t300 Hero mucks K 6 Hero wins t300 Quote:
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Hand #89 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308949 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t930 M = 4.13 Hero (BB): t2070 M = 9.20 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BB with 5 BTN/SB calls t75, Hero checks
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Flop: (t300) 8 A 2 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t150, Hero folds Final Pot: t300 BTN/SB wins t300 Ehm, I think I would jam preflop here. Let's say you have 33.33% equity vs his limp/call range, which will not be too far off but is easy to calculate with. So on avg you'll lose like 310 chips in the hand. There's 300 chips already in the pot, so he needs to fold only 50% of the time which is DEFINITLY the case with this opponent. Quote: Hand #90 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308950 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1080 M = 4.80 Hero (BTN/SB): t1920 M = 8.53 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BTN/SB with K Hero calls t75, BB checks
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Flop: (t300) J A 3 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t300) Q (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks River: (t300) Q (2 players) BB bets t230, Hero calls t230 Final Pot: t760 BB shows 6 2 (a pair of Queens) Hero shows K 5 (a pair of Queens - Ace+King kicker) Hero wins t760
Why are you limping here again? Don't try to get fancy with less than 7bb's and Kx and just jam preflop imo! If he shoves pre you gonna call or not? You bluffcaught a passive guy on this river? Really, this is just making your life difficult, just put your opponent in difficult spots, not yourself. When there's an easy way out of a hand, it's usually going to be the most ev+ one. Quote: Hand #91 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308951 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t700 M = 3.11 Hero (BB): t2300 M = 10.22 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BB with 7 BTN/SB raises to t700 all in, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t300 BTN/SB wins t300 Quote: Hand #92 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308952 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t850 M = 3.78 Hero (BTN/SB): t2150 M = 9.56 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BTN/SB with K A Hero raises to t2150 all in, BB calls t700 all in Flop: (t1700) J
A
7
(2 players - 2 are all in)
Turn: (t1700) 6
(2 players - 2 are all in)
River: (t1700) 8
(2 players - 2 are all in)
Final Pot: t1700 BB shows A 7 (two pair, Aces and Sevens) Hero shows K A (a pair of Aces) BB wins t1700 Quote:
Hand #93 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308953 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1700 M = 7.56 Hero (BB): t1300 M = 5.78 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BB with K BTN/SB calls t75, Hero checks
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Flop: (t300) A 3 2 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t300) T (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t300) Q (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Final Pot: t300 BTN/SB mucks 6 8 Hero shows K 7 (high card Ace) Hero wins t300 Again, jam preflop, easiest solution by far... His limps are random trashhands a lot of the time, even shallow. Quote: Hand #94 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308954 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1550 M = 6.89 Hero (BTN/SB): t1450 M = 6.44 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BTN/SB with 4 1 fold Final Pot: t225 BB wins t150 (Rake: t75)
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Quote: Hand #95 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308955 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1625 M = 7.22 Hero (BB): t1375 M = 6.11 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BB with T BTN/SB raises to t335, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t300 BTN/SB wins t300 Quote: Hand #96 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308956 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1775 M = 7.89 Hero (BTN/SB): t1225 M = 5.44 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BTN/SB with 7 1 fold
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Final Pot: t225 BB wins t150 (Rake: t75) Quote: Hand #97 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308957 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
BTN/SB: t1850 M = 8.22 Hero (BB): t1150 M = 5.11 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BB with Q T BTN/SB raises to t1850 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t300 BTN/SB wins t300 Ugh, vs a normal opponent, there's probably no way I would fold here. However, he limped 22 in a similar spot and jammed QJ/K3 iirc with around these stacksizes so it's close but fold looks best on paper though I call a lot ingame I think. Quote: Hand #98 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308958 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t2000 M = 8.89 Hero (BTN/SB): t1000 M = 4.44 Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 T Hero raises to t900, BB raises to t1650, Hero calls t100 all in Flop: (t2000) 5
7
Turn: (t2000) 8
(2 players - 1 is all in)
River: (t2000) T
J
(2 players - 1 is all in)
(2 players - 1 is all in)
Final Pot: t2000 BB shows K A (high card Ace) Hero shows 9 T (a straight, Seven to Jack) Hero wins t2000 Fold vs shove, he has you beat. Quote: Hand #99 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t100/t200 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308959 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1000 M = 3.33 Hero (BB): t2000 M = 6.67 Pre Flop: (t300) Hero is BB with 2 9 BTN/SB raises to t1000 all in, 1 fold
Final Pot: t400 BTN/SB wins t400 Quote: Hand #100 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t100/t200 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308960 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1200 M = 4 Hero (BTN/SB): t1800 M = 6 Pre Flop: (t300) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 Hero raises to t1800 all in, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t400 Hero mucks 8 K Hero wins t400 Yeah I think I'd just openjam ATC here, he will never be calling wide enough to make up for that. Quote: Hand #101 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t100/t200 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308961 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1000 M = 3.33 Hero (BB): t2000 M = 6.67 Pre Flop: (t300) Hero is BB with 6 J BTN/SB raises to t1000 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t400 BTN/SB wins t400 Quote: Hand #102 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t100/t200 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308962 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1200 M = 4 Hero (BTN/SB): t1800 M = 6
Pre Flop: (t300) Hero is BTN/SB with T 8 Hero calls t100, BB raises to t1200 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t400 BB wins t400 God, please, STOP DOING THIS. Cmon, what you expect? Play poker with 6bb's? Quote: Hand #103 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t100/t200 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308963 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1400 M = 4.67 Hero (BB): t1600 M = 5.33 Pre Flop: (t300) Hero is BB with 6 3 BTN/SB raises to t1400 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t400 BTN/SB wins t400 Quote: Hand #104 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t100/t200 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308964 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1600 M = 5.33 Hero (BTN/SB): t1400 M = 4.67 Pre Flop: (t300) Hero is BTN/SB with A Hero calls t100, BB checks
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Flop: (t400) T 5 3 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t400) 7 (2 players) BB bets t200, Hero raises to t600, BB folds Final Pot: t800 Hero mucks A A Hero wins t800 K, I don't mind limping here, however, you should bet the flop. This is like a board you'll get action on or not from a player like this. I think he's betting turn with a pair and actually folding to your raise here tbh so I would try to get some money in on the flop and see if he wants it. I know he bluffed you before on the AQJQx board in a
limped pot but doubt it's a frequent thing, and definitly not on a board like this so just bet the flop and hope he has a hand he likes enough to call or jam. Quote: Hand #105 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t100/t200 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308965 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1200 M = 4 Hero (BB): t1800 M = 6 Pre Flop: (t300) Hero is BB with 7 2 BTN/SB raises to t1200 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t400 BTN/SB wins t400 Quote: Hand #106 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t100/t200 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308966 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1400 M = 4.67 Hero (BTN/SB): t1600 M = 5.33 Pre Flop: (t300) Hero is BTN/SB with A Hero raises to t1600 all in, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t400 Hero mucks A 6 Hero wins t400 Quote: Hand #107 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t100/t200 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308967 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1200 M = 4 Hero (BB): t1800 M = 6 Pre Flop: (t300) Hero is BB with Q BTN/SB calls t100, Hero checks
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Flop: (t400) 2 3 K (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t400) K (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t400) 5 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Final Pot: t400 BTN/SB mucks J 8 Hero shows Q 7 (a pair of Kings) Hero wins t400 Jam preflop, not even close. His limpingrange is total craphands. Quote: Hand #108 Poker Stars $33.00+$1.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t100/t200 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 308968 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1000 M = 3.33 Hero (BTN/SB): t2000 M = 6.67 Pre Flop: (t300) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 A Hero raises to t800, BB raises to t1000 all in, Hero calls t200 Flop: (t2000) Q
A
Turn: (t2000) 7
(2 players - 1 is all in)
River: (t2000) T
Q
(2 players - 1 is all in)
(2 players - 1 is all in)
Final Pot: t2000 BB shows 7 K (two pair, Queens and Sevens) Hero shows 5 A (two pair, Aces and Queens) Hero wins t2000
General remarks: don't try to play poker with a push/fold metagame and start limping when like 0bb's deep, seriously, this is just burning money vs most players, also vs this "passive" opponent who started playing more aggro when blinds went up. Also, jam a ton more over limps when his limpingrange is like 70%+ weak you can almost shove ATC but stuff like Q7s is an instajam, not even close.
Also, raise more preflop early/midgame vs players like this. Will be really ev+ for reasons mentioned.
SPAMZ ' FOURTH HAND HIST ORY REVIEW Quote: A little history on this opponent. This is the third game in a row against him. The first game, he raised every hand, and 3-bet my first 2 opens, so I 4bet-shipped T9o in the fourth hand, expecting him to fold a ****-ton, and having some ways to win even when I get called. He calls and shows TT, which is absolute worst-case for my hand. Second game only lasted 9 hands. I lost a bunch Of chips missing an open-ended straight draw + flush draw, and ended up raise/calling on the river with Q6 on 8s5ckd4c7s and getting shown 96. So he probably thinks I'm a spewtard, and he's probably right. Other game is vs different opponent. Quote: Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330274 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1500 M = 33.33
Hero (BTN/SB): t1500 M = 33.33 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with J Hero raises to t90, 1 fold
J
Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60 Aaaaaah, the good old ftp turbo's! -hax imo. Anyway, I don't know what your standard opening size is. Most people go minraise or 3x. Some good players I know do t75 or t80. I would advice to just minraise tbh. Reason for this is that it's the easiest way to get some good (postflop) reads on your opponent because minraising will in general open up someone's defending range. HOWEVER, first hand, and you have a monster, I would raise to 3bb's as well. Thing is even most fish notice that when you minraise 4x in a row and then all of a sudden raise to 3bb's (yes, they DO notice this) so raising small with weaker hands and big with stronger hands is something which in general won't work, except against the biggest droolers out there or the huge loose tards. But since he doesn't know your openingsize, you can easily make it 3bb's here and try to get some more value. I used to openjam JJ+ AK first hand on the lowest stakes (I think I did it up to $22s or something) and this works fine against the huge fishpool you'll meet there. Take note that openshove this range first hand, you will get called by ****ton of worse hands (low pocket pairs, A-rag, I even had someone call 64s and Q7o once). If you have a monsterhand second hand again, you can just jam and he will call so light now (you can even open up your "monsterrange" for the second hand, like 99-TT/AQ as well). Be prepared to have a hectic (mostly short) and very agressive match now though and try to use your image to your benefit. Quote: Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330275 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
BTN/SB: t1470 M = 32.67 Hero (BB): t1530 M = 34 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 3 3 BTN/SB calls t15, Hero raises to t100, BTN/SB calls t70 Flop: (t200) 6 2 4 (2 players) Hero bets t135, BTN/SB folds Final Pot: t200 Hero wins t200 Hmmmz, the reads you gave said clearly "he sees me as a spewtard" most likely. I don't get the raise preflop for that reason, just because you lack so much fold equity (preflop) and I expect him to float you on any flop with any pair or gutshot or better and you're going to have one hell of a time playing your underpair. If he really thinks you're spewy, you can even get in a decent portion of your stack in a limped pot (or even your entire stack) when you flop a set anyway so raising pre wouldn't be an option for me. I'd much rather raise JTo here than 33, it just plays so much easier/better oop. Fwiw, even in a vanilla game vs a random fish, I wouldn't raise here if this is 2nd hand of the game for following reasons: 1) Most fish limp/call and limp/fold when it's still "cheap" is something they don't consider. 2) When you check couple of hands preflop, your oop will get SOME more respect later on. Although point 1) still will apply, but they're unlikely to float you really light and most of the times you will have no strong hand (it's hu, duh, nobody has anything) so you can use the extra fold equity on the flop/preflop. Quote: Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330276 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1370 M = 30.44 Hero (BTN/SB): t1630 M = 36.22
Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 2 Hero raises to t90, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60 Ok, so aparantly your std size is 3bb's early on. I would advice to test minraising a couple of games and see how it goes. You'll notice how much more info you get when stacks are still deepish. Quote: Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330278 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1340 M = 29.78 Hero (BB): t1660 M = 36.89 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with K 1 fold
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Final Pot: t30 Hero wins t30 Quote: Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330279 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1325 M = 29.44 Hero (BTN/SB): t1675 M = 37.22 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 7 7 Hero raises to t90, BB raises to t210, Hero raises to t1675 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t420 Hero wins t420
With the notes you gave, this is a very very easy 4betshove preflop. Even if his valuerange is like 88+,AJ+,KQ then we still have 40% equity so we don't need much fold equity preflop to make up for that. But if he sees you as spewtard, he may be stacking off real light here (mainly smaller pocket pairs we're in decent shape against, and people 3betting those aren't folding them vs shove) so vs the worst of ranges we still have 40% and you have won every hand in the match so far so I think your fold equity preflop is really high. Quote: Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330281 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1115 M = 24.78 Hero (BB): t1885 M = 41.89 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 5 BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60 Quote: Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330282 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1145 M = 25.44 Hero (BTN/SB): t1855 M = 41.22 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with T Hero raises to t90, BB calls t60 Flop: (t180) A K 7 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t115, BB folds Final Pot: t180 Hero wins t180
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K, 3bb's again. Flop kind of dry, only gutshots available so I would probably bet 90 here. Anything from 90 to 120 looks good to me (unless you have a reason to suspect from previous games that a certain betsize will induce a spazz/float more often or something). On a board like this, just bet half pot, villain won't float you too light in general. Quote: Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330283 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1055 M = 23.44 Hero (BB): t1945 M = 43.22 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 2 BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60 Quote: Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330285 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1085 M = 24.11 Hero (BTN/SB): t1915 M = 42.56 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with Q 1 fold
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Final Pot: t30 BB wins t30 Yeah I dont mind a fold now and then. There's a big difference in a fish' experience between raising 100% and like 90%. They have no idea about your frequency really, just let them know you don't raise ATC and a fold from time to time (especially after being active and winning most pots) is definitly in its place.
Quote: Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330287 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1100 M = 24.44 Hero (BB): t1900 M = 42.22 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with K 8 BTN/SB raises to t60, Hero calls t30 Flop: (t120) 8 2 7 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t60, Hero raises to t195, BTN/SB calls t135 Turn: (t510) 7 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t180, Hero calls t180 River: (t870) 4 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t665 all in, Hero calls t665 Final Pot: t2200 BTN/SB shows 7 A Hero mucks K 8 BTN/SB wins t2200
(three of a kind, Sevens)
Hmmmz, interesting hand, preflop seems std for me, it's just a minraise and he seems to be doing it wide enough to defend here + we need some postflop oop reads imo. Ok, so flop. Ehm, yeah definitly checkraise, in a vaccuum, it's best to assume villains cbet unless proven otherwise. Being around 37bb's shallow with TP2K on a drawy board is an ez stackoff anyway vs pretty much anyone. Raisesize looks good as well, anything from 180 to 220 looks fine. Don't make it too big, it's heads-up, people usually don't have anything so you want to keep his floats in. Turn is interesting to discuss. Fwiw, I don't really like your line of c/c c/c. Especially with your image. Thing is villain will very likely ship a good made hand on flop (whether he has us beat or not)
because of the board texture. Hands like TPGK or combodraws he's more likely to get it in on flop. Unless you think he's making a random float, like KQ or something, which I doubt, maybe you had some read from previous games, but even some of those he's checking them back and try to get to showdown, unless he thinks his showdown is non-existing like if he floated a hand like QT. Thing is, the board paired, and it's a really bad card to bluff at for villain. He shouldn't expect you to fold a lot of the board, though idk how deep this particular opponent thinks. You go c/c c/c I guess because you expect him to fire his draws right? This just doesn't happen all that much. Draws rarely take this line on a board like this. If his draw is good enough (in his eyes), he's likely to ship the flop. If not, he'll probably think you gave up on turn and will check, hoping to improve, or maybe bet turn but will check back river because once you call turn your line is really defined to like 8x or some draws which decided to c/c turn but even then he will take showdown and won't bluff you. Don't get me wrong, I'm not giving up like that just because the turncard paired the board. On turn, pot is 510 and villain has 845 behind. Given that he thinks you are spewy, I would bet smallish here to try to induce a shove from him. Something like 225 should give him the illusion of fold-equity (around 1/4th of an opponent stacks works best here in my experience). People tend to see this as weak and shove a really wide range here (even gutshots yes). Maybe he just has 8x and he was waiting for a good turncard to get it in... let him get it in then. With the line you took, you're going to get valuetowned by trips ALWAYS and will only bluffcatch some percentage of the time. Depending of the opponents agressiveness (you should have a better idea of that) you should know a bit what draws he's shipping on flop and which not. If you think he's flatting all but the biggest draws on flop, then maybe you can c/c one street but I doubt a lot of people bet small turn with a draw to shove river here, looks like a sucker bet on turn to be able to shove river imo. With your image, I would just bet small and get it in. Quote: Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em
Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330288 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t2200 M = 48.89 Hero (BTN/SB): t800 M = 17.78 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 6 Hero raises to t60, BB calls t30
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Flop: (t120) 4 9 8 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t80, BB folds Final Pot: t120 Hero wins t120 Flop cbet is kind of big imo, I'd just go half pot and be done with the hand. You only have a bluffcatcher on this board so doesn't really matter how much you bet. Hands with 40%+ equity aren't folding anyway, so you're just betting to try and take down the pot and maybe you can improve or bluff at some cards when you get called to try to get him off a better hand (8x mainly obv). Quote: Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330289 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t2140 M = 35.67 Hero (BB): t860 M = 14.33 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 4 BTN/SB raises to t80, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t80 BTN/SB wins t80 Quote: Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330290 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
BB: t2180 M = 36.33 Hero (BTN/SB): t820 M = 13.67 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with Q Hero raises to t80, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t80 Hero wins t80 Quote: Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330291 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t2140 M = 35.67 Hero (BB): t860 M = 14.33 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 9 9 BTN/SB raises to t80, Hero raises to t860 all in, BTN/SB calls t780 Flop: (t1720) K
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Turn: (t1720) K River: (t1720) 6 Final Pot: t1720 BTN/SB shows A Hero shows 9 9 Hero wins t1720
Q (a pair of Kings) (two pair, Kings and Nines)
Ehm, depends a little on previous games to either 3bet jam here or just 3bet to - say - 220 or something. Things like: - has he seen you 3bet jam certain hands before? A-rag, low pocket pairs, K-rag? - have you 3bet/folded while being shallow before? - was there a lot of shoving over minraises metagame previous games? I agree that 3betting to a normal amount would in general look pretty strong, so shoving would be my std to get called lighter I
think (unless villain is braindead or villain thinks he has fold equity because I 3bet/folded shallow before). So yeah, nh, sick hold. Quote: Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330293 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1280 M = 21.33 Hero (BTN/SB): t1720 M = 28.67 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with T Hero calls t20, BB checks
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Flop: (t80) J 8 7 (2 players) BB bets t80, Hero calls t80 Turn: (t240) T (2 players) BB bets t160, Hero calls t160 River: (t560) T (2 players) BB bets t320, Hero raises to t1440 all in, BB folds Final Pot: t1200 Hero wins t1200 Limp is interesting, I think it's fine here actually. Idk if you did it in previous game so I will just assume you haven't. He seemed to be aggro to some extent from your description in the notes so I could imagine he 3bets a decent amount so limping a hand like this is fine. Most people (especially aggro ones) just love to attack limps all the time, especially the first one(s), with ATC, so if he raises to 3bb's I would be inclined to call. Something you can do to see if he randomly attacks your limps is do it a bit deeper stacked with like K2o type of hands and fold if he raises. If you raise next couple of buttons and then limp once more he'll definitly see it as weakness (most fish see it as well fwiw) so you can exploit that in mid/endgame with limp/shoving certain hands. K so he pots flop, you have TPGK with a gutshot straightflushdraw. This is actually a very interesting spot imo. I
thought about it a bunch and talked about it with some other players and came to conclusion that it's probably best to raise the flop. Don't get me wrong, flatting is fine as well, it's close imo, though I think raising is slightly more ev+. Reason for raising is that we control the size of the pot, and we have an aggro image, and there's a TON of bad turncards which can ruin action. If villain has two pair, we're ahead equitywise but almost each time we "suck out" villain is unlikely to put any more money in the pot (we're even a favorite against J8 fwiw, big fav against 87 and J7). So vs those hands we want to get it in on flop (obv this is like top of villain's range apart from flopped flushes/straight). Chance of villain having us drawing really thin is also not that big. Suited Ax there's a decent chance he raises pre, not always, but more likely than 93ss for example obv. Same with decent suited kings (although with this board only KQss and K9ss are strong suited kings possible). Thing is, there's so much value on raising flop, we're in position, villain views us as a spewtard, turn should be fairly easy to play irregardless of the card, and there's just soooo much hands we're in awesome shape against; he's not jamming them all or anything, but definitly calling a smallish raise with them to - say - 220 or something. Hands like 96 with a spade, any pair with or without a spade, if you're lucky he's jamming something like J-rag with or without a spade to try and protect his hand or whatever. So raise, flop is the street to get value from, not turn/river imo. Unless hand runs out like this obv, turn looks fine, enough implied odds and he's probably bluffing some percentage of the time and giving up on river and we have a bunch of equity anyway. River std shove, I'm really wondering what villain had here tbh. Quote: Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330294 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t680 M = 11.33 Hero (BB): t2320 M = 38.67 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 6
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BTN/SB raises to t80, 1 fold Final Pot: t80 BTN/SB wins t80 He seems to be minraising close to 100% of buttons so you could probably jam over the 80 here and it will turn out ev+. However, he doesn't seem to do it himself and you already did it once with the 99 so I would advice not to do it because creating a minraise/jam kind of metagame is not something you want vs someone who seems to be calling at least some percentage of the time oop and c/f's a reasonable amount (idk how true this is, we just had couple of postflop hands in raised pots and he seemed to play pretty straightforward). Quote: Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330295 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t720 M = 12 Hero (BTN/SB): t2280 M = 38 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with K Hero calls t20, BB checks
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Flop: (t80) T 3 7 (2 players) BB bets t80, Hero calls t80 Turn: (t240) T (2 players) BB bets t120, Hero folds Final Pot: t240 BB wins t240 Ugh, this is really weird spot. First of all, I don't mind the limp preflop, but don't start autolimping here too much. There's still a ton of value you get by villain folding preflop or calling and c/f'ing flop. Aparantly, this guy also doesn't autocheck flop but will lead out a ton and I would rather limp in hands that flop toppair well (like JT you did earlier) than a hand like K3 because aparantly he doesn't give up on leading/bluffing(?) and a pair of 3s will be
quite hard to play vs a lot of agression unless you're comfortable enough calling him down on certain boards. Reason why hands like this are good to limp vs certain opponents is because on certain boards it's ez to win at showdown when it gets checked down but I don't think this type of villain will let you have it that easily. I'm not results oriented by the fact that he donked out here again putting us in a ****ty spot, the reason why i suppose this is because on the J87sss board he bet/bet/bet and folded to river raise. His line makes sense for like either nuts or air imo, with nuts being either a flopped flush or (flopped) straight and I don't see ANYONE fold a flush/straight on the river there fwiw so he most likely had total air (or something like Ks4x or something, could be, but this just means he bet/bet/bet his draws and prolly made hands as well so it's kind of hard to bluffcatch that way). So here, even if you did limp, I would just fold the flop. Reason for this is that stacks are really shallow, he won't give up easily, and we probably have only 5 outs and he's gonna keep firing and firing no matter what (toppair paired on turn, i'm quite sure this gives him more draws than i would put in his range on flop, but still, a lot of draws still have like 10 outs and we could be drawing dead and quite sure he's jamming river). I don't think you can profitably call flop here vs this opponent if you decide to limp anyway, unless you're prepared to call it down all the way (unless like a 9/8 comes off in which case all draws have us beat now). Quote: Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330296 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t840 M = 14 Hero (BB): t2160 M = 36 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 9 A BTN/SB calls t20, Hero raises to t140, 1 fold Final Pot: t80
Hero wins t80 Ehm, his limps will probably be pretty weak, and especially with 21bb's shallow stacks I would just make it 120 preflop. He thinks you're a spewtard, mashing the pot button he may decide to limp/jam a total crap holding (i HIGHLY doubt this opponent limps a strong hand so i would snap a limp/shove from him, less than 10% of the time he's trapping imo given he minraises so much). Also, you should give him the chance to call with weak (dominated) holdings, not push him out. 120 preflop gives a little more manoeuvrability postflop as well, with 240 in pot (if he decides to call) and 720 behind. If you make it 140 and he calls and pot is 280 and he has 700 behind. Cbetting here will be more expensive and jamming with any piece of the board easier for him and we're going to be committed on a TON of ****ty boards when we cbet because there's too much draws in his range (obv you shouldn't be cbetting some % of these ****ty boards if you're not happy calling a shove) but I'm mainly talking about boards like 873 with a flushdraw or something. If he's jamming any pair/draw we have odds to call after we cbet like 160 into 280 (we would need 32.14% equity to call a shove, wereas 120 preflop and 140 on flop would require 34.52% equity if villain shoves over our cbet). Just look at following handrange if he decides to limp/call and jam over our cbet and see how close it is: Board: 8h 7h 3c Dead: equity win tie pots won pots tied Hand 0: 34.667% 34.23% 00.44% 78960 1005.50 { Ad9c } Hand 1: 65.333% 64.90% 00.44% 149699 1005.50 { Kh6h, Kh5h, Kh4h, Kh3h, Kh2h, Q8s-Q7s, Qh6h, Qh5h, Qh4h, J9sJ7s, Jh6h, Jh5h, T6s+, 95s+, 84s+, 75s+, 65s, 6h4h, 5h4h, Q8oQ7o, J9o-J7o, T6o+, 96o+, 85o+, 75o+, 65o } See? You're making it too big preflop, and will be committed on a bunch of drawy flops where you have no pair at all but have to call a shove once you cbet. Just make it 120, play some poker. I wouldn't even mind 100 here tbh, just let him hang himself with a
marginal holding. Just step out of the box and stop thinking "oh, ima raise oop, so i have to make it >3bb's"... think about what you're trying to accomplish by raising, think about stacksizes, see how easy it will be to get the money in if you hit TP... Quote: Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330298 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t800 M = 13.33 Hero (BTN/SB): t2200 M = 36.67 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BB wins t40 Quote: Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330299 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t820 M = 13.67 Hero (BB): t2180 M = 36.33 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with J BTN/SB calls t20, Hero checks
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Flop: (t80) 6 8 A (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t80, Hero folds Final Pot: t80 BTN/SB wins t80 Yeah just check/fold, let him have a pot. No need to start bluffing someone who sees you as a spewtard even though we don't know if he knows there's not a lot of Ax hands in our range. If you lead out, you're gonna get floated a ton I think, and
checkraising you represent like nothing. Vs some players that's not a problem, but this game we've been pushing him around a bit and I doubt he folds any piece of the board really. Quote: Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330300 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t860 M = 14.33 Hero (BTN/SB): t2140 M = 35.67 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 Hero raises to t80, BB calls t40
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Flop: (t160) 3 K 4 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t110, BB calls t110 Turn: (t380) 6 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks River: (t380) 7 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t220, BB raises to t670 all in, Hero calls t450 Final Pot: t1720 BB shows Q 5 (a straight, Seven high) Hero shows 5 3 (a straight, Seven high) BB wins t(860 Hero wins t(860 (Rake: t1720) Good that you minraise the crappart of your playrange. You folded last button so I would probably minraise close to 100% here apart from the occassional 92o. Again, flopbet is quite big, why are you doing this? For some reason, he floated you with only one livecard but you have to assume that each time he calls you he will have at least 30% equity (which is gutshot with livecard) or better draw or have you crushed with a better pair. What you trying to accomplish with your bet on a board like this? His most likely holding is
inbetween cards... either check back or let him bluff turn or bet smaller. I wouldn't mind a 1bb bet here fwiw, I think this guy will spazz raise over it and we can call his raise (or he will float like he did here with like 25% equity while we have position which is fine as well, there's a decent amount of turn/river combo's we either improve or can bluffcatch on). Cbetting 110 is just unnecessary and is turning your hand into a bluff. I think checking vs this guy would probably be best idea because stacksizes are awkward to bet like 80 and him checkraising to say - 250 because we would need to put a big part of our (or entire) stack in to bluffcatch. So check back, call almost all turns vs this guy. As played turncheck is fine, no point in vbetting, he's not folding a lot of better hands here and we have a ton of equity. Note that it's pretty rare that I check back showdown value like here on flop but I think this is an okay spot unless you have an awesome amount of momentum from previous matches in which case you know 100% what to do vs a checkraise here on this board vs this opponent depending on his betsizing. Quote: Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330302 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t860 M = 11.47 Hero (BB): t2140 M = 28.53 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 5 BTN/SB calls t25, Hero checks
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Flop: (t100) 4 8 Q (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t100) J (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t100) 3 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks
Final Pot: t100 BTN/SB shows T 4 (a pair of Fours) Hero shows 5 K (King Queen high) BTN/SB wins t100 K so he checked back bottom pair medium kicker. I don't mind check flop/give up fwiw, drawy board, not a lot of hands he'll fold that are better and "betting for value" + "bluffcatching when draws dont hit" is just too difficult and not worth the effort in limped pots. Just note his holding imo which will polar his bettingrange to strong hands/draws or air. Quote: Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330303 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t910 M = 12.13 Hero (BTN/SB): t2090 M = 27.87 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with T Hero raises to t100, BB calls t50
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Flop: (t200) 5 K 5 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t200) 6 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t175, BB folds Final Pot: t200 Hero wins t200 Wow, BET THE FLOP? He floated you with Qx on K-rag-rag board last time. I really don't get you here, sorry if I sound rude. First you check flop and then you bet like 88% pot on turn? Why you do that? You think he has a draw with a huge amount of equity now? Doubtful, I think he's leading out most draws on turn (DEFINITLY leading out straightdraws because they should have close to 0 showdown value with their highcard and want to pick
up pot), maybe he's checking some flushdraws if his highcard is enough, but not always. Given that you cbet all hands so far (as well as the bottom pair on K34) I would just bet 100 on flop here and hope he doesn't buy it and thinks he has livecards or just that his highcard is good again. Either that or he's sick of you betting at everything and he'll bluffraise with a hand like 98o or something. I know it's unlikely he has a piece of the board here, and balancing vs fish is unnecessarry, but please, bet the flop vs someone who floats with inbetween cards when you have an aggro image. Quote: Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330305 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t810 M = 10.80 Hero (BB): t2190 M = 29.20 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 4 BTN/SB raises to t100, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t100 BTN/SB wins t100 Quote: Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330306 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t860 M = 11.47 Hero (BTN/SB): t2140 M = 28.53 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 Hero raises to t100, BB calls t50
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Flop: (t200) A 7 J (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t155, BB calls t155
Turn: (t510) 5 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks River: (t510) K (2 players) BB bets t605 all in, Hero folds Final Pot: t510 BB wins t510 Stop cbetting so big, hu = no pair vs no pair most of the time. Use this wisdom. It's unlikely this guy folds any piece on flop for 155 that he would call for - say - 100 or 110. I would also fold pre I think, given that he floats kind of wide post (with the Q5 hand), good pointed out chicagory Quote: Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330307 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1115 M = 14.87 Hero (BB): t1885 M = 25.13 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with J BTN/SB calls t25, Hero checks
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Flop: (t100) 3 J K (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t100) 4 (2 players) Hero bets t50, BTN/SB calls t50 River: (t200) 5 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t200, Hero folds Final Pot: t200 BTN/SB wins t200 K, flop check is fine, he'll bet most of his range here apart from SOME highcards (and he raises most highcards preflop i guess)
and bottom pair so he'll bet all his hands which are in total crappy shape and are just undercards to our pair of jacks which makes this flop an easy c/c. Ok, he checked back, which gives us some info about his hand imo: he has showdownvalue. Now that we actually know a bit more than usually, we can bet SLIGHTLY bigger to try and extract value from hands like 3x or Ax/Qx with a heart. I'd bet around 65 here, I don't think he'll fold a hand like 3x without a heart because it will look like we're (semi)bluffing the flushdraw. 50 is fine as well, though I think he will call most of the times on the turn here so we might want to charge him for it with a tad bigger bet. Ok, so plan for most rivers is to c/c obv when hearts fail, just sucks that hearts come in now. He'll check back 3x a decent percentage of the time to go to showdown imo, instead of changing it into a bluff so river is quite an easy c/f. Quote: Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330308 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1215 M = 16.20 Hero (BTN/SB): t1785 M = 23.80 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 5 Hero raises to t100, BB raises to t350, Hero raises to t1785 all in, BB calls t865 all in Flop: (t2430) Q
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Turn: (t2430) 9 River: (t2430) 4 Final Pot: t2430 BB shows T T (a pair of Tens) Hero shows 5 5 (a pair of Fives) BB wins t2430
Kind of close spot, I think I play it the same though. Thing why I would 4betjam here: - he 3bet/folded before - his raisesize doesnt really look all that strong to me; mostly lowmid pocket pair or two highcards who want to be committed postflop (and we're doing fine against a range of 22-88 with a little bit of fold equity) Even if he doesnt 3bet low pocket pairs and his range is something like 77+ AT+ KJs+ then we have around 40% equity. There's 450 dead money in the pot, we have 40% equity when called in a 2430 pot which means we lose around 243 each time we get it in which means we need around 35% fold equity or something. I was thinking we'd need a little less fold equity here fwiw, correct me if I made a mistake here. I'd still shove though, reasons: - we have at least SOME fold equity - even against a strong range which doesn't include smaller pocket pairs we're around 40% equity - his raisesize is unlikely to be a monsterhand (fwiw im already surprised to see TT here, i doubt people do it with QQ+ fwiw, maybe some combo's). It's not easy to skew this into a range, you can obv try to and start adding handcombo's in pokerstove which is fine. I think it'll add up to around 45-ish% in which case we don't need a lot of fold equity to make up for the 5% equity disadvantage we would be getting it in with. Still, with his sizing like this, I really think this is a weaker hand vs most villains here. Don't be results oriented you see TT here. YES, i've seen a bunch of people 3bet/fold here! No, this is usually not a hand as strong as TT! I'm not going to be pokerstoving because it will look manipulated with the # of combo's i put in for each hand, but my grasp of a 3bet this size is (when they want to get it in) medium-low pocket pairs (almost never, ever TT+ tbh), or unpaired highcard hands. Idk how else to explain this fwiw, I could've gone the easy way and say that "this is his range, don't get it in" but getting it in here is going to be best option against almost every villain apart from
the nittiest i guess, with these stacksizes and this betsizing because his range is weighed towards non-nut hands. Quote: Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330309 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t2430 M = 27 Hero (BB): t570 M = 6.33 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BB with J J BTN/SB raises to t600, Hero calls t510 all in Flop: (t1140) 9
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Turn: (t1140) 8 River: (t1140) 7 Final Pot: t1140 BTN/SB shows 6 Hero shows J J Hero wins t1140
A (a straight, Ten high) (a straight, Jack high)
Std obv, nh. Quote: Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330310 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1860 M = 20.67 Hero (BTN/SB): t1140 M = 12.67 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BTN/SB with Q Hero calls t30, BB checks Flop: (t120) 8 5 5 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t60, BB folds
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Final Pot: t120 Hero wins t120 I wouldn't mind a minraise here fwiw, limping close tbh, it can go either way I guess. Just be prepared to call down with a pair of sixes now imo when it's like 2nd pair on the board on somewhat drawy board. For some reason, he didn't bet flop, stabbing looks fine. Note that in a limped pot, a 1bb stab will look a hell lot weaker than like - in this case - t70. 1bb just looks like a stab, period. People check, you hit bet to try to take the pot, that's what it looks like, no other excuse. Given that he lead out most of his hands so far in limped pots I don't think it makes any significant difference vs this opponent because he's going to be c/f'ing a ton anyway. Just realize that 1bb get floated/bluffed at more and use it to your advantage (especially if you do it in midgame and like 3 times in a row or something). Quote: Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330312 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1800 M = 20 Hero (BB): t1200 M = 13.33 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BB with 3 BTN/SB raises to t120, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t120 BTN/SB wins t120 Quote: Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330313 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1860 M = 20.67 Hero (BTN/SB): t1140 M = 12.67
Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BTN/SB with 3 Hero calls t30, BB checks
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Flop: (t120) A 5 J (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t120) 2 (2 players) BB bets t120, Hero folds Final Pot: t120 BB wins t120 Yeah I'd just minraise vs him tbh. Try to steal his blinds, stacks are shallow, so far we have no reason to believe he shoves light over minraise while 12-20bb's shallow so we can try to steal his blinds as much as possible. Once he has a piece of the board postflop he doesn't seem to fold and plays most hands aggressively so try to let him fold preflop before he catches a pair or draw. Ehm, checking back flop, hmmmz. I think he'll bet turn a decent amount of time once we check flop, he lead/led(?) out a couple of times full pot so he probably is doing it with a somewhat wide range so I figure you have a ton of fold equity when you bet flop and it prevents us from getting bluffed at later on because our hand isn't that easy to bluffcatch with. Quote: Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330314 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1920 M = 21.33 Hero (BB): t1080 M = 12 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BB with J BTN/SB calls t30, Hero checks
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Flop: (t120) K 2 T (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks
Turn: (t120) T (2 players) Hero bets t60, BTN/SB calls t60 River: (t240) 8 (2 players) Hero bets t220, BTN/SB calls t220 Final Pot: t680 BTN/SB shows Q 8 (two pair, Tens and Eights) Hero shows J 7 (a pair of Tens) BTN/SB wins t680 What are you doing? Check preflop is fine imo, check on flop as well, on a board like this, I'd probably checkraise tbh and try to take it down. Reason for this is that he bets air/nut kind of hands and checks back his showdown. You trying to let him fold 2x or highcard on turn? Unlikely... This guy will always call you on this turn when he checks back flop imo, ainec. Given that you say he sees you as a "spewtard" and on river you only rep like trip T's I don't see any point in betting here whatsoever, once he checks back flop and this turn comes, just give up. Quote: Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330315 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t2260 M = 25.11 Hero (BTN/SB): t740 M = 8.22 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BTN/SB with J Hero raises to t120, BB calls t60
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Flop: (t240) 5 T 4 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t140, BB calls t140 Turn: (t520) Q (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t480 all in, BB calls t480 River: (t1480) 4 Final Pot: t1480
(2 players - 1 is all in)
BB shows 8 5 (two pair, Fives and Fours) Hero shows J 8 (a pair of Fours) BB wins t1480 I would probably limp with this hand fwiw. Either that or openjam which would be ev+ as well unless he has like a perfect callingrange which I doubt. Reason for limping is that he allows it, and he bets big (if he bets) and J8 flops kind of well and we keep dominated holdings in by limping and he can go broke when we have him outkicked. If you minraise, stacks are really shallow, and he doesn't have to jam a lot over your minraise to make minraise/fold an ev- move. You need around 42% equity when he jams preflop, and stacks are really shallow so he's going to get it in light. It's still close, probably a fold if he does shove over your minraise here, but minraise/folding 12bb's shallow with a hand like yours is always going to be close and it's kind of hard to estimate his shovingrange at this point of the match. I didn't expect him to flat all that much tbh, especially not with a hand like his. I usually start using nash around 12-13bb's and J8o is a jam for 13.3bb's so ez all-in here. Minraising just creates really awkward postflop stacksizes as well. Okay, suppose you indeed minraise, he calls. Ugh... flopbet is fine, smaller than usual though i would just make it 120 here, won't matter that much in fold equity (probably nothing) and we lose less when he actually has a hand. Turnshove...... Ehm, this guy isn't folding. No way. He's calling any pair here. There's probably even some Qx hands in his range which floated the flop. So in general you will have around 15-20% equity when called so you need him to fold way too much to be good here. He's only folding his draws/random floats really, so just check back, try to hit. You tried to bluff him earlier (and not just this game you said) and he noticed this and he's not folding anything. Betting flop is fine to pick up the pot, shoving turn is imo quite spewy.
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Quote: Hand #1 Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330316 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1500 M = 33.33 BTN/SB: t1500 M = 33.33 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 9 K BTN/SB calls t15, Hero raises to t100, BTN/SB calls t70 Flop: (t200) T
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(2 players)
Hero bets t150, BTN/SB calls t150 Turn: (t500) K (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t500) 4 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t500, Hero calls t500 Final Pot: t1500 Hero shows 9 K (a pair of Kings) BTN/SB shows 6 2 (a pair of Sixes) Hero wins t1500 ughehuzgfuizefhezfbhuiqeifobzpfbezfbuqpze stop betting so big seriously i mean it This is the reason why you should smallball more (definitly smallball at early stages to get a grasp of villain's range. We don't know anything here: - what's his limping range? - what's his limp/calling range? - does he float in position postflop? - does he turn made hands into bluffs? - does he bluff busted draws? - etc etc All really important stuff we would try and get some reads on in the first stage of the game. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind the preflop raise. I would make it 90 tbh first hand, just to invite him in the pot with weaker hands and get some postflop reads. I would occassionally make it 100 or 110 myself, never more though. Ok, on flop, why the big bet? This is a serious question. Do you think someone who limp/calls 76o will fold on this flop? No! We have a bluffcatcher vs draws, equitywise, but we will have a ****ty time catching bluffs unless we improve. Just bet half pot, be done with the hand. There's only a very very small percentage of hands/villains that would float with stuff like 22-55 if you bet 100 and fold when you bet 150 imo. Also, when we do improve like here, what's the rest of the plan? Already 1/3 of a
stack in the middle when he called our flopbet. My line would be here to raise 90 preflop, 90 on flop, 200 on turn to get value from JT/QT/QhXh/JhXh/KhXh/Q6/J6 and maybe a stubborn Tx and the pot would still only be around 760 and i had 3 streets of value already then check river and expect it to be checked back a lot with weaker made hands and when he bets I'm probably calling (depending on sizing/timing tell) because most people fail in thin value so they would have nuts/busted draw here. Quote: Hand #2 Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330317 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t2250 M = 50 BB: t750 M = 16.67 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 6 Hero raises to t60, BB raises to t750 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t120 BB wins t120 Again, not being results oriented, but I would just fold this preflop. You just won a big pot and I think villain will shove a very wide range here (or at least 3bet, or never, ever give up postflop when he defends) so just fold pre. Quote: Hand #3 Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330318 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t2190 M = 48.67 BTN/SB: t810 M = 18 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 3
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BTN/SB calls t15, Hero checks Flop: (t60) 5 A 8 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t60, Hero folds Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60 Yeah, just c/f, let him cool off a little. Having a tilted aggro villain is never fun because you're more often gonna have no hand instead of a strong hand. Quote: Hand #4 Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330319 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t2160 M = 48 BB: t840 M = 18.67 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with A Hero raises to t90, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60 Meh, you only did one button raise so far so raising to 3bb's now will probably go unnoticed so I don't mind it. Quote: Hand #5 Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330320 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t2190 M = 48.67 BTN/SB: t810 M = 18 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with K BTN/SB raises to t90, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60 Quote: Hand #6 Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330321 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t2160 M = 48 BB: t840 M = 18.67 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 4 1 fold
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Final Pot: t30 BB wins t30 Quote: Hand #7 Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330322 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t2145 M = 47.67 BTN/SB: t855 M = 19 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with K BTN/SB calls t15, Hero checks
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Flop: (t60) T 7 2 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t60, Hero folds Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60 You could opt to stab here oop, but c/f'ing is fine too. Quote:
Hand #8 Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330323 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t2115 M = 47 BB: t885 M = 19.67 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 Hero raises to t90, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60 I'd just minraise here fwiw. With these stacksizes you're kind of pushing the edge of raising to 3bb's because that's over 10% of villain's stack and if you're opening wide enough he can jam a bunch of hands here. Quote: Hand #9 Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330324 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t2145 M = 47.67 BTN/SB: t855 M = 19 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with T 1 fold
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Final Pot: t30 Hero wins t30 Quote: Hand #10 Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330325 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t2160 M = 48
BB: t840 M = 18.67 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with A Hero raises to t90, BB calls t60
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Flop: (t180) K K Q (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t180) 8 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks River: (t180) 2 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Final Pot: t180 Hero shows A J BB mucks 4 J Hero wins t180
(a pair of Kings)
Ehm, I don't mind a check back here and check it down. As long as you call when he bets turn because I expect him to stab a decent amount of the time with almost any hand. Quote: Hand #11 Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330326 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t2250 M = 50 BTN/SB: t750 M = 16.67 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 4 1 fold Final Pot: t30 Hero wins t30 Quote: Hand #12
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Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330327 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t2265 M = 50.33 BB: t735 M = 16.33 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 5 Hero raises to t90, BB raises to t735 all in, Hero calls t645 Flop: (t1470) 6
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Turn: (t1470) K River: (t1470) 9 Final Pot: t1470 Hero shows 5 5 (a pair of Fives) BB shows A 8 (a straight, Ten high) BB wins t1470 This is a call obv, though I would definitly not raise to 3bb's here unless you have a read that he defends a wide range of hands but c/f's a ton of flops. Quote: Hand #13 Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330328 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1530 M = 34 BTN/SB: t1470 M = 32.67 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 5 7 BTN/SB raises to t90, Hero calls t60 Flop: (t180) T 7 K (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t180) 2
(2 players)
Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t180) A (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Final Pot: t180 Hero mucks 5 7 BTN/SB shows 9 9 BTN/SB wins t180
(a pair of Nines)
Pre looks okay, flop fine as well. Ehm, I think leading turn is best option here though. He checks back so he probably has some sort of showdown value or weak draw and the turn is a perfect card for thin value from Ax hands with a diamond or gutshots with a diamond. River sucks a bit to bluffcatch here so I would prolly c/f it once he calls turn but there's a bunch of rivers you can check and he'll check back his AJ with a diamond or similar hand thinking he has showdown and you got some value on turn. Remember that in most cases checking back flop = showdown, and they will usually call one turnbarrel and check back river hoping to win showdown. Quote: Hand #14 Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330329 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1440 M = 32 BB: t1560 M = 34.67 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 1 fold
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Final Pot: t30 BB wins t30 Quote: Hand #15 Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330330
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1425 M = 23.75 BTN/SB: t1575 M = 26.25 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 2 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 Hero wins t40 Quote: Hand #16 Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330331 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1445 M = 24.08 BB: t1555 M = 25.92 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with Q Hero raises to t80, BB calls t40
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Flop: (t160) 9 9 3 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t160) A (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks River: (t160) J (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Final Pot: t160 Hero shows Q 4 (a pair of Nines) BB shows Q K (a pair of Nines) BB wins t160 Okay, so you changed to minraises pre, great! Any reason for starting to do this vs this villain or just semi-random or...? Would be interested in your thoughts.
Fwiw, I don't really hate a flop check too much here. I would cbet most of the time though, just to pick up the pot and dont become too predictable (no balancing vs fish, I know, but still, betting when hit and no betting when not hit becomes visible to all but the biggest retards, even over a small sample). Reason I don't mind a checkback is that he didnt stab his J4dd last time he defended when chance of having showdown value wasn't too big although he would have to be able to handread a bit before he could be able to find that out. Turn is actually quite an interesting card. I think you can make him fold some better hands (Kx mainly, maybe 3x or low pocket pair), he might also call with worse (worse flushdraw or wheeldraw) from time to time and you will rarely get checkraised here imo. I don't know how well of a handreader this random villain is but you should have Ax a decent amount of the time here. Again, flop/turn check can go either way. A reason for why I may be tempted a little to bet turn is that he will almost always call river if a heart comes. Quote: Hand #17 Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330332 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1365 M = 22.75 BTN/SB: t1635 M = 27.25 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with T T BTN/SB raises to t80, Hero raises to t280, 1 fold Final Pot: t160 Hero wins t160 Sizing looks good, I usually do pot+1bb oop unless I have a reason not to. Quote: Hand #18 Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em
Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330333 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1445 M = 24.08 BB: t1555 M = 25.92 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with 4 Hero raises to t80, BB calls t40
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Flop: (t160) 2 5 J (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t160) 7 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t120, BB folds Final Pot: t160 Hero wins t160 Wow, how can you not cbet here? For real... This is like the perfect spot for a semi-bluff cbet and the perfect villain. He doesnt stab much, doesnt seem to aggro and we have 6 clean outs to the nuts. Why would you not bet here? Hoping to check it down and 4-high is good? Quote: Hand #19 Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330334 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1525 M = 25.42 BTN/SB: t1475 M = 24.58 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 2 BTN/SB raises to t120, 1 fold Final Pot: t80 BTN/SB wins t80 Quote: Hand #20
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Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330335 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1485 M = 24.75 BB: t1515 M = 25.25 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with 6 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BB wins t40 Quote: Hand #21 Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330336 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1465 M = 24.42 BTN/SB: t1535 M = 25.58 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 8 2 BTN/SB raises to t120, Hero calls t80 Flop: (t240) T T 2 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t240, Hero raises to t1345 all in, BTN/SB folds Final Pot: t720 Hero wins t720 Wtf are you doing? Why you defending 82s preflop here oop to a 3bb raise? Even against the dumbest opponents I would probably fold this oop vs a minraise... This just doesn't flop good enough to ever make it profitable... Quote: Hand #22 Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330337
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1825 M = 30.42 BB: t1175 M = 19.58 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with K 6 Hero raises to t80, BB raises to t1175 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t160 BB wins t160 K so he's a bit pissed because you won last pot I guess. Too deep to consider calling here, even if his range is wide. Quote: Hand #23 Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330338 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1745 M = 29.08 BTN/SB: t1255 M = 20.92 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with J 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 Hero wins t40 Quote: Hand #24 Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330339 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1765 M = 29.42 BB: t1235 M = 20.58 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with 2 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BB wins t40 Quote: Hand #25 Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330340 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1745 M = 29.08 BTN/SB: t1255 M = 20.92 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 2 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 Hero wins t40 Quote: Hand #26 Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330341 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1765 M = 29.42 BB: t1235 M = 20.58 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with 2 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BB wins t40 Fwiw, he seems really ez postflop so I would minraise here. He just doesnt seem to stab when miss or anything and gives up easily so far. Quote: Hand #27 Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em
Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330342 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1745 M = 29.08 BTN/SB: t1255 M = 20.92 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 6 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 Hero wins t40 Quote: Hand #28 Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330343 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1765 M = 29.42 BB: t1235 M = 20.58 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 Hero raises to t80, BB calls t40
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Flop: (t160) 4 3 9 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t160, BB folds Final Pot: t160 Hero wins t160 Why are you potting flop here? He doesnt seem to be stabby/floaty, just cbet like 80 or 100 and be done with the hand. You trying to fold out weaker pairs or draws with not a lot of equity or what? Seems like your bet does that and only that imo... no reason to bet pot, given how you didnt cbet a lot, I think this is actually a spot where fish fold 3x or 4x hands. Quote: Hand #29 Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330344
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1845 M = 30.75 BTN/SB: t1155 M = 19.25 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 3 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 Hero wins t40 Quote: Hand #30 Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330345 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1865 M = 31.08 BB: t1135 M = 18.92 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with Q Hero raises to t80, BB calls t40
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Flop: (t160) 6 2 7 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t160) 3 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks River: (t160) A (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Final Pot: t160 Hero shows Q K BB mucks 5 K Hero wins t160
(Ace King high)
Close, given how relatively passive he is when we're not cbetting. I still think I'm betting flop and be done with the hand fwiw, although this opponent doesnt seem to adjust to bet=hit and check=no hit/showdown.
Thing is when you start checking things down too much when not improving, villain can actually very profitable call a very wide range preflop because our openingrange is big enough and he's getting 3-1 on a call pre when we minraise because he will be able to see 5 cards a bunch of the time and will outdraw. Even if he never bluffs... Thing about random fish is that in general they will defend too wide and will c/f too much flops so a big part of your profit will come from raising and taking down the pot with a cbet. I know these spots are all pretty close but checking back when you think you have showdown is just not the way to win most pots and only really passive villains like this will not exploit this. Especially on a board like this it's not unthinkable villain folds better (A-rag, maybe even bottom pair given our lack of cbetting which he couldve picked up) and calls worse (hands like his, one livecard + fd or something). We will also be able to bluff some cards later on when he calls, or bluffcatch when the turn bricks and river is an offsuit K/Q and he leads out, or improve by hitting one of our (likely) 4 outs (something else to consider when cbetting: improving or being able to bluff on a later street and win a bigger pot). Quote: Hand #31 Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330346 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1945 M = 25.93 BTN/SB: t1055 M = 14.07 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 7 1 fold Final Pot: t50 Hero wins t50 Quote: Hand #32
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Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330347 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1970 M = 26.27 BB: t1030 M = 13.73 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with Q Hero raises to t100, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t100 Hero wins t100 Quote: Hand #33 Full Tilt Poker $110 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 330348 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t2020 M = 26.93 BTN/SB: t980 M = 13.07 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with Q K BTN/SB raises to t200, Hero raises to t2020 all in, BTN/SB calls t780 all in Flop: (t1960) K
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Turn: (t1960) T River: (t1960) T Final Pot: t1960 Hero shows Q K (a full house, Tens full of Kings) BTN/SB shows A 8 (three of a kind, Tens) Hero wins t1960 Pretty close spot imo. Don't see too much fold equity but we barely need any. I expect to see a lot of A-rag and small pocket pairs in his range here, but also like any two broadways and given that this is almost never AQ+/QQ+ shoving is super std
and we either flip (pocket pairs), little behind (Ax), or big fave (broadwayz).
SPAMZ' FIFTH HAND HISTORY REVIEW Quote: Hand #1 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365615 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1500 M = 50 BTN/SB: t1500 M = 50 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 7 BTN/SB calls t10, Hero checks
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Flop: (t40) 6 9 Q (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t40, Hero calls t40 Turn: (t120) 6 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t60, Hero raises to t245, BTN/SB calls t185
River: (t610) 4 (2 players) Hero bets t375, BTN/SB folds Final Pot: t610 Hero wins t610 Okay, interesting spot right of the bat. Preflop: looks fine, in general, random fish call raises when they limp, especially when there's a decent amount of stack behind, and while 76s flops well (you even got blue cards holla!), you should probably try and just raise for value, no matter how wide that is. Early on it's kind of hard to determine where the line is between raising for value/(semi-)bluff OOP preflop, because villain could be limp/calling hands like A5/KT/33 in which case raising a hand like JTs isn't really that much of a valueraise (though JTs plays way easier than most of his weaker hands obv) so don't overdo it at first untill you have a grasp of villain's limpingrange after a couple of buttons have passed. Flop: Okay, bottom pair with some backdoor straight potential. We have no idea how wide villain will float here, so I don't see too much value in betting. Any draw also has like 40% equity or more vs our bottom pair (except maybe like 75/T7 stuff where we have a blocker) so vbetting is kind of out of the question. Also, in general, it's interesting to know whether villain autostabs at the pot or not when we check. Okay, so he did bet, full pot. This may sounds a little weak but in general this is not a bad spot to call one barrel and give up unimproved at the turn. A lot of people will check back if they think they have some sort of showdown at turn or a weak draw which they dont want to barrel (thinking of hands like KT or Ahigh or 45 which turned a 4 or something). It will gives us a slightly better idea of his double barreling frequency and willingness to fight over each pot (some people just want to win every pot, you don't need to be playing for very long to encounter an opponent like that ). Turn: okay, great card, about as good as it gets I'd say. I'm kind of in between with checking or leading out here. Two flushdraws, a bunch of straightdraws... I think leading definitly has its merits
here because in general people will be checking back draws or even Qx because a card pairing the board is just a bad card to barrel (not all fish realize this but whatever) and they're afraid of getting checkraised. So yeah, early on, without notes he would fire again, i think leading for like 80 is something I'd definitly consider doing here. If you check, it's obvious to checkraise like you did, size looks good too, I don't expect him to fold any pair/draw really. Something weird maybe: this is a spot where you could see some sort of timing tell. If he called the turn really quickly, chances are better he has a draw. If he thinks a bit before calling, chances are better he has Qx; I wouldn't put too much though into timing tells, because there can be plenty of reasons you don't know which can affect them (him playing more tables, being distracted at home, etc.) but something worth mentioning. River: Hmmmz, one of the flushes kicked in. I think if he snapcalled turn I might go for a c/c here though in general bet/fold is better. I think your bet is a bit big though, trying to get max value out of Qx is kind of hard on a scary board like this but I really think a bet of 300-320 will get called more than 375. Quote: Hand #2 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365616 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1805 M = 60.17 BB: t1195 M = 39.83 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 1 fold
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Final Pot: t20 BB wins t20 While I usually would open 100% of my first couple of buttons, you just won a big pot and he might be a bit frustrated already so folding this one to avoid trouble with 92o is the best way to play.
Quote: Hand #3 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365617 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1795 M = 59.83 BTN/SB: t1205 M = 40.17 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with T BTN/SB raises to t40, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40 Hmmmz, I think I might defend here fwiw. It's just a minraise, I know you're a good player sejje, so you have some postflop skillz. I wouldn't advise it to people just starting out but if you want to open up your game a bit then you can consider defending with a crappy suited broadwaycard from time to time. You probably know you shouldn't go crazy with a top pair no kicker obv. Especially the way the first hand played out, I'd like to know if he would 2nd barrel again here. Doesn't matter that you c/c flop 8s9x4x once, and c/f to a bet on Kx turn. You can note that he's quite aggro, maybe start flatting some big hands preflop oop, c/c big hands on flop, maybe do something fancy like c/c Q73r flop and checkraise Kx turn with air because you know he's just firing to take down the pot. Quote: Hand #4 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365618 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1775 M = 59.17 BB: t1225 M = 40.83
Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 2 1 fold
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Final Pot: t20 BB wins t20 I would probably open here, it's early, 2/2 buttons is too tight to fold. Quote: Hand #5 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365619 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1765 M = 58.83 BTN/SB: t1235 M = 41.17 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with J BTN/SB raises to t40, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40
Quote: Hand #6 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365620 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1745 M = 58.17 BB: t1255 M = 41.83 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 3 1 fold Final Pot: t20
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BB wins t20 I know you're getting trashhands but at least open one of them. ^^ Quote: Hand #7 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365621 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1735 M = 57.83 BTN/SB: t1265 M = 42.17 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with J Q BTN/SB raises to t40, Hero calls t20 Flop: (t80) 6 8 2 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t60, Hero folds Final Pot: t80 BTN/SB wins t80 K, without further info, flatting pre looks best imo. There's no guarantee he will call with dominated holdings or will 4bet a tight range. Semi-interesting flop I think. Opponent looks aggro so far, so if he bets like 40 on the flop I would probably peel a card. Backdoor 2card flush, some backdoor straight potential and two overcards. Reason for peeling would be that he will very likely fire a Q/J on turn again, and if an A/K comes we could try and bluffcheckraise him. Folding to 3/4 potbet looks fine though. Quote: Hand #8 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365622 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
Hero (BTN/SB): t1695 M = 56.50 BB: t1305 M = 43.50 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 3 Hero raises to t40, BB calls t20
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Flop: (t80) 8 9 5 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t80) J (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks River: (t80) 2 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Final Pot: t80 Hero shows 3 K BB mucks 4 3 Hero wins t80
(King Jack high)
Okay, great, you opened a button! ^^ Given it's the first hand you raised, I would just cbet here and be done with the hand (unless you catch a K of course). Villain seems to be somewhat aggro before so if we check back flop I expect him to fire 100% of turns tbh (kind of think it's strange he didn't do it here, especially with his hand, though we shouldn't be results oriented ). If the board was more coordinated, like 987 i might consider checking back, but here, you can just cbet. If he defends wide enough, cbetting half pot will definitly show a profit. You can even try and bluffcatch, if the turn is like 3x and river 8x and he bets river you have a fairly ez call against missed gutshots I think. I think not cbetting means you're going to lose the pot around 80% of the time by estimation (with the 20% being you hitting K on turn or villain checking down a worse hand). Opening K3o on the button and only cbetting dry boards or boards where you hit something isn't going to be super profitable; like dean said: it's not a fistpumpboard to cbet, but early on vs fish (who will defend wide), it's still a cbet.
Quote: Hand #9 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365623 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1735 M = 57.83 BTN/SB: t1265 M = 42.17 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 4 BTN/SB calls t10, Hero checks
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Flop: (t40) 7 2 A (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t40) 6 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t40) A (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Final Pot: t40 Hero shows 4 9 (a pair of Aces) BTN/SB shows 5 9 (a pair of Aces) Hero wins t(20 BTN/SB wins t(20 (Rake: t40) Interesting hand here. Fwiw, preflop/flop looks good. It's the second limped pot, if he would bet the flop, I'd just fold, though vs a bad player, it's not a bad spot to checkraise bluff a board because he'll just give up a ton. However, we won the last limped pot so I would just give this to him if he bets flop. BUT HE DIDN'T, HAH! Okay, he didn't bet flop, weird, smells like some weak showdown if you ask me. That's why I would bet turn tbh, try and make him fold hands like Q5o, which are a big portion of his range. Don't bet too big or too small (1bb will get floated even by those hands i mentioned), but like 25 or 30 and you will take it down a lot here.
Quote: Hand #10 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365624 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1735 M = 57.83 BB: t1265 M = 42.17 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with A Hero raises to t40, BB calls t20
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Flop: (t80) 3 4 Q (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t55, BB folds Final Pot: t80 Hero wins t80 Cbet size looks a little big, especially on a board where it's kind of hard to hit anything (mostly he'll have two inbetweencards to the Q and the 4) so betting like 40 would do the trick as well. It's your first cbet, try to get some reads on how he reacts to them; try cbetting a little bit more frequently and a little smaller I'd say and see what he does. Some people love minraising them, some people love mashing the pot button, some will float superwide (with like J9ss on a board like this for example). Once we know how he plays, we can adjust the frequency/size again to max profit. Quote: Hand #11 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365625 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1775 M = 59.17 BTN/SB: t1225 M = 40.83 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 3 BTN/SB calls t10, Hero checks
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Flop: (t40) 4 A K (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t40) 8 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t40, Hero raises to t135, BTN/SB folds Final Pot: t120 Hero wins t120 Weird hand. Preflop looks fine, his limpingrange will probably on the weaker side but A3o isn't a hand which plays too well out of position if we miss or just hit a pair of 3s. Flop I'm kind of in between, given how he didnt bet his 9-high last time on a somewhat similar board (A-high no flushdraw) I wouldnt be surprised if he checked back again here with total air. I wouldn't lead either because it's really hard for a marginal range of hands to have hit a piece here expect the 4 or a gutshotwheeldraw maybe. So my plan would be to check the flop (and call if he bets) and bet the turn myself if he checks back (unless the board pairs with the K or the 4 probably). The 8 is quite a good card to bet 30 or something on, there's a flushdraw no, some hands picked up a gutshot, and there's definitly 8x hands in his range and they're not gonna be folding to a 1.5bb bet. I don't see a lot of point in checking again, there's definitly value to be gained here and he has shown to not bluff in limped pots all the time. Only thing you can hope for is that he catches a pair on river with his air and he pays you off, though you can go for 2 streets vs a decent amount of hands here. Quote: Hand #12 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365626 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1835 M = 61.17 BB: t1165 M = 38.83
Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 Hero raises to t40, BB calls t20
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Flop: (t80) 9 3 7 (2 players) BB bets t80, Hero raises to t285, BB folds Final Pot: t240 Hero wins t240 Again, interesting spot. Preflop looks fine obv, just minraise. Okay, on flop... Hmmz, I think your hand is a bit too weak to be playing for stacks here. Thing is we don't have any reads on his donkingrange. We only know that he probably defends wide from the bb, and that he randomly takes stabs at pots. Why are you raising here anyway, for value? Even if he's calling superwide, except for hands like 92o/94o maybe, try and work in pokerstove a little and see how 98o does against a range of toppair/33/T8/JT/68. I'm not saying he's 4betjamming all of the following hands, just showing how you would do against a range of toppair and some draws if you raise here with your TPNK: Board: 9c 7d 3s Dead: equity win tie pots won pots tied Hand 0: 46.436% 41.32% 05.12% 428288 53039.00 { 98o } Hand 1: 53.564% 48.45% 05.12% 502164 53039.00 { 33, A9s, K9s, Q9s, J9s+, T8s+, 92s+, 86s, A9o, K9o, Q9o, J9o+, T8o+, 95o+, 86o } Now same thing with Q9o: Board: 9c 7d 3s Dead: equity win tie pots won pots tied Hand 0: 57.597% 53.95% 03.65% 597675 40395.00 { Q9o } Hand 1: 42.403% 38.76% 03.65% 429345 40395.00 { 33, A9s, K9s, Q9s, J9s+, T8s+, 92s+, 86s, A9o, K9o, Q9o, J9o+, T8o+, 95o+, 86o }
Big difference, no? Thing is we have no reason to believe he is necessarily weak here. We just know he's defending wide so his range isn't that strong here, however, we have no clue about his donkingrange and how that range reacts to a raise. Imo flat > raise small > raise big > fold. You could opt to raise small, trying to get weaker straightdraws and 7x or maybe even 3x hands in; with your size however, you're just pushing all those hands out of the pot I feel, and you're going to be left vs a range of hands which has you beat equity-wise. Thing about raising small however is that it's really hard to call a shove here. I can't see stacking off with TPNK on a board like this being good vs the avg field tbh. Just flat the donkbet, his range is superwide, expect him to fire a decent amount of turns too and give up most rivers. Especially with the 8 as our kicker we have backdoor straightdraws so a card like T/J/7/6 isn't necesarilly a card we have to fold on (au contraire, if he donks again, quite easy call really). If you had like K9 I can definitly see raise/getting it in here best option because he'll stack off with 3 outs a decent amount of the time; Q9 is somewhat closer, J9 i would flat as well i think. Quote:
Hand #13 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365627 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1955 M = 65.17 BTN/SB: t1045 M = 34.83 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with A BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40 Okay, it's his first raise to 3bb's and he had 7 buttons so far. I don't mind a fold here tbh with the A6o. Sounds a bit nitty but either:
- his raising range is stronger for 3bb's - he's getting a little frustrated with you pushing him around in a lot of medium-big pots If former is true we obv have a lot of reverse implied odds. If latter is true we obv going to have a hard time calling him down unless we actually flop an ace or something because a pair of sixes usually isn't the easiest to do. Just let him have this pot, no need to win them all. If he starts 3xing more and more we'll just assume he changed his openingsize. Quote: Hand #14 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365628 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1935 M = 64.50 BB: t1065 M = 35.50 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 7 Hero raises to t40, BB calls t20
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Flop: (t80) A 2 K (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t55, BB folds Final Pot: t80 Hero wins t80 Cbet little less, let him open his bluff/floatingrange by just betting 2bb's imo. Board is really dry, he'll have no hit way over 50% of the time here. Quote: Hand #15 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365629 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
Hero (BB): t1975 M = 65.83 BTN/SB: t1025 M = 34.17 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with A A BTN/SB raises to t40, Hero raises to t120, 1 fold Final Pot: t80 Hero wins t80 Okay, with 51bb's left, 3betting is definitly the best option here with AA. If you only had like 30bb's you could flat pre and hope he catches a piece of the board and checkraise and you could still easily get it in on turn. However, if you want to play a big pot here, I would surely 3bet. Size looks fine as well, doesn't need to be bigger because we obv want him to come along with as much crap as humanly possible. Quote: Hand #16 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365630 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t2015 M = 67.17 BB: t985 M = 32.83 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 Hero raises to t40, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 Hero wins t40
Quote: Hand #17 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365631 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
Hero (BB): t2035 M = 67.83 BTN/SB: t965 M = 32.17 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 4 5 BTN/SB raises to t40, Hero calls t20 Flop: (t80) 9 4 J (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t80) A (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t80) 7 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t60, Hero folds Final Pot: t80 BTN/SB wins t80 I like the way you played this. I was talking about this hand in msn convo and some people said "lead turn" but I wouldn't do it tbh. Thing is, Ax is definitly in his range for checking back flop (a lot of people check back showdown value, whether fish or bad reg, afraid of getting bluffed of their hand without any real reason to); and even if he just has nothing, but didnt want to cbet, he will probably try and represent the A anyway because you check twice (and with us having a flushdraw, a hand like Q6dd has like 4 outs so we shouldn't be afraid to get outdrawn). So yeah c/c flop c/c turn obv. River looks like a fold with this line, if he has any piece of showdown he's gonna take it and I don't see too much hands he could be bluffing with here that don't bet flop/turn. Quote: Hand #18 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365632 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1995 M = 66.50 BB: t1005 M = 33.50
Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 1 fold
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Final Pot: t20 BB wins t20 I probably open 100% vs this guy at this point. He seems to defend wide and give up a decent amount on flop. He also just won last pot so he's less likely to play back here. Quote: Hand #19 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365633 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1985 M = 66.17 BTN/SB: t1015 M = 33.83 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 8 1 fold
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Final Pot: t20 Hero wins t20
Quote: Hand #20 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365634 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1995 M = 66.50 BB: t1005 M = 33.50 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 1 fold
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Final Pot: t20 BB wins t20 Again, open. A lot of your profit vs fish will come from the fact that they defend way too wide and will play fit/fold which means they'll give up too much pots. Idk what your reasoning is to open as little buttons as you do (I know, you're not getting any semidecent hands or anything, but still, 85o isn't 92o), just raise, expect a call, and expect a c/f on flop A LOT. And if he c/c's, you can still bluff some good scarecards or improve etc. Quote: Hand #21 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365635 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1985 M = 66.17 BTN/SB: t1015 M = 33.83 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 2 BTN/SB raises to t40, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40 Aparently the 3bb raise was a one time thing. Still couldve been both frustration or big hand. Quote: Hand #22 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365636 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1965 M = 65.50 BB: t1035 M = 34.50 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with K Hero raises to t40, BB calls t20
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Flop: (t80) 5 2 Q (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t55, BB raises to t140, Hero folds Final Pot: t190 BB wins t190 Woot, he plays back. Flop cbet (as said in previous hands/hh's) would probably be better smaller, like 40, MAYBE 50 if you feel like typing something I guess, will have around the same affect and risk/reward will be better. Quote: Hand #23 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365637 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1870 M = 41.56 BTN/SB: t1130 M = 25.11 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with A 6 BTN/SB raises to t60, Hero calls t30 Flop: (t120) J 9 3 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t90, Hero folds Final Pot: t120 BTN/SB wins t120 He doesn't cbet too much so c/f'ing looks best here. Preflop defend is fine obv with the suited ace. If you had like 87cc here I would probably lead (along with some other hands) because his cbets seem a bit random and I think he will give up easily after 1 or 2 barrels and we can fire on a ton of turns. Quote: Hand #24 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365638
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1810 M = 40.22 BB: t1190 M = 26.44 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 1 fold
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Final Pot: t30 BB wins t30 Wow, now you're folding 85s on button. You really need to open your game a bit. I think you're underestimating how much of your profit comes from cbetting/raising your button. Quote: Hand #25 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365639 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1795 M = 39.89 BTN/SB: t1205 M = 26.78 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with K BTN/SB calls t15, Hero checks
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Flop: (t60) 8 A J (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t60, Hero folds Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60 Hmmz, I think I'd raise here preflop. So far you checked each time and even fish notice stuff like that. Whether he still calls or not is a question, but he won't float you nearly as light as if you were to raise first hand or multiple hands in a row oop. Given that he raises his button frequently, I don't think he limps Ax hands or anything so the raise would be purely for value (we don't know if he would call but that's okay, his range consists of probably 0 hands which have us beat right now) and K7o may
not be the easiest hand to play oop, but still decent enough + we have initiative. Just make it like 100 or something; cbet a lot of boards, profit. Especially a board like this, fire a barrel, expect to pick it up A LOT. If you check pre c/f'ing at this point of match vs this guy is fine obv. Quote: Hand #26 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365640 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1765 M = 39.22 BB: t1235 M = 27.44 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 4 Hero raises to t60, BB calls t30
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Flop: (t120) 2 5 T (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t75, BB folds Final Pot: t120 Hero wins t120 Haha, now you open 84o, sweet. ^^ Hand looks fine, well played.
Quote: Hand #27 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365641 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1825 M = 40.56 BTN/SB: t1175 M = 26.11 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 3 BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60
Quote: Hand #28 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365642 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1795 M = 39.89 BB: t1205 M = 26.78 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 1 fold
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Final Pot: t30 BB wins t30 I would've probably opened every button so far except for hand #2 and this would be the second one I'd fold (just to give you an impression). Quote: Hand #29 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365643 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1780 M = 39.56 BTN/SB: t1220 M = 27.11 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with A K BTN/SB calls t15, Hero raises to t120, BTN/SB calls t90 Flop: (t240) 7 3 9 (2 players) Hero bets t175, BTN/SB folds
Final Pot: t240 Hero wins t240 I would probably make it a bit smaller preflop, 100 or 110. Aparently, he seems to be one of the many limp/caller, regardless of your size (irregardless is a correct word as well though ). Reason i'd make it slightly smaller is to actually induce calls from him given we have a very strong hand, even when we're not paired up yet. Flop cbet looks fine, OOP I don't mind a bit bigger than half pot (if he's a fish you can go half pot with strong hands to induce floats from random air and bit bigger to avoid those floats).
Quote: Hand #30 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365644 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1900 M = 42.22 BB: t1100 M = 24.44 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 3 Hero raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60
Quote: Hand #31 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365645 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1930 M = 42.89 BTN/SB: t1070 M = 23.78
Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 4 BTN/SB raises to t90, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60 K, 3bb's again, no reason to be frustrated. Two things this can mean now: either he has a big hand or he just randoms it up. Former being more of a possibility vs random opponents, so make sure not to jam over 3x opens TOO light when stacks get below 20bb's. Quote: Hand #32 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365646 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1900 M = 42.22 BB: t1100 M = 24.44 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with A Hero raises to t60, BB calls t30
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Flop: (t120) 4 T 6 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t120) 7 (2 players) BB bets t90, Hero folds Final Pot: t120 BB wins t120 Cbet cbet cbet. There's definitly a decent amount of Q-rag/Jrag/K-rag hands in his range which will just fold here. I know you have the best hand if they fold but doesn't matter. It's not like you're calling a turn lead on a lot of cards. Quote:
Hand #33 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365647 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1840 M = 40.89 BTN/SB: t1160 M = 25.78 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 3 BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60
Quote: Hand #34 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365648 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1810 M = 40.22 BB: t1190 M = 26.44 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 6 Hero raises to t60, BB calls t30 Flop: (t120) 3 T 3 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t75, BB calls t75 Turn: (t270) 3 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks River: (t270) J (2 players) BB bets t120, Hero folds Final Pot: t270 BB wins t270
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Weird betsizing from him at river. I don't think you can ever call here really, he'd need to be floating inbetweencards to not have you beat here. QJ/Tx/KJ/small pocket pairs/quads and maybe even A-high in his range. But again, betting 60 on a board like this would have the same effect. Quote: Hand #35 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365649 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1675 M = 37.22 BTN/SB: t1325 M = 29.44 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 2 BTN/SB calls t15, Hero checks
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Flop: (t60) K T A (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t60) 7 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t30, Hero calls t30 River: (t120) Q (2 players) Hero bets t420, BTN/SB folds Final Pot: t120 Hero wins t120 Ehm, yeah flop check looks great. We don't have anything yet and our highcard is crushing most of his limping range so I see no real reason to bet either flop or turn. Just c/c and hope to hit. Fwiw, river looks nasty. Either bet small or check; maybe jam, but your size is what I would never do tbh. Thing is he will only call you with Jx or flushes like this, right? If you bet this size he's calling a jam only slightly smaller percentage of the time with Jx. If you bet small you might get called by Kx/Ax if he happens to have that. If you check his air will bluff at it and Jx will be betting
and probably calling a raise. I think I'd bet like 60, hoping to get called by any pair, and being raised by a straight. Quote: Hand #36 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365650 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1735 M = 38.56 BB: t1265 M = 28.11 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 Hero raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60
Quote: Hand #37 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365651 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1765 M = 39.22 BTN/SB: t1235 M = 27.44 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 3 BTN/SB calls t15, Hero checks
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Flop: (t60) 9 K 4 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t60) 8 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t60, Hero folds Final Pot: t60
BTN/SB wins t60 Given that you won most previous pots, I don't mind a c/f here flop onwards. If gameflow allowed you can try and stab the flop for 45 or something hoping to pick up the pot because the board is really dry. Quote: Hand #38 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365652 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1735 M = 38.56 BB: t1265 M = 28.11 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with K 4 Hero raises to t60, BB raises to t1265 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t120 BB wins t120 Okay... ^^ Darwin Moon you're playing against I guess. Quote: Hand #39 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365653 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1675 M = 37.22 BTN/SB: t1325 M = 29.44 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 6 BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60
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Quote: Hand #40 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365654 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1645 M = 36.56 BB: t1355 M = 30.11 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 2 Hero raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60 Yiha! Quote: Hand #41 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365655 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1675 M = 37.22 BTN/SB: t1325 M = 29.44 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 8 BTN/SB calls t15, Hero checks
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Flop: (t60) J Q 5 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t60) 6 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t60) 5 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Final Pot: t60 Hero shows 8
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BTN/SB mucks T Hero wins t60
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Kind of a weird hand. Again, same with the K7, I wouldnt mind a raise preflop just to pick up a slightly bigger pot by cbetting most board textures. A8 will have some percentage of his limp/calling range crushed (8x hands are definitly in his range). I don't mind a checkdown though I'd try and take a stab if you have air next time in limped pot. Quote: Hand #42 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365656 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1705 M = 37.89 BB: t1295 M = 28.78 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with K Hero raises to t60, BB calls t30
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Flop: (t120) J 4 Q (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t75, BB folds Final Pot: t120 Hero wins t120
Quote: Hand #43 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365657 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1765 M = 39.22 BTN/SB: t1235 M = 27.44
Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 6 A BTN/SB raises to t60, Hero calls t30 Flop: (t120) Q 7 2 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t90, Hero raises to t275, BTN/SB folds Final Pot: t300 Hero wins t300 We both know you're not representing much here, but if he's bad he won't even notice that. I think this is your first checkraise on the flop though I could be wrong so he's going to give you at least some credit. It's not the first time he bets 90 into 120 so it's not like he's more likely to have hit a piece with that size. I don't mind a checkraise here by changing our hand into a bluff while we have showdown tbh. Thing is, c/c'ing here with a hand like this is going to be really difficult because we can easily be barreled of our hand and so far, once he started barreling, he didn't stop, so unless you're super confident about calling down (which I wouldn't be tbh), checkraising here vs a bad player is a good option. I do think your checkraise is on the big side though, This will just not hit him often enough to worry about getting called/jammed on, really. If he has a Q he's not going to fold it anyway, regardless of your size imo. Just make it as cheap as possible for yourself, I think like 195-245 or something would definitly give the same effect and will leave you with more chips when he actually has a hand. Quote: Hand #44 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365658 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1915 M = 42.56 BB: t1085 M = 24.11
Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 4 Hero raises to t60, BB calls t30
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Flop: (t120) 8 4 A (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t75, BB folds Final Pot: t120 Hero wins t120 On this particular board, I would definitly cbet a bit less. For startes it's hard for him to hit or float here oop without a pair so he'll either fold or raise if he has nothing. If he raises, I would definitly call the checkraise because it wouldn't be the first time he checkraises while representing not that big of a range (Q54 board last time or some similar texture). Especially with the backdoor diamonds and backdoor straight, I would peel a card here and expect him to give up on turns a ton. You have to take the fact that pretty much any hand without a 2 or 3 in it will always have around 25% for sucking out on you so don't be mad if he randomly hits a pair of sixes on turn or river. So the reason for betting small here is to open up his bluffingrange (and if we bet 75 we would need to call a bigger raise than if we were to bet only 60). If he doesnt seem to adjust to half pot cbets, just do it with more air and profit more. If you don't have anything yourself here, you can try and rebluff small with a 3bet on the flop and he'd have to commit almost his entire stack to 4bet bluff you which not a lot of people do. Quote: Hand #45 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365659 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1975 M = 43.89 BTN/SB: t1025 M = 22.78 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with A
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BTN/SB raises to t90, 1 fold Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60 K, 3rd time he pots button. Probably has to do with his handstrength given the frequency but no showdown so far so we can't know for sure. Quote: Hand #46 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365660 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1945 M = 32.42 BB: t1055 M = 17.58 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BB wins t40
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Hand #47 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365661 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1925 M = 32.08 BTN/SB: t1075 M = 17.92 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with Q T BTN/SB raises to t120, Hero calls t80 Flop: (t240) 8
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Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t120, Hero raises to t1805 all in, BTN/SB folds Final Pot: t480 Hero wins t480 Okay, 4th time. Ugh, weird spot tbh with these stacksizes. I agree to call preflop given that he started doing it more and more (if he didn't 3x his last button I think folding pre would be best move on paper though I'd still call ingame because it's suited ). Flop... Well, with these stacksizes I don't really see any other options. Gutshot + overs + backdoor flushdraw. I'd expect him to check back Ax hands a decent percentage of the time though. Math says if we got around 33% equity we only need him to fold around 50% of the time which is definitly the case. You haven't been out of line yet or anything, and it's a rainbow board so I don't see him calling with A-high yet. Note that him calling with hands like A-high/JT/low pocket pairs isn't really that bad of a thing because our equity will just go up (we're around 50% vs underpairs fwiw). Ehm, 50% fold equity we need, something like that. Makes me think floating flop is about just as good. It's a really close spot I think, especially if we assign him a little stronger range because his raise size pre I would just say float flop I guess, try to pick up something on turn. Like if turn is a low heart you can check/jam there because he will probably barrel (he barrels a lot when he starts we saw). Flip a coin, both look fine to me. Quote: Hand #48 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365662 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t2165 M = 36.08 BB: t835 M = 13.92 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with 3 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BB wins t40 Yeah I don't mind a fold after winning big pot. I wouldn't mind a limp here either, just to see what he does vs them. I expect him to be semi-passive against them preflop but will randomly stab at the pot postflop. Quote: Hand #49 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365663 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t2145 M = 35.75 BTN/SB: t855 M = 14.25 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 6 BTN/SB calls t20, Hero checks
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Flop: (t80) J 3 T (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t80, Hero raises to t2105 all in, BTN/SB calls t735 all in Turn: (t1710) K
(2 players - 2 are all in)
River: (t1710) A
(2 players - 2 are all in)
Final Pot: t1710 Hero shows 6 T (a pair of Tens) BTN/SB shows T 3 (two pair, Tens and Threes) BTN/SB wins t1710 WOW, what are you doing here? There's really no reason to do this with these stacksizes. He still has 21.5bb's left here and you're just turning your hand into a bluff because he's probably not folding better or calling worse (maybe he's calling like Q9 or something, could be). Just c/c, see what he does on the turn. Thing is he doesn't even randomly stab 100% or anything, he checks down some hands while his showdown value is very little to non-existing (I remember at least two hands like that).
I know I've been saying "once he barrels, he doesn't seem to stop" but he just fires blindly, so on any J/T/6 turn he'll probably bet again and we can easily call one more. It's not bad c/c'ing one barrel and c/f'ing to the second, even if it's just to let him have a small to midsized pot while we still got some showdown value and chance to improve. Quote: Hand #50 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365664 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1290 M = 21.50 BB: t1710 M = 28.50 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with 7 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BB wins t40 With these stacksizes, I'd open 100%. Especially after winning a big pot, most villains tend to cool down a bit and play a bit more fit/fold without trying too fancy moves. Quote: Hand #51 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365665 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1270 M = 21.17 BTN/SB: t1730 M = 28.83 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with T J BTN/SB raises to t80, Hero calls t40 Flop: (t160) 4 7 9 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t160) 6
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Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t120, Hero raises to t340, BTN/SB calls t220 River: (t840) J (2 players) Hero bets t850 all in, BTN/SB folds Final Pot: t840 Hero wins t840 Wow weird line you're taking here. I don't get what you're trying to do here. Given that he checked back flop he probably doesn't have a big hand, weak pair, some overcard(s) or a weak draw perhaps. So, at turn, we beat ZERO of those hands basically, but we do have some equity but it would suck if it got checked down and he had like AQ. Why? Because we could've bet him off that hand obv. I think it's a GREAT board to lead turn and lead most rivers. Thing is, there's two onecardopenenders here: 5x and 8x. And those will be calling a turnbet from around 95 almost always, and fold river lead unimproved. On this board, at this point, you beat like 10% of all possible startinghands or something. You really have a nutlow type of hand, so making him fold any hand at this point is really valuable. Just lead out, expect to take it down a lot on the turn, if not on the river. Don't expect him to bet turn too often though, he's gonna check back most of his showdown range here and river goes check/check at a brick and you lose to A-high or something. Quote: Hand #52 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365666 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1690 M = 28.17 BB: t1310 M = 21.83 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with 2 Hero raises to t80, BB calls t40 Flop: (t160) T
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J
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BB checks, Hero bets t115, BB raises to t280, Hero folds Final Pot: t390 BB wins t390 Bet like 95, big numbers scare more. Quote: Hand #53 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365667 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1495 M = 24.92 BTN/SB: t1505 M = 25.08 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with A BTN/SB calls t20, Hero checks
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Flop: (t80) 5 J 6 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t80, Hero folds Final Pot: t80 BTN/SB wins t80 Yeah I might stab here at the flop, can go either way. If i bet i'd bet like 55 or something. Quote: Hand #54 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365668 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1455 M = 24.25 BB: t1545 M = 25.75 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with Q Hero raises to t80, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t80 Hero wins t80
Quote: Hand #55 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365669 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1495 M = 24.92 BTN/SB: t1505 M = 25.08 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 2 BTN/SB raises to t80, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t80 BTN/SB wins t80
Quote: Hand #56 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365670 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1455 M = 24.25 BB: t1545 M = 25.75 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 Hero raises to t80, BB calls t40
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Flop: (t160) 4 K 3 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t115, BB raises to t440, Hero folds Final Pot: t390 BB wins t390
Again, try like 80-95 cbet size, same effect, less risk. Quote: Hand #57 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365671 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1260 M = 21 BTN/SB: t1740 M = 29 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 4 BTN/SB calls t20, Hero checks
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Flop: (t80) Q 4 2 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t80) 8 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t40, Hero calls t40 River: (t160) Q (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t120, Hero calls t120 Final Pot: t400 Hero shows 4 5 (two pair, Queens and Fours) BTN/SB shows 3 T (a pair of Queens) Hero wins t400 Like I said, he probably just fires when he fires, not realizing the river is about the ****tiest card in the deck to fire at once he checked the flop. Vs a good player I'd probably fold river here but vs this guy it's pretty much a snapcall. He could have like 8x yeah, but total air or missed draws are definitly in his range. I don't mind a flopcheck here because we have some backdoor straights. I would lead more often if i had like 94o here but I'd mix it up between the two anyway. Quote: Hand #58
Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365672 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1460 M = 24.33 BB: t1540 M = 25.67 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 Hero raises to t80, BB calls t40
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Flop: (t160) T 4 K (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t115, BB folds Final Pot: t160 Hero wins t160 Betsize kind of big again, dry-ish board so you can definitly go smaller. Quote: Hand #59 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365673 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1540 M = 25.67 BTN/SB: t1460 M = 24.33 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 9 A BTN/SB raises to t80, Hero raises to t1540 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t160 Hero wins t160 Wow, I don't even think this is profitable vs this guy. He's not opening wide enough it appears to be shoving here. Remember, you're like 36.5bb's deep and if he folds you only pick up like 3bb's. Given that he limps a decent amount of hands you need him to fold here a ton and I think your hand is like the cutoff for a sane person's callingrange here. Like AT he might fold, but AJ+ is probably calling as well as 55+.
I'd just flat or make a normal 3bet (though I'd fold vs a 4betshove vs this guy tbh so I prefer flatting a bit more because I don't see him spazzshove a lot worse and our odds won't be that good to call a shove with). He seems to fire brainless postflop, flat, let him fire when you hit, bluff some if you don't, ez game. Quote: Hand #60 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365674 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1620 M = 27 BB: t1380 M = 23 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with J Hero raises to t80, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t80 Hero wins t80
Quote: Hand #61 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365675 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1660 M = 27.67 BTN/SB: t1340 M = 22.33 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 3 BTN/SB raises to t80, 1 fold Final Pot: t80 BTN/SB wins t80
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Quote: Hand #62 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 365676 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1620 M = 27 BB: t1380 M = 23 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 8 Hero raises to t80, BB raises to t1380 all in, Hero calls t1300 Flop: (t2760) 5
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Turn: (t2760) 5 River: (t2760) A Final Pot: t2760 Hero shows 8 8 (two pair, Eights and Fives) BB shows 2 2 (two pair, Fives and Twos) Hero wins t2760 Nh, obv snapcall, expect low pocket pairs or Ax a lot.
SPAMZ ' SIXTH HAND HISTORY R EVIEW Quote: Hand #1 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378907 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1500 M = 50 BTN/SB: t1500 M = 50 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with J BTN/SB raises to t40, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40 Yeah, std fold obv. I wouldn't mind defending this though my defending range early on is pretty huge, J2o shouldn't really be in it. Quote:
Hand #2 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378908 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1480 M = 49.33 BB: t1520 M = 50.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with Q Hero raises to t60, BB calls t40
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Flop: (t120) K K 2 (2 players) BB bets t120, Hero raises to t300, BB raises to t480, Hero calls t180 Turn: (t1080) 5 (2 players) BB bets t380, Hero raises to t940 all in, BB folds Final Pot: t1840 Hero wins t1840 Interesting hand from the start. Ehm, I'll assume this a random opponent right? His donkbet could mean anything here obv, from total air to small pocket pairs to 2x or A-high really. I really like your smallish raise on the flop fwiw. Reason for this is that fish in general will call here with hands like JTo to try and hit their "top two" if you make it small enough. Also, 2x or small pocket pairs might jam over it for protection which is obv a nice added effect. Even though his range will include a lot of air, in which case we should be flatting, the board texture just screams out for a small raise because a ton of his air will be floating. Okay, so now, he clicks it back. Wow, such an awesome spot haha. Ehm, obv we're not ever folding, so the question is between repopping and flatting. I don't really know how much fish can see through flatting as being a pretty strong move on this type of board tbh. Tbh, I'd probably click it back myself again on the flop for same reasons as original raise. He'll still peel with his so called livecards and if he has a hand like JT with a heart, pretty sure he still flats and openjams any 9/J/T/Q/A/heart turn. Maybe also some other turns to try and bluff us off whatever we'd be holding. I don't hate a flat to let him spazz more but I
think there's a bit more value in clicking it back on flop. Okay, now that we got to turn like this (which is fine as well obv), either jam or flat again? After we call, the pot will be 1840 with 560 behind. His range still includes a lot of air if you ask me, and even after you flatted flop he still barreled turn, so I'd just flat again here after calling flop I think. I think he's jamming river anyway, whether he has a missed draw or hits (either a better or 2nd best hand) and also a decent amount of total bluffs on river he'll be jamming if you ask me. You might find a case for jamming since he's committed with his flushdraws anyway, and you could say that he won't always jam them on river when he missed, but giving his line, I don't think he sees any action as particular strong so let's just let him barrel! Quote: Hand #3 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378909 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t2400 M = 80 BTN/SB: t600 M = 20 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 9 BTN/SB raises to t40, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40
Quote: Hand #4 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378910 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t2380 M = 79.33 BB: t620 M = 20.67
Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with T K Hero raises to t60, BB raises to t620 all in, Hero calls t560 Flop: (t1240) 2
A
T
Turn: (t1240) 5 River: (t1240) 9 Final Pot: t1240 Hero shows T K (a pair of Tens) BB shows 5 A (two pair, Aces and Fives) BB wins t1240 Interesting spot. I guess the reason you called is that you think he's still a bit on tilt from hand 2. Notice however, that in hand 3, he just minraised his button liked he did before. No 3x or 4x or bigger or openjam, he just kept playing normally. To begin with I wouldn't even open to 3x here in which case you wouldve had an easy fold if you ask me, but stacks are 31bb's so I would just drop it to minraising in general for reason stated in other hh reviews before). We need 44.44% equity to call in this spot, let's see how we do vs a bad range for us: equity win tie pots won pots tied Hand 0: 41.306% 40.75% 00.55% 781525736 10633536.00 { KTs } Hand 1: 58.694% 58.14% 00.55% 1114987672 10633536.00 { 22+, A2s+, KJs+, A2o+, KJo+ } 41.31% equity we have. Not enough clearly, and tbh, this is what I think the biggest part of his range exists of. Let's just add all broadwaycards (KT/QT/QJ/JT) and see that: equity win tie pots won pots tied Hand 0: 44.848% 43.04% 01.81% 969897296 40714032.00 { KTs } Hand 1: 55.152% 53.34% 01.81% 1202066704 40714032.00 { 22+, A2s+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, A2o+, KTo+, QTo+, JTo }
which means we got odds to call. Not entirely sure if he'd jam all of these, but given that I didn't even put any spazzes from suited connectors, or worse Kx hands, 3x/calling seems fine here. Notice however, that if you change KTs to KTo vs the last range, that your equity drops to 41.77% in which case we have a clear fold spot again.
Quote: Hand #5 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378911 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1760 M = 58.67 BTN/SB: t1240 M = 41.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 2 BTN/SB raises to t40, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40 Hint: stop getting such bad hands oop.
Quote: Hand #6 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378912 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1740 M = 58 BB: t1260 M = 42 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 1 fold Final Pot: t20 BB wins t20
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I wouldn't really mind an open here, since you looked pretty nitty so far (preflop that is), though this would be the bottom of my range obv. You can still hit 2card straights with this though, which means it makes my openingrequirements.
Quote: Hand #7 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378913 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1730 M = 57.67 BTN/SB: t1270 M = 42.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with T BTN/SB raises to t40, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40
Quote: Hand #8 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378914 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1710 M = 57 BB: t1290 M = 43 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 2 1 fold
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Final Pot: t20 BB wins t20 Obv I'd prefer to open 95o than this hand.
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Hand #9 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378915 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1700 M = 56.67 BTN/SB: t1300 M = 43.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with A 2 BTN/SB raises to t40, Hero calls t20 Flop: (t80) 9 8 7 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t80, Hero folds Final Pot: t80 BTN/SB wins t80 K cool, looks fine. Obv nothing else we can do on this board. Not a fan of leading and trying to bluffcatch on later streets with Ahigh yet. Just take a note on his cbet sizing on this type of board (for future purposes). Quote: Hand #10 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378916 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1660 M = 55.33 BB: t1340 M = 44.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 Hero raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 Hero wins t40 Weeeeee, we raised a button and he folded! Quote: Hand #11 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament
- t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378917 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1680 M = 56 BTN/SB: t1320 M = 44 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 5 7 BTN/SB raises to t40, Hero calls t20 Flop: (t80) 6 9 A (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t20, Hero raises to t80, BTN/SB calls t60 Turn: (t240) 4 (2 players) Hero bets t160, BTN/SB calls t160 River: (t560) 3 (2 players) Hero bets t380, BTN/SB folds Final Pot: t560 Hero wins t560 Nh sir. Preflop looks standard, though he opens a lot we don't know if he folds to 3bets easily. Flop is standard obv, I prefer to take the lead here than to c/c the small bet and see a potsized bet on the turn when we pick up OE or flushdraw; we also have a decent amount of fold equity on a board like this it seems. Turn is pretty good card to barrel, we pick up some extra outs now and his handrange shouldn't be that strong. Only real interesting is riverbet if you ask me. We don't have any reasons to assume that he's 1) a big station with 9x/TT-KK 2) plays an A like this 3) barrels his busted draws 4) will spazz over a smallishbet with both weak showdown and busted draws in which case I don't mind anything from 250-450 to try and test either of these.
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Hand #12 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378918 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1960 M = 65.33 BB: t1040 M = 34.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with K Hero raises to t60, BB calls t40
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Flop: (t120) J K 7 (2 players) BB bets t120, Hero calls t120 Turn: (t360) 4 (2 players) BB bets t180, Hero raises to t1780 all in, BB folds Final Pot: t720 Hero wins t720 Preflop is fine but WOW, wtf are you doing on flop hah. You've seen him spazz out before when you raised his potlead. Also, this board is SUPERdrawy, in which case there's so much more value to be had from any piece of the board by just raising it up to 300-360 (I'd go around 350 tbh because his range will probably include more draws than total air). Turnjam seems fine with these stacksizes, though I'd just raise flop and get it in on any turn (except maybe a jack) tbh.
Quote: Hand #13 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378919 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t2320 M = 77.33 BTN/SB: t680 M = 22.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with K
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BTN/SB raises to t40, 1 fold Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40 I probably defend here and try and get some more postflop reads on him oop though again, it's pretty much bottom of my range.
Quote: Hand #14 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378920 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t2300 M = 76.67 BB: t700 M = 23.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 Hero raises to t40, BB calls t20
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Flop: (t80) 5 3 8 (2 players) BB bets t80, Hero folds Final Pot: t80 BB wins t80 Sick spot. Third time he leads pot though, however, I really like your fold here. Point is that we're only barely beating a random range of hands, and we can't stand any heat on almost no turncards save a few. Especially this shallow, nothing much more to do. We're flipping against any club basically, any 8x has us crushed and we're not doing good either against gutter + club hands either. Nh imo.
Quote: Hand #15 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378921 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
Hero (BB): t2260 M = 75.33 BTN/SB: t740 M = 24.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 2 A BTN/SB raises to t40, Hero calls t20 Flop: (t80) 4 5 7 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t80, Hero folds Final Pot: t80 BTN/SB wins t80 Same as before with the A2o, not really the board we want to have action on, esp not vs a potbet, and even less so because our gutter makes a better onecardstraight on the board.
Quote: Hand #16 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378922 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t2220 M = 74 BB: t780 M = 26 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 7 1 fold
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Final Pot: t20 BB wins t20 Yah, from this point on, I wouldn't open too much since he's quite aggro oop without having the preflop initiative.
Quote: Hand #17 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378923 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
Hero (BB): t2210 M = 73.67 BTN/SB: t790 M = 26.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 3 BTN/SB calls t10, Hero checks
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Flop: (t40) 9 7 5 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t20, Hero calls t20 Turn: (t80) 8 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t80, Hero folds Final Pot: t80 BTN/SB wins t80 I would most likely lead here. His limping range is probably weak and aimed at cards 8 or lower so a lot of value to be had from weaker pairs or gutters or maybe both but we're in good shape vs his range if you ask me. I'd bet t30 here.
Quote: Hand #18 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378924 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t2170 M = 72.33 BB: t830 M = 27.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 1 fold
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Final Pot: t20 BB wins t20 Std, def not opening this vs this villain.
Quote: Hand #19 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament
- t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378925 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t2160 M = 72 BTN/SB: t840 M = 28 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 9 J BTN/SB raises to t40, Hero calls t20 Flop: (t80) J 6 2 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t80, Hero calls t80 Turn: (t240) 7 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t240) T (2 players) Hero bets t140, BTN/SB calls t140 Final Pot: t520 Hero shows 9 J BTN/SB mucks 6 Hero wins t520
(a pair of Jacks) 8
I'd checkraise and get this in for 40bb's tbh. I know the board isn't drawheavy, but if you checkraise to t200 expect to get floated by random overcard(s) or even cards between the 6 and the J (or spazz 3bets like he did before from total air?). Also, don't think 6x or pocket pairs < JJ are folding when you checkraise the flop. If you opt to c/c flop then river looks fine, nh. (I guess you c/c flop because you figure he's going to keep betting at it, however, we never been into a spot like this before in a raised pot so we have no reason to believe he will continu betting, especially against our pair of jacks which is still kind of vulnerable atm with us not having an overcard blocker.)
Quote: Hand #20 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament
- t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378926 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t2420 M = 80.67 BB: t580 M = 19.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with J Hero raises to t40, BB calls t20
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Flop: (t80) 4 T T (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t40, BB raises to t540 all in, Hero calls t500 Turn: (t1160) 5
(2 players - 1 is all in)
River: (t1160) 5
(2 players - 1 is all in)
Final Pot: t1160 Hero shows J 8 (two pair, Tens and Fives) BB shows 6 5 (a full house, Fives full of Tens) BB wins t1160 Heh, sick, nh, well played obv.
Quote: Hand #21 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378927 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1840 M = 40.89 BTN/SB: t1160 M = 25.78 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 5 6 BTN/SB raises to t90, Hero calls t60 Flop: (t180) 4 A Q (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t180, Hero folds Final Pot: t180
BTN/SB wins t180 Preflop is close, with the 56s giving how he loves the potbutton. It's gonna be checkraise all-in a lot of the time once we flop some sort of draw, just a reminder. I wouldnt mind leading this flop smallish (t90) and bet a lot of turns (or checkraise all-in since he's likely to stab and a good turn falls of) to avoid just c/f'ing to his potbets all the time. Quote: Hand #22 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378928 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1750 M = 38.89 BB: t1250 M = 27.78 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with Q Hero raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60 Yeah just start minraising. Might even 3x against him with stronger hands, since he doesn't seem to pay attention to too much so far.
Quote: Hand #23 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378929 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1780 M = 39.56 BTN/SB: t1220 M = 27.11 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with A Q BTN/SB calls t15, Hero raises to t100, BTN/SB calls t70
Flop: (t200) 3 K 3 (2 players) Hero bets t120, BTN/SB folds Final Pot: t200 Hero wins t200 Standard, nice hand. Preflop and flop sizing seem fine.
Quote: Hand #24 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378930 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1880 M = 41.78 BB: t1120 M = 24.89 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with A Hero raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60
Quote: Hand #25 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378931 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1910 M = 42.44 BTN/SB: t1090 M = 24.22 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 9 BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60
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Probably call here since it's suited and he just minraised. Don't see why you call 3x with 56s and not MR with 95s tbh.
Quote: Hand #26 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378932 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1880 M = 41.78 BB: t1120 M = 24.89 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with J Hero raises to t60, BB calls t30
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Flop: (t120) A K J (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t120) 8 (2 players) BB bets t120, Hero calls t120 River: (t360) K (2 players) BB bets t940 all in, Hero folds Final Pot: t360 BB wins t360 I'm seriously in doubt whether to just cbet and pick up the pot, or let him bluff, though I think i'm a little results oriented here. I don't mind how you played it and would fold river as well. Also notice how he hasn't 3bet us before so his flattingrange isnt necessarily that weak, he can easily flat AK-AT or 2 broadwaycards combinations as far as we know. Besides, our hand isn't THAT vulnerable so giving a free card isn't that betting. His river jam is a bit weird and he can still have all sorts of hands here so I sincerely doubt you have odds to call here. Nh imo.
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Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378933 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1700 M = 37.78 BTN/SB: t1300 M = 28.89 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 3 BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60
Quote: Hand #28 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378934 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1670 M = 37.11 BB: t1330 M = 29.56 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with T Hero raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60
Quote: Hand #29 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378935 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1700 M = 37.78 BTN/SB: t1300 M = 28.89
Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with A 1 fold
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Final Pot: t30 Hero wins t30
Quote: Hand #30 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378936 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1715 M = 38.11 BB: t1285 M = 28.56 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 6 Hero raises to t60, BB calls t30
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Flop: (t120) 8 Q 5 (2 players) BB bets t180, Hero folds Final Pot: t120 BB wins t120 Bleh, stupid spot, he bet big with 2nd pair before and I doubt he's folding it so yeah... Nh, nothing you can do really against this opponent.
Quote: Hand #31 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378937 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1655 M = 36.78 BTN/SB: t1345 M = 29.89 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with A
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BTN/SB raises to t60, Hero calls t30 Flop: (t120) 2 6 Q (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t120) 7 (2 players) Hero bets t30, BTN/SB folds Final Pot: t120 Hero wins t120 Hah, I'll leave this open for now and would appreciate your thoughts on the 1bb bet. I think it's kind of interesting spot/line, will discuss this once you replied.
Quote: Hand #32 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378938 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1715 M = 38.11 BB: t1285 M = 28.56 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 6 Hero raises to t60, BB calls t30
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Flop: (t120) 8 Q 6 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t120) J (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks River: (t120) J (2 players) BB bets t120, Hero calls t120 Final Pot: t360 Hero shows 6 2 (two pair, Jacks and Sixes) BB shows 9 3 (a pair of Jacks) Hero wins t360
I like how you played this hand tbh, and this shows us a lot of info for the future. Notice how: 1) He didn't donk pot with total air, which means his big bets are usually at least SOME piece of the board (which makes the 66 hand even better of a fold looking back if you ask me). 2) He defended 93o vs a minraise pre 3) He bluffed on a pretty bad river bluffspot (which means flatting turn in 2nd hand with KQ on KK25 wouldve been better I guess).
Quote: Hand #33 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378939 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1895 M = 42.11 BTN/SB: t1105 M = 24.56 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with A 6 BTN/SB raises to t60, Hero calls t30 Flop: (t120) J 4 7 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t90, Hero raises to t240, BTN/SB calls t150 Turn: (t600) 4 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t150, Hero folds Final Pot: t600 BTN/SB wins t600 Why are you bluffraising here to then c/f on one of the best cards for you? I don't get the point in bluffraising too much vs an opponent like this in the first place, let alone on a board like this with your sizing. Pretty sure he'll float hands like KT, any pair, any gutter/OE and maybe even more bull**** hands and he'll take it away on pretty much all turns except an ace. If you're raising to get value from his draws/floats, then I don't see how you can c/f this turn. Just wait for hands to either bluffcatch him, or valuetown him big
when you have a hand that can stand heat.
Quote: Hand #34 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378940 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1595 M = 35.44 BB: t1405 M = 31.22 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with Q Hero raises to t60, BB calls t30
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Flop: (t120) 6 4 A (2 players) BB bets t120, Hero calls t120 Turn: (t360) 7 (2 players) BB bets t360, Hero folds Final Pot: t360 BB wins t360 I would again just fold here. You have some more outs than the 66 hand if you're behind obv, but again, he didn't donk 93o and on this board, you'll hate all turncards really apart from maybe 20% from the deck. How comfortable would you be calling down on 9/T/J/K turns when he bets again? Once he bets, he doesn't seem to stop so far it seems, unless he has showdown value (notice the J9o hand against his middle pair that turned 3rd pair?).
Quote: Hand #35 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378941 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1415 M = 23.58 BTN/SB: t1585 M = 26.42
Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with T BTN/SB raises to t80, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t80 BTN/SB wins t80
Quote: Hand #36 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378942 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1375 M = 22.92 BB: t1625 M = 27.08 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with Q 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BB wins t40 Don't mind tighting it up a bit vs him.
Quote: Hand #37 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378943 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1355 M = 22.58 BTN/SB: t1645 M = 27.42 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 7 BTN/SB raises to t80, 1 fold Final Pot: t80
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BTN/SB wins t80
Quote: Hand #38 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378944 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1315 M = 21.92 BB: t1685 M = 28.08 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 Hero raises to t80, BB calls t40
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Flop: (t160) 8 5 2 (2 players) BB bets t160, Hero calls t160 Turn: (t480) 7 (2 players) BB bets t400, Hero raises to t1075 all in, BB folds Final Pot: t1280 Hero wins t1280 I don't think I would flat flop here tbh. Seems like a spot that'll get you in trouble a lot on turn since he'll be betting big again. Also, with these stacksizes, I wouldnt expect a lot of fold equity on turn, especially not a turn like this (it really surprised me that he folded on this specific turn fwiw). Just jam flop if you ask me, 480 in the pot after you call and you only have 2 potbets left. His range is big enough to have enough fold equity to make it ev+. Also, if he decides to call it off with a straightdraw, we're in pretty good shape since we have blockers for hands like 97/96/76/A3/A4/43.
Quote: Hand #39 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament
- t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378945 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1955 M = 32.58 BTN/SB: t1045 M = 17.42 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with J BTN/SB raises to t80, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t80 BTN/SB wins t80
Quote: Hand #40 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378946 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1915 M = 31.92 BB: t1085 M = 18.08 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with T 6 Hero raises to t80, BB raises to t120, Hero calls t40 Flop: (t240) 5 9 9 (2 players) BB bets t240, Hero folds Final Pot: t240 BB wins t240 First time he did this, std played imo, nh.
Quote: Hand #41 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378947 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
Hero (BB): t1795 M = 29.92 BTN/SB: t1205 M = 20.08 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 2 BTN/SB raises to t80, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t80 BTN/SB wins t80
Quote: Hand #42 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378948 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1755 M = 29.25 BB: t1245 M = 20.75 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with Q Hero raises to t80, BB calls t40
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Flop: (t160) 9 K 3 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t80, BB calls t80 Turn: (t320) Q (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks River: (t320) 2 (2 players) BB bets t320, Hero calls t320 Final Pot: t960 Hero mucks Q 5 BB shows K T (a pair of Kings) BB wins t960 Bleh, pre and flop are std obv. Turn I might be inclined to bet for really thin value since he doesn't seem to have a lot and pretty sure he doesn't fold pair + gutter and his preflop range is HUGE from the 93o hand so he could have T3o or J3o or anything Tx or Jx here really. Let alone 9x who will probably pay you off itself...
Not trying to be results oriented, but it also prevents you from calling a bigger riverbet. I say thin value because we don't beat QJT pick 2 with our kicker and it's an easy fold if getting checkraised. Rivercall seems thinner than it looks, since for us to call, it would require him to change 3x or some mid-low pocket pair or random float in a bluff. However, from all the weird stuff we seen from him so far, looks pretty okay to call down since he could easily have random airballz here. Notice however how he's boardtexture-aware. He didn't try and protect his toppair hand here (though we haven't had any showdown in other hands) since it's not a drawheavy board and only one overcard can fall. Something we might find usefull in the future.
Quote: Hand #43 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378949 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1275 M = 21.25 BTN/SB: t1725 M = 28.75 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 6 BTN/SB raises to t80, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t80 BTN/SB wins t80
Quote: Hand #44 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378950 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
Hero (BTN/SB): t1235 M = 20.58 BB: t1765 M = 29.42 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with T 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BB wins t40 Try and get some better hands imo.
Quote: Hand #45 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378951 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1215 M = 20.25 BTN/SB: t1785 M = 29.75 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 6 A BTN/SB raises to t80, Hero calls t40 Flop: (t160) 3 A 5 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t160) 9 (2 players) Hero bets t120, BTN/SB raises to t520, Hero raises to t1135 all in, BTN/SB folds Final Pot: t1200 Hero wins t1200 SWEEEEEEEEET, TOP PFAIR! Finally. Like how you played it. I guess the flop check was to checkraise/get it in? Obv not overly thrilled with just the 6s but still checkraise/get it in seems best since we also have toppair with it and a lot of worse hands he's getting in or hands we're flipping against or just flatting. Turn seems std, lol @ his potraise/fold haha, nh sir!
See how you just need a hand once and can win t600 from him without showdown and it isn't necessarry to start bluffraising too much vs this kind of opponents? Sucks that you were a bit carddead but they give you so much chips for free if you DO have a hand so it's all good.
Quote: Hand #46 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378952 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1815 M = 30.25 BB: t1185 M = 19.75 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with K A Hero raises to t80, BB raises to t120, Hero raises to t1815 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t240 Hero wins t240 WOW, I REALLY dislike your jam here fwiw, ugh. =/ So much more value to be had. He clicked it back pre before, I don't expect his range to be stackoff worthy though you obv never know that he might call it off with like A6o. What I do know however is that - if you just make it 400-ish preflop - he's gonna be jamming SO MUCH MORE or at least flatting and openjamming all flops and there's only a very limited amount of flops that we would on (like T98sss for example) since we're gonna be getting 2-1 on a call and have 2 overs at the very least (and the best hand a bunch if we flop toppair or he has a draw).
Quote: Hand #47 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378953 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
Hero (BB): t1935 M = 32.25 BTN/SB: t1065 M = 17.75 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 4 BTN/SB calls t20, Hero checks
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Flop: (t80) K 3 J (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t80, Hero folds Final Pot: t80 BTN/SB wins t80 Yeah no need to get super fancy here against a guy that's aggro and isn't folding.
Quote: Hand #48 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378954 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1895 M = 31.58 BB: t1105 M = 18.42 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with 4 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BB wins t40
Quote: Hand #49 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378955 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1875 M = 31.25
BTN/SB: t1125 M = 18.75 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 9 BTN/SB raises to t80, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t80 BTN/SB wins t80
Quote: Hand #50 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378956 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1835 M = 30.58 BB: t1165 M = 19.42 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with 4 Hero raises to t80, BB calls t40
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Flop: (t160) T 6 7 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t160) 8 (2 players) BB bets t120, Hero folds Final Pot: t160 BB wins t160 Yeah I probably give up here, board is way too coordinated and our hand doesnt even bluffcatch well unless we would bet/bet/jam ourselves which I wouldnt advise against this type of opponent (they're usually aware of what's happening and will bluffcatch if they have a bluffcatch type of hand and might c/c c/c donkshove river themselves anyway).
[/quote] Hand #51 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament
- t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378957 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1755 M = 29.25 BTN/SB: t1245 M = 20.75 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 7 8 BTN/SB raises to t80, Hero calls t40 Flop: (t160) Q A J (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t160) 4 (2 players) Hero bets t110, BTN/SB folds Final Pot: t160 Hero wins t160 [/quote] Wouldn't mind a smallish flop lead hoping he just flats and then a big bet on the turn tbh. He'll float with enough Kx/Tx or Qx/Jx that he'll fold on turn instead of raising pot (which would be a jam effective). Since he checked back flop I would probably stab turn as well though expect him to have showdown value to say the least. Preflop is about the cutoff for my range to defend I guess. Also, wouldn't mind a small 3bet with this hand, expecting to get 100% calls and then just cbet most boards and pick it up. Don't try to get too fancy like I explained before, but once in a while a well placed bluff is never wrong. As long as you try and not win every pot vs this type of opponents it's fine.
Quote: Hand #52 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378958 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1835 M = 30.58
BB: t1165 M = 19.42 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 Hero raises to t80, BB calls t40
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Flop: (t160) A 3 Q (2 players) BB bets t160, Hero folds Final Pot: t160 BB wins t160 If you didn't win last hand on a similar board, I wouldn't mind a raise to 475 or something on this board but I think he's way more likely to play back since you got him of his hand one hand ago.
Quote: Hand #53 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378959 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1755 M = 29.25 BTN/SB: t1245 M = 20.75 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with T BTN/SB calls t20, Hero checks
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Flop: (t80) T 2 6 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t80) 5 (2 players) Hero bets t55, BTN/SB calls t55 River: (t190) 3 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t190, Hero calls t190 Final Pot: t570 Hero mucks T J BTN/SB shows 4 9 BTN/SB wins t570
(a straight, Six high)
Preflop I'd raise up his limp. Imo, his limping range is pretty weak, I expect him to flat a lot and limp/reraise almost never (in which case I'd fold to the limp/raise because he could have like A6o and he won't fold it to a jam ever). Just 3x it and play postflop against a range that has a lot of dominated hands or 2 unders in general. Flop I don't mind a check for checkraising, he's been stabbing most pots so far. Turn is def a lead for value, I wouldn't mind making it a bit bigger for value since his callingrange will be pretty much the same. River seems fine since clubs missed and if we bet again I don't know how much he's calling with 3x or 5x for that matter or if he's capable of raising 2 pair hands for example, so nh. Quote: Hand #54 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378960 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1470 M = 24.50 BB: t1530 M = 25.50 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with A Hero raises to t80, BB calls t40 Flop: (t160) 6 Q K (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t160) 2 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks River: (t160) J (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Final Pot: t160 Hero shows A 5 (Ace King high) BB shows K 7 (a pair of Kings)
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BB wins t160
Weird hand by him LOL haha. I don't mind how you played it tbh, like < 30bb's I guess you can just jam over his minraise if you're not comfortable playing this oop postflop (which is fine against this opponent). His checking back is really lol though. =D
Quote: Hand #55 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378961 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1390 M = 23.17 BTN/SB: t1610 M = 26.83 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with Q BTN/SB raises to t80, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t80 BTN/SB wins t80
Quote: Hand #56 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378962 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1350 M = 22.50 BB: t1650 M = 27.50 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with Q 1 fold Final Pot: t40 BB wins t40
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Quote: Hand #57 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378963 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1330 M = 22.17 BTN/SB: t1670 M = 27.83 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 8 BTN/SB raises to t80, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t80 BTN/SB wins t80
Quote: Hand #58 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378964 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1290 M = 21.50 BB: t1710 M = 28.50 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 Hero raises to t80, BB calls t40 Flop: (t160) 7 T Q (2 players) BB bets t200, Hero calls t200 Turn: (t560) 2 (2 players) BB bets t360, Hero calls t360 River: (t1280) J (2 players) BB bets t1070 all in, Hero folds Final Pot: t1280 BB wins t1280
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Interesting hand, once again. =) Pre and flop look std if you ask me, not that many bad turncards that can come really. Fwiw, he seems to have put a lot of money in already without getting stacks in, but we have no clue about his 3barrel bluff range. For that case, I'd probably be most likely to jam turn myself with these stacksizes. I think we have the best hand a ton here and probably have some outs if not. Reason for this is 2fold: - We don't know how much 3barrels he does because we havent been to showdown yet. - We avoid folding the best hand on some bad rivers (like this one) since we don't know if the first applies or not. I would be more inclined to flat with a much less vulnerable hand like KQ for example; only Ax is really the river we don't want to see and we're calling anyway... Just jam turn and expect to pick up the pot most of the time against him I guess. A/K/J rivers still suck with your hand and I guess you can fold now that you come so far this way.
Quote: Hand #59 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378965 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t650 M = 8.67 BTN/SB: t2350 M = 31.33 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 2 BTN/SB raises to t100, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t100 BTN/SB wins t100
Quote: Hand #60 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378966
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t600 M = 8 BB: t2400 M = 32 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with 6 1 fold
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Final Pot: t50 BB wins t50
Quote: Hand #61 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378967 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t575 M = 7.67 BTN/SB: t2425 M = 32.33 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 3 BTN/SB raises to t100, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t100 BTN/SB wins t100
Quote: Hand #62 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378968 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t525 M = 7 BB: t2475 M = 33 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with 7 Hero raises to t525 all in, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t100 Hero wins t100 Yeah std push here though I expect him to call somewhat wider than nash.
Quote: Hand #63 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378969 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t575 M = 7.67 BTN/SB: t2425 M = 32.33 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 8 9 BTN/SB raises to t100, Hero raises to t575 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t200 Hero wins t200 Yeah he's been minraising all hands so far so you should have enough fold equity to make this ev+, nh.
Quote: Hand #64 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378970 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t675 M = 9 BB: t2325 M = 31 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with 7 1 fold Final Pot: t50 BB wins t50
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Yeah wouldn't minraise/fold too much against a really aggro opponent like this. Just fold seems best.
Quote: Hand #65 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378971 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t650 M = 8.67 BTN/SB: t2350 M = 31.33 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 4 BTN/SB calls t25, Hero checks
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Flop: (t100) T A 3 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t100) 9 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t50, Hero folds Final Pot: t100 BTN/SB wins t100 I would bluffcatch here so much. Notice how his limpingrange is likely to be weak, and the fact that he checked back 94o on T52cc wasnt the brightest idea. I also doubt that he's gonna be betting 4th pair on the river if he has like 85 with one club if he pairs up so i'm pretty comfortable c/c c/c on turn/river unless a club falls tbh, especially if he pots river.
Quote: Hand #66 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378972 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t600 M = 8 BB: t2400 M = 32
Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 1 fold
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Final Pot: t50 BB wins t50
Quote: Hand #67 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378973 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t575 M = 7.67 BTN/SB: t2425 M = 32.33 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with Q Q BTN/SB raises to t100, Hero raises to t575 all in, BTN/SB calls t475 Flop: (t1150) J
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Turn: (t1150) 7 River: (t1150) 5 Final Pot: t1150 Hero shows Q Q (a full house, Queens full of Sevens) BTN/SB shows A 2 (a pair of Sevens) Hero wins t1150 I might flat here or make a small 3bet; doesn't look this opponent will notice this and exploit it. Think flatting is fine tbh and leading small on a ton of flops or just checking. Doesn't really matter how/where you get the money in really, just a minor evdifference if you ask me. Reason for flatting is obv because he will MR/fold a bunch but wont get away from a bad toppair or middle pair postflop really.
Quote: Hand #68 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378974 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1150 M = 15.33 BB: t1850 M = 24.67 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with J Hero raises to t100, BB calls t50
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Flop: (t200) K 9 J (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t100, BB folds Final Pot: t200 Hero wins t200 Yeah cool, well played. Might check flop since he will stab turn and we're not afraid of any turncard really, even though we have no hearts at all.
Quote: Hand #69 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378975 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1250 M = 16.67 BTN/SB: t1750 M = 23.33 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 7 BTN/SB raises to t150, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t100 BTN/SB wins t100 I probably would call a minraise here but not vs 3x.
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Hand #70 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378976 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1200 M = 16 BB: t1800 M = 24 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with 3 1 fold
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Final Pot: t50 BB wins t50 Yeah, raising 2 wheelcards doesnt seem like the best strategy against this opponent, even though it's suited.
Quote: Hand #71 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378977 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1175 M = 15.67 BTN/SB: t1825 M = 24.33 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 4 1 fold
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Final Pot: t50 Hero wins t50
Quote: Hand #72 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378978 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
Hero (BTN/SB): t1200 M = 16 BB: t1800 M = 24 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 Hero raises to t100, BB calls t50
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Flop: (t200) 7 2 9 (2 players) BB bets t200, Hero folds Final Pot: t200 BB wins t200 Close, but probably okay and way better than raising 35s though; obv flop is a fold.
Quote: Hand #73 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378979 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1100 M = 14.67 BTN/SB: t1900 M = 25.33 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 6 A BTN/SB raises to t100, Hero raises to t1100 all in, BTN/SB calls t1000 Flop: (t2200) J
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Turn: (t2200) 4 River: (t2200) 8 Final Pot: t2200 Hero shows 6 A (a pair of Sixes) BTN/SB shows K T (King Jack high) Hero wins t2200
Yeah, standard snapshove, very standard since it'll play pretty crappy vs this opponent with these stacksizes.
Quote: Hand #74 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378980 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t2200 M = 29.33 BB: t800 M = 10.67 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with J Hero calls t25, BB checks
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Flop: (t100) 3 7 6 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t50, BB calls t50 Turn: (t200) 8 (2 players) BB bets t50, Hero raises to t250, BB calls t200 River: (t700) 2 (2 players) BB bets t150, Hero calls t150 Final Pot: t1000 Hero mucks J J BB shows 9 T (a flush, Nine high) BB wins t1000 Wow, why on earth are you limping? He's pretty loose pre (defended 93o, remember?) and been potting into you without preflop initiative anyway so why not raise and let him fire 200 on the flop and either call or jam over it? I see like ZERO reasons to limp preflop, especially because you jammed over a minraise prior hand so if anything, I'd expect him to jam over it wider than usualy himself. Also, not being results oriented here, but do you really think he's gonna be 3x'ing that much oop with garbage with these stacksizes? Seems that it's more likely of him flatting and betting 200 on flop into you which is like 250 extra chips he puts in the
pot instead of 100.
Quote: Hand #75 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378981 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1700 M = 22.67 BTN/SB: t1300 M = 17.33 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with Q BTN/SB raises to t100, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t100 BTN/SB wins t100
Quote: Hand #76 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378982 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1650 M = 22 BB: t1350 M = 18 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 Hero raises to t100, BB calls t50
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Flop: (t200) Q A 3 (2 players) BB bets t200, Hero folds Final Pot: t200 BB wins t200 Yeah giving up seems okay. Wouldn't mind a raise to 485 or something in this spot though, esp since he seemed board aware and he's unlikely to be donking an ace on the flop.
Quote: Hand #77 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378983 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1550 M = 20.67 BTN/SB: t1450 M = 19.33 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 7 BTN/SB raises to t100, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t100 BTN/SB wins t100
Quote: Hand #78 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378984 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1500 M = 20 BB: t1500 M = 20 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with 4 1 fold
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Final Pot: t50 BB wins t50
Quote: Hand #79 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378985 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1475 M = 19.67
BTN/SB: t1525 M = 20.33 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 2 BTN/SB raises to t100, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t100 BTN/SB wins t100 Might jam here shallower but he called KTs so don't think it's ev+ for 30bb's stacks really and calling oop doesn't seem like the best idea here either.
Quote: Hand #80 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378986 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1425 M = 19 BB: t1575 M = 21 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 Hero raises to t100, BB calls t50
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Flop: (t200) 3 3 5 (2 players) BB bets t100, Hero calls t100 Turn: (t400) 2 (2 players) BB bets t200, Hero folds Final Pot: t400 BB wins t400 Idk what to think of your flop float tbh, especially without a diamond. I guess you were planning on blufraising most turns that were like 9+ cards? Guess it's okay but dont forget you cant just call to hit an overcard here because he will fire the turn A TON and I dont know how much he will be folding two pair even if an overcard falls (in which case we got good implied odds on our 8/7 though not as much FE on bluffcards and we could be dominated by better "air" donking hands like Q8 or smth). I might
limp with this and see how he reacts here for the first time. Our hand doesn't flop that well and we can see if he raises limp wide.
Quote: Hand #81 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378987 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1225 M = 16.33 BTN/SB: t1775 M = 23.67 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 7 A BTN/SB raises to t100, Hero raises to t1225 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t200 Hero wins t200 Std jam, nh.
Quote: Hand #82 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378988 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1325 M = 14.72 BB: t1675 M = 18.61 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BTN/SB with 6 Hero calls t30, BB checks
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Flop: (t120) K 9 8 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t60, BB calls t60 Turn: (t240) A (2 players) BB bets t240, Hero raises to t1205 all in, BB folds Final Pot: t720
Hero wins t720 Nh, well played. Limping seems fine, he's not aggro against them. Turn is an obv jam, he won't have an A all that often and will fold 3rd or 4th pair enough.
Quote: Hand #83 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378989 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1685 M = 18.72 BTN/SB: t1315 M = 14.61 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BB with 6 BTN/SB raises to t120, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t120 BTN/SB wins t120 Seems like a jam to me. He opens enough, rarely folds buttons really, has limped a couple times so far but don't think he does it enough to justify not jamming here. 180 in the pot we can take right there; let's say his callingrange is perfect (which isn't the case obv, since he's either folding K7type hands or also calling QJT pick 2 type hands, but for the sake of education...): equity win tie pots won pots tied Hand 0: 33.859% 32.19% 01.66% 2070590724 106993152.00 { K6o } Hand 1: 66.141% 64.48% 01.66% 4146836796 106993152.00 { 22+, A2s+, K7s, A2o+, K7o+ } So if we get called we're going to be in a 2630 pot with 33.859% equity and will lose 424.5 chips everytime we get called. A range of [22+,A2s+,K7s,A2o+,K7o+] is 26.1% of all hands and he needs to fold 2.3555 times as much as he opens to even out the ev we lose from jamming and getting called which means he needs to open 61.5% of the time, which is OBV true and this is
even with a perfect callingrange against our hand.
Quote: Hand #84 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378990 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1625 M = 18.06 BB: t1375 M = 15.28 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 Hero raises to t120, BB calls t60
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Flop: (t240) Q T 7 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t240) K (2 players) BB bets t240, Hero folds Final Pot: t240 BB wins t240 I probably bet the flop here to protect our equity since he's not the checkraise type of guy and we still have an over and some backdoor straights and overcard if we get called. Also, he defends wide and donks wide, so we need to bet here if you ask me, just to take down the pot. Sucks if he c/c's and pots turn or smth but we really have nothing anyway and he'll fold often enough for a t135 cbet to be profitable.
Quote: Hand #85 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378991 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1505 M = 16.72 BTN/SB: t1495 M = 16.61
Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BB with 8 K BTN/SB raises to t120, Hero calls t60 Flop: (t240) 3 4 Q (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t240, Hero folds Final Pot: t240 BTN/SB wins t240 Both flatting and jamming pre look fine, more a fan of flatting since K8s flops semi-decently and he's putting more money in postflop anyway.
Quote: Hand #86 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378992 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1385 M = 15.39 BB: t1615 M = 17.94 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BTN/SB with A 6 Hero calls t30, BB raises to t120, Hero calls t60 Flop: (t240) 9 2 J (2 players) BB bets t240, Hero folds Final Pot: t240 BB wins t240 Std, might limp since he's donking a HUGE percentage so far and not being shovehappy over minraises so I don't think MR/calling is even an option at this point.
Quote: Hand #87 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378993 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
Hero (BB): t1265 M = 14.06 BTN/SB: t1735 M = 19.28 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BB with Q 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60 =( superuser obv
Quote: Hand #88 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378994 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1295 M = 14.39 BB: t1705 M = 18.94 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BTN/SB with 2 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 BB wins t60
Quote: Hand #89 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378995 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1265 M = 14.06 BTN/SB: t1735 M = 19.28 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BB with 6 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60 Obv jamming if he minraises.
Quote: Hand #90 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378996 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1295 M = 14.39 BB: t1705 M = 18.94 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BTN/SB with A Hero raises to t120, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t120 Hero wins t120 DEF superuser now!
Quote: Hand #91 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378997 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1355 M = 15.06 BTN/SB: t1645 M = 18.28 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BB with T 1 fold Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60 Getting ridic hahaha.
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Quote: Hand #92 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378998 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1385 M = 15.39 BB: t1615 M = 17.94 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BTN/SB with T Hero raises to t120, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t120 Hero wins t120 Not a big fan of minraising here though he seems to have nitted it up a bit. Still would just fold and wait for at least something sooted (which means we have 10% more flops we like if he flats/donks pot on flop).
Quote: Hand #93 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 378999 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1445 M = 16.06 BTN/SB: t1555 M = 17.28 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BB with 7 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60
Quote: Hand #94 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 379000
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1475 M = 16.39 BB: t1525 M = 16.94 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BTN/SB with Q Hero raises to t120, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t120 Hero wins t120 Yeah, not limping is the thing to do here vs him.
Quote: Hand #95 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 379001 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1535 M = 17.06 BTN/SB: t1465 M = 16.28 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BB with 7 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60 Wow he's sitting out or smth?
Quote: Hand #96 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 379002 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1565 M = 17.39 BB: t1435 M = 15.94 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BTN/SB with K
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Hero raises to t120, 1 fold Final Pot: t120 Hero wins t120 Wouldn't mind a limp tbh here.
Quote: Hand #97 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 379003 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1625 M = 18.06 BTN/SB: t1375 M = 15.28 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BB with 2 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60
Quote: Hand #98 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 379004 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1655 M = 18.39 BB: t1345 M = 14.94 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BTN/SB with T K Hero raises to t120, BB raises to t360, Hero raises to t1655 all in, BB calls t985 all in Flop: (t2690) 2 Turn: (t2690) 9
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River: (t2690) 6 Final Pot: t2690 Hero shows T K (two pair, Nines and Sixes) BB shows 2 2 (a full house, Twos full of Nines) BB wins t2690 Wow, ehm, why on earth did you jam here? Apart from the 2x click it back, this is the first time he 3bet. You think he tries to look strong after folding so many hands? Call > fold > jam here imo, ainec. Doubt he 3bet/folds hands like A-rag if he decides to 3bet them anyway, also not KJ/KQ so you're pretty much in a sucky spot. Just heard that villain WAS indead sitting out for a number of hands (now I get the T2o raise), in which case call = jam > fold imo. Thing with flatting is that we flop reasonably good (mostly toppairs or 2nd pairs or strong draws) and he's almost always leading out if wwe hit if you ask me. Think it's pretty close but you have enough behind to not have to jam here I think, though picking up the dead money is fine again. Think you can do both, flatting or jamming. If this is his first hand back, I agree that jamming is obv ev+ as well.
Quote: Hand #99 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 379005 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t310 M = 3.44 BTN/SB: t2690 M = 29.89 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BB with 8 BTN/SB calls t30, Hero checks
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Flop: (t120) J 7 Q (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t60, Hero folds
Final Pot: t120 BTN/SB wins t120
Quote: Hand #100 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 379006 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t250 M = 2.78 BB: t2750 M = 30.56 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 8 Hero raises to t250 all in, BB calls t190 Flop: (t500) Q
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Turn: (t500) K River: (t500) 2 Final Pot: t500 Hero shows 5 8 (a flush, King high) BB shows 2 A (a pair of Twos) Hero wins t500
Quote: Hand #101 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 379007 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t500 M = 5.56 BTN/SB: t2500 M = 27.78 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BB with 7 7 BTN/SB raises to t120, Hero raises to t500 all in, BTN/SB calls
t380 Flop: (t1000) A
7
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Turn: (t1000) T River: (t1000) 3 Final Pot: t1000 Hero shows 7 7 BTN/SB shows K Hero wins t1000
(three of a kind, Sevens) A (a pair of Aces)
Std, nice hand!
Quote: Hand #102 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 379008 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1000 M = 11.11 BB: t2000 M = 22.22 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BTN/SB with T Hero calls t30, BB checks Flop: (t120) 9 8 J (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t120) 2 (2 players) BB bets t120, Hero calls t120 River: (t360) 6 (2 players) BB bets t180, Hero calls t180 Final Pot: t720 Hero mucks T 2 BB shows 3 6 (a pair of Sixes) BB wins t720
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Wow. Ehm, preflop, to start with, I don't mind as much, however, I wouldn't mind minraising either since it's suited which means we can jam all his potleads when we flop a ten/flushdraw and also some openenders probably or just random flops on AQx or smth (since he donked these type of boards a lot before and his texture awareness means he's probably not doing it for value). But okay, we limp, fair enough. How can you NOT bet the flop? Even if it's just protecting your equity when he has worse? He'll donk turn A BUNCH if you ask me and unless you plan on jamming over a turn potbet (which I think is too much of an overbet), just bet flop! This guy is actually capable of checkraising and folding to your jam so plz plz bet flop here.
Quote: Hand #103 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 379009 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t640 M = 7.11 BTN/SB: t2360 M = 26.22 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BB with K J BTN/SB calls t30, Hero raises to t640 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t120 Hero wins t120 Standard obv.
Quote: Hand #104 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 379010 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t700 M = 7.78 BB: t2300 M = 25.56
Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BTN/SB with 6 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 BB wins t60
Quote: Hand #105 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 379011 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t670 M = 7.44 BTN/SB: t2330 M = 25.89 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BB with 4 BTN/SB raises to t120, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t120 BTN/SB wins t120 Since the hands he folded before where because he was sitting out, I'd still assume he's minraising wide and folding at least some percentage (and sometimes calls worse like QJT9 pick 2) so I'd just jam here for 11bb's effective.
Quote: Hand #106 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 379012 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t610 M = 6.78 BB: t2390 M = 26.56 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BTN/SB with 6 Hero raises to t610 all in, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t120 Hero wins t120
Quote: Hand #107 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 379013 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t670 M = 5.58 BTN/SB: t2330 M = 19.42 Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BB with 4 BTN/SB raises to t160, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t160 BTN/SB wins t160
Quote: Hand #108 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 379014 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t590 M = 4.92 BB: t2410 M = 20.08 Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BTN/SB with J Hero raises to t590 all in, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t160 Hero wins t160 Yeah no need to get fancy, given the stacksizes I think his callingrange is wide enough to just openjam. Minraising will even be noticed by a fish here if you ask me.
Quote: Hand #109 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 379015 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t670 M = 5.58 BTN/SB: t2330 M = 19.42 Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BB with T Q BTN/SB raises to t160, Hero raises to t670 all in, BTN/SB calls t510 Flop: (t1340) 3
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Turn: (t1340) 8 River: (t1340) J Final Pot: t1340 Hero shows T Q (a straight, Queen high) BTN/SB shows A A (a pair of Aces) Hero wins t1340 Nh lol, and agreed, to shallow to not get it in here and he hasnt openjammed before iirc so his range isnt necessarrily superstrong though we never been this shallow before in this spot, still obv getting QT in.
Quote: Hand #110 Full Tilt Poker $80 + $4 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 379016 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1340 M = 11.17 BB: t1660 M = 13.83 Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BTN/SB with 6 Hero raises to t160, BB calls t80
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Flop: (t320) A K 5 (2 players) BB bets t80, Hero calls t80 Turn: (t480) 2 (2 players) BB bets t400, Hero raises to t1100 all in, BB calls t700 River: (t2680) 9
(2 players - 1 is all in)
Final Pot: t2680 Hero shows 6 A (a pair of Aces) BB shows 8 A (a pair of Aces) BB wins t2680 Ehm, not THAT big a fan of preflop really. I'd probably limp, would be inclined to openjam A6o though suited is obv a ton better but minraising seems fine. Postflop looks fine. I might call turn though it's superdrawheavy now with the multiple gutters and flushdraws so I guess he's not getting away from a combodraw or pair + draw anyway. Sick that he had you beat here fwiw...
SPAMZ ' SEVENTH HAND HISTORY REVIEW Quote: Hand #1 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681555 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1500 M = 50 Hero (BTN/SB): t1500 M = 50 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 1 fold
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Final Pot: t20 BB wins t20 Pretty nitty fold if you ask me lol. I'd just open most buttons really with anything semi-connected or suited (you can still flop a straight with this) because a lot of your profit will come from bad players call too much oop and play face-up post.
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Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681556 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1510 M = 50.33 Hero (BB): t1490 M = 49.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with Q BTN/SB calls t10, Hero checks
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Flop: (t40) T 2 9 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t40) 2 (2 players) Hero bets t40, BTN/SB folds Final Pot: t40 Hero wins t40 Hmmm, every chip counts really, and I don't think that a bet of t40 will get more folds than a bet of t30 really. Especially since I've been playing more superturbo's lately, I type a lot of betsizing (esp in limped pots where otherwise you're forced to do half pot or full pot). If you think you can get more Ax or Kx hands to fold by betting pot, by all means do so, but I think t30 will do the same trick (and might also let him call a dominated draw like 86o) because he's never folding two pair/trips anyway. I wouldn't mind a check/call here either, nor do I leading. It's pretty hard to say which is better in a vaccuum really, just because our Q-high is on the edge of having (some) showdown value and villains tendencies to bluffcatch with A-high on paired boards for example.
Quote: Hand #3 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681557 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
BB: t1490 M = 49.67 Hero (BTN/SB): t1510 M = 50.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 6 Hero raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 Hero wins t40 Std open obv, although A6o cant flop straights nor flushes.
Quote: Hand #4 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681558 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1470 M = 49 Hero (BB): t1530 M = 51 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with K BTN/SB raises to t40, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40 You seem to be pretty nitty heh. Fwiw, I would 100% defend here vs minraise and get some postflop reads. Even if we don't get to showdown it doesn't mean we will have nothing of notes on his tendencies. This way we'll definitly be able to adapt better in the future when playing a little more marginal hands oop when stacks get somewhat shallower to fully exploit.
Quote: Hand #5 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681559 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
BB: t1490 M = 49.67 Hero (BTN/SB): t1510 M = 50.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 3 Hero raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 Hero wins t40 Suited and connected!
Quote: Hand #6 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681560 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1470 M = 49 Hero (BB): t1530 M = 51 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 3 BTN/SB calls t10, Hero checks
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Flop: (t40) 2 3 4 (2 players) Hero bets t40, BTN/SB calls t40 Turn: (t120) 7 (2 players) Hero bets t60, BTN/SB folds Final Pot: t120 Hero wins t120 Tell the dealer to shuffle the deck properly! Anyway, this is a spot where I don't mind leading for full pot. Regardless of your betsize, villain will likely call with a huge range anway and that range will not be dependant of your size that much. Turnbet seems a little bit low fwiw, I'd rather do 80 or even 100 tbh and get max value from all the draws.
Quote: Hand #7 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681561 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1410 M = 47 Hero (BTN/SB): t1590 M = 53 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with J K Hero raises to t60, BB raises to t160, Hero calls t100 Flop: (t320) 8 T 4 (2 players) BB bets t360, Hero folds Final Pot: t320 BB wins t320 Bleh standard; not much we can do here, preflop is pretty standard, 4bet/getting it in doesn't look good without reads here obv, also no reason to fold vs 3bet really... Flop is not the worst to float and take away on later streets, but his sizing + the fact you have no spade make it an easy muck obv.
Quote: Hand #8 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681562 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1570 M = 52.33 Hero (BB): t1430 M = 47.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 5 BTN/SB raises to t100, 1 fold Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40
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Heh, he's standard to use weird betsizing. No clue what they mean so far but already seen 2 in 8 hands now, don't forget.
Quote: Hand #9 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681563 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1590 M = 53 Hero (BTN/SB): t1410 M = 47 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 Hero raises to t60, BB calls t40
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Flop: (t120) 9 T K (2 players) BB bets t140, Hero folds Final Pot: t120 BB wins t120 Hmmm weird, third time he overbet pot now (while you're playing on ftp which means there's a potbutton present). Preflop obv standard, not to sure about flop. Thing is if he does this a lot - given that it's a reg speed - we actually have a bit of time to wait for a somewhat better holding than just bottom pair ace kicker so I don't mind a fold here untill he starts doing it a lot in future hands. If there was a club on board it's obv better to float than now; about random tendencies... ehm I think most of the time this is actually a piece of the board, though not always. If randoms don't have a piece here, but overbet it anyway, they usually give up after flop in my experience; if they do have a piece, they're firing all blank turns. So yeah, just pitch it now, we'll see later.
Quote: Hand #10 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em
Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681564 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1650 M = 55 Hero (BB): t1350 M = 45 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 3 BTN/SB calls t10, Hero checks
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Flop: (t40) T 9 4 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t40) T (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t40) 4 (2 players) Hero bets t40, BTN/SB folds Final Pot: t40 Hero wins t40 Ehm, I'd probably lead turn here for t20 or t30 and have him bluffcatch all his highcard hands and/or gutshots and stuff. It also protects our equity if he never stabs at pot on turn for example when we check to him since pretty much all hands have 9 outs with the board being single paired already. Also, ask for a new dealer lol.
Quote: Hand #11 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681565 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1630 M = 54.33 Hero (BTN/SB): t1370 M = 45.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 4 1 fold
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Final Pot: t20 BB wins t20 Yeah might fold some of the weaker offsuit connectors vs him after seeing his couple overbets.
Quote: Hand #12 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681566 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1640 M = 54.67 Hero (BB): t1360 M = 45.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 8 BTN/SB raises to t40, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40 Yeah I don't even defend this though it's soooooted.
Quote: Hand #13 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681567 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1660 M = 55.33 Hero (BTN/SB): t1340 M = 44.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 Hero raises to t60, 1 fold Final Pot: t40 Hero wins t40
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Quote: Hand #14 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681568 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1640 M = 54.67 Hero (BB): t1360 M = 45.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 3 BTN/SB calls t10, Hero checks
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Flop: (t40) 8 Q K (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t40) 7 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t40) 7 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB shows 4 Q (two pair, Queens and Sevens) Hero shows 3 2 (a pair of Sevens) BTN/SB wins t40 I wouldn't mind a flop stab here tbh for t30 or something, since he doesn't seem to be stabbing himself and he raised couple of buttons before (which makes it more likely that he's raising his good hands and limping mediocre/bad/monsterhands) and it's not a board you get a lot of floats on really since undercards don't want to take it away later. Turn is too late too stab with your hand I feel, since you'll get called by a lot of draws/pairs and you'd have to know some rivertendencies from him I guess to know what your bestline is on what rivers. But checking down and giving up is not bad either, just note that he didnt bet his Qx.
Quote: Hand #15 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681569 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1660 M = 55.33 Hero (BTN/SB): t1340 M = 44.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with T Hero raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 Hero wins t40
Quote: Hand #16 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681570 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1640 M = 54.67 Hero (BB): t1360 M = 45.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 4 1 fold
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Final Pot: t20 Hero wins t20
Quote: Hand #17 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681571 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1630 M = 54.33
Hero (BTN/SB): t1370 M = 45.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 Hero raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 Hero wins t40
Quote: Hand #18 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681572 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1610 M = 53.67 Hero (BB): t1390 M = 46.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with K 1 fold
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Final Pot: t20 Hero wins t20 Would probably either not 3bet here or make a small 3bet to keep his dominated hands in if he were to raise his button. Reason for flatting would be that with villain's betsizing it wouldn't be too hard to get stacks in if we flop toppair really, and i don't want to get 4bet of the hand (which he could easily do with A6o for example to "protect" his hand or whatever he thinks of it), so yeah, I'd just flat, even 5bb open easy call if you ask me.
Quote: Hand #19 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681573 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1600 M = 53.33
Hero (BTN/SB): t1400 M = 46.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with K Hero raises to t60, BB calls t40
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Flop: (t120) 6 T 7 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t120) 5 (2 players) BB bets t20, Hero calls t20 River: (t160) J (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Final Pot: t160 BB shows 2 K (King Jack high) Hero shows K 3 (King Jack high) BB wins t80 Hero wins t80 Yeah I would just give up on that flop. Cbetting air here has to do with how much of the time you think villain defends A-rag/K-rag and more importantly Q-rag and J-rag. If you think this is enough of the time, then by all means, cbet this board because they wont be spazzing a lot here to try and get you off your hand on a board like this with total air. However, since villain been somewhat nitty against our 3x opens, I'd just give up (peeling turn getting ridic good price is okay though still closer than you might think, especially since he might overbet river).
Quote: Hand #20 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681574 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1600 M = 53.33 Hero (BB): t1400 M = 46.67
Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with A Q BTN/SB calls t10, Hero raises to t80, BTN/SB calls t60 Flop: (t160) 2 2 7 (2 players) Hero bets t69, BTN/SB folds Final Pot: t160 Hero wins t160 Nh, bit weird betsizing on flop though. Would just make it t80 tbh.
Quote: Hand #21 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681575 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1520 M = 50.67 Hero (BTN/SB): t1480 M = 49.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with T Hero raises to t60, BB calls t40
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Flop: (t120) 8 5 2 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t69, BB folds Final Pot: t120 Hero wins t120 Nh, note that you should fire turn and/or river a lot depending on cards that come since villains love floating 2 overs here or just Ahigh (also we have LOTS of backdoors so betting our equity will never hurt on turn).
Quote: Hand #22 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681576 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
BTN/SB: t1460 M = 48.67 Hero (BB): t1540 M = 51.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 4 BTN/SB raises to t40, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40
Quote: Hand #23 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681577 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1480 M = 49.33 Hero (BTN/SB): t1520 M = 50.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with Q Hero raises to t60, BB calls t40
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Flop: (t120) J 3 6 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t69, BB folds Final Pot: t120 Hero wins t120 Std obv, just note that he seems to play somewhat nitty and fit or fold which means our A9 fold on the KT9r flop was pretty good since it's way more likely he just had a hand. Note that this doesn't mean he can't start spazzing if you take down too much pots with just cbetting however.
Quote: Hand #24 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681578 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
BTN/SB: t1420 M = 47.33 Hero (BB): t1580 M = 52.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with Q BTN/SB calls t10, Hero checks
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Flop: (t40) Q 3 K (2 players) Hero bets t40, BTN/SB folds Final Pot: t40 Hero wins t40 Wowow. How did you not raise here pre? Only hand we've seen him limp before in showdown was Q5o and he limp/called 1/1 so far so - while this isn't 100% sure obv - there's so much value in raising here and unlikely he has us in bad shape really. Just raise preflop, make it t80 or something and have him call with A LOT of dominated hands. If you're scared that he won't call dominated holdings too much, just make it 3bb's (which I doubt, but just talking about other players than this villain fwiw).
Quote: Hand #25 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681579 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1400 M = 46.67 Hero (BTN/SB): t1600 M = 53.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 1 fold
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Final Pot: t20 BB wins t20 Might open a bit more again now, since he just seems to bet when he has something and our cbets will take away pots a lot, though 52o is agreed too weak.
Quote: Hand #26 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681580 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1410 M = 47 Hero (BB): t1590 M = 53 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 2 BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40 If he minraised I probably defend and try to play a small pot when we flop bottom pair (usually call one bet and fold to further resistance) and make it huge when we hit something nice obv (and if we flop like trips or huge draw or something we really have a lot of implied odds if villain just has a piece of the board; pretty sure we can get stacks in on 228 for example if he has like K8 with the way he bets). That being said I might like defend even vs the 3x here.
Quote: Hand #27 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681581 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1430 M = 47.67 Hero (BTN/SB): t1570 M = 52.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 1 fold Final Pot: t20 BB wins t20
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Just open this and he'll check/fold if he doesn't hit (since he done this so far) or just folds preflop.
Quote: Hand #28 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681582 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1440 M = 48 Hero (BB): t1560 M = 52 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 4 1 fold
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Final Pot: t20 Hero wins t20
Quote: Hand #29 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681583 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1430 M = 47.67 Hero (BTN/SB): t1570 M = 52.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 7 Hero raises to t60, BB raises to t180, 1 fold Final Pot: t120 BB wins t120 Looks like he has a big hand; I'm not a huge fan of folding vs 3bets but 97o is definitly too weak to play vs this opponent.
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Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681584 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1490 M = 49.67 Hero (BB): t1510 M = 50.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 9 BTN/SB raises to t100, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40 Heh, he started again lol. With his frequency, I guess he just has a hand whenever he does this until proven otherwise (whether this hand is AA/22/AQ/... doesn't matter atm really).
Quote: Hand #31 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681585 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1510 M = 33.56 Hero (BTN/SB): t1490 M = 33.11 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 2 1 fold
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Final Pot: t30 BB wins t30 Yeah, just pitch this one.
Quote: Hand #32 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681586 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
BTN/SB: t1525 M = 33.89 Hero (BB): t1475 M = 32.78 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 4 1 fold
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Final Pot: t30 Hero wins t30
Quote: Hand #33 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681587 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1510 M = 33.56 Hero (BTN/SB): t1490 M = 33.11 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 Hero raises to t90, BB calls t60
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Flop: (t180) 3 T 2 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t89, BB folds Final Pot: t180 Hero wins t180 Standard. I don't mind making it 3bb's preflop though I'd as default minraise here, but given that he will c/f a lot of flops or otherwise let us know he wants to rumble it's just more ev+ to take that extra bb postflop more often.
Quote: Hand #34 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681588 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
BTN/SB: t1420 M = 31.56 Hero (BB): t1580 M = 35.11 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with Q A BTN/SB raises to t120, Hero calls t90 Flop: (t240) 5 5 6 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t240, Hero folds Final Pot: t240 BTN/SB wins t240 First interesting hand really. Had a bit of discussion about this with some other players and nobody really agreed lol. Most really agreed that AQo is a bit too strong to just flat here even though we assume that all his big bets are in general big(ish) hands. Reason for still 3betting is that a player like villain, will not fold a dominated hand like Ax or KQ/QJ/QT. Reason for this is that "bad nits" (or whatever you put people like this in a category) just can't fold a hand, even though their range is pretty strong, ergo your range is even stronger, but they just don't realize it and have a good hand themselves so wtf! Villain must be bluffing here! (they think) Would be slightly more inclined to flat AQs preflop fwiw (which might surprise some of you; indeed, AQs has a bit more equity against a standard getting it in range, however, plays a lot easier with the added affect of being able to flop a flush(draw) which will happen around 10% of the time, which isnt to be underestimated, since you only flop a pair one in 3 so that's an additional 1/3 times you'll be able to continu after the flop). Okay, 3betsizing then. Ehm, you can do a lot of things with this really (just to make clear, once we 3bet we're never ever folding to a jam). I wouldn't even mind just a jam here; he's a bad nit it seems, once they have a piece of a hand they go with it. Whether it's 77 or AT doesn't matter, they usually just look at their own cards and that's it.
If you just want to make it smaller, 500/jam any flop basically is an okay strat and will get calls preflop and folds post a ton (c/f'ing some "worst flops" obv like K98hhh or smth I guess). Other size would be like 300 and then still have a little manoeuvrability postflop with 600 in the pot and almost 2 potbets left. I wouldn't make it 400 or smth fwiw, because then we have like 1.25 potbets left which sucks on a decent amount of boards where we're not happy bet/calling it off but c/f'ing sucks about as much. I think I prefer the 300 fwiw though all options look close (with just jamming being the easy way out but probably least ev+). If you decide to flat pre, then c/f looks like only option here against potbet. Surely he might have AJ/AT/KQ once in a while, but against the rest of his range we're doing pretty poorly on this bad flop. Quote: Hand #35 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681589 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1540 M = 34.22 Hero (BTN/SB): t1460 M = 32.44 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 2 Hero raises to t90, BB calls t60 Flop: (t180) 7 K A (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t89, BB folds Final Pot: t180 Hero wins t180 Nh, well played.
Quote: Hand #36
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Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681590 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1450 M = 32.22 Hero (BB): t1550 M = 34.44 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 4 1 fold
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Final Pot: t30 Hero wins t30
Quote: Hand #37 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681591 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1435 M = 31.89 Hero (BTN/SB): t1565 M = 34.78 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 Hero raises to t90, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60
Quote: Hand #38 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681592 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1405 M = 31.22 Hero (BB): t1595 M = 35.44
Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 4 BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60 Def defend this if it's suited.
Quote: Hand #39 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681593 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1435 M = 31.89 Hero (BTN/SB): t1565 M = 34.78 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 Hero raises to t90, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60
Quote: Hand #40 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681594 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1405 M = 31.22 Hero (BB): t1595 M = 35.44 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 8 BTN/SB calls t15, Hero checks Flop: (t60) 5 T 7 (2 players) Hero bets t30, BTN/SB folds
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Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60 Wow, checking again are we? Why now? Villain so far seemed to play sooooooooo faceup postflop. I don't think he's the floating type of guy from all the previous limped pots we had and you stabbed/vbet, so wow, just raise man. His limpingrange also will consist mainly of hands that have max 1 overcard here, and given that he limp/called 1/1, just raise it up man and vbet him all day on multiple streets.
Quote: Hand #41 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681595 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1375 M = 30.56 Hero (BTN/SB): t1625 M = 36.11 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 1 fold
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Final Pot: t30 BB wins t30
Quote: Hand #42 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681596 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1390 M = 30.89 Hero (BB): t1610 M = 35.78 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 8 BTN/SB calls t15, Hero checks
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Flop: (t60) 4 Q 6 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t60, Hero folds Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60 Not the best structure to stab on and you stabbed a bunch before so c/f looks best.
Quote: Hand #43 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681597 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1420 M = 31.56 Hero (BTN/SB): t1580 M = 35.11 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 4 1 fold
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Final Pot: t30 BB wins t30 Just raise really, he c/f flop already soooooo much.
Quote: Hand #44 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681598 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1435 M = 31.89 Hero (BB): t1565 M = 34.78 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 4 1 fold Final Pot: t30
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Hero wins t30
Quote: Hand #45 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681599 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1420 M = 31.56 Hero (BTN/SB): t1580 M = 35.11 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with J Hero raises to t90, BB calls t60
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Flop: (t180) T A 4 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t89, BB folds Final Pot: t180 Hero wins t180 See? Do you need J9hh to be profitable here? Doubtful.
Quote: Hand #46 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681600 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1330 M = 29.56 Hero (BB): t1670 M = 37.11 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 9 BTN/SB calls t15, Hero checks Flop: (t60) A T 2 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t60) 5
(2 players)
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Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t60) 6 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB mucks 7 8 Hero shows 9 5 (a pair of Fives) Hero wins t60 Minbet turn here to protect equity and have him call some worse hands (mainly one-card gutters who - if they have a broadway with it - will call turn and check back river most of the time anyway; given how he played so far, he might like call 64o on turn and check back all rivers but 3x really).
Quote: Hand #47 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681601 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1300 M = 28.89 Hero (BTN/SB): t1700 M = 37.78 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with Q Hero raises to t90, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60
Quote: Hand #48 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681602 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1270 M = 28.22
Hero (BB): t1730 M = 38.44 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with A 1 fold
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Final Pot: t30 Hero wins t30
Quote: Hand #49 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681603 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1255 M = 27.89 Hero (BTN/SB): t1745 M = 38.78 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 3 Hero raises to t90, BB calls t60
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Flop: (t180) 9 6 K (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t180) 6 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t89, BB folds Final Pot: t180 Hero wins t180 How can you not cbet here? Pretty sure he donks pot with a K here given how he did it on KT9r to "protect" his hand against 4flush or 4straight boards, same with two pair/set/low flushes really, maybe even a strong 9. Also, don't forget, fish love suited hands, so either he flopped a flush here or just has a hand that can't stand much so just fire the flop and expect to pick up the pot a lot vs this opponent.
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Hand #50 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681604 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1165 M = 25.89 Hero (BB): t1835 M = 40.78 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with Q 1 fold
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Final Pot: t30 Hero wins t30
Quote: Hand #51 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681605 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1150 M = 25.56 Hero (BTN/SB): t1850 M = 41.11 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 Hero raises to t90, BB calls t60
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Flop: (t180) 4 A 4 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t89, BB folds Final Pot: t180 Hero wins t180 Well, you get good boards to cbet fwiw, but std obv. =)
Quote: Hand #52 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681606
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1060 M = 23.56 Hero (BB): t1940 M = 43.11 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 9 BTN/SB calls t15, Hero checks
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Flop: (t60) 8 8 5 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t60) K (2 players) Hero bets t30, BTN/SB folds Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60 I don't mind betting either flop or turn here really. Reason I like betting flop slightly better is because he can easily have 2 overcards to the 5 there (whether it's with a gutter or not doesn't matter) and although he doesn't look like a floater, even they will call with mere overs a decent amount of the time. Also, if you want to build a pot against an opponent like this, it's best if you do it early on when your hand is likely still good, not when they caught up and start raising when they hit their straight/flush. Pretty sure he calls with straightdraw (gutter or OE) or flushdraw on flop, but will check them back most of the time anyway. Same with weak Ax hands, medium pocket pairs or Kx if that's in his range.
Quote: Hand #53 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681607 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1030 M = 22.89 Hero (BTN/SB): t1970 M = 43.78
Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with T Hero raises to t90, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60
Quote: Hand #54 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681608 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1000 M = 22.22 Hero (BB): t2000 M = 44.44 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with A BTN/SB raises to t120, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60 Std obv. Cutoff here for getting it in would be like AJ+ 77+ here probably. 22-66 looks like a fold because his range can still consist of smallish-mid pocket pairs and he's calling a jam with those anyway if you ask me. AQ/AK/77-JJ i'd just jam i guess; QQ+ normal 3bet; AJ doubt between flat or shove; flattingrange would be like AT/KQ/KJ and the occassional AJ if i dont feel like jamming.
Quote: Hand #55 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681609 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1030 M = 22.89 Hero (BTN/SB): t1970 M = 43.78
Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 3 1 fold
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Final Pot: t30 BB wins t30 Just raise ATC that aren't in bottom 15% or something imo.
Quote: Hand #56 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681610 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1045 M = 23.22 Hero (BB): t1955 M = 43.44 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with Q 9 BTN/SB raises to t60, Hero calls t30 Flop: (t120) A 2 3 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t120) T (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t120) 3 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Final Pot: t120 BTN/SB shows Q 8 (a pair of Threes) Hero shows Q 9 (a pair of Threes) Hero wins t60 BTN/SB wins t60 Pretty sure turn is a good spot to bet and if he calls, again on river. Just pick it up, he bets Ax here almost 100% of the time if you ask me on this flop (because of 3 to straight), probably also all his pocket pairs before overcards falling. So on turn, just hope he didnt hit his T and bet to take up the pot a lot.
Bleh, river looks thin looking afterwards if he calls turn. Fwiw, he just minraised so I guess KQJ pick 2 is a bit less in his range since KQ/KJ could be in his 4x range but we dont know that. So yeah, might be better to just give up once he calls turn.
Quote: Hand #57 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681611 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1045 M = 23.22 Hero (BTN/SB): t1955 M = 43.44 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with K Hero raises to t90, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60
Quote: Hand #58 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681612 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1015 M = 22.56 Hero (BB): t1985 M = 44.11 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 7 1 fold Final Pot: t30 Hero wins t30
Quote: Hand #59
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Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681613 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1000 M = 22.22 Hero (BTN/SB): t2000 M = 44.44 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with J Hero raises to t90, 1 fold
Q
Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60
Quote: Hand #60 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681614 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t970 M = 16.17 Hero (BB): t2030 M = 33.83 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with A 1 fold
A
Final Pot: t40 Hero wins t40
Also, dont EVER flat here, if he would 4x. His range is strong, dont let his overcards whiff the flop or pocket pair have multiple overcards. He's stacking off most preflop (you might just want to click it back or smth).
Quote: Hand #61 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em
Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681615 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t950 M = 15.83 Hero (BTN/SB): t2050 M = 34.17 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 T Hero raises to t80, BB raises to t120, Hero calls t40 Flop: (t240) 2 7 2 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t240) A (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks River: (t240) Q (2 players) BB bets t40, Hero calls t40 Final Pot: t320 BB shows K Q (two pair, Queens and Twos) Hero shows 8 T (a flush, Ace high) Hero wins t320 Weird hand really; after he checks both flop and turn, just stab it imo. Not being results oriented, but his hand looks like what it is really... He almost never has Ax here, mid pocket pair or KQJT pick 2 at best if you ask me. If he has a club he might call but then we take it away on river anyway; he'll fold so much of his range here on turn once you bet, def best move to make.
Quote: Hand #62 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681616 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t790 M = 13.17 Hero (BB): t2210 M = 36.83 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with J
J
BTN/SB raises to t80, Hero raises to t280, 1 fold Final Pot: t160 Hero wins t160 Ehm, I think his minraises in general are a bit weaker so I wouldn't go that that big fwiw. If he 4xed jamming would obv be standard to get it in. I really dont like your sizing fwiw, also note that it's your first 3bet so far so it'll look somewhat scary if he's not braindead. I think 200-220 >>>>> flatting >>>>>> jamming >>>>>>>> this size really. I don't think he's calling all that much with this size and stacksizes really; at least when jamming he might like call 33 or Ax because he thinks we're full of **** and we're just jamming our bull**** hands or something. Flatting is not bad because he plays so retarded post.
Quote: Hand #63 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681617 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t710 M = 11.83 Hero (BTN/SB): t2290 M = 38.17 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with A Hero raises to t80, BB calls t40
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Flop: (t160) 3 5 9 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t89, BB folds Final Pot: t160 Hero wins t160
Quote: Hand #64 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681618
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t630 M = 10.50 Hero (BB): t2370 M = 39.50 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 8 5 BTN/SB raises to t80, Hero calls t40 Flop: (t160) 7 6 2 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t550 all in, Hero folds Final Pot: t160 BTN/SB wins t160 I don't get it. You fold 32hh to a 3x while being 70bb's deep but this you can defend you think? I'd just let this go, especially because he doesnt raise buttons all too much to begin with. Also, we're pretty shallow here and this hand just flops bottom pair or middle pair way too much. If you think you can bluff him off a hand he misses with, that's fine but: 1) we're too shallow to do this effectively imo 2) you might as well start defending almost ATC then imo Just pitch it preflop imo, esp vs him.
Quote: Hand #65 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681619 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t710 M = 11.83 Hero (BTN/SB): t2290 M = 38.17 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with T Hero raises to t80, BB calls t40 Flop: (t160) A T 6 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t89, BB folds
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Final Pot: t160 Hero wins t160 Bleh, I'd just minbet with your hand, these stacksizes and this board really. Try to let him float with his no equity hands as much as possible or let him spazz with them.
Quote: Hand #66 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681620 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t630 M = 10.50 Hero (BB): t2370 M = 39.50 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with Q BTN/SB calls t20, Hero checks
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Flop: (t80) 6 7 9 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t40, Hero folds Final Pot: t80 BTN/SB wins t80 Std, not doing fancy on this board nor preflop imo.
Quote: Hand #67 Full Tilt Poker $30 + $1.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681621 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t670 M = 11.17 Hero (BTN/SB): t2330 M = 38.83 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with A Hero raises to t80, BB calls t40 Flop: (t160) K
8
K
(2 players)
A
BB bets t590 all in, Hero calls t590 Turn: (t1340) A
(2 players - 1 is all in)
River: (t1340) 7
(2 players - 1 is all in)
Final Pot: t1340 BB shows 7 8 (two pair, Kings and Eights) Hero shows A A (a full house, Aces full of Kings) Hero wins t1340 Snap obv and expect to see 8x like 95% of the time or something; He started defending a lot preflop later in the game so minraising pre is indeed the best option.
SPAMZ ' EIGHTH HAND HISTORY REVIEW Quote: Hand #1 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681673 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1500 M = 33.33 BTN/SB: t1500 M = 33.33 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with A BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60 Folding Ax for just a minraise is something I wouldn't do really. People play so bad postflop and it's quite important to defend semi-widely to get some early postflop reads from unknowns.
Quote: Hand #2 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681674 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1470 M = 32.67 BB: t1530 M = 34 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with T Hero raises to t60, BB calls t30
J
Flop: (t120) 2 T K (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t60, BB folds Final Pot: t120 Hero wins t120 Std hand obv.
Quote: Hand #3 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681675 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1530 M = 34 BTN/SB: t1470 M = 32.67 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 5 7 BTN/SB raises to t60, Hero raises to t180, BTN/SB calls t120 Flop: (t360) J 8 2 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t360) 9 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t200, Hero folds Final Pot: t360 BTN/SB wins t360
First folding Ax then 3betting 75s from the start? Hah, sounds like something a cash player would do. Ehm, I'm totally not a big fan of this, especially in the ftp turbo structure people just don't fold vs 3bets so it's really unnecessarry to start 3betting air early on without reads (though your hand isn't the worst to flop some equity with obv), just because they don't fold, I'd go with a wide 3bet valuerange to start off with and take it from there. =) Just play postflop imo, a lot more interesting instead of the preflop wars that are standardly being eld nowadays. People just make so much bigger mistakes postflop really... Also, don't expect to get THAT much metagame/balancing going against a random. Big chance he'll decline after one game and you'll never see him again.
Quote: Hand #4 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681676 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1350 M = 30 BB: t1650 M = 36.67 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 Hero raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60
Quote: Hand #5 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681677 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
Hero (BB): t1380 M = 30.67 BTN/SB: t1620 M = 36 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 3 BTN/SB raises to t90, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60 He doesn't seem to have a std openingsize so going to showdown with either sizing will be very valuable if we ever have the chance.
Quote: Hand #6 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681678 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1350 M = 30 BB: t1650 M = 36.67 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 7 Hero raises to t60, BB calls t30
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Flop: (t120) 4 4 4 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t60, BB folds Final Pot: t120 Hero wins t120 Std cbet, surprised he didn't float his 2 overs here as people usually do. =)
Quote: Hand #7 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681679 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
Hero (BB): t1410 M = 31.33 BTN/SB: t1590 M = 35.33 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 3 BTN/SB raises to t90, 1 fold
Q
Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60
Quote: Hand #8 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681680 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1380 M = 30.67 BB: t1620 M = 36 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 Hero raises to t60, BB calls t30
Q
Flop: (t120) 8 2 4 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t60, BB folds Final Pot: t120 Hero wins t120 He seems to play pretty fit/fold so far (3/3 right?) but doesn't mean he can't spazz if you take it away too much with cbets however.
Quote: Hand #9 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681681 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1440 M = 32
BTN/SB: t1560 M = 34.67 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 9 6 BTN/SB raises to t60, Hero raises to t180, BTN/SB calls t120 Flop: (t360) 5 J 4 (2 players) Hero bets t150, BTN/SB calls t150 Turn: (t660) 5 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t300, Hero folds Final Pot: t660 BTN/SB wins t660 Stop 3betting suited connectors, seriously. You'll notice it yourself once you start playing more ftp turbo's I guess but in my experience, people just don't fold vs 3bets enough to justify doing stuff like this readless.
Quote: Hand #10 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681682 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1110 M = 18.50 BB: t1890 M = 31.50 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 Hero raises to t80, BB calls t40 Flop: (t160) 9 T Q (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t160) K (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t80, BB folds Final Pot: t160 Hero wins t160
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Don't hate the checkback on flop tbh. We've been cbetting 100% so far and this board usually hits a defendingrange quite hard. Once he checks the turn stabbing looks good, nh.
Quote: Hand #11 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681683 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1190 M = 19.83 BTN/SB: t1810 M = 30.17 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 9 BTN/SB raises to t120, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t80 BTN/SB wins t80 He 3x's when stacks getting shallower as well. Time to get a hand we can jam over it I guess.
Quote: Hand #12 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681684 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1150 M = 19.17 BB: t1850 M = 30.83 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with T Hero raises to t80, BB calls t40 Flop: (t160) 5 A J (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t80, BB folds Final Pot: t160
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Hero wins t160 He defends a lot, probably because we're "just" minraising, so we should cbet some boards we normally shouldnt because it would hit his range somewhat hard (like T97ss or smth); he'll have enough unconnected Ax/Kx/Qx in his range to make that profitable.
Quote: Hand #13 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681685 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1230 M = 20.50 BTN/SB: t1770 M = 29.50 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with J BTN/SB raises to t80, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t80 BTN/SB wins t80 I probably defend here though we don't have any reads oop in raised pots which could make it a bit harder I guess.
Quote: Hand #14 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681686 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1190 M = 19.83 BB: t1810 M = 30.17 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with 4 Hero raises to t80, BB calls t40 Flop: (t160) 7 K 8 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks
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Turn: (t160) T (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks River: (t160) 9 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t120, BB folds Final Pot: t160 Hero wins t160 Just cbet here as said before, his preflop range so far looks huge and he doesn't seem to spazz a lot and we have absolutely no showdown value.
Quote: Hand #15 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681687 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1270 M = 21.17 BTN/SB: t1730 M = 28.83 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with T 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 Hero wins t40
Quote: Hand #16 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681688 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1290 M = 21.50 BB: t1710 M = 28.50
Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with T Hero raises to t80, BB calls t40
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Flop: (t160) K J 9 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t80, BB folds Final Pot: t160 Hero wins t160 He's probably defending close to ATC really.
Quote: Hand #17 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681689 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1370 M = 18.27 BTN/SB: t1630 M = 21.73 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with K BTN/SB raises to t100, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t100 BTN/SB wins t100 Again, I probably defend here, but given that you had to show your e-penis by putting pressure preflop in the first blindlevel, again not going to be easy. =) Jamming looks ev+ as well, even if he calls perfect (which will almost never be the case) but he's opening a decent amount of buttons.
Quote: Hand #18 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681690 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
Hero (BTN/SB): t1320 M = 17.60 BB: t1680 M = 22.40 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 Hero raises to t100, BB calls t50
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Flop: (t200) 9 K 7 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t200) Q (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks River: (t200) T (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Final Pot: t200 Hero shows 9 6 BB mucks 3 3 Hero wins t200
(a pair of Nines)
Just cbet and take it down a ton if you ask me. Once he calls flop I'd just give up later streets. Notice how he didn't jam this preflop but just defended and checked it down with very little showdown on this board.
Quote: Hand #19 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681691 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1420 M = 18.93 BTN/SB: t1580 M = 21.07 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 3 4 BTN/SB raises to t100, Hero raises to t250, BTN/SB calls t150 Flop: (t500) Q 5 K (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks
Turn: (t500) 9 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t500) 7 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t250, Hero folds Final Pot: t500 BTN/SB wins t500 E-penis in this hh imo. Again, unnecessarry and don't expect too much folds in general. Everytime you 3bet so far I would've loved a flat so much more.
Quote: Hand #20 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681692 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1170 M = 15.60 BB: t1830 M = 24.40 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with 7 Hero raises to t100, 1 fold
K
Final Pot: t100 Hero wins t100 Since he doesn't seem jamhappy, I wouldn't start limping untill he gives a reason for us to do so (esp since he flatted 33 there, just keep minraising and cbetting).
Quote: Hand #21 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681693 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1220 M = 16.27
BTN/SB: t1780 M = 23.73 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 8 BTN/SB raises to t100, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t100 BTN/SB wins t100
Quote: Hand #22 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681694 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1170 M = 15.60 BB: t1830 M = 24.40 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with K Hero raises to t100, 1 fold
K
Final Pot: t100 Hero wins t100 Booooooooo!
Quote: Hand #23 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681695 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1220 M = 16.27 BTN/SB: t1780 M = 23.73 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 2 1 fold Final Pot: t50
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Hero wins t50 Weeeeeeee!
Quote: Hand #24 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681696 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1245 M = 16.60 BB: t1755 M = 23.40 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 Hero raises to t100, BB calls t50
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Flop: (t200) K Q 8 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t75, BB calls t75 Turn: (t350) 5 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t225, BB calls t225 River: (t800) 7 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Final Pot: t800 Hero shows 9 7 BB mucks 3 K Hero wins t800
(a flush, King high)
I don't mind your cbetsize too much because on a board like this in general it doesn't really matter that much since he plays pretty straightforward anyway. Watch out that he can spazz more often or start bluffraising when you use this sizing. Turn I wouldn't fire tbh, once he calls flop he's got a piece and is unlikely folding turn. Just take your freecard with your medium strong drawing hand if you ask me. Also, note how you "sucked out" and that he may start playing
back a bit more now.
Quote: Hand #25 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681697 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1645 M = 21.93 BTN/SB: t1355 M = 18.07 Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 9 BTN/SB raises to t100, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t100 BTN/SB wins t100
Quote: Hand #26 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681698 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1595 M = 17.72 BB: t1405 M = 15.61 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BTN/SB with 2 1 fold
T
Final Pot: t60 BB wins t60 Don't hate the fold really given the last hand but in general, I'd keep minraising as much as possible untill we hit < 20bb's where I might start mixing it up or smth.
Quote: Hand #27
Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681699 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1565 M = 17.39 BTN/SB: t1435 M = 15.94 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BB with 3 BTN/SB raises to t120, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t120 BTN/SB wins t120
Quote: Hand #28 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681700 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1505 M = 16.72 BB: t1495 M = 16.61 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 Hero raises to t120, BB calls t60
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Flop: (t240) 6 3 A (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t120, BB calls t120 Turn: (t480) Q (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks River: (t480) K (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t255, BB folds Final Pot: t480 Hero wins t480 Looks fine. He doesn't look like the person who flaots Kx on this flop too much really and I doub't he'll be calling 4th pair on river.
Quote: Hand #29 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681701 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1745 M = 19.39 BTN/SB: t1255 M = 13.94 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BB with 8 BTN/SB raises to t120, 1 fold
T
Final Pot: t120 BTN/SB wins t120 I'd defend here. For some reason you seem to be afraid to play pots oop.
Quote: Hand #30 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681702 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1685 M = 18.72 BB: t1315 M = 14.61 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BTN/SB with 6 1 fold
Q
Final Pot: t60 BB wins t60 Just minraise, T2o I fold but Q6o with a person unlikely to jam over minraises is a definite raise here.
Quote: Hand #31 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681703
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1655 M = 18.39 BTN/SB: t1345 M = 14.94 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BB with 8 BTN/SB raises to t120, 1 fold
T
Final Pot: t120 BTN/SB wins t120 Again, defendaments.
Quote: Hand #32 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681704 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1595 M = 17.72 BB: t1405 M = 15.61 Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BTN/SB with 7 8 Hero raises to t120, BB raises to t420, 1 fold Final Pot: t240 BB wins t240 First 3bet of him, weird sizing with these stacksizes. 8-high never good obv. It's suited though...
Quote: Hand #33 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681705 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1475 M = 16.39 BTN/SB: t1525 M = 16.94
Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is BB with K 8 BTN/SB raises to t120, Hero calls t60 Flop: (t240) 7 J 6 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t240) 4 (2 players) Hero bets t155, BTN/SB folds Final Pot: t240 Hero wins t240 Wow, you defended! Stabbing turn seems fine when he doesn't cbet.
Quote: Hand #34 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681706 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1595 M = 13.29 BB: t1405 M = 11.71 Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BTN/SB with T Hero raises to t160, BB calls t80
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Flop: (t320) Q 6 T (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t120, BB folds Final Pot: t320 Hero wins t320 Yeah keep minraising here, under other circumstances, limping might be better but not here. Betting flop small also looks good.
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Hand #35 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681707 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1755 M = 14.62 BTN/SB: t1245 M = 10.38 Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BB with 8 T BTN/SB raises to t160, Hero raises to t1755 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t320 Hero wins t320 Looks ev+, flatting probably isn't too bad either (given villain's oop tendencies and his lack of cbetting 1/1 times, he looks like a really fit/fold player in which case I think flatting pre might be better but we have no idea about how accurate that is).
Quote: Hand #36 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681708 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1915 M = 15.96 BB: t1085 M = 9.04 Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BTN/SB with K Hero raises to t1915 all in, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t160 Hero wins t160 Yah don't mind this. Easy solution since K6o doesn't flop THAT well though he's really fit/fold/passive post so I wouldn't mind MR/fold and cbet smallish if he flats.
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Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681709 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1995 M = 16.62 BTN/SB: t1005 M = 8.38 Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BB with T 9 BTN/SB raises to t1005 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t160 BTN/SB wins t160 Spitejam!
Quote: Hand #38 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681710 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1915 M = 15.96 BB: t1085 M = 9.04 Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BTN/SB with J Hero raises to t1915 all in, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t160 Hero wins t160 This is pretty close between openjam and MR/call (minraise/fold is not really an option fwiw, just stove a bit and you'll see why), I think minraising will be better here really. Just note that he probably won't be folding any Ax with these stacksizes, nor most strong Kx's or any pocket pair. Therefore it doesn't really matter if we minraise/call or openjam since his getting it in range will be pretty much the same. The only thing we can hope for is that he: - either spazzes pre and jams some suited connectors - flats (which is more likely) and we play a big pot in position with an easy to play hand
I usually would prefer KT+ or smth for MR/calling be better over openjamming in spots like this but given the likelyness of villain flatting pre I think QT/QJ would be my cutoff here.
Quote: Hand #39 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681711 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1995 M = 16.62 BTN/SB: t1005 M = 8.38 Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BB with 2 1 fold
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Final Pot: t80 Hero wins t80
Quote: Hand #40 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681712 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t2035 M = 16.96 BB: t965 M = 8.04 Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 Hero raises to t2035 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t160 Hero wins t160 Looks fine/best.
Quote: Hand #41
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Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681713 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t2115 M = 17.62 BTN/SB: t885 M = 7.38 Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BB with 7 BTN/SB raises to t885 all in, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t160 BTN/SB wins t160
Quote: Hand #42 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681714 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t2035 M = 16.96 BB: t965 M = 8.04 Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BTN/SB with 7 1 fold
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Final Pot: t80 BB wins t80
Quote: Hand #43 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681715 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1995 M = 16.62 BTN/SB: t1005 M = 8.38
Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BB with 7 BTN/SB raises to t160, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t160 BTN/SB wins t160
Quote: Hand #44 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681716 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1915 M = 12.77 BB: t1085 M = 7.23 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with Q Hero raises to t1915 all in, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t200 Hero wins t200 Same here I guess, MR/call looks better than openjam.
Quote: Hand #45 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681717 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t2015 M = 13.43 BTN/SB: t985 M = 6.57 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with 2 BTN/SB raises to t985 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t200 BTN/SB wins t200
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Quote: Hand #46 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681718 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1915 M = 12.77 BB: t1085 M = 7.23 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 8 Hero calls t50, BB raises to t1085 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t200 BB wins t200 Don't mind this since he doesn't seem too aggro before (apart from the openjamming button but that's std for 95% of players) and you'll be able to stab a lot postflop.
Quote: Hand #47 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681719 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1815 M = 12.10 BTN/SB: t1185 M = 7.90 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with A 1 fold
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Final Pot: t100 Hero wins t100
Quote: Hand #48 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681720
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1865 M = 12.43 BB: t1135 M = 7.57 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with J Hero raises to t1865 all in, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t200 Hero wins t200 Don't mind a limp here again though openjamming looks fine as well.
Quote: Hand #49 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681721 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1965 M = 13.10 BTN/SB: t1035 M = 6.90 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with 7 6 BTN/SB raises to t1035 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t200 BTN/SB wins t200
Quote: Hand #50 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681722 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1865 M = 12.43 BB: t1135 M = 7.57
Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 Hero calls t50, BB checks
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Flop: (t200) 3 3 5 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t100, BB raises to t1035 all in, Hero folds Final Pot: t400 BB wins t400 Would probably bet more than 1bb; t100 just looks like a stab to a lot of players, t110 for example will result in a decent amount more fold equity compared to what we risk.
Quote: Hand #51 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681723 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1665 M = 11.10 BTN/SB: t1335 M = 8.90 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with 8 BTN/SB raises to t200, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t200 BTN/SB wins t200
Quote: Hand #52 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681724 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1565 M = 10.43 BB: t1435 M = 9.57 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with 2
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1 fold Final Pot: t100 BB wins t100
Quote: Hand #53 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681725 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1515 M = 10.10 BTN/SB: t1485 M = 9.90 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with 2 3 BTN/SB raises to t1485 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t200 BTN/SB wins t200
Quote: Hand #54 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681726 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1415 M = 9.43 BB: t1585 M = 10.57 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with 7 Hero raises to t200, BB calls t100
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Flop: (t400) T Q A (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t250, BB raises to t500, Hero folds Final Pot: t900 BB wins t900
Looks fine vs this opponent. Cbetting might be closer than it looks since I don't think he's defending a lot of the weaker crap/lower cards this shallow really. Also, cbet is unnecessarry big if you ask me.
Quote: Hand #55 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681727 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t965 M = 6.43 BTN/SB: t2035 M = 13.57 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with 9 7 BTN/SB raises to t2035 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t200 BTN/SB wins t200
Quote: Hand #56 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681728 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t865 M = 5.77 BB: t2135 M = 14.23 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with J Hero raises to t865 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t200 Hero wins t200
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Quote: Hand #57 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681729 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t965 M = 6.43 BTN/SB: t2035 M = 13.57 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with A 1 fold
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Final Pot: t100 Hero wins t100
Quote: Hand #58 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681730 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1015 M = 6.77 BB: t1985 M = 13.23 Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN/SB with 4 Hero raises to t1015 all in, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t200 Hero wins t200
Quote: Hand #59 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t60/t120 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681731 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1115 M = 6.19
BTN/SB: t1885 M = 10.47 Pre Flop: (t180) Hero is BB with 7 7 BTN/SB raises to t1885 all in, Hero calls t995 all in Flop: (t2230) 3
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Turn: (t2230) T River: (t2230) 9 Final Pot: t2230 Hero shows 7 7 BTN/SB shows A Hero wins t2230
(a pair of Sevens) 3 (a pair of Threes)
Solid flop.
Quote: Hand #60 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t60/t120 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681732 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t2230 M = 12.39 BB: t770 M = 4.28 Pre Flop: (t180) Hero is BTN/SB with 6 4 Hero raises to t2230 all in, BB calls t650 all in Flop: (t1540) 8
8
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Turn: (t1540) J River: (t1540) T Final Pot: t1540 Hero shows 6 4 (a pair of Eights) BB shows T K (two pair, Tens and Eights)
BB wins t1540
Quote: Hand #61 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t60/t120 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681733 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1460 M = 8.11 BTN/SB: t1540 M = 8.56 Pre Flop: (t180) Hero is BB with 2 1 fold
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Final Pot: t120 Hero wins t120
Quote: Hand #62 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t60/t120 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681734 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1520 M = 8.44 BB: t1480 M = 8.22 Pre Flop: (t180) Hero is BTN/SB with 2 1 fold Final Pot: t120 BB wins t120 Stop getting 3-high imo.
Quote: Hand #63
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Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t60/t120 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681735 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1460 M = 8.11 BTN/SB: t1540 M = 8.56 Pre Flop: (t180) Hero is BB with J J BTN/SB raises to t240, Hero raises to t1460 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t480 Hero wins t480 Weird from him here.
Quote: Hand #64 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t60/t120 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681736 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1700 M = 9.44 BB: t1300 M = 7.22 Pre Flop: (t180) Hero is BTN/SB with 4 5 Hero calls t60, BB raises to t1300 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t240 BB wins t240 A bit too weak/shallow to limp here, esp since you jammed previous hand I expect him to jam a lot over your limp.
Quote: Hand #65 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t60/t120 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 681737 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1580 M = 8.78
BTN/SB: t1420 M = 7.89 Pre Flop: (t180) Hero is BB with K 1 fold
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Final Pot: t120 Hero wins t120
Quote: Hand #66 Full Tilt Poker $220 + $10 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t60/t120 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 682317 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1640 M = 9.11 BB: t1360 M = 7.56 Pre Flop: (t180) Hero is BTN/SB with A J Hero raises to t1640 all in, BB calls t1240 all in Flop: (t2720) A
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Turn: (t2720) 3 River: (t2720) 6 Final Pot: t2720 Hero shows A J (a pair of Aces) BB shows A 4 (a pair of Aces) Hero wins t2720 Nh, gg.
SPAMZ ' NINTH HAND HISTORY R EVIEW In this hh review, hero is Maruchan and villain is mjw006/matt. I got both hh's and will fill in villain's hand and thoughts where I think it's interesting enough to discuss. Quote: Hand #1 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715401 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1500 M = 50 Hero (BTN/SB): t1500 M = 50 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with T Hero raises to t40, BB calls t20
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Flop: (t80) Q J 6 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t40, BB folds Final Pot: t80 Hero wins t80 Hmmm, T5o is like bottom 25% of hands all-in equity wise. I'm not saying you should open 75% or less but from playability perspective T5o doesn't have much going really. I'd way rather
open 64o than T5o really. Hands I'd not open are pretty much T2o-T5o, 92o-94o, etc. Matt had 32cc in this spot and think is pretty std defend with something that can flop pretty hidden monsters (especially since he checkraised low paired boards 24/7 ). I wouldn't mind a bluffcheckraise on this board since there's little unpaired hands that maruchan can continu with and even 6x would be best to just fold to flopcheckraise I guess (depending on kicker/backdoorz/blockerz), though I obv wouldn't do it all the time and starting out a bit slower till you have some more reads is better.
Quote: Hand #2 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715402 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1460 M = 48.67 Hero (BB): t1540 M = 51.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 9 1 fold
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Final Pot: t20 Hero wins t20
Quote: Hand #3 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715403 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1450 M = 48.33 Hero (BTN/SB): t1550 M = 51.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 Hero raises to t40, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 Hero wins t40
Quote: Hand #4 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715404 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1430 M = 47.67 Hero (BB): t1570 M = 52.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with Q BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40 Interesting that matt 3x'es and maruchan minraises. Might get into some intersting spots lately especially if they start mixing up openingsizes.
Quote: Hand #5 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715405 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1450 M = 48.33 Hero (BTN/SB): t1550 M = 51.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with A Hero raises to t40, 1 fold Final Pot: t40 Hero wins t40
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Quote: Hand #6 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715406 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1430 M = 47.67 Hero (BB): t1570 M = 52.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 2 BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40 Pretty boring "I got a hand/I don't have a hand" spots so far. =)
Quote: Hand #7 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715407 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1450 M = 48.33 Hero (BTN/SB): t1550 M = 51.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 2 Hero raises to t40, BB calls t20 Flop: (t80) 4 8 5 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t80) Q (2 players) BB bets t60, Hero calls t60 River: (t200) 6 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Final Pot: t200 BB shows J K
(King Queen high)
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Hero shows 2 5 Hero wins t200
(a pair of Fives)
Somewhat more interesting hand that can go in all sort of lines really. Matt could def make a - not too big - 3bet pre here though calling is fine as well. I'm not used to reg speeds so I don't know how cool you are/should be with getting it in with one pair for like 73bb's on a (semi-dry/dry/wet) flop though it's obv not a problem in turbo's where stacks are 50bb's or less (though I don't think it's that much of a problem against a somewhat competent/aggro player). Matt checked the flop. Ehm, again, can go either way, I think he can definitly lead flop here and fire pretty much all turns he can think of because in general, people will call flop and fold turn a bunch. Not a huge fan of doing this all the time with just 2 overs and nothing else on a board like this, but this is a flop I donk with a wide range and hands like KQJT pick 2 are definitly a slight portion of my range. Maruchan doesn't cbet, guess that's alright some percentage of the time though cbetting and protecting equity will be slightly better against unknowns I'd say. I wouldn't be worried about getting checkraised here since pretty much all 6x or 7x have 40% equity anyway so we can safely fold our middle pair no kicker. Turn is pretty standard from both really, matt stabbing after fail of cbetting which probably makes maruchan's range weaker and will get folds from A-high a decent percentage of the time and he could have best hand even. After you check flop you can't really fold turn in maruchan's spot readless, so calling is correct as well there. River I think matt shouldve bet like t80 with his entire range if you ask me. After maruchan checking back flop and calling turn his range is like 5x 4x mainly, some hands like A3 maybe and some Qx obv as well, and most of them will fold on river when you bet smallish like t80 (which you can still vbet with Qx or strong 8x against an unknown since I don't expect to get bluffraised readless too often).
Quote: Hand #8 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715408 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1350 M = 45 Hero (BB): t1650 M = 55 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 5 BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40
Quote: Hand #9 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715409 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1370 M = 45.67 Hero (BTN/SB): t1630 M = 54.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 3 6 Hero raises to t40, BB raises to t140, 1 fold Final Pot: t80 BB wins t80 Matt had AQo here. Standard hand from both parts, though 63o is pretty much the absolute bottom of my opening range.
Quote: Hand #10 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715410 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
BTN/SB: t1410 M = 47 Hero (BB): t1590 M = 53 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 9 K BTN/SB raises to t60, Hero calls t40 Flop: (t120) 7 4 5 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t80, Hero folds Final Pot: t120 BTN/SB wins t120 Std hand. Again, wouldn't hate a donklead here, but given frequency, just do it when you have the Kc for example which will not let you do it too often and will have SLIGHTLY better equity. Like... in general, if you wanna bluff, just make sure you got some sort of (backdoor) draw. Just total random crap ass bluffing is way inferior to semi-bluffing with like as low as a gutshot or backdoor flush + straightdraws. Matt had T7o fwiw, std obv for him as well to cbet his toppair.
Quote: Hand #11 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715411 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1470 M = 49 Hero (BTN/SB): t1530 M = 51 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 2 Hero raises to t40, 1 fold Final Pot: t40 Hero wins t40
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Quote: Hand #12 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715412 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1450 M = 48.33 Hero (BB): t1550 M = 51.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 7 BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40 Matt had 72o here, pretty sure I'd just fold that even though he didn't get any hands so far. Just muck it, no reason to play this at this point really vs someone who's not braindead/ultrabad.
Quote: Hand #13 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715413 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1470 M = 49 Hero (BTN/SB): t1530 M = 51 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 6 Hero raises to t40, BB calls t20
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Flop: (t80) 9 6 A (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t40, BB raises to t140, Hero folds Final Pot: t160 BB wins t160 In general, this is well-played obv, however, against matt, I might like either check back somewhat more or float flops where he's not repping too much (but that's just because I know his game a
bit I guess so without these reads it's not so obv), esp with the backdoor flushdraw which are hearts . But yeah, std played from both sides, matt had A6o fwiw, sizing looks fine as well.
Quote: Hand #14 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715414 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1550 M = 51.67 Hero (BB): t1450 M = 48.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 5 BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40
Quote: Hand #15 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715415 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1570 M = 52.33 Hero (BTN/SB): t1430 M = 47.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 Hero raises to t40, BB calls t20 Flop: (t80) 6 6 2 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t40, BB folds Final Pot: t80 Hero wins t80
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Std once again, matt had T7o and I'm happy he didn't checkraise to rep trips once again. Ehm, if I were matt and had KJo with a club here, I probably float because maruchan will most likely be betting J/K turn, also still comfortable calling a turnbet when A falls because I expect maruchan to bet that a lot and once we call there our hand looks like Ax A TON so I doubt he's firing river as a bluff ever and we will have best hand most of the time given maruchan opens fairly wide on button so far.
Quote: Hand #16 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715416 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1530 M = 51 Hero (BB): t1470 M = 49 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 8 A BTN/SB raises to t60, Hero calls t40 Flop: (t120) J K 9 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t80, Hero folds Final Pot: t120 BTN/SB wins t120 Looks fine. Wouldn't start getting fancy on a board like this. You'll flop some equity (as low as gutshot again or like backdoor flush or smth) often enough if you want to checkraise bluff here.
Quote: Hand #17 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715417 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1590 M = 53
Hero (BTN/SB): t1410 M = 47 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 4 Hero raises to t40, BB raises to t140, 1 fold Final Pot: t80 BB wins t80 Just dump this **** on button really. Matt had 53dd here and don't mind the 3bet with these stacksizes though wouldn't mind a flat at all either (don't mind 3bet since maruchan called 0/1 3bets so far, small sample obv, but still).
Quote: Hand #18 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715418 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1630 M = 54.33 Hero (BB): t1370 M = 45.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with J K BTN/SB raises to t60, Hero calls t40 Flop: (t120) 5 J 3 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t60, Hero raises to t180, BTN/SB folds Final Pot: t240 Hero wins t240 I wouldn't mind a 3bet here though idk how much matt will 4bet bluff given that our hand looks like a spite 3bet so meh, flatting looks better. KJs also plays way more easily, rather 3bet KJo. Matt had Q8o, and though it's not a bad board to bluffcheckraise vs a non-spazzy ABC-player, I wouldn't start playing back yet since maruchan doesn't really give any reason to do so.
Quote: Hand #19 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715419 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1510 M = 50.33 Hero (BTN/SB): t1490 M = 49.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 7 Hero raises to t40, BB calls t20
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Flop: (t80) 7 A 9 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t40, BB folds Final Pot: t80 Hero wins t80 Std, matt had an underpair here. If you really want to continu with an underpair on a board like A94r and you have 33 here or smth. It's def better to checkraise the flop at least some percentage of the time. There's some reason to do that: 1) If we get called, we got 2 clear outs and are now in a somewhat more bloated pot and can get stacks in on turn/river (obv unless villain has higher set or 52 but you get what i mean: if you bluff, have some outs/backdoor equity, even if it's just 2 outs, it beats a total random bluff). 2) If villain doesn't stab, he'll have like 30-ish percent equity with his 2 livecards/backdoorz/counterfeddaments on turn/river so we're protecting our equity a bit. It's just that I see a lot of players checkraise bluff here with no equity at all on certain boards, not even an overcard vs 2nd pair for example. There's really no reason to do that, if your frequency of bluffing equals the times you have SOME equity, it's way better obv. Big difference between checkraising J T on AQ3hh compared to 98ss for example, just realize this (though with the straightdraws out there, I wouldn't advize it here).
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Hand #20 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715420 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1470 M = 49 Hero (BB): t1530 M = 51 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 6 8 BTN/SB raises to t60, Hero calls t40 Flop: (t120) A 2 T (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t60, Hero folds Final Pot: t120 BTN/SB wins t120 86o is a bit loose but still good enough to defend imo. Especially if you have no real reads postflop it's not standard for someone to 2barrel/3barrel too much yet since he has no idea how stationy we are so that's fine.
Quote: Hand #21 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715421 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1530 M = 51 Hero (BTN/SB): t1470 M = 49 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with K Hero raises to t60, BB calls t40
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Flop: (t120) 3 A 2 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t60, BB raises to t180, Hero folds Final Pot: t240 BB wins t240
Same as before, matt had Q9o here and I'd prefer a checkraise with like 4x or 5x way more here than just a random total bluff. Even just changing his hand to Q9dd or smth would be way better, not because our 4% more equity when getting called is huge, more because we can fire a bunch of turns easily since we actually pick up enough equity that we don't have to fire river too much to profitably barrel the turn. Game's getting interesting, a lot of checkraises and some 3bets going on. =)
Quote: Hand #22 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715422 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1650 M = 55 Hero (BB): t1350 M = 45 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 3 1 fold
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Final Pot: t20 Hero wins t20 You fold 74o on button and raise 72o matt? roflcopter -hax
Quote: Hand #23 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715423 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1640 M = 54.67 Hero (BTN/SB): t1360 M = 45.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 4 Hero raises to t60, BB calls t40
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Flop: (t120) 4 9 7 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t120) 6 (2 players) BB bets t80, Hero calls t80 River: (t280) J (2 players) BB bets t120, Hero requests TIME, Hero folds Final Pot: t280 BB wins t280 Same hand as the KJ vs 52 on 458Q7 early on which just proves that you should fire 40% of pot with almost your entire range on river either as bluff or for thin value. Only difference here is that 3flush on the turn will get floated by like a single high heart in which case you'll have somewhat more foldequity on river.
Quote: Hand #24 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715424 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1780 M = 39.56 Hero (BB): t1220 M = 27.11 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 6 1 fold
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Final Pot: t30 Hero wins t30
Quote: Hand #25 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715425 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
BB: t1765 M = 39.22 Hero (BTN/SB): t1235 M = 27.44 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 3 A Hero raises to t60, BB raises to t180, 1 fold Final Pot: t120 BB wins t120 Matt's been 3betting SOMEWHAT active but not nearly enough to start getting fancy yet really so just fold to 3bet yeah.
Quote: Hand #26 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715426 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1825 M = 40.56 Hero (BB): t1175 M = 26.11 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 4 BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60
Quote: Hand #27 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715427 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1855 M = 41.22 Hero (BTN/SB): t1145 M = 25.44 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 2
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Hero raises to t60, BB calls t30 Flop: (t120) 7 A 3 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t60, BB calls t60 Turn: (t240) 2 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks River: (t240) 7 (2 players) BB bets t210, Hero folds Final Pot: t240 BB wins t240 Just fold preflop here, really. Same concept as the postflop "bluffwithequity" part: 82o just doesn't flop anything worthwile. Interesting spot though, matt had K9o and decided to turn his hand into a bluff on the river to fold out 2x or 3x. Sizing looks fine since his range consists mostly of 7x and I expect him to checkraise diamond or gutters most of the time so nice hand.
Quote: Hand #28 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715428 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1975 M = 43.89 Hero (BB): t1025 M = 22.78 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 4 5 BTN/SB raises to t60, Hero calls t30 Flop: (t120) 6 6 4 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t60, Hero calls t60 Turn: (t240) A (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t150, Hero calls t150
River: (t540) 8 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB requests TIME, BTN/SB bets t325, Hero requests TIME, Hero folds Final Pot: t540 BTN/SB wins t540 Interesting hand. Like I was talking about the KJ float on low paired board, pretty sure matt is not bluffing river here too much once you call twice because your line looks like Ax A LOT. You can opt to checkraise flop if you don't know his barreling frequencies since all turn/rivers will suck pretty much and it's not gonna be hard to bluff you off a 4 by the river in general (unless in a spot like this where matt shouldn't be bluffing that much) because if 2 different overcards come you're gonna have a hard time bluffcatching and matt can valuebet/bluff quite a big range obv.
Quote: Hand #29 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715429 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t2245 M = 49.89 Hero (BTN/SB): t755 M = 16.78 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 3 A Hero raises to t60, BB raises to t2245 all in, 1 fold Final Pot: t120 BB wins t120 Matt had AK here, pretty sure I'd just make a normal 3bet here with your hand since you don't have any push/fold history yet (unless in previous games which I don't know about). Just make it like 160-200 or something and prepare to get 4bet jammed on a lot by dominated hands.
AK is also good enough to like bet/call almost any board when maruchan would flat pre and pot is 360 with 560 behind or something. I wouldn't mind a jam with 20bb's or less but 25bb's is a bit much if you ask me.
Quote: Hand #30 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715430 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t2305 M = 51.22 Hero (BB): t695 M = 15.44 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 8 1 fold
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Final Pot: t30 Hero wins t30
Quote: Hand #31 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715431 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t2290 M = 50.89 Hero (BTN/SB): t710 M = 15.78 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 4 Hero raises to t60, BB calls t30 Flop: (t120) K 8 T (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t120) Q (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks
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River: (t120) Q (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Final Pot: t120 BB shows 8 A (two pair, Queens and Eights) Hero shows 4 6 (a pair of Queens) BB wins t120 A bit too weak to defend with 64o at these stacksizes really. Again not the worst spot to bet turn and smallish river with almost entire range though I'd prefer at least SOME equity to do this (diamonds/Ax/Jx/9x obv).
Quote: Hand #32 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715432 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t2350 M = 52.22 Hero (BB): t650 M = 14.44 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 4 BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60
Quote: Hand #33 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715433 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t2380 M = 52.89 Hero (BTN/SB): t620 M = 13.78 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with A
Q
Hero raises to t60, 1 fold Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60
Quote: Hand #34 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715434 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t2350 M = 52.22 Hero (BB): t650 M = 14.44 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with Q BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60
Quote: Hand #35 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715435 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t2380 M = 52.89 Hero (BTN/SB): t620 M = 13.78 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 2 Hero raises to t60, BB calls t30 Flop: (t120) A J 3 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t60, BB folds Final Pot: t120 Hero wins t120
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Quote: Hand #36 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715436 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t2320 M = 51.56 Hero (BB): t680 M = 15.11 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 7 BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60 Always curious why people defend like 64o but then for 1bb shallower stacks fold 75o. =)
Quote: Hand #37 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715437 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t2350 M = 52.22 Hero (BTN/SB): t650 M = 14.44 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 3 Hero raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60 Matt had K3o here which I probably defend since it's not the worst bluffcatcher on some boards that maruchan won't be firing too much and we can still flop toppair with it and checkraise some boards as total bluff so that maruchan is in a ****ty spot regarding stacksizes.
Quote: Hand #38 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715438 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t2320 M = 51.56 Hero (BB): t680 M = 15.11 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 8 6 BTN/SB raises to t60, Hero calls t30 Flop: (t120) J 8 7 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t120) 6 (2 players) Hero bets t80, BTN/SB folds Final Pot: t120 Hero wins t120 Preflop defend again, questionable though I do this from time to time as well. Flop I'd check yeah, turn is a definite lead and I like your sizing a lot. Matt had A7o here and given that this board should smack maruchan's range pretty hard I like the checkback/give up (and bluffcatch some turns/rivers I guess or catch a 5outer to turn gin) since even hands like Q9o have like 40% here on this board and getting it in vs a checkraise is gonna be spew and you're gonna get checkraised so much here so looks fine.
Quote: Hand #39 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715439 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t2260 M = 50.22 Hero (BTN/SB): t740 M = 16.44
Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 7 Hero raises to t60, BB calls t30
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Flop: (t120) Q 6 5 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t120) 2 (2 players) BB bets t80, Hero calls t80 River: (t280) 7 (2 players) BB bets t180, Hero raises to t600 all in, BB folds Final Pot: t640 Hero wins t640 Fwiw, maruchan, you should def cbet more. Don't go into autochecking back bottom or middle pair really, cbetting will pick up the pot a lot really. If in this spot for example, matt checkraises, I'd just jam with middle pair (esp with a blocker against hands like 87). His checkraising will be a bluff enough % of the time to 3bet jam the flop I guess and if he has top pair so be it.
Matt had A2cc here, which I would've probably just jammed pre given that maruchan opens almost all buttons (though I don't mind flatting since it's suited really). Turn I probably c/f if I were matt, again, somewhat similar board to 2 previous times with lack of cbet but maruchan's range is pretty much middle/bottom pair at this point and no need to try to bluff him off it on this turn really given the boardstructure (and the fact that we will have cards 7-J a lot more than 2-6 in our range). Maruchan: checking back bottom/middle pair will just let your opponent either: - outdraw you on turn - put you in awkward spots when villain leads A TON of turncards - play pretty much perfect against your range on later streets with almost his entire range on certain board textures if he's somewhat thinking
Quote: Hand #40 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715440 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1940 M = 32.33 Hero (BB): t1060 M = 17.67 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 4 BTN/SB raises to t80, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t80 BTN/SB wins t80
Quote: Hand #41 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715441 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1980 M = 33 Hero (BTN/SB): t1020 M = 17 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with K Hero raises to t80, BB calls t40 Flop: (t160) 3 3 8 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t80, BB calls t80 Turn: (t320) 6 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks River: (t320) A (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Final Pot: t320 BB mucks 9 Q Hero shows K 9
(a pair of Threes)
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Hero wins t320 Float much yo? I don't mind the float THAT much but the better your absolute handstrength the better your float obv. Having KJ like I talked about earlier will be way better for a couple of reasons.
Quote: Hand #42 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715442 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1820 M = 30.33 Hero (BB): t1180 M = 19.67 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with K J BTN/SB raises to t80, Hero calls t40 Flop: (t160) 5 8 4 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t80, Hero folds Final Pot: t160 BTN/SB wins t160 I don't think matt is too much of a spazzer so I wouldn't 3bet trying to get it in at this point so hand looks std from both.
Quote: Hand #43 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715443 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1900 M = 31.67 Hero (BTN/SB): t1100 M = 18.33 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with Q T Hero raises to t80, BB raises to t220, Hero calls t140
Flop: (t440) J 6 4 (2 players) BB bets t250, Hero raises to t880 all in, BB folds Final Pot: t940 Hero wins t940 Matt had A9dd here and fwiw I really don't think he can cbet/fold this flop. You only need 28% to breakeven for a cbet/call here. Just look at this range which includes only toppair+ or flushdraws and it's a range that's not too wide/tight. Board: Jh 6s 4h Dead: equity win tie pots won pots tied Hand 0: 15.490% 15.49% 00.00% 10428 0.00 { Ad9d } Hand 1: 84.510% 84.51% 00.00% 56892 0.00 { QQ+, KhQh, KJs, KhTh, Kh9h, QJs, QhTh, Qh9h, J9s+, Th9h, Th8h, 9h8h, KJo, QJo, J9o+ } 15.5%, far from enough you think obv. However, just add like one hand in, say KQ, and also 87s that he defends for example and see how our equity shoots up: Board: Jh 6s 4h Dead: equity win tie pots won pots tied Hand 0: 27.158% 27.16% 00.00% 23391 0.00 { Ad9d } Hand 1: 72.842% 72.84% 00.00% 62739 0.00 { QQ+, KJs+, KhTh, Kh9h, QJs, QhTh, Qh9h, J9s+, Th9h, Th8h, 9h8h, 87s, KJo+, QJo, J9o+ } over 27% already and this only includes one spazzhand that we beat really. Especially with the cbetsize matt used I think this just invites getting jammed on by maruchan's entire range so either cbet/fold smaller (180-ish) or bet like this and then call a jam.
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Hand #44 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715444 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1430 M = 23.83 Hero (BB): t1570 M = 26.17 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 2 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 Hero wins t40
Quote: Hand #45 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715445 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1410 M = 23.50 Hero (BTN/SB): t1590 M = 26.50 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with K T Hero raises to t80, BB raises to t220, 1 fold Final Pot: t160 BB wins t160 Idk how you can fold here really. His frequency of 3betting so far has been high enough imo so that we're definitly not always dominated here (far from).
Quote: Hand #46 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715446 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
BTN/SB: t1490 M = 24.83 Hero (BB): t1510 M = 25.17 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 3 BTN/SB raises to t80, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t80 BTN/SB wins t80
Quote: Hand #47 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715447 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1530 M = 25.50 Hero (BTN/SB): t1470 M = 24.50 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with J Hero raises to t80, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t80 Hero wins t80
Quote: Hand #48 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715448 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1490 M = 24.83 Hero (BB): t1510 M = 25.17 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with K 1 fold
K
Final Pot: t40 Hero wins t40 Sick dodge matt!
Quote: Hand #49 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715449 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1470 M = 24.50 Hero (BTN/SB): t1530 M = 25.50 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with A Hero raises to t80, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t80 Hero wins t80
Quote: Hand #50 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715450 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1430 M = 23.83 Hero (BB): t1570 M = 26.17 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with J J BTN/SB raises to t80, Hero raises to t235, 1 fold Final Pot: t160 Hero wins t160 Obv 3bet but sizing looks a bit weird. 220 seemed to be standard so far, I would probably just use the same sizing here.
Quote: Hand #51 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715451 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1350 M = 22.50 Hero (BTN/SB): t1650 M = 27.50 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with T Hero raises to t80, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t80 Hero wins t80
Quote: Hand #52 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715452 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1310 M = 21.83 Hero (BB): t1690 M = 28.17 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 3 BTN/SB raises to t80, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t80 BTN/SB wins t80
Quote: Hand #53 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715453 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1350 M = 22.50
Hero (BTN/SB): t1650 M = 27.50 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with 6 1 fold Final Pot: t40 BB shows K K BB wins t40
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(a pair of Kings)
Sick dodge from both sides.
Quote: Hand #54 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715454 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1370 M = 22.83 Hero (BB): t1630 M = 27.17 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 7 BTN/SB raises to t80, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t80 BTN/SB wins t80
Quote: Hand #55 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715455 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1410 M = 23.50 Hero (BTN/SB): t1590 M = 26.50 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with T Hero raises to t80, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t80 Hero wins t80
Quote: Hand #56 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715456 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1370 M = 22.83 Hero (BB): t1630 M = 27.17 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with Q 6 BTN/SB raises to t80, Hero raises to t230, BTN/SB calls t150 Flop: (t460) 5 Q 6 (2 players) Hero bets t230, BTN/SB folds Final Pot: t460 Hero wins t460 Don't mind the bluff3bet too much really. I'd cbet slightly bigger to give him more incentive to bluffjam (like 250-280 will get more jams I think). Or maybe even just check in general, given that you didn't cbet middle/bottom pair so far (though this is a 3bet pot and obv a different spot, still...) I feel that matt will try and bluff you off a weak pair often enough here. Matt had T9 here, looks fine, I'd play it the same.
Quote: Hand #57 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715457 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1140 M = 19 Hero (BTN/SB): t1860 M = 31
Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with 4 Hero raises to t80, BB calls t40
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Flop: (t160) K 4 4 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t80, BB raises to t230, Hero calls t150 Turn: (t620) A (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t400, BB folds Final Pot: t620 Hero wins t620 Matt just LOVES to checkraise paried flops. He had QT with a diamond here, don't mind it too much really in this spot. Your turnbet seems a bit big fwiw but nothing too weird.
Quote: Hand #58 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715458 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t830 M = 13.83 Hero (BB): t2170 M = 36.17 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with 5 BTN/SB raises to t80, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t80 BTN/SB wins t80
Quote: Hand #59 Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.25 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 715459 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
BB: t870 M = 14.50 Hero (BTN/SB): t2130 M = 35.50 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with K J Hero raises to t80, BB raises to t870 all in, Hero calls t790 Flop: (t1740) 6
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Turn: (t1740) 8 River: (t1740) 9 Final Pot: t1740 BB shows 4 4 (a pair of Fours) Hero shows K J (a pair of Kings) Hero wins t1740 It's close really, we don't have much push/fold action so far which probably makes this a fold I guess. Only time was around 25bb's and matt had AKo though we didn't have any showdown. Pretty sure his range is gonna be mainly Ax and low pocket pairs and messing with stove a bit and adding like 2 spazzhands which we crush makes it like a coinflip so just flip a coin really or see how much you wanna gamble.
SPAMZ ' TENTH HAND HISTORY R EVIEW Villain is yaqh from 2+2 for who I did a hh review before (though I don't remember too much of his game particularly, so I'm just gonna assume villain is a winning reg)
Quote: Hand #1 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717744 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1500 M = 50 BTN/SB: t1500 M = 50 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with Q BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40 Standard fold, no need to get fancy first few hands obv.
Quote: Hand #2 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717745
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1480 M = 49.33 BB: t1520 M = 50.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 Hero raises to t40, BB calls t20
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Flop: (t80) 6 5 J (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t60, BB calls t60 Turn: (t200) 6 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t100, BB calls t100 River: (t400) 9 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Final Pot: t400 Hero shows 5 A (two pair, Sixes and Fives) BB shows 5 9 (two pair, Nines and Sixes) BB wins t400 Biggish pot from the bat. Ehm, interesting spot. Preflop and flop are both standard/fine for both obv. Turnbet is interesting and I don't mind it, though it can go either way. I would expect a good player to checkraise most draws on this type of board anyway, so he either has like trips now, Jx that he didn't raise on flop, or a worse 5x and some pocket pairs between J and 6. Two things to notice though: 1) If yaqh has flatted any random draw or float or whatever, he can definitly be aware that his range has most 6x hands in it so he can definitly checkraise bluff this turn against you. 2) Yaqh really shouldn't be calling on turn here with mere 5x if you ask me. I don't expect to be barreled a lot here and we're pretty much crushed by any valuerange here. Even like a flushdraw still has 2 live overs, 8 clean clubs and 3 jacks to counterfed (which is something you shouldn't take too lightly really, having almost playing the board once every 15 times you're in this spot and **** you can do about it). Looking back I don't really feel the need to bet the turn here with
A5 given that I don't think he calls too much with 5x anyway (he shouldn't really), and if he has some sort of draw we can bluffcatch river anyway on a decent enough amount of cards and we don't risk on getting bluffcheckraised on turn (which yaqh should've done instead of calling). Main reason for not betting is that there's just so little value in it (if at all, doubt we beat yaqh's range that continues past this point by much) and you're often just valuetowning yourself.
Quote: Hand #3 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717746 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1280 M = 42.67 BTN/SB: t1720 M = 57.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with Q 1 fold
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Final Pot: t20 Hero wins t20
Quote: Hand #4 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717747 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1290 M = 43 BB: t1710 M = 57 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 7 Hero raises to t40, 1 fold Final Pot: t40 Hero wins t40
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Quote: Hand #5 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717748 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1310 M = 43.67 BTN/SB: t1690 M = 56.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with J Q BTN/SB raises to t60, Hero calls t40 Flop: (t120) K 5 6 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t60, Hero raises to t200, BTN/SB folds Final Pot: t240 Hero wins t240 I don't mind a checkraise here that much given that we have enough cards to double barrel as a (semi-)bluff with all our backdoor equity and it's not a board villain has a ton of hands on that he can continu with anyway.
Quote: Hand #6 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717749 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1430 M = 47.67 BB: t1570 M = 52.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with A 6 Hero raises to t40, BB raises to t140, Hero calls t100 Flop: (t280) J 4 5 (2 players) BB bets t180, Hero folds
Final Pot: t280 BB wins t280 Preflop looks close but fine I guess with those stacksizes behind. Idk how much of a spite3bettor yaqh is really given we checkraised him last time though it's not completely relevant. I wouldn't get too fancy right away but if you want to continu on certain boards where you don't flop a pair or decent draw, this is about as good as it gets. Vs AA for example you still got close to 10% equity which just comes from backdoor straights and flushes obv and there's a ton of turncards that give us a decent amount of equity that we can either take it away on or jam over a double barrel and barely need fold equity to make it the correct play. Also, I don't expect him to think that we call 3bets too light early on and once we call the flop our range will be like Jx, some middling pocket pairs, and maybe a float with KQ/AQ/AK if we didn't 3bet those. Also note that your Ax is about as bad as it gets, A2s-A5s is pretty much always gonna be better/easier to play since flopping a gutshot will add a whopping 20% equity to our hand. However, just folding is fine as well obv, just pointing some things out here in case you're getting carddead against an aggro opponent or smth. =) Quote: Hand #7 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717750 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1290 M = 43 BTN/SB: t1710 M = 57 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 2 BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold Final Pot: t40
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BTN/SB wins t40
Quote: Hand #8 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717751 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1270 M = 42.33 BB: t1730 M = 57.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 Hero raises to t40, BB calls t20
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Flop: (t80) 9 K A (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t40, BB folds Final Pot: t80 Hero wins t80
Quote: Hand #9 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717752 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1310 M = 43.67 BTN/SB: t1690 M = 56.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 7 K BTN/SB raises to t60, Hero calls t40 Flop: (t120) 8 T 3 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t120) K (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks
River: (t120) 4 (2 players) Hero bets t80, BTN/SB folds Final Pot: t120 Hero wins t120 Interesting hand. Flop you can opt to lead since in general, the T and 8 will hit your range a bit harder than it would hit villains range (which is just a lot bigger in general obv) and you can do it with a wide range of hands really since I don't expect too much random floats for more than 1 street. Once it gets checked through though, I kind of prefer leading turn here. Not that he can't have a better king here, but I would expect his checkbackrange to be more like Ax or low pocket pairs, so I'd much rather c/c A5hh on an Ac turn then K7hh on Kc turn because of potcontrol and he's more likely to be betting those. Also, the board is quite drawy, and yaqh can think that you won't be leading 8x or Tx on this turn and can decide his 55 is good enough to call turn and bluffcatch a ton of rivers for example. Or call a turnbet with AJ/AQ while otherwise he would probably check back again.
Quote: Hand #10 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717753 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1370 M = 45.67 BB: t1630 M = 54.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 2 1 fold Final Pot: t20 BB wins t20
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Quote: Hand #11 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717754 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1360 M = 45.33 BTN/SB: t1640 M = 54.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 9 BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40
Quote: Hand #12 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717755 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1340 M = 44.67 BB: t1660 M = 55.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 6 Hero raises to t40, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 Hero wins t40
Quote: Hand #13 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717756 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
Hero (BB): t1360 M = 45.33 BTN/SB: t1640 M = 54.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 3 1 fold
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Final Pot: t20 Hero wins t20
Quote: Hand #14 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717757 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1370 M = 45.67 BB: t1630 M = 54.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 3 1 fold
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Final Pot: t20 BB wins t20
Quote: Hand #15 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717758 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1360 M = 45.33 BTN/SB: t1640 M = 54.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 2 1 fold
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Final Pot: t20 Hero wins t20 Looks like he's somewhat nitty'er than I'd expect to open his buttons, though obv very small sample but still... He's not autoraising ATC. =)
Quote: Hand #16 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717759 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1370 M = 45.67 BB: t1630 M = 54.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with Q Hero raises to t40, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 Hero wins t40
Quote: Hand #17 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717760 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1390 M = 46.33 BTN/SB: t1610 M = 53.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 3 BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40
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Hand #18 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717761 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1370 M = 45.67 BB: t1630 M = 54.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 3 1 fold
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Final Pot: t20 BB wins t20
Quote: Hand #19 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717762 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1360 M = 45.33 BTN/SB: t1640 M = 54.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 6 T BTN/SB raises to t60, Hero calls t40 Flop: (t120) J 4 K (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t60, Hero raises to t200, BTN/SB calls t140 Turn: (t520) A (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t520) 4 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Final Pot: t520 Hero shows 6 T (a pair of Fours) BTN/SB shows 7 K (two pair, Kings and Fours)
BTN/SB wins t520 Another interesting hand. Preflop looks fine, flop looks standard from both players without metagame. From yaqh's point of view: If you have some history to suspect villain spazzes, you can just make a small 3bet to 430-ish on flop and expect to get jammed by any Kx/Jx/4x/flushdraw/straightdraw/random napkins from time to time and we pretty much crush that range and villain will think you're bluffing often enough. However, against a somewhat more normal/good/nonspazzy player, flatting flop seems fine. It keeps in all worse draws and we're only just flipping against a hand like KT really so no need to do that if we don't have to (unless you think villain would be able to fold a hand like that on flop if you took some particular action, which I doubt). From IT's point of view: I don't see why you're not barreling turn really... You picked up some extra outs and - while this is not the case now - your flushdraw is gonna be live here 90%+ of the time if you ask me. Which hands of villain improve on this turn? AK/AJ/QT/AhXh/AQ/AT and that's about it really... If he's any good he should know that with a hand like QJ/JT you may have turned some more equity against toppair from the flop, but in general that card wasn't too good for his range (especially since you never 3bet pre before which means your flattingrange can include big hands like AT+ or JJ+ as well). Also, note how little he has to fold on turn really to make barreling profitable! Let's assume our flush is always good and our 3 outs to nuts may have no implied odds but if we hit we will never lose the pot really, so we got 12 outs on 46 cards to come. Just looking at pot odds, you're gonna bink 27.xx% of the time on river. That means that - if we were to check - we can call up to 60% potbet with ZERO implied odds! That's huge! Why don't you just bet it yourself then for around that size? Any time villain folds we gain immediate profit (and trust me, on this board, villain should/will fold a lot of Jx and some Kx as well and you can still vbet like AT+/QT/strong Kx on this card). If he calls, and we miss, fine. I'd probably just give up. Maybe make a fake blockbet depending on rivercard. If we bink, NICE, huge pot, try to get some value by betting accordingly.
Quote: Hand #20 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717763 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1100 M = 36.67 BB: t1900 M = 63.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with A Hero raises to t40, BB calls t20
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Flop: (t80) 5 2 6 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t40, BB raises to t120, Hero folds Final Pot: t160 BB wins t160 Wouldn't mind a float here with a wide range and these stacksizes to bluffraise some turns though just do it like when you have the ace of spades instead of the ten of spades for frequency. Also more a fan of floating KsQx here for some reason I got from sklansky's limit book iirc. Two things to notice here: 1) An ace will help your range a lot more in general if you call/float this flop so if he c/f's on Ax turn, it doesn't matter whether we had Ax or KQ. 2) People tend to defend way more Ax than Kx or Qx in general. So he can easily have A5/A6 here in which case we only have 3 outs and bad reverse implied odds on an ace hitting. 3) People won't put too many Kx/Qx hand into your floating range compared to Ax so you have some implied odds on them when hitting.
Quote: Hand #21 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717764 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
Hero (BB): t1020 M = 34 BTN/SB: t1980 M = 66 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with K 1 fold
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Final Pot: t20 Hero wins t20 BOOOOOOOO, open you nit!
Quote: Hand #22 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717765 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1030 M = 22.89 BB: t1970 M = 43.78 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 4 1 fold
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Final Pot: t30 BB wins t30
Quote: Hand #23 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717766 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1015 M = 22.56 BTN/SB: t1985 M = 44.11 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 9 K BTN/SB raises to t60, Hero calls t30 Flop: (t120) A
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Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t60, Hero folds Final Pot: t120 BTN/SB wins t120 Wouldn't mind a float here since I don't expect to get barreled too often on this board but would prefer like a diamiond in our hand.
Quote: Hand #24 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717767 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t955 M = 21.22 BB: t2045 M = 45.44 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with T Hero raises to t60, BB calls t30
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Flop: (t120) 6 8 5 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t120) 5 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t90, BB calls t90 River: (t300) T (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t180, BB requests TIME, BB calls t180 Final Pot: t660 Hero shows T 9 BB mucks Q 8 Hero wins t660
(two pair, Tens and Fives)
Ehm, I don't mind a checkback on this board too much really, since he checkraise a really wet board before and we folded (though floptexture was a ton lower than this last time). Thing is, I feel that against a decent player you have to balance your range a bit here not to get bet of almost every turncard. So if you want some strong checking back hands in your range here
(I had a good discussion about this with barewire a couple of weeks ago), you should pick some flushdraws imo like even pair + gutter + fd like 95dd or 54dd or just like 432dd pick two or basically any flushdraw that can continu on a ton of turncards if we get lead. There's just no way somebody will put you on a strong hand/draw like that checking back and we have decent implied odds when we do hit. If there's a flushdraw and straightdraw out there, flushdraw is the king obv. If I were yaqh I'd probably lead this board tbh, because I don't expect this to cbet that lightly to begin with like hero indeed did not do. As played I'd either lead turn or c/c since once we check I believe that hero will rep the 5 pretty bad or try to just stab with ATC (whether it's A-high or trips) because it looks like we caught no piece of the board and just gave up. But yeah, yaqh, I'd probably lead flop here with your hand. Riverbet from hero seems fine, and calling is pretty close if I were in yaqh's spot though I wouldn't get to river this way really (this being one of the reasons, checkraising flop with Q8 would be somewhat overvalueing our hand on a drawy board like that and half the deck are "guessing cards" for us and we don't know yet how much hero barrels really (but given from the T4hh hand, I don't think hero will fire that liberalitly on every turn card in which case c/c with Q8 because slightly better).
Quote: Hand #25 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717768 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1285 M = 28.56 BTN/SB: t1715 M = 38.11 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 5 BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60
Quote: Hand #26 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717769 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1255 M = 27.89 BB: t1745 M = 38.78 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with J Hero raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60
Quote: Hand #27 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717770 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1285 M = 28.56 BTN/SB: t1715 M = 38.11 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 7 BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60 I probably defend here vs just a minraise with not too much wildness happening before.
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Hand #28 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717771 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1255 M = 27.89 BB: t1745 M = 38.78 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 4 1 fold
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Final Pot: t30 BB wins t30
Quote: Hand #29 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717772 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1240 M = 27.56 BTN/SB: t1760 M = 39.11 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 5 T BTN/SB raises to t60, Hero calls t30 Flop: (t120) 7 Q 9 (2 players) Hero bets t90, BTN/SB calls t90 Turn: (t300) Q (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t300) J (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Final Pot: t300 Hero shows 5 T (a pair of Queens) BTN/SB mucks 3 4
Hero wins t300 Interesting, another flushdraw against flushdraw. Finally a donkbet, I like. Float from yaqh is also fine, flushdraw > straightdraw, no need to start raising flop here because with all the draws out there I expect to get jammed a ****ton. Turncard is really really interesting imo. I don't expect yaqh to fold 2nd pair here really, or KK+ if he flatted that, but I still wouldn't mind a bet to get out draws. Thing is, there's just so many draws out there that we can just fire again with our hand (that still has equity, esp once yaqh calls the turn, I'm guessing our Tx is good around 75% of the time or something) and our flush will be live most of the time again. If he has Qx he can raise us of our hand, but it's not like we're gonna be c/c'ing with a Thigh flushdraw on an already paired board anyway or smth. We can def have Qx here in our range, a bunch of draws and a decent amount of 9x as well (maybe even 7x) so I think leading again here looks fine given the boardtexture (though I'm not a huge fan of leading pairing boardcards in general too light). That being said, I really think yaqh should bet the turn here once hero checks to him. His range is pretty much faceup to draws at this point and yaqh can def have Qx or strong top two pair in his range here (which is std to flat the flop with imo if we get lead most of the time, unless we have like KQ or QJ which has a blocker or smth). If you had like the nutflushdraw I don't mind checking back because: 1) We have showdown value for some part and can't really valuebet against draws at this point (hero shouldn't be c/c'ing any draws at this turn really, unless it's to checkjam most rivers whether he hits or misses to rep trips/boat I guess but that's really FPS). 2) We keep in worse flushdraws (which is a small part of one's range, but just keeping in worse draws in general is good because if hero has an openender, two of his straightouts are flushes for us and 2 of his pairouts as well).
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Hand #30 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717773 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1390 M = 30.89 BB: t1610 M = 35.78 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 2 1 fold
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Final Pot: t30 BB wins t30
Quote: Hand #31 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717774 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1375 M = 30.56 BTN/SB: t1625 M = 36.11 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with Q K BTN/SB raises to t60, Hero calls t30 Flop: (t120) T 4 Q (2 players) Hero bets t90, BTN/SB folds Final Pot: t120 Hero wins t120 I'd prefer a checkraise here a bit more since I expect a decent amount of cbets on this texture fwiw though leading is fine as well obv.
Quote: Hand #32
Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717775 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1435 M = 31.89 BB: t1565 M = 34.78 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 4 Hero raises to t60, BB raises to t180, 1 fold Final Pot: t120 BB wins t120
Quote: Hand #33 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717776 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1375 M = 30.56 BTN/SB: t1625 M = 36.11 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with J BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60
Quote: Hand #34 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717777 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1345 M = 29.89 BB: t1655 M = 36.78
Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with T Hero raises to t60, BB calls t30
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Flop: (t120) 9 Q 9 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t90, BB folds Final Pot: t120 Hero wins t120 Cbet size looks a bit big in general I guess though you've been using that on wet boards that you lead out as well so I don't mind it as much really given that you use it for all t120 pots so far regardless of position.
Quote: Hand #35 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717778 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1405 M = 31.22 BTN/SB: t1595 M = 35.44 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with Q J BTN/SB raises to t60, Hero calls t30 Flop: (t120) 4 4 A (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t30, Hero raises to t120, BTN/SB raises to t210, Hero folds Final Pot: t360 BTN/SB wins t360 Repping much yo? You've taken a ton of pots lately, I'd just let this one go and not try to win every hand. Pick something with at least SOME equity when called, 53s or a low-mid pocket pair or some backdoor flushdraw perhaps. You shouldn't be checkraising this board often really.
Quote: Hand #36 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717779 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1225 M = 27.22 BB: t1775 M = 39.44 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 7 Hero raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60
Quote: Hand #37 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717780 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1255 M = 27.89 BTN/SB: t1745 M = 38.78 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 5 BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60 I defend here once in a blue moon though I'd prefer hearts obv in 2010.
Quote: Hand #38 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717781 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
Hero (BTN/SB): t1225 M = 27.22 BB: t1775 M = 39.44 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 4 Hero raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 Hero wins t60 Std, like your sizing.
Quote: Hand #39 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717782 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t1255 M = 27.89 BTN/SB: t1745 M = 38.78 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with T T BTN/SB raises to t60, Hero raises to t210, 1 fold Final Pot: t120 Hero wins t120
Quote: Hand #40 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717783 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1315 M = 29.22 BB: t1685 M = 37.44 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 Hero raises to t60, BB calls t30
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Flop: (t120) T 7 2 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t60, BB folds Final Pot: t120 Hero wins t120
Quote: Hand #41 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717784 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BTN/SB): t1290 M = 21.50 BB: t1710 M = 28.50 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 Hero raises to t80, BB calls t40
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Flop: (t160) 3 T 5 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t160) 3 (2 players) BB bets t80, Hero raises to t280, BB raises to t480, Hero folds Final Pot: t720 BB wins t720 You get 2 buttons in a row? MBN to be you sir. a hand or smth here I guess.
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Ehm, again FPS much? Repping a really narrow range. There's no shame in cbetting and just folding when you get raised really, although villain is only repping like one card of the board. I wouldn't mind like cbetting t80 here and if he raises to t240 or smth and you think he's fos a lot, then you can like either jam or make it 640 which looks super committing.
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Hand #42 Full Tilt Poker $100 + $5 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 717785 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): t930 M = 15.50 BTN/SB: t2070 M = 34.50 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with A J BTN/SB raises to t80, Hero raises to t280, BTN/SB calls t200 Flop: (t560) Q 4 J (2 players) Hero bets t650 all in, BTN/SB calls t650 Turn: (t1860) 9 River: (t1860) K
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Final Pot: t1860 Hero shows A J (a pair of Jacks) BTN/SB shows Q T (a straight, King high) BTN/SB wins t1860 Don't mind it too much, yaqh's call pre looks pretty bad with only slightly over pot behind. Even if your range would be superwide and include some mid-small pocket pairs and almost no QQ+ with your sizing and for the rest AT+ and KJ+ or smth, he's still not getting the odds to call pre if you ask me since he has to go with any piece of the board he catches and in general your range will have him dominated way more often than the other way around.
SPAMZ ' ELEVENTH HAND HISTOR Y REVIEW Quote: Hand #1 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 722998 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1500 M = 50 Hero (BB): t1500 M = 50 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 4 BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40
Quote: Hand #2 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 722999 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1520 M = 50.67 Hero (BTN/SB): t1480 M = 49.33
Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 4 Hero raises to t60, 1 fold Final Pot: t40 Hero mucks 4 Hero wins t40
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About the loosest I'd open vs unknown but seems fine.
Quote: Hand #3 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723000 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1500 M = 50 Hero (BB): t1500 M = 50 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with K 1 fold
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Final Pot: t30 Hero wins t20 (Rake: t10)
Quote: Hand #4 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723001 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1490 M = 49.67 Hero (BTN/SB): t1510 M = 50.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with Q 1 fold Final Pot: t30
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BB wins t20 (Rake: t10) Open J4o but not Q3o? Bit weird if you ask me.
Quote: Hand #5 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723002 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1500 M = 50 Hero (BB): t1500 M = 50 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with T BTN/SB calls t10, Hero checks
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Flop: (t40) A 5 5 (2 players) Hero bets t30, BTN/SB folds Final Pot: t40 Hero mucks T Hero wins t40
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I don't mind a lead in a good spot though wouldn't do it this early. 1) It's great info to see how he plays limped pots since he'll likely do it again... Like does he stab 1bb or 2bb, does he check back non-hit hands, etc. 2) If we c/f couple of times and lead other boards he'll think we just play fit/fold quite easily.
Quote: Hand #6 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723003
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1480 M = 49.33 Hero (BTN/SB): t1520 M = 50.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 2 Hero raises to t60, 1 fold Final Pot: t40 Hero mucks 2 Hero wins t40
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He doesn't seem to defend too light OOP so far so open a ton if you ask me. Small sample, etc, I know, but we have to work with what we got.
Quote: Hand #7 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723004 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1460 M = 48.67 Hero (BB): t1540 M = 51.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 8 1 fold Final Pot: t30 Hero mucks 8 Hero wins t20 (Rake: t10)
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Quote: Hand #8 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723005 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
BB: t1450 M = 48.33 Hero (BTN/SB): t1550 M = 51.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 1 fold
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Final Pot: t30 BB wins t20 (Rake: t10) Just open, really. Your openingrange seems to be totally random so far. Care to explain a bit or something? Quote: Hand #9 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723006 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1460 M = 48.67 Hero (BB): t1540 M = 51.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with K BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40
Quote: Hand #10 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723007 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1480 M = 49.33 Hero (BTN/SB): t1520 M = 50.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 6
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1 fold Final Pot: t30 BB wins t20 (Rake: t10) Agree that this is a fold though.
Quote: Hand #11 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723008 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1490 M = 49.67 Hero (BB): t1510 M = 50.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 9 K BTN/SB raises to t60, Hero calls t40 Flop: (t120) Q 8 4 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t80, Hero folds Final Pot: t120 BTN/SB wins t120 Looks std, no need to get fancy, nh.
Quote: Hand #12 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723009 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1550 M = 51.67 Hero (BTN/SB): t1450 M = 48.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 7 Hero raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 Hero mucks 7 Hero wins t40
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Quote: Hand #13 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723010 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1530 M = 51 Hero (BB): t1470 M = 49 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with K 1 fold Final Pot: t30 Hero mucks K Hero wins t20 (Rake: t10)
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Quote: Hand #14 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723011 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1520 M = 50.67 Hero (BTN/SB): t1480 M = 49.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with K 4 Hero raises to t60, BB raises to t180, 1 fold Final Pot: t120 BB wins t120
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Hand #15 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723012 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1580 M = 52.67 Hero (BB): t1420 M = 47.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 2 1 fold
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Final Pot: t30 Hero wins t20 (Rake: t10)
Quote: Hand #16 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723013 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1570 M = 52.33 Hero (BTN/SB): t1430 M = 47.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 Hero raises to t60, 1 fold Final Pot: t40 Hero mucks 9 Hero wins t40
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Quote: Hand #17 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723014 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
BTN/SB: t1550 M = 51.67 Hero (BB): t1450 M = 48.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 6 6 BTN/SB raises to t40, Hero calls t20 Flop: (t80) T 7 A (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t80) K (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t40, Hero folds Final Pot: t80 BTN/SB wins t80 I'd lead a bunch of hands here on turn after he checks back flop but not 66, just doesn't have equity at all. =)
Quote: Hand #18 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723015 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1590 M = 53 Hero (BTN/SB): t1410 M = 47 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with A Hero raises to t60, BB calls t40
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Flop: (t120) J 9 6 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t80, BB folds Final Pot: t120 Hero mucks A 5 Hero wins t120 Cbetting here looks REALLY close. He doesn't seem to defend too light so there's only so many hands we'll let him fold by cbetting. Ax mainly, 22-55/77-88 and that's about it really on this type of board. I don't mind it as much with the Ad since we have
some (barreling) equity but I probably just give up on this and check back. Might cbet like AQ with a diamond or something but looks to me like the fold equity you have is pretty minimal and chance of improving not that great either.
Quote: Hand #19 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723016 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1530 M = 51 Hero (BB): t1470 M = 49 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with K T BTN/SB raises to t60, Hero raises to t200, 1 fold Final Pot: t120 Hero mucks K T Hero wins t120 Why are you 3betting this? He seems pretty TAG-ish so far and I don't think there's gonna be too many dominated hands in his callingrange. Seems like you're wasting your easy to play/strong hand by turning it into a bluff really. Wouldn't mind a 3bet with K2o for example against this opponent (who I think will fold a decent amoun), but KT is just a waste imo.
Quote: Hand #20 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723017 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1470 M = 49 Hero (BTN/SB): t1530 M = 51 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 4 Hero raises to t60, BB calls t40
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Flop: (t120) A 8 A (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t80, BB raises to t200, Hero calls t120 Turn: (t520) 3 (2 players) BB bets t444, Hero folds Final Pot: t520 BB wins t520 Why are you calling flop here, really? You think he's full of **** that much? This is your equity against a RANDOM hand (which includes like 32o etc): Board: Ah As 8h Dead: equity win tie pots won pots tied Hand 0: 53.184% 50.76% 02.42% 543240 25926.00 { 4h4s } Hand 1: 46.816% 44.39% 02.42% 475098 25926.00 { random } Not doing too great right? Just think about the fact that you're gonna end up with playing the board 12% of the time alone or something. If you really think he's fos that much, 3bet flop to 380 or something small and that's it, calling is just never an option really (that being said I would just fold here and move on, esp since he c/f'ed the J96dd flop it's a bit less likely he will go out of line). Also, if he has a flushdraw, he has you beat equitywise. + You're gonna hate life on every turn (except 4x obv), even if he doesn't bet, what's the plan if he checks on 9s turn or smth? Quote: Hand #21 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723018 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1730 M = 57.67 Hero (BB): t1270 M = 42.33
Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with Q 1 fold Final Pot: t30 Hero mucks Q Hero wins t20 (Rake: t10)
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Quote: Hand #22 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723019 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1720 M = 57.33 Hero (BTN/SB): t1280 M = 42.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 Hero raises to t60, BB calls t40
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Flop: (t120) 5 2 T (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t80, BB calls t80 Turn: (t280) 4 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks River: (t280) 8 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t160, BB calls t160 Final Pot: t600 BB mucks 9 K Hero shows 8 K Hero wins t600
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Like it a lot, betsizing looks fine. Nh, well played.
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Hand #23 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723020 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1420 M = 47.33 Hero (BB): t1580 M = 52.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 4 1 fold Final Pot: t30 Hero mucks 4 Hero wins t20 (Rake: t10)
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Quote: Hand #24 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723021 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1410 M = 47 Hero (BTN/SB): t1590 M = 53 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with J Hero raises to t60, 1 fold Final Pot: t40 Hero mucks J Hero wins t40
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Quote: Hand #25 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723022 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
BTN/SB: t1390 M = 46.33 Hero (BB): t1610 M = 53.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 6 BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40
Quote: Hand #26 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723023 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1410 M = 47 Hero (BTN/SB): t1590 M = 53 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with K Hero raises to t60, 1 fold Final Pot: t40 Hero mucks K Hero wins t40
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Quote: Hand #27 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723024 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1390 M = 46.33 Hero (BB): t1610 M = 53.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 3 1 fold
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Final Pot: t30 Hero mucks 3 Hero wins t20 (Rake: t10)
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Quote: Hand #28 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723025 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1380 M = 46 Hero (BTN/SB): t1620 M = 54 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 2 Hero raises to t60, BB raises to t180, 1 fold Final Pot: t120 BB wins t120
Quote: Hand #29 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723026 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1440 M = 48 Hero (BB): t1560 M = 52 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 2 1 fold Final Pot: t30 Hero mucks 2 Hero wins t20 (Rake: t10)
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Quote: Hand #30 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723027 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1430 M = 47.67 Hero (BTN/SB): t1570 M = 52.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 4 Hero raises to t60, 1 fold Final Pot: t40 Hero mucks 4 Hero wins t40
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Quote: Hand #31 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723028 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1410 M = 47 Hero (BB): t1590 M = 53 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 8 BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40 I defend here, he probably doesn't spazz that much. Lead a bunch of flops/turns vs this guy though, he'll play pretty fit/fold if you ask me.
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Hand #32 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723029 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1430 M = 47.67 Hero (BTN/SB): t1570 M = 52.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 4 Hero raises to t60, 1 fold Final Pot: t40 Hero mucks 4 Hero wins t40
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This really must be your favorite hand. Quote: Hand #33 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723030 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1410 M = 47 Hero (BB): t1590 M = 53 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with Q 1 fold Final Pot: t30 Hero mucks Q Hero wins t20 (Rake: t10)
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Quote: Hand #34 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723031 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
BB: t1400 M = 46.67 Hero (BTN/SB): t1600 M = 53.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 6 1 fold
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Final Pot: t30 BB wins t20 (Rake: t10)
Quote: Hand #35 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723032 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1410 M = 47 Hero (BB): t1590 M = 53 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 9 T BTN/SB raises to t60, Hero calls t40 Flop: (t120) 5 9 4 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t120) 3 (2 players) Hero bets t80, BTN/SB folds Final Pot: t120 Hero mucks 9 T Hero wins t120 Looks fine. Wouldn't mind a lead flop here either because I expect most villains to peel at least one then fold turn unimproved. I'd expect a lot of people to even call a 2nd barrel with any Ax hands on this turn and check back river as well fwiw. Quote:
Hand #36 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723033 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1350 M = 45 Hero (BTN/SB): t1650 M = 55 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 3 1 fold
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Final Pot: t30 BB wins t20 (Rake: t10)
Quote: Hand #37 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723034 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1360 M = 45.33 Hero (BB): t1640 M = 54.67 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 2 BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t40 BTN/SB wins t40
Quote: Hand #38 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723035 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1380 M = 46
Hero (BTN/SB): t1620 M = 54 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 Hero raises to t60, BB calls t40
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Flop: (t120) 4 2 5 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t80, BB folds Final Pot: t120 Hero mucks 5 T Hero wins t120
Quote: Hand #39 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723036 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1320 M = 44 Hero (BB): t1680 M = 56 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with Q 1 fold Final Pot: t30 Hero mucks Q Hero wins t20 (Rake: t10)
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Quote: Hand #40 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723037 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1310 M = 43.67 Hero (BTN/SB): t1690 M = 56.33
Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 T Hero raises to t60, BB raises to t180, 1 fold Final Pot: t120 BB wins t120
Quote: Hand #41 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723038 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1370 M = 45.67 Hero (BB): t1630 M = 54.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with J K BTN/SB raises to t60, Hero raises to t200, 1 fold Final Pot: t120 Hero mucks J K Hero wins t120 He folded to your first 3bet so again I don't see the value in 3betting a hand like this. Especially suited, plays soooo easy postflop really and we want to keep dominated hands in. Quote: Hand #42 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723039 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1310 M = 43.67 Hero (BTN/SB): t1690 M = 56.33 Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with T Hero raises to t60, BB calls t40
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Flop: (t120) 3 K T (2 players) BB bets t80, Hero raises to t220, BB folds Final Pot: t280 Hero mucks T 9 Hero wins t280 Why on earth are you raising here? All hands that continu here have like 35% equity against you or more (naked flushdraw), other hands have us crushed (better Tx or Kx) and we're flipping against QJ. Those hands will stay in the pot if we raise, on a board like this, all other hands have like 10% (two undercards i'm talking about) and that's it. Just flat and see a turn.
Quote: Hand #43 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723040 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1170 M = 26 Hero (BB): t1830 M = 40.67 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 9 9 BTN/SB calls t15, Hero raises to t105, BTN/SB calls t75 Flop: (t210) A 5 T (2 players) Hero bets t150, BTN/SB calls t150 Turn: (t510) A (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t510) 4 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t360, Hero calls t360 Final Pot: t1230 BTN/SB shows J A Hero mucks 9 9 BTN/SB wins t1230
(three of a kind, Aces)
Raise preflop seems fine for obvious reason, so does cbet. Turn I like a check, just give up really. No chance we bluff him off Tx or Ax, and trying to get value against 5x looks thin because he can fold those so we don't really beat his callingrange if you ask me. River is 100% check/fold once you decide to check though! KJ/KQ check back for showdown value, QJ might do the same, 432 pick two either rivered a pair or a straight and straights bet. Tx will bet if you check, so does Ax, 5x won't. However, given that he called in that ridic spot with K9-high, I feel that a small bet is by far best play here. 150-200 would do the trick and you'll get called by KQ/KJ/43/42/5x and maybe QJ or some small pocket pairs.
Quote: Hand #44 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723041 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1785 M = 39.67 Hero (BTN/SB): t1215 M = 27 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with A Hero raises to t75, BB calls t45
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Flop: (t150) 8 2 7 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t90, BB raises to t240, Hero folds Final Pot: t330 BB wins t330 Fwiw, I'd love a float here 1000x more than the 44 on AA8hh really. Villain seems stationy enough that our overcards will have some implied odds, we got a backdoor 2card flushdraw as well which adds another 4% equity. We're getting over 3-1 on the checkraise so I think peeling is pretty close to being ev+. Hard to do the math here really and - as said before - slightly better to peel here with KQcc for example but still I'd definitly consider it
vs this guy. Not saying I'd do it as a standard, definitly would consider vs villain though.
Quote: Hand #45 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723042 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1950 M = 43.33 Hero (BB): t1050 M = 23.33 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 6 1 fold Final Pot: t45 Hero mucks 6 Hero wins t30 (Rake: t15)
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Quote: Hand #46 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723043 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1935 M = 43 Hero (BTN/SB): t1065 M = 23.67 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with T 1 fold Final Pot: t45 BB wins t30 (Rake: t15)
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Quote: Hand #47 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723044 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1950 M = 43.33 Hero (BB): t1050 M = 23.33 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 2 BTN/SB raises to t75, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60 Probably defend here and donk a bunch of flops/turns again. Quote: Hand #48 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723045 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1980 M = 44 Hero (BTN/SB): t1020 M = 22.67 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with K Hero raises to t75, BB calls t45
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Flop: (t150) 2 T J (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t150) K (2 players) BB bets t90, Hero calls t90 River: (t330) 7 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t240, BB calls t240 Final Pot: t810 BB mucks J Q Hero shows K 7
(two pair, Kings and Sevens)
Hero wins t810 I don't hate a checkback that much since he seems really checkraise happy so far (well, to some extent), though I think he won't be doing it as a bluff TOO much anymore (if he ever had a bluff before) and most people play straightforward on a flop like this (they just fold 2 cards between 3 and 9 really, or low pocket pairs). Rest of hand seems fine as played, like your river sizing since he will bluffcatch a lot.
Quote: Hand #49 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723046 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1575 M = 35 Hero (BB): t1425 M = 31.67 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 6 BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60
Quote: Hand #50 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723047 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1605 M = 35.67 Hero (BTN/SB): t1395 M = 31 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 1 fold
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Final Pot: t45 BB wins t30 (Rake: t15)
Quote: Hand #51 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723048 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1620 M = 36 Hero (BB): t1380 M = 30.67 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 3 BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60
Quote: Hand #52 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723049 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1650 M = 36.67 Hero (BTN/SB): t1350 M = 30 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 9 Hero raises to t75, 1 fold Final Pot: t60 Hero mucks 9 Hero wins t60
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Quote: Hand #53 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723050 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1620 M = 36 Hero (BB): t1380 M = 30.67 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 8 BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60 I definitly defend this.
Quote: Hand #54 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723051 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1650 M = 36.67 Hero (BTN/SB): t1350 M = 30 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with Q 1 fold
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Final Pot: t45 BB wins t30 (Rake: t15)
Quote: Hand #55 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723052 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
BTN/SB: t1665 M = 37 Hero (BB): t1335 M = 29.67 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with K 6 BTN/SB raises to t60, Hero calls t30 Flop: (t120) K 7 5 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t60, Hero calls t60 Turn: (t240) T (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t120, Hero calls t120 River: (t480) 3 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t270, Hero calls t270 Final Pot: t1020 BTN/SB shows Q Hero shows K 6 Hero wins t1020
Q (a pair of Queens) (a pair of Kings)
Looks fine, well played, river is close though. I can definitly see him valuebet less (we still beat 2 Kx hands, not much but still), a strong Tx or QQ-JJ here. Backdoor hearts also missed etc, blabla, std hand, well played.
Quote: Hand #56 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723053 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1155 M = 25.67 Hero (BTN/SB): t1845 M = 41 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 6 Hero raises to t75, 1 fold Final Pot: t60 Hero mucks 6
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Quote: Hand #57 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723054 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1125 M = 25 Hero (BB): t1875 M = 41.67 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with Q BTN/SB raises to t60, 1 fold
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Final Pot: t60 BTN/SB wins t60 Again, I'd defend here vs minraise. Quote: Hand #58 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723055 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1155 M = 25.67 Hero (BTN/SB): t1845 M = 41 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 3 1 fold Final Pot: t45 BB wins t30 (Rake: t15)
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Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723056 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1170 M = 26 Hero (BB): t1830 M = 40.67 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 2 2 BTN/SB raises to t60, Hero calls t30 Flop: (t120) 9 Q J (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t120) 7 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks River: (t120) Q (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Final Pot: t120 BTN/SB mucks 6 K Hero shows 2 2 (two pair, Queens and Deuces) Hero wins t120 Looks fine, just give up once a flop like that hits, turncard isn't too good either. River looks really thin, even though he's stationy, he'll have 9x or 7x or a pocket pair a bunch of the time that still beats us so just check and hope to take it down. Wouldn't mind a 3bet pre either since he folded to all 3bets pre and if he does call, we can still flop a set or cbet/give up certain textures. Quote: Hand #60 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723057 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1110 M = 24.67 Hero (BTN/SB): t1890 M = 42
Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 Hero raises to t75, BB calls t45
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Flop: (t150) 5 4 2 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t90, BB raises to t210, Hero folds Final Pot: t330 BB wins t330 Looks fine, given that an 8 can give us the 2nd best hand some of the time, just fold. Might check back flop though and call a lot of turn barrels from him. Or float vs the checkraise with like AThh some %. Quote: Hand #61 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723058 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1275 M = 28.33 Hero (BB): t1725 M = 38.33 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 4 1 fold Final Pot: t45 Hero mucks 4 Hero wins t30 (Rake: t15)
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Quote: Hand #62 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723059 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1260 M = 28
Hero (BTN/SB): t1740 M = 38.67 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 6 Hero raises to t75, BB calls t45
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Flop: (t150) J 9 T (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks Turn: (t150) 8 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks River: (t150) 4 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets t90, BB folds Final Pot: t150 Hero mucks 6 5 Hero wins t150 I like it, well played. Flop is pretty horrible to cbet and we're gonna be able to take it away on at least some turns/rivers if he checks to us.
Quote: Hand #63 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723060 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1185 M = 26.33 Hero (BB): t1815 M = 40.33 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 8 9 BTN/SB raises to t60, Hero calls t30 Flop: (t120) K A 5 (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB checks Turn: (t120) K (2 players) Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t120, Hero folds
Final Pot: t120 BTN/SB wins t120 I wouldn't mind a floplead on this board fwiw, he'll play really straightforward if you ask me and fold a bunch of hands that have no equity on this texture anyway.
Quote: Hand #64 Poker Stars $5.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 723061 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: t1245 M = 27.67 Hero (BTN/SB): t1755 M = 39 Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with 7 Hero raises to t75, BB calls t45
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Flop: (t150) 7 7 J (2 players) BB bets t90, Hero raises to t210, BB raises to t480, Hero calls t270 Turn: (t1110) K (2 players) BB bets t690 all in, Hero calls t690 River: (t2490) K
(2 players - 1 is all in)
Final Pot: t2490 BB shows Q T (two pair, Kings and Sevens) Hero shows 7 A (a full house, Sevens full of Kings) Hero wins t2490 I really don't like the flop raise here fwiw. We don't have any incentive to think that he'll spazz out like he did (although you did raise 1/1 donkbets, but that's been a while ago). Also, notice how he didn't donkbet his QJ on JT2tt but lead/folded a KT3tt board and checkraised a ton before (or check/folded or check/called) so if you ask me, his leads are just fos all the time and his checkraises are valuehands (and
sometimes (semi-)bluffs maybe, no showdown from that so far). Would be really valuable if you could get some rematches against this guy fwiw because that's a pretty big tell we got here that's easy to exploit. Just call the floplead and let him fire most turns here.
A B AD H ABIT OF 3- BETTING AND R ANGE C HOICE First I'd like to start of with the concept of c-betting, and how it's been widely overused. In a vaccuum, the c-bet is essentially the perfect play to make at all times regardless of your holdings and playing against a player X. The reason being that since your opponent will hit a hand (including a pair or better or some kind of draw) around 1/3 of the time, you will show automatic profit betting any flop, even hands that have showdown value. The problem is that when taken out of the context of a vaccuum players are still c-betting against players that they have specific reads on with hands that either do or do not have showdown value, and they c-bets aren't working. This is because rarely can a hand be taken in a vaccuum. Sure, c-bets can be highly profitable, but if you are c-betting 100% of the flops that you've raised preflop then your opponents will adjust (even the BAD opponents), and what should be a highly profitable strategy has just become an exploitable one. This is what is happening with 3-betting. When player X raises on the button, many players will 3-bet way too many of their hands from the blinds (not 100%, but a number
that's exploitable). While, in a vaccuum, 3-betting every single time is most likely a +ev play, by virtue of the fact that we aren't playing in a vaccuum, makes it highly exploitable. The reason 3betting has become so rampant is that many players aren't willing to battle against 3-betting as they are against C-betting, however, those who are absolutely dominate rampant 3-bettors. So what hands should we 3-bet against what players? That could turn into a very long post, so I'd like to narrow my focus to one hand: KQ. Let's use the example of a 25/22 button opening and we are in the BB after the SB has folded. We know that KQ is doing really well against button's range and we know that the button is probably raising too often on the button. So what do most people do? They go right ahead and repop right there. Now, unless you have such extensive history with the button where you can go broke on any TP flop, I contend that repopping here is an egregious mistake. For some reason, many people in today's games feeling that outplaying someone comes just as much preflop as it does postflop, which leads to some very serious leaks (too loose preflop to work on image, then too passive preflop when people adjust and hero misses everything). It's more important to think about how someone's preflop game can HELP someone's postflop game. So, back to KQ. So, if we reraise with KQ, we give the button 3 decisions, F/C/R. It's likely he's going to fold the majority of his hands, let's say KT
others, albeit you must be more cognizant of whether or not these hands are as far ahead of the openers range as KQ will be). While many will suggest that this is much too passive of a play with a hand like KQ, I strongly disagree, as our hand is strong and underrepped we can make hands like KJ/KT/K9/QJ/QT all willingly go way too far with their top pair hands. Then one can make the argument, that if we're doing this with KQ, why not with AK/AQ? Because essentially every hand that calls our 3-bet now will be dominated, and we'll have absolutely no problem getting it ai on a TP flop against an unkown. Now, having said all of this, it's also important to point out that against good players, you will have to get to the point where you CAN 3-bet KQ for value and get it in happily on a K/Q high flop. Most people have a hard time understanding how to do that. First off, it requires the right villain to be in the right frame of mind. You always have to be looking to see what the villain is doing. If the villain is rarely raising his button, then you know what...don't bother repopping him, there's not point. He's not stealing, his range is already pretty narrow preflop, just let it go. But if he's restealing literally every time, then start going ahead and restealing...but resteal with playable hands. Pockets pairs, suited connetors, (Not KQ!), and of course your legitimate AK/AQ/JJ+ hands. If, after repopping a few times successfully, and villain hasn't stopped, you can open up your range even more. Poker is a game of seeing how much you can get away with...then doing it over and over and over again. Then, of course, villain will adjust again, either by calling too lightly or 4betting. THIS is when you can start 3-betting your KQ, but not until you get to this point, and you have to really know you've gotten there. -
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A D ISCUSSION ON B ET S IZING Because of the amalgamation of information available to us on 2+2, training websites, etc., we tend to look at bet sizing in a very standard procedural way. Let's assume we are playing $1/$2 NL with 100 big blind stacks. Our opponent raises his button to $6 and we are dealt AcKs.Knowing nothing about our opponent, how should we proceed? Give this question to 95% of the regular contributors on this forum and their answer would be to put in a reraise of between $19 and $23. Most would probably pick an amount between $20 and $22. This is probably a very reasonable answer, and, given absolutely no history with the villain, I too would make a bet in this range. I tend to prefer $22 at 1/2, $41 at 2/4 and $61 at 3/6. While this doesn't make mathematical sense, it satiates my desire to bet in numbers that create aesthetically pleasing chip arrangements on Full Tilt's software. The point is, however, that we have been trained so well that we always seem to know the "right" amount to bet in any situation. We know that if we put our opponent on a weak holding, and want to extract some thin river value, we should tend to bet about 40-55% pot. We know that we should continuation bet $28-$32 when we reraise to $22 at 1/2 and get flatted. We see people make bets like $4 into a $30 pot and automatically label
them as fish. We have in short become machines, trained to recognize the "correct" amount to bet and trained to sniff out our opponent's holdings based on the amount he bets. Why then do so few regulars fail to take this one simple step further and trick their opponents by varying their bet sizing and considering the instinctive reactionary effects that various bet choices will have on their opponents? Let me give some simple examples. Example One: Getting Tricky Before the Flop We are playing a regular at $1/$2. He seems fundamentally solid and is certainly a winner in these games. We are playing him on two tables and have been for twenty-three minutes. Over this time, he is up about half a buy-in when we both flopped top pair in a single raised pot and he got three streets of value. We have been three-betting fairly actively (to $22), as has our opponent (though he prefers $21). Many 3bet pots have been taken down with just one c-bet, though in several the player on the button has raised, and in a couple the player on the button has called the flop and folded the turn. Our opponent has chatted briefly in chat and seems friendly and congenial. He is from the United States. He has the fish avatar. 110 BBs deep, We are dealt 9c7d in the big blind and our opponent raises the button to $6 (as he has done roughly 90% of the time). We decide that our hand is too weak to flat so our options are folding or 3betting. However, our opponent has been defending a lot of 3bets, so we are not in love with that option. What should we do? Well we can certainly fold and that would be a perfectly reasonable play. However, I think this is a pretty interesting time to 3bet to $18. This is clearly not a misclick and will certainly confuse our opponent, especially if, up until this point in the match, our bet sizings have all been standard amounts. It's certainly safe to say that our opponent will likely proceed somewhat more cautiously, and at the very least, more straightforwardly, to this raise sizing. The flop comes 8d5h3s. We bet $21 and our opponent calls. The
turn is the 3s. We bet $35 and our opponent calls. The river is the Ts. We shove all in for $145 into a pot of $150 and our opponent tanks, hits time and folds 77. This entire sequence of events may seem somewhat unorthodox, but I purport that it was all carefully planned and well executed. Our opponent may have folded his pocket sevens if we had made a standard 3bet and standard flop and turn bet sizings, but I think he would have been much more likely to stack off, especially given our lightish 3betting history. He also would have been reasonably likely to call a $75-$85 river bet for sheer curiosity's sake. But your average winning $1/$2 TAG simply will not call this full pot sized bet because our line simply looks so foolish that it just HAS to be a big hand like AA or KK. We have been playing reasonably well and not doing anything completely out of line. Our brief interactions in chat suggest that we view each other as "in the same boat" - winning regulars at these stakes who probably should be bumhunting but enjoy the challenge. Now we have taken a completely unorthodox line, 3betting small, betting small on the flop, small on the turn and now shoving the river --how could we possibly be weak? Simply put, our opponent is under the assumption that we are not stupid enough to take this line as a bluff. So our solid 23 minutes of play has earned us this opportunity to seize 3 streets (including preflop) of dead money away from our opponent, and simply force him to fold his hand on the river. Example Two: Rivering the Unlikely We are playing a decent, but not great player at $1/$2. Our opponent's major leaks are that he is a bit of a calling station, and loves to put his opponent on missed draws. He is the type who will bet 2 pair on the flop, check the turn when the 3flush hits, and flat call the river when bet into. He'll almost never continue firing the turn when the 3flush hits, and if he did, it would almost never be with the intention of bet/folding. 120 big blinds deep, we are dealt Ac2c and defend our big blind to our opponents $6 raise. The flop comes KhTc2d. With bottom pair and a backdoor flush draw, we check-call his $10 bet. The
turn is the 3c, giving us a flush draw. We check-call a $24 bet. The river is the beautiful 2s, giving us a very concealed trip 2s. With $80 in the pot, and stacks of $200 behind, our opponent bets $45 into $80. Let's take a moment to consider our opponent's likely range and make the proper raise sizing based on that range of hands. We can assume that it is very likely that our opponent has a hand like QhTd. With this hand, given what we know about him, he would likely check back the turn with the intention of often calling a river bet. We can also assume that with a hand like 77 or 88, he would usually check back the turn, and maybe give up on the river, or maybe pay off a bet. So his most likely hands are either value hands like KQ,KJ,KT,Kx,TT, or bluffs (likely with some equity) like AQ,QJ,AJ, that missed and are deciding to barrel. Because we can reason that our opponent likely has a polarized range, there is no sense raising small to get value from his "thin value bets," because we know that he'll rarely value bet worse than a king on this board. We also know that our opponent has a propensity to pay off when the draws missed. Well, every single draw on the planet missed here. This is a perfect opportunity to bet the farm. Raise all in. I see so many people missing value here by check-raising to $105 or $133, fearful that a bigger check-raise will scare their opponent off. While we should always be cognizant of value raising to the exact amount that maximizes our money won in the pot, this is a simple situation where moving in is by far the best play. The nature of the board texture, coupled with our opponent's stubborn and paranoid tendencies make jamming ultra effective as he will perceive it to be extremely bluffy. Don't make a smaller raise because you are scared that your opponent will occasionally fold. Remember that if our opponent will call a jam here 75% of the time and call a raise to $105 95% of the time, we should absolutely be jamming. Example Three: Getting Cute While some people make "cute" plays far too often, there are absolutely situations in which it is correct to get cute. Let us take the example of an opponent who is what we would classify as a bad LAGtard. He can beat 50nl and 100nl by simply
overpowering his opponents but he consistently loses when he tries to move up. He is simply too aggressive for his own good. We open 9s7s on the button to $6 at $1/$2 NL. Our LAGgy opponent flat calls, so we know that he‟s not suited. The flop is a beautiful Jh7d7c. He checks, and we make our continuation bet of $8. (We have been betting $8 instead of $10 against this opponent, who check-raises often). As expected, our opponent check-raises to $26. This is the sort of board that we expect our LAGgy opponent to attack relentlessly. He figures that it is unlikely to have hit our hand and that he can simply take it down. Here is a great opportunity against a lot of opponents such as this to click it back. I will often literally reraise the minimum in this spot and watch with glee as he jams all in drawing dead. This is a great opportunity to reraise really small to induce a reaction from our slightly spastic opponent. Another great option, however, is to flat call. But if you‟re going to flat call, it is imperative to play the turn correctly. When we flat call, our opponent is pretty likely to give us credit for a jack or a seven (though he may figure we are floating some percentage of the time). In spots like this, even the LAGgiest of opponents will often check the Kc turn. He‟s basically conceding that he was, in fact FOS, and that the pot is ours. Betting $41 on the turn would usually be a mistake against this opponent, and checking behind would also be an inferior option. The best play in a spot like this is to bet something like $9 or $12. Our opponent will often trick himself into believing that we floated him on the flop and are now cheaply taking down what we assume to be our rightful pot. Even if he doesn‟t go through any of this thought process, his ego and maniacal tendencies will often take over and he will impulsively find himself into hitting the raise button. I have some components of maniac in my poker DNA, and must admit that I have felt magnetically compelled to hit RAISE in spots like this before. Raising to $26 and then check-folding to a $12 bet is a humiliating experience that nobody wants to be a part of. Force your opponent to allow his ego to overcome reason. Humans are inherently emotional creatures - use this to your advantage. 10 Thoughts to Mull Over When Sizing Your Bets
1. If your opponent has been folding to a lot of 3bets, scale down the size of your continuation bet when he does call you. His preflop play seems to indicate that he is playing his cards fairly "as is" and we can expect him to not take advantage of a smaller c-bet with a combination of loose floats and bluff raises. C-bet $23 into $44 instead of $30. 2. If your opponent is suspicious and stubborn, overbet for value. 3. If your opponent is meek and timid, overbet as a bluff. 4. If your opponent is European, and the board is draw heavy, make your turn raises with your sets enormous. 5. Consider thin value overbets vs thinking opponents when you can't represent a value hand that would be worthy of an overbet. 6. Consider betting absurdly small amounts to induce when you are nearly positive that your opponent is check/folding to a normal sized bet. 7. Consider betting small with biggish hands to represent thin value, thereby inducing a call or even a value raise (!) from hands that would otherwise fold to a normal sized bet. 8. Every once in a while (don't get carried away), just overbet donk the river with air on a random river card when you have check-called two streets and have otherwise been playing a very straightforward, solid game. 9. Against fish who limp and call often, test their limits. See if they will limp-call $10 at $1/$2. Maybe they'll limp-call $15. Annoy them by varying your button raise sizing and raising their limps to various obnoxious amounts. As your play becomes (at least ostensibly) increasingly erratic, their propensity to hit the FOLD button will diminish. Eventually they will be limp-calling $50 raises. 10. Experiment with different four-bet sizings ranging from absurdly small to slightly big. If your opponent is folding to a
small four-bet, you are wasting money by making it too big. 8 Bet Sizes That Tend to be for Value at 1/2 and 2/4 1. $142 2. $102 3. $88 4. $52 5. $66 6. $152 7. $33 (this one is admittedly surprising) 8. $36 (typically in the form of a pot sized bet after an $18 3bet, and always, I repeat, always, for value).
S UITED C ONNECTORS , I MPLIED O DDS , AND Y OU Odds of flopping... Flush: 0.84% Two pair: 2% Trips: 1.35% Full house: 0.09% Quads: 0.01% Straight: 1.31% ------Total: 5.6% (1 in 18 times, 17:1) However, most of the time you will be flopping draws instead of big hands with SCs, and that's where things get complicated. Let's separate this into two categories: combo draws and regular draws. COMBO DRAWS Odds of flopping... 20 outer (OESD + FD + pair): 0.077% 17 outer (Gutshot + FD + pair): 0.153% 15 outer (OESD + flush draw): 1.424% 14 outer (Pair + flush draw): 1.450% 13 outer (Pair + straight draw): 1.147%
12 outer (Gutshot + flush draw): 2.664% -----------------------Total: 6.9% (1 in 14 times, 13:1) These draws are all hands that can be played profitably after the flop; either you are a favorite against an overpair, or getting AI on the flop is +EV when you take some fold equity (and thus taking down dead money) into account. Combining these big draws with good made hands, you'll have a relatively "big hand" on the flop 12.5% of the time, or 1 in 8 (very close to how often you will flop a set with an overpair). However, since a set is a near-invincible hand and you still have to improve with these draws, you can't say that you also need about 7:1 odds to call with a suited connector. Your average equity on the flop with these made hands and combo draws against an overpair is 66% (the made hands go from 75%-99%; the combo draws range from 45%-65%); compare this with sets, where your equity is generally 90+%. REGULAR DRAWS Odds of flopping... 9 outer (flush draw): 5.2% 8 outer (straight draw): 8.0% ----------------Total: 13.2% (1 in 7.5 times, 6.5:1) These are your standard draws; when you flop a hand with which you can continue, it will most frequently be one of these. These draws improve to a flush or straight on the river about 1 time in 3. Summary - you have a 5.6% (1 in 18, 17:1 chance) of flopping a good made hand - you have a ~7% (1 in 14, 13:1) chance of flopping a strong (12+ outs) combo draw - you have a ~13% chance (1 in 7.5, 6.5:1) chance of flopping a standard OESD or FD Adding these all together, you will flop a hand you can continue
with on the flop 25% of the time (1 in 4). However, only half of the time will these hands be immediately profitable (i.e. +EV to shove it in); the other half, you'll have your standard old OESD or FD which requires playing some poker.
So, a question from me to all you math-heads: How do you combine these preflop odds with the odds of hitting your hand postflop to figure out the implied odds required to call with SCs preflop? If you don't like numbers, skip the rest of the post; what follows is how I calculated everything.
tl;dr math Made hands: I calculated the odds of flopping a straight myself; with 65s, for example, there are four flops that give you a straight (789, 478, 347, 234). The odds of hitting each of those flops are 12/50 * 8/49 * 4/48; multiply that by 4 flops, and you get 1.31%. Combo draws All examples assume you have 6c5c. OESD + flush draw + pair (20 outs ZOMG): You need a flop of 87(6/5), 7(6/5)4, (6/5)43, with two clubs each. 8c 7c 6/5x: 2/50 * 1/49 * 5/48 * 3 = .0255% Multiply by 3 to get odds for all three flops = 0.07653%. Not very high. Gutshot + flush draw + pair (17 outs): You need a flop of 98(6/5), 97(6/5), 8(6/5)4, 7(6/5)3, (6/5)42, (6/5)32 with two clubs. 9c 8c 6/5x: 2/50 * 1/49 * 5/48 * 3 = .00255% Multiply by 6 to get odds for all six flops = 0.153%. OESD + flush draw (15 outs): You need a flop of 87x, 74x, or 43x with two clubs; in addition,
you can catch ultra-deceptive flops of 973 with two clubs or 842 with two clubs. Odds of flopping 87x with two clubs, where x does not complete a flush or straight and does not pair your hand: 87x: 7c 8c x = 2/50 * 1/49 * 27/48 * 3 = 0.138% 7c 8x xc = 1/50 * 3/49 * 10/48 * 6 = 0.153% 7x 8c xc = 3/50 * 1/49 * 10/48 * 6 = 0.153% Total = 0.444% Total for all 3 flops = 1.332% 973: 9c 7c 3x = 2/50 * 1/49 * 3/48 * 3 = 0.0153% *3 for 9c 7x 3c/9x 7c 3c = 0.0459% *2 for 842 = 0.0918% Total odds of flopping 15-outer: 1.424% Pair + flush draw (14 outs): Two clubs and one of your hole cards: 6/50 * 11/49 * 10/48 * 3 = 1.68% Since we already counted pair + FD + OESD and pair + FD + gutshot, subtract 0.07653 and 0.153 to get 1.45%
Pair + straight draw (13 outs): using 65s, possible flops are 87(6/5), 7(6/5)4, (6/5)43 8/50 * 4/49 * 5/48 * 3 = 0.408% Multiply by 3 for all three flops = 1.224% Since we already counted pair + FD + OESD, subtract 0.07653 to get 1.147%
Gutshot + flush draw (12 outs): You need a flop of 98x, 97x, 84x, 73x, 42x, 32x (where each flop has two clubs). Same calculation as OESD + flush draw; 0.444% per flop * 6 flops = 2.664%
So, total odds of flopping a combo draw = 0.07653% (20 outs) + 0.153% (17 outs) + 1.424% (15 outs) + 1.45% (14 outs) + 1.147% (13 outs) + 2.664% (12 outs) = 6.915% = 1 in 14 times (13:1)
Regular draws OESD (8 outs): There are five flops you can catch an OESD with: using 65s as an example, there's 87x, 74x, 43x, 973, and 842. Odds of flopping 87x (where x does not pair your hand and does not complete a straight): 8/50 * 4/49 * 34/48 * 3 = 02.94% Subtract 0.442% for the times it makes an OESFD (which we already counted) = 2.498% Multiply by 3 for the odds of 87x/74x/43x: 7.494% Odds of flopping 973: 12/50 * 8/49 * 4/48 = 0.33% Multiply by 2 for the odds of 973/842: 0.65% Subtract 0.0918 since we already counted double gutshot + FD: = 0.558% Total odds of flopping non-combo OESD = 8.05%
Flush draw (9 outs): Two clubs + a blank that does not complete a flush or pair your hand: 11/50 * 10/49 * 33/48 * 3 = 9.26% Subtract 1.424 and 2.661 since we already counted the times where the flush draw gives you an OESD, and you get 5.175% non-combo flush draws. So, your total chances of flopping a standard 8 or 9 out draw are 8.05% (OESD) + 5.175% (flush) = 13.225% (1 in 7.5, 6.5:1). I calculated the average equity of made hands/combo draws against overpairs by taking the weighted average of each:
0.077 / 12.5 * 65.556 (0.077 / 12.5 = %age of time you flop oesfd+pair, 65.556% = equity of 6s5s on 9s8s6x board against AcAd) + .153 / 12.5 * 57.677 + 1.424 / 12.5 * 56.26 + 1.45 / 12.5 * 50.71 + 1.147 / 12.5 * 45.86 + 2.664 / 12.5 * 47.78 + 0.84 / 12.5 * 97.17 + 2 / 12.5 * 74.55 + 1.35 / 12.5 * 87.78 + 0.09 / 12.5 * 91.414 + 0.01 / 12.5 * 99.899 + 1.31 / 12.5 * 96.717
S HANIA , BALANCING , AND W HAT YOU REALLY NEED TO KNOW Oftentimes I get asked by friends, clients, and occasionally random strangers on the street how I strive for balance. The desire - and need - to "merge your range so that you're not exploitable pursuing a certain line" somehow got drilled into the entire community so that people often pursue sub-optimal lines in order to satisfy Shania. For those uninformed, Shania in short is having a range of hands rather then a particular hand for an action, so that it's possible to get further paid off and not be read easily. I'm here to reveal something that is an old idea - it's certainly not novel, nor can I really say I'm the creator or founder of this idea. However, it may be groundbreaking in today's game. Shania, balancing, and merging are not important. Yes, that's right; I'm here saying that being exploitable is actually preferable to having a range in certain situations, and I'm here to explain why that is. First and foremost, lets throw out the idea that just because someone is exploitable actually means they get exploited. The basic idea behind not having a merged range is that what's more important is how your opponents perceive you; if you play in a merged manner, and your opponents are observant, well then, they will assume you follow Shania and therefore need to
sit idly while you exploit them from the ground up. The real question then, if your perception of Shania interwoven into your game is more important then the actuality of implementation, how can you get away with doing all this? Well, the answer is in short opponents are NOT that observant. Stats are plentiful but don't tell the full story; one 22/17 is much different then another 22/17, a 28/24 is a helpful read but it doesn't really shore up on frequencies in particular spots, etc. Further, notes only take people so far - so often I have people say "well my image is this and this," and I pretty much ignore that. Who cares what your image is? It does matter what your opponent thinks of you, of course, but how often are you wrong? If you're spot on, does this even yield that much more information to play a hand that much more optimally? Rarely. People often use their own idea of their image as an excuse to make a play they want to make, ie. they've sat and folded for 2 orbits, and are now ready to make a big bluff simply because "the whole table understands they're playing tight". Uhhh, no. The whole table just thinks you folded for 2 orbits and are now slinging money into the pot; certainly your bluff frequency may be reduced slightly, but it again likely doesn't shape a decision. Lets back this example with a few practical examples, preflop on up, and perhaps implement Shania later. Villain raises in the CO, and we 3bet aces. We feel if we ONLY 3bet aces, then our earn would be X. However, if we 3bet AA + 32s, our earn would be X+Y. (This is Shania at a glance) That said; what if we only 3bet AA, but our opponent thinks we 3bet AA+32s? Taking this another step forward, with a more generalized 3betting range of perhaps 99+, AQ+, and random hands every now and then, our earn is X (those big hands) + Y (those random hands) removing the "X," does the "Y" show profit? Well, if our opponent believes us to be balanced, certainly "X" will still make the same amount, therefore no, 3betting suboptimal hands (in theory) will not show greater profit, thus the implementation of Shania for Shania's sake seems futile. If someone conjectured that "Y" is +EV w/o "X", then clearly this is NOT Shania but a technical flaw in your opponent. (Them being exploitable in this fashion) Moving on, many people like to play draws the same as 2pair or sets, so that opponent with a big pair or TP is generally in a
"murky" pokerstove quandry where Hero is likely to get paid off w/ all his big hands and coinflip when he has that draw. We'll call this "X" (the big hands) and "Y" (those draws); what if our opponent always mismanages a range so that our true range is really just "X" - it still wins the same, but perhaps we could play "Y" in a different - and more profitable - manner without needing to sacrifice EV for the sake of building "X". Lastly, on the river people like to think that river bluffing needs to be balanced with value betting, as in "I can bluff often because I value bet thin," or the converse, "I can't bluff much because I always have nuts or nothing, therefore I will get snapped off by ANYTHING". This time "X" is the better hand, "Y" is the bluff; if you know "Y" is going to be called, making it in isolation is a BAD play! That said, people do it so that "X" can get paid off, which again, we feel is profitable (X+Y, our Shania of that moment). Again, if our opponent feels we are balanced, we get looked up with "X" and save the money on a bluff from "Y". The exploitable trait here actually is if our opponent thinks we're always "X", thus they can continuously make bluffs, well then "Y" is swung into a profitable space in a vacuum, and the need to balance is removed; you exercise "Y" simply because it's the right play! In sum, the idea that people do one thing to balance for another is often skewed, under the principle the balancing is not important, people THINKING you're balanced is what matters. Further, people are much less observant then you may think; I feel I am very perceptive, I am studious, and I'm very knowledgeable of equities and ranges; but even I generally misapply ranges and individual spots, so in theory I placate an opponents "Shania" when none is necessary. How can we learn from this? Well, the next time someone does something that in isolation is -EV, but is considered necessary for "metagame," perhaps make a different play, I.E. the appropriate play if you played that hand in a vacuum. If a hand played +EV also yields to any "metagame," then perfect! You've accomplished something without giving up anything. On a personal note, I don't try to balance; rather, I give off the idea I'm balanced in several spots, but internally I know I'm not. I just trust the ineptitude of people being able to misconstrue this information on their own (it's hard, they just lack the necessary
information; it just takes too much work and too much time for each person!) so that when I want to bluff, I bluff because it's the "right" play, and when I want to valueshove, I do so because it's "right". -
BobboFittos
One pair, two pair, three of a kind, straights, flushes and full houses comprise over 93% of money earned. Here is the breakdown in terms of %. One pair ---- 21.9% Two pair ---- 24.7% Three ------- 14.5% Straight ---- 12.0% Flush ------- 11.4% Full House -- 10.7% To tell if you are running bad, you compare the performance of these hand types with the long term quantities and/or win rates. For instance with top pair, you should win 44% of the time. If you are performing at 15%, it will be very tough for you to have a winning day. If top pair is performing at 77% you are getting lucky. Quantities aren't important for top pair and two pair because happen so often. The deviation isn't as important. Here are the expected performance for top pair and two pair. Top pair -- 44% Two pair -- 57% I came up with these numbers by looking at over 400K hands worth of Misc tab data. You can compare your own long term data to see if these numbers look right. If not, feel free to use your own.
Premiums (straights, flushes, fulls) are different from one pair and two pair because they come up so infrequently. Also you make much more per hand with premiums. Because of this if you are either not getting your share of premiums or if they are not winning at showdown the average amount, it will seriously impact your bottom line. As an example, flushes are worth about 4.7 BB in my database and each top pair is only worth 1.2 BB. Each premium occurs roughly every 200 hands. Straights happen a little more and full houses a little less. Premiums should perform at 80% at least. I haven't looked into three of a kind that much but since it's worth 14% of your earn I should give it more attention. From a preliminary look at my database I'd say three of a kind should win at 75% or better. Using this you can tell if a particular day was good or bad due to cards. It really won't help you become a better player. But somedays, the reassurance that you don't suck at poker can be worth quite a lot. -
Krishan
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When I give poker advice, either on the 2+2 strategy forums or privately, I ask players to include the reasoning behind their decisions. After all, the point of asking about a situation is not to learn how to play it if ever occurred exactly the same way, but to figure out the concepts that really matter so that they can be applied to a wide variety of difficult spots. Perhaps most informative is when people give me explanations that are largely irrelevant to the situation, or demonstrate serious flaws in their broader understanding of the game. These are opportunities to produce the "aha!" type moments that can lead to significant improvements. This article chronicles 22 different reasonings HUSNG students have given me when explaining their actions, along with why they each suggest the chance to get better. Some of them are misapplied to far too many situations, and some of them should never be applied at all. Most are about in-game decisions, and a few have to do with a broader approach to the game. Throughout, the common theme is that each incorrect rationale focuses too little on calculating EV, relying instead on emotional heuristics or misconceptions about theory. Do you understand the error in each? 1. "When bluffcatching, if I call the turn, I have to call the river." This is only true when playing against a maniac who always triple barrels after betting twice, not against the vast majority of the population. The river decision is its own independent equity calculation based on your assessment of how often your opponent gives up on bluffs and what percentage of his range that gets to the river are value hands. It is quite often optimal with a bluffcatcher to call the turn and fold to a river bet. The error tends to come from people's irrational desire to either say they lost the minimum, or say they won the maximum. If I'm folding on the river, they think, "dang, I'd have been better off folding on the turn". That's a results-oriented fallacy that takes away from your EV, both in folding to too many turn bets and in making crying calls on too many river bets. 2. "If I get caught bluffing, I'll be down to 300 chips."
While I will concede there are sometimes very small differences where a stack of t1000 might not be worth exactly twice as much as a stack of t500 in a HUSNG, in practice, cEV very closely mirrors $EV. The difference is almost never going to be enough to correctly stop you from making an otherwise +EV bluff. The elements of the equity calculation here are the pot size, your bluff size, and your fold equity. If you should be giving up, the math from those three numbers is going to be why, not your shortstack if you get caught.
3. "I'll fold and wait for a better spot." Similarly, especially in the era of the rematch button, you're looking for a +EV spot. Hourly rate is a much better stat to be proud of than your ROI. The question you should be asking yourself is whether the play is +EV. When you're folding, "waiting for a better spot" isn't generally going to be why except in more extreme scenarios, like passing up on 52% equity against an opponent open-shoving 75bb deep. In general though, making the play that gives you the best equity in the hand is going to be what wins you the most money overall. 4. "So I raised to define his hand..." When arguing that he should check/raise an A[club]K[club]Q[diamond] flop with Q[club]4[club] in a limped pot 20bb deep instead of check/calling, a winning $100 player remarked to me that by raising, he was able to define his opponent's range more, eliminating all the junky hands. As if we had anything to fear from seven high! Knowing what our opponent is likely to have is not a benefit in and of itself. Raising for information is a play that always should be grounded in equity, not out of unwarranted fear of playing against a wide range. 5. "Readless, I like to play fairly nitty, not wanting to get into a marginal spot against a player I don't know anything about." Generally, this is said by people who go on to pass up against highly +EV spots because they are not sure of your opponent's tendencies. It's poker, and when Oreos aren't involved, we're never sure about any of your reads. It's always a probabilistic guess. When you know nothing, go by the population tendencies of how likely villains in general are to have each hand in his range. Don't fail to four-bet shove 77 just because you don't know whether your opponent's three-betting range is too tight for that to be profitable. Do a calculation. Based on range of villains I generally face, how often is it profitable, and how often is it not? That's a better approach that will lead to a +EV decision. 6. "If I'm facing a minraise or a limp in the BB, I can use the NASH chart to help make my decision." NASH, the more technically correct cousin of SAGE, details the push/fold and call/fold equilibrium strategies for the small blind and the big blind respectively. It guarantees at least a certain amount of equity. However, it is best used as a solely
general guideline for <10bb poker, and exploiting players with 2x raises, openshoves, folds, and limps generally leads to superior results better than what NASH provides. While it is suboptimal >10bb, NASH is at least relevant. Unfortunately, many players use the NASH chart to dictate decisions like shoving over limps. You might as well use Phil Hellmuth's hand rankings to decide. When people limp, they have a completely different range than "Any Two Cards". Do the math of how much fold equity you have, what your equity is when called, and what your equity is from checking behind or making a smaller raise. Don't get lazy and try to use a chart for everything. 7. "All-in luck graphs are for whiners who like wasting their time feeling bad about themselves." While some HUSNG players get all of the action they could ever want at a buy-in and speed they're positive is their most profitable, most people will not have that experience. There are deepstacks, reg speeds, turbos, and superturbos, all at the stake you're at, the level above, and the level below. Because EV-adjusted winnings have much better predictive value than your actual results, if you're not positive which stake level or game you should playing at, you hate money for not taking a quick look at all the information available to you. 8. "Let's not inflate the pot out of position." This is another reason that bypasses the correct rationale for taking an action and becomes quite hollow when the real reason doesn't apply. There are plenty of times when you want to inflate the pot out of position, with great hands, poor hands, and everything in between. If you're using this logic, make sure you identify WHY it would be such a bad thing if the pot is bigger: Is it that you're not getting value out of enough hands? Is it that too much of your opponent's range can play well against your hand and decrease your equity? Focus on the math, not the often misleading generality. 9. "I don't want to build a pot with a marginal hand." Similarly, there are plenty of times when you should be making thin value bets on the flop and turn with hands that can't stand up to further aggression. In fact, sometimes with a marginal hand, your best play is to be aggressive and get the money in while there is still at least some value to be had. Progressing as a poker player means winning pots with more than just your monsters and your bluffs, it means making the most in EV on every single value hand you are dealt, even if that means playing it safe less often. 10. "If I have Q6 on a 642 board, I hate all turn cards that aren't queens or sixes." Thinking like this often leads people to over-protect their hand and be too scared of what cards can come. For example, if you had the Q6 in position on this hand and your opponent check/called a bet, a Jack on the turn would improve your equity in the hand against his range. Just because a jack increases the amount of hands that beat you doesn't mean that the card increases that percentage in your opponent's
range of hands. Don't be scared, make a real value bet, and don't try too much to push people out on these type of flops. The reason for doing so is emotional, not mathematical. 11a. "Let's bet big, I have a big hand!" 11b. "Let's bet small, I don't want to scare him off." Different types of players tend to have one of these two instincts when learning the game. Each seems immediately justifiable, but neither is well thought out when applied globally. Whether to bet big, small, or anywhere in between with your monsters depends on your opponent, the board texture, your opponent's range, your image, your perceived range, and a host of other factors. Often, players will quickly bet big or small without thinking about any of these details, just out of instinct.
22 F L AW E D R E A S O NI NG S I N HUSNG P OK E R (P A R T 2)
The first half of this article introduced how there are dozens of common flawed ways of thinking about HUSNG poker that are pervasive amongst average midstakes players. In general, they tend to make use of heuristics that end up distracting from an accurate equity calculation at the core of the decision. We'll now broaden this understanding towards your poker career and out-of-game poker choices, with a few more examples of specific common in-game situations interspersed along the way. 12. "I haven't really thought about how much I'll play poker and when I'll move on from the game, or applied that to any of my decisions." Kicking off the second half of this series is perhaps the biggest large-scale leak you can fix if you happen have it. When you decide how much to study poker, whether to invest in a coach or a training site, whether to move up, how many buy-ins to carry, what game selection to employ, and so many other decisions, you are making choices that are drastically affected by how much you'll play in your life and at what level. If you pick one stat to focus on maximising in your poker career, it shouldn't be your ROI, your current hourly rate, or even your lifetime profit. For most people, the best goal is maximising your lifetime hourly rate. Make the most from the time you put in, both in fun and in money. If you think you might give up poker in a couple of months, a subscription to a training site is far less valuable than if you know you're in it for the long haul. If you have no ambitions of moving up, focusing on game selecting to maximise your current hourly rate is better, but otherwise, you're holding yourself back from the skills that will allow you to succeed at the next level. Start thinking about where you see yourself in poker in a few years, and how to give yourself the best possible career path. 13. "There isn't much of a point in studying how to beat fish; I want to learn how to beat regs."
Do you think you're beating fish as badly as Phil Ivey would? That you're playing perfect poker? If you're sane and don't think this, money is a continuum, and the extra 2% of EV ROI you pick up against a regular fish is just as important as the extra 2% of EV ROI you pick up against a decent reg in an individual match. Learning how to beat good players is important as you move up, but complacency about how you play against fish is lighting money on fire. Maximally exploiting bad players is an exceedingly complicated concept and one that deserves to be treated as such. If you think you should "just play ABC", you're missing out on a lot of money, depending on what ABC means to you. 14. "I know this strategy is unexploitable, so it's what I choose to use." This attitude falls back on the crutch of knowing a play is +EV, afraid to search for lines that have even better equity. For example, many players want to ease themselves of the emotional swings of playing shortstacked poker by strictly adhering to NASH and consoling themselves about how they had positive expectation, nevermind the boatloads of EV they threw away in order to be convinced of that. 15a. "Deepstacked poker is pretty simple, I don't have much to learn there." 15b. "Shortstacked poker is pretty simple, I don't have much to learn there." I would get absolutely crushed against the best shortstacked HUSNG player in the world, and similarly dominated against the best deepstacked player. There's always plenty to learn. Heads-Up players have notoriously big egos, and defense mechanisms that get in the way of improvement. Always be excited to learn when someone says you're not playing well. Take it as an opportunity to get better and win even more money in the future, or learn more about why your play was actually correct. Don't close yourself off from chances to improve just because you want to feel confident in your game. 16. "So I checked to be deceptive..." This is in the "tell me more" family of errors, where too often, people think this is reason enough to trap. Why is checking the best option, equity-wise? What does your opponent's range look like? How do you know it's worth being deceptive against? Learn what are and aren't sufficient reasons to take a particular line. 17. "I like to mix up my play and take different lines, with or without reads." Translation: I like to take suboptimal lines just for fun. If you're not going to have a long history with your opponent, don't play them like it. Take the most profitable line. 18. "When I hit the turn after check/calling the flop, I should almost always check the turn to give villain a chance to bet again." Check/call the flop, and insta-check the turn when you hit: Along with looking away from the computer screen right after you see that you hit, it's an instinctual reaction. However, when that card is an overcard to the board against a player who does not double barrel wide for value or for bluff, leading the turn often does far, far better on average than checking. Take into account your opponent's range, how much of that
range just because marginal showdown value liable to check, and consider leading rather than just mechanically checking to the aggressor. 19. "If villain calls flop bets light, he's a calling station, and I shouldn't bother bluffing against him very much on any street." When people call flop bets light, they have a significantly weaker range for the rest of the hand, a range that produces much more fold equity than against players who call the flop in fit-or-fold fashion. True, some players will call down all the way no matter what they have, but it's a mistake to shut down on bluffing just because you find out your opponent likely has a weak range. 20. "I don't know how I'd be exploitable if someone analyzed my database." In thinking about balance and exploiting the tendencies of other winning regs, the best thing to do is know yourself. You know how you feel in different spots, you know how you play, and you know where you can be exploited. Or, at least, you should. Take a while to think about it. Here are a couple common tendencies for winning lowto-mid stakes husng players: When you raise a healthy-sized river bet, it's almost always for value. When you 3-bet and readlessly check a 987ss flop with two times the size of the pot left in your stack, your range is pretty weak. Sound familiar? Do this type of analysis on your own play, knowing everything that you know about it, and it will help you understand how to exploit others. 21. "If I have a suited hand in the BB and flop a pair and a flush draw, I'm pretty much always check/raising because I know I have great equity." Just to hammer home the point with an example a lot of mid-high stakes players can make errors on: Just because you know you have great equity and a non-monster does not mean it's best to check/raise. When you have a pair and a two-card flush draw on the flop, you have a great hand, anything besides folding is going to be +EV. Break down your opponent's range and what actions make the most against different hands. While check/raising is often best, a good percentage of the time, check/calling or leading is preferable. 22. "If I make this play, I might make money in the short run, but I'll soon become exploitable." This reasoning serves as a crutch for people who are afraid to deviate from their moderately winning strategies, and is not grounded in equity. It's OK to be exploitable, you play most people only for a game or two, and should be trying to maximize your value from their tendencies. If you think your opponent might be catching on, keep being a moving target, and continue to exploit. Having a strategy that is willing to be dynamic takes more effort, but it gets rewarded when you click the withdrawal button. To take your game to the next level, you have to figure out what aspects of your thought process about the game are distracting you from what really matters: Your EV, both in-game and in your lifetime poker career. Talk with your friends about this list, defend ones you think you might disagree with, come up with more that I've
forgotten, and work hard to rid your mind of the flawed understandings that keep you from making the most from the hands you're dealt and the games you play.
I NDY ' S INTERVIEW WITH S TEVESBETS *How old are you and where you from? I am 24 years old from Philadelphia.
*How long have you been playing poker? I have been Playing since the summer after my sophomore year in college, I guess that was about four years ago now. I can't believe its been that long.
*What did you do before you played poker as your main form of income? I never really had any money before poker, my parents supported me by giving my 300 dollars a month spending money and paying for my room and board in college. Now that I think about it I have no idea how I lived with only 300 dollars spending.
*How did you get into Heads Up as your main game? I played the full table sngs on partypoker back when I first started; I built my way up to a nice bankroll starting at the 5 dollar level. And was playing the 215s comfortably when I first opened my pokerstars account. Since I played sngs on party, I instantly gravitated towards the sng tab. I noticed heads up and was intrigued, I had deposited $1000 dollars and I blelieve the biggest hu game they had at the time was 500 dollars. Jdredd was sitting waiting for an opponent. So I jumped in and he crushed me. I was hooked ever since.
*How'd u get to such high stakes in heads up games? I always want to be the best at whatever I do. To me the best means beating the biggest games. In my mind I had no choice in the matter.
*How does it feel to play for 5 or 10k per match? Do the swings get to you? How do u deal with them? I would be lying to say that I don't go to bed miserable some nights. But it is just important on a downswing to think about other good things going on that are totally separate from one's poker life. Doing that keeps me grounded and probably alive during the terrible miserable poker spells.
Does high stakes Heads Up or High Stakes Cash or Live Tournaments suit you best? Which do you make the most money at? My best game is almost definitely the high stakes heads up matches on PokerStars, PartyPoker. I say that specifically because I am down huge in the full tilt sngs. I still haven't figured out exactly why but I think it's a combination of the software and structure suiting my game. I want to be a great live tournament player because getting deep in a live 10k event is one of the biggest rushes there is in poker. Alternatively it is a very depressing lifestyle because no matter what you are almost ALWAYS going to leave a tournament unhappy.
*How does it feel to play the 5500s and continually beat the best of the best? How do you do it? To be honest I don't get too much action up there anymore. I can
sit for an entire day and only get 2 or 3 games. I enjoy the challenge and just try to play my best every match against whatever tendencies my specific opponent exhibits.
*Is the high stakes HU lifestyle enjoyable or too stressful at times? It's a very stressful way to live. They are very volatile and when running bad I often find myself utterly dreading the turn and river.
*Do you think HU will become more popular over time? I hope so *What are your ultimate goals as a poker player? To make enough money to set myself up for life so I can become a high school teacher or something fun like that. I really want to win a few live tournaments before I'm done too *Are you worried about the future legality of online poker? What are your predictions of the legality of online poker in 3 years? Very worried but I have no predictions, our government is more illogical than just about any poker player I've encountered (and that is saying a lot)
*Do you think the HU fish will hang around for awhile? Will there be more of them? People will always want to play heads up, it's the ultimate challenge to yourself, just you, one on one for the money
*Do you ever find fish at the highest levels of HU (5500s)? are they just
rich guys? There aren't really many fish so much as people you just match up well against. Some of the people I like to play the most I do not consider a fish by any means. My game simply matches up well against theirs. As much as we all like to think we can adjust to any opponent, change gears etc. We are all at least partial slaves to our natural tendencies and we have to hope these tendencies coincide with a winning strategy.
*What are the biggest struggles you have had to overcome as a professional poker player? Definitely the downswings, sometimes I'm in a public place like a movie theater or a train and I think to myself, how lucky are all these people? Most likely none of them have ever lost several hundred in a day, let alone several tens of thousands or more.
*Do you still enjoy the game or is it just a job to you? I very much enjoy it because I'm always doing new things. Right now I'm playing a lot of o8
*How fast did you move up in stakes? As I alluded to before, it all started at 5 dollar sngs on party. As many of the readers know I'm not much of a bankroll manager. I basically moved up to any level I had a few buy ins for in the beginning. I definitely busted my party account many times and had to sneak into the dining hall to make the 300 a month from my parents last. Eventually I hit a hot streak and was able to move from the 5 dollar level to the 215 dollar level (then the highest on party) within 3 months.
*What are key components of your game / lifestyle that make you a bigger winner than most (or more consistent)? I would say the biggest key to my success is I NEVER hit and run. Basically the only time I'll leave a game that Im winning at is
if I have to do something else in my life at that time. Aside from the ethical implications of hit n running, many players like locking up a win so will leave as soon as they are up a bit. I think this is about as small minded as a poker player can be. My style tends to tilt people when I'm winning and so when would POSSIBLY be a better time to play them? Willingness to put in long sessions especially when winning is definitely a key to success
*What should us little groupies know or learn to get baller at HU like you? You have to use the clues that you have. Namely what the player does on every street of the hand and what that players tendencies are and you can usually know what they have. I've laid down lots of hands most people probably wouldn't even believe if I told them and I've made some calls that many people would consider very fishy. Don't be afraid to look dumb. I would say 50% of online players think I'm a huge fish and I'm fine with that. You just have to play your game and be smart about it.
*Do you have a baller house, baller lifestyle, moniez and biotches all day ??? I've had the same gf for like 3 years now, drive a bmw ci convertible, and invest my money, so in short, no.
*What kind of car do you drive? See above
*Who is the best HU-er online (excluding yourself of course)? Hmmm I would prefer not to answer because I don't want anyone to know that I think they are good.
*Who is the most overrated HU fish online (excluding me of course)? DEFINTELY and without a doubt the most overrated player has been Lars Magne for years. This guy was a total joke when he was crushing the 5k heads up matches and I heard form so many idiots how he is the best in the world. He simply sucked out every big hand for months at a time so all the uneducated railbirds see him winning and assume he is the best. It really made me sick for a long time. Not surprisingly, at this point in time Johnny Lodden has gotten what he deserves.
I NDY ‟ S INTERVIEW WITH BCM11 HOW OLD ARE YOU AND WHERE ARE YOU FROM ? I AM 22 AND FROM CLEVELAND OHIO.
HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN PLAYING POKER ? ABOUT 3 YEARS NOW ... FULLTIME FOR A LITTLE OVER A YEAR W HAT DID YOU DO BEFORE YOU PLAYED POKER FOR INCOME ? I HAD NO MONEY, NO CAR, NOTHING. I WAS YOUR TYPICAL BROKE COLLEGE STUDENT . I WAS A VERY SERIOUS D IV 1 ATHLETE AND WHEN I REALIZED I WASN'T GOING TO HAVE A CAREER PLAYING PROFESSIONALLY I HAD TO FIND A NEW WAY TO COMPETE .
HOW DID YOU GET INTO HEADS UP AS YOUR MAIN GAME ? I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN DRAWN TO HEADS UP POKER EVER SINCE I STARTED PLAYING ONLINE . I LOVE THE COMPETITION AND DYNAMICS THAT COME WITH HEADS UP .
W HICH STYLE IS BEST TO OPEN UP A HEADS UP MATCH, LOOSE AND RAISING AGGRESSIVELY OR PLAY TIGHT TILL YOU KNOW YOUR OPPONENT BETTER ? I WILL USUALLY COME OUT PLAYING PRETTY STRAIGHT FORWARD BUT LEANING TOWARDS BEING AGGRESSIVE AND SEEING HOW THEY REACT. YOU CAN USUALLY TELL PRETTY EARLY ON WHAT KIND OF PLAYER YOU ARE UP AGAINST .
DO YOU FEEL THAT YOU HAVE ANY LEAKS IN YOUR GAME? OF COURSE, EVERY PLAYER HAS LEAKS AND ANYONE THAT SAYS THEY DON'T ISN'T BEING HONEST. I' M ALWAYS TRYING TO GET BETTER EVERYDAY . A LOT OF LEAKS THE HIGHER YOU GET UP ALMOST HAVE LESS TO DO WITH POKER AND MORE TO DO WITH THE PSYCHOLOGY OF POKER . A LOT OF GOOD PLAYERS TILT OR CAN 'T MANAGE MONEY RIGHT AND END UP
NOT BEING SUCCESSFUL AS POKER PLAYERS DESPITE HAVING ALL THE TALENT .
HOW DID YOU LEARN TO MULTITABLE PROFITABLY AT THE 220S? THAT SEEMS LIKE A VERY HARD THING TO DO. H OW DO YOU GET READS LIKE THIS ? NOTHING OTHER THEN PRACTICE. I SINGLE TABLED FOR A LONG TIME AND THEN WOULD START TO WORK IN TWO TABLES . NOW I WILL GET INCREDIBLY BORED IF I AM PLAYING ONLY ONE TABLE .
DO YOU HAVE ANY SPECIFIC POKER GOALS ? W HERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF IN 3-5 YEARS ? RIGHT NOW I AM SO INTO POKER THAT I DON'T SEE MYSELF WANTING TO STOP PLAYING ANYTIME SOON . I AM LIVING A VERY GOOD LIFE AND AM TRYING TO SET MYSELF UP FINANCIALLY FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE . EVENTUALLY I'D LIKE TO GET TO A POINT WHERE I DON'T HAVE TO GRIND SO MUCH AND CAN ENJOY DOING OTHER THINGS MORE BUT AT THE MOMENT I DON'T MIND IT . PROBABLY I WILL START COACHING SOCCER IN A FEW YEARS AND KEEP PLAYING POKER ON THE SIDE .
W HAT ARE SOME OF THE WEAKNESSES YOU SEE IN PLAYERS AT THE 220S AND HIGHER ? THERE ARE A LOT ACTUALLY. THERE'S SOME PLAYERS THAT WILL NEVER FOLD PREFLOP AND DEFEND OUT OF POSITION WITH TRASH . T HEN THERE 'S OTHERS THAT WILL FELT TOP PAIR NO MATTER WHAT .
W HAT ARE THE BIGGEST STRUGGLES YOU HAVE HAD TO OVERCOME AS A PROFESSIONAL POKER PLAYER ? THANKFULLY I HAVEN'T FACED A TON OF ADVERSITY COMING UP . SINCE I RARELY PLAY MUCH HIGHER THEN $500 GAMES I DON' T EVER REALLY FACE THAT MANY BAD DOWNSWINGS . LAST YEAR I PLAYED A LOT OF $10/$20NL HU CASH GAMES BUT HAVING $10K SWINGS EVERYDAY GOT TO ME AND SINCE THIS IS HOW I MAKE MY LIVING I AM LOOKING FOR A MORE RISK - FREE WAY TO GRIND MONEY. W HEN I FIRST STARTED PLAYING HOWEVER I HAD A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH BANKROLL MANAGEMENT AND NEVER CASHING MONEY OUT BEFORE DECIDING TO TAKE POKER MORE SERIOUS .
LET'S SAY ITS THE 3RD HAND OF A MATCH , AND THE OPPONENT IS PRETTY LOOSE AND PASSIVE ....YOU HAVE A5 O AND RAISE IT TO 60 (3 X THE BB ) AND HE CALLS AND THE FLOP COMES DOWN 224 TWO SPADES ONE HEART AND HE CHECKS TO YOU ....W HAT IS YOUR MOVE ? ASSUME EQUAL STACKS WITHOUT LOSS OF GENERALITY. I WILL BET THIS FLOP EVERYTIME . NOT ONLY DO I HAVE TWO OVERS AND A GUT SHOT, IT'S VERY LIKELY I HAVE THE BEST HAND AT THE MOMENT ANYWAY . IF HE IS LOOSE PASSIVE HE WILL HARLDY EVER CHECK RAISE ME OFF THIS HAND AND HE MIGHT EVEN CALL DOWN WITH A WORSE HAND LIKE 56 OR SOMETHING .
W HAT ARE KEY COMPONENTS OF YOUR GAME / LIFESTYLE THAT MAKE YOU A BIGGER WINNER THAN MOST ( OR MORE CONSISTENT )? I THINK A BIG COMPONENT IS MY WORK ETHIC . I DON'T MIND GRINDING OUT $3-4K A WEEK PLAYING $220 WHERE AS A LOT OF PLAYERS WOULD GET SICK OF IT AND WANT TO RUN UP THEIR ACCOUNT A LITTLE BIT MORE AND TAKE SHOTS AT BIGGER GAMES . I PLAY POKER TO MAKE MONEY AND ENJOY CASHING MONEY OUT EVERY FEW DAYS WHERE AS MOST PLAYERS PREFER KEEPING MONEY ONLINE I THINK .
W HAT SHOULD US LITTLE GROUPIES KNOW OR LEARN TO GET BALLER AT HU LIKE YOU? JUST WORK HARD AND IF YOU DEDICATE ENOUGH TIME TO SOMETHING YOU ARE GOING TO BE SUCCESSFUL WITH IT. YOU HAVE TO SEPARATE YOURSELF FROM OTHERS THOUGH BY DOING THINGS OTHERS WOULDN 'T. IF THAT MEANS REVIEWING HH AFTER SESSIONS , GETTING COACHED, OR JUST TALKING WITH OTHER POKER FRIENDS ABOUT HOW THEY WOULD PLAY CERTAIN SITUATIONS , IT MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE . IT REALLY TAKES A LOT OF DEDICATION .
HOW DO YOU LIVE AWAY FROM THE GAME (EG. EAT WELL, GET EXERCISE , LOTS OF GOOD SEX:)) TO STAY SHARP FOR THE GAME ? I TRY TO STAY ACTIVE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE BECAUSE BEING A PROFESSIONAL POKER PLAYER IS ONE OF THE WORST OCCUPATIONS FOR STAYING IN SHAPE . AS FOR EATING , I EAT OUT EVERY SINGLE DAY OF MY LIFE AND SPEND MY FAIR SHARE ON FOOD. W HAT HOBBIES DO YOU HAVE AWAY FROM CARDS ? I ALWAYS WAS VERY INTO SPORTS SO I STILL PLAY ALL THE TIME . I GO TO A LOT OF CAVS AND INDIANS GAMES . I PROBABLY SPENT SOMETHING LIKE $8 K LAST YEAR ON CAVS TICKETS FOR ME AND MY FRIENDS . A PART FROM THAT , I DO A LOT OF WHAT NORMAL 22 YEAR OLDS DO LIKE PLAYING XBOX360, GO OUT TO BARS , AND HANG OUT WITH MY FRIENDS .
DO YOU HAVE A BALLER HOUSE, BALLER LIFESTYLE , MONIEZ AND BIOTCHES ALL DAY? RIGHT NOW I HAVE AN APARTMENT WITH ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS AND MY OLDER BROTHER WHO IS A POKER PLAYER. I DEFINITELY ENJOY MY LIFESTYLE BUT IT 'S NOT CRAZY BALLER OR ANYTHING . A LOT OF MY MONEY IS PUT AWAY IN INVESTMENTS. I' M BUYING A VERY NICE CONDO IN THE NEXT YEAR THOUGH .
W HAT KIND OF CAR DO YOU DRIVE ? I BOUGHT A 2007 BMW 335I IN MARCH AND AM GETTING A 2008 PORSCHE CAYENNE S WITH MY FPP S NEXT MONTH .
*W HO IS THE BEST HU-ER ONLINE (EXCLUDING YOURSELF OF COURSE)?
THERE ARE A BUNCH BUT RIGHT NOW THE KING OF HU SNGS IS GENIUS 28.
*W HO IS THE MOST OVERRATED HU FISH ONLINE (EXCLUDING ME OF COURSE)? NONE COME TO MIND RIGHT NOW .
