Here I will be posting links to important hands that I have reviewed after play from my stream, so that viewers can come and see the conclusion I came to and leave any feedback or views they might have.
V sick to see this and nice use of ICM there. At a glance it looked like a fold but a pretty close one like you said. I think your range is pretty spot on but i think in game i would call with any suited Ace. Is that super wrong?
I think being 5 handed this is a jam. ICM wise i even think this is profitable and yeh just due to the fact we are playing short handed the hand value goes up. Would you fold 88 UTG in a 9 handed game with 13.5BB? That is pretty much the equivalent.
However we are discussing ICM which i suffer with and as i am not a tourni grinder this is not something i am an expert in by all means. Just seems to strong to fold.
OK thought we would try something a bit different from the ICMIZER approach today. Had a good stack in the big $33 last night then busted it basically in two hands... The first one was a pretty standard 11BB shove where we had AJo in the BB. This was actually pretty close when I checked it more but think AJo and ATs would be OK to call there factoring in all the PP and some broadways they go with.
Anyways the more interesting hand was this one with Q9s in the SB.
I think the only question here is whether I should just call the small cbet out of position. To be honest I don't think I thought the hand out completely at the time, but my reasoning was that a ton of the time they just make this min bet with nothing and wanted to just win the hand there on the flop as we could have easily hit top pair or some funky two pair being in the SB. I also didnt want to just call out of pos. because it becomes hard for us to get max value if our flush does come. Also if an Ace or King comes on the turn then we have a pretty gross spot to face when he could easily have caught his card, and would have folded on the flop.
Would be interested to hear any other thoughts on this hand as I think I may have played it too hard.
I think i would just flat as its a pretty small bet, we have plenty back and our had has a bunch of equity. I think raising to 5X is an issue as we just make life so easy for him - he folds or goes all in. I doubt he ever flats basically so we just let him ping in hands which beat us or fold. Folding would be nice of course but if i raised i would make it like 1.3k or something then be able to bomb turns or at least make him think a bit more.
OK so I dont want to sound like a broken record but we have been having a ton of crazy bad beats recently... Last session I believe we lost 4 times where we were 95% favourite on the turn. One of the hands I feel was actually interesting to post here because it wasn't all in pre.
The hand itself is pretty deep in a $8.80 6-max turbo. The villain has been very loose and aggressive in the play that I had seen from him previously.
The main questions I have are:
1. Should we be shipping turn?
2. Should we ever be folding river?
My thought process was that on the flop and the turn we are often so far ahead that we dont want to fold out his bluffs by reraising. I realise this may have been slightly greedy because we only have top pair on a reasonably wet board. Just with the FD on the turn I feel we could have him drawing very light indeed.
As it turns out he had to hit a 3 of diamonds or hearts and he makes it, but if we ignore his actual hand and think about ranges for shoving the river. Should we be calling now that the FD gets there, and obviously he could have some 2 pair hands like 79, some possible straights and obv the flush.
With 25k in the pot once we call is jamming ok here? Villain can have a ton of draws and also solid equity vs our hand so jamming for value and protection how would that be for a good idea?
So this hand has been on my mind all day and I really feel like I was too lazy in this decision. Just taking the easy way out and getting in AKs pre. The question here is there any other way of playing this. I have been running through the options and crazy at it seems I feel like a fold pre might be the only way we can really avoid going broke, and may actually be the best play.
I think even if we just flat the squeeze, the player UTG will re-raise, and at that point I will have put too much in to really fold.
Would be interested to hear thoughts on this. With the strength already shown by the player squeezing an UTG raise and a flat is it possible to just fold this pre and wait for a better spot?
I cant really remember the players stats but lets just say they seemed pretty regular. No massive fish, or players opening super wide
Interesting as to me this looks completely standard. I think with our hand strength, 30ish bbs and all the money in the pot this is just a perfect spot even if everyone just folds.
OK so this hand is just a general question about a some spots that come up regularly.
In this hand we see an early position raise from a guy who has been opening a ton of hands and does have a high fold to 3-bet percentage.
So my question is, do people feel I should be 3-betting hands like these when he has a super wide range. Or is it better to just flat in position with a hand that flops great.
I personally am in favour for flatting because I would hate to have to fold this hand to a 4-bet and not get to see a flop. However if we 3-bet obviously we can just take the hand down there, or get called and still have position on a player with a hand that flops great, with now a larger pot and more info about the strength of his hand.
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