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Played the terminator, no bueno sadly

Played the $330 today, made essentially a min-cash. I think I had a large skill edge over the field, but was short all day and in the end EP opens 2.5x UTG. We shove the BB with AQo for 12bb. He makes a pretty bad call with KJo, I am not going after his EP raising range with anything he beats, and he gets there on the river. I lost a few massive 70-30s that would have given me a huge chance to take down the tournament, but alas, not to be.

Will be back for tomorrow.

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btw, biggest controversy of the day. A player gets himself kicked out of the casino with 14 left after leaving the gaming floor to do something. Ends up with him DQ'd, chips out of play, and 14th place money. He has a reasonable stack at the time, so very unlucky for him I guess.
 

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Pretty sure Crown rules are if a player is disqualified during a tournament their chips get taken out of play so assume other casinos have the same rule.
I guess if someone has done something bad/stupid enough to get themselves DQd why reward them with a cash?
 
Made Day 2 with a slightly under ave stack.

Losing JJ vs 99 3bet pot on 922 sucked nuts, as well as this gross hand.

Two limps, we limp 65ss, a few more limps 6 way pot.

FLOP: 1200: 552r one spade

Two checks, UTG limper bets 700, we call, a fold, someone raises button to 1700, a call I call.

TURN: 6300: 552-4 badugi

A check, we check, a bet of 2200, a fold, we call

RIVER: 10700 2

We check to induce from any spazz, and expect to chop. He has 8k behind so most of his bets should be shoves. He Hollywoods and bets 3k, we kind of sigh because of the show, and call and lose to 54o. Thankfully, our villain can't hand read (we so obviously have a five here it isnt funny) so he missed 5k on the river. That left me with 15k rather than 10k, and I managed to run it to 45k, but lost aforementioned JJ vs 99 hand so go into tomorrow with 27k
 
I am a very inclusive person Reg, surely you know that.

Made Day 3, I am currently 12th with 36 players remaining with slightly above the chip average.

First table was a tough draw, best player from Italy, a couple of solid Aussie regs, tough lineup. However, I won a nice pot of the Italian Kanit really early which got me going, and I turned 27k into 50k in about a level. After that level, I got moved to the dream table.

First hand, the BB has slept in and is missing, and the guy UTG+2 limps!!! I raise, take it down. First six hands I raise 3 hands and win them all, one was a walk, and the other two were limped pots.

I got it to 65k, but after an ill-advised 3b shove on a button open with A8o and lost to 99, and then I started getting played back at, I was down to 16k, or 13bb. However, a few nice reshoves, and some good spots meant I was able to run it up. I had Bryan Huang on my table, he played great all day, but I avoided him for the most part except for two 3bets of his opens on my BB (I batted at 50% on those) and was able to run it up. Unfortunately I had a friend on my immediate left for the last two levels, and they reshoved on me a few times making me make tough decisions, since I found it hard to truly define their shove range pre and as such has a couple close decisions.

Last level of the day I peaked at 160k which was probably a top 5 stack but after making top pair vs a set in a 3bet pot (he 3b me, so has discounted middle and bottom set and I have blockers to top) lost a few chippies to end with 110k, ave 99k.

Hopefully can make the money tomorrow and then look to reach the final table and get hopefully one of the cool hoodies that they give out for final table, as well as a BF shoutout if they write an FT profile on me.
 
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ashley12 said:
I am a very inclusive person Reg, surely you know that.
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I know, I winked. My poker hasn't been going too flash, but I won the members' draw at the club tonight. Woo hoo. :p

I'd love to come up and watch if you hit the final table, but I'm playing Sunday.
 

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Drummer_19 said:
Looks like you managed to snag a decent seat on the redraw.
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Yeah, super elite seat for day 3 o_O

Had the hardest table in the room by a mile. Me, Chu, Chidwick, Xuan Liu, Lim, Raiden Kan was not exactly piles of fun. Early on, I was pretty nitty and straight-forward early on since I kind of wanted to see what the field would do before I did anything else. Most interesting hand was the button opening who was pretty tight. I 3bet 98dd since I assumed he would fold way to much of his button opening range. Xuan now 4bets, but leaves me a really inviting spew stack size. Button folds, I thought about spewing it off like a * but eventually settled to fold.

Later, I was lucky enough to be changed table for balance purposes and got what I considered was the best table in the room. Lots of older local players, so I expected a pretty cruisey time of slowly accumulating chips. That didnt happen. I slowly bled away chips and made a few bad opens with 23-16bb, which when I got action from other meant I had to fold and eventually got to a stack where I had no fold equity vs opens for the most part with 12bb.

Last hand I shove J7o from the button vs two "nitty" players in the blinds based on what I had seen so far. I anticipated a calling range with 24 left 21 paid of something like 88+ and AJ+, so assumed I could shove pretty much any two in that spot. Instead, the BB tanked for a minute and called with K6cc and I didn't win, which shocked me, since he was left with under 10bb if he called and lost. I lost the run out (with a mate dealing) which was pretty crushing.

I came back later that night and came third in a side event at least

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Played the High Roller today. It wasn't a great spot, but there were at least 6 players who were dead money, and another 8 I would be pretty confident I was better than.

Early on, pretty straightforward. Got lucky to bust Jono K AA vs JJ pretty short in a straight forward hand. Played a few hands with Ben Willinofski that were curious, definitely interesting playing with someone where a lot more goes thinking goes into your betting strategy since you are so liable to getting check raised when you bet too thin.

My bustout was quite sad. I had 40k at 500-1000. Martin Finger opens to 2200 with 27k stack, worst player in field IMO calls button, I 3bet to 7500 from SB with KK. Finger tanks forever but folds (I thought I had him). Button calls again.

FLOP: 8:diamonds: 7:spades: 3:diamonds:

Villain shoves for pot out of turn. I check and call, he has Q9dd and makes a flush on the turn, I miss my redraw on the river with Kd.

That left me short, I shoved A5hh for 7bb from HJ. Steve O'Dwyer reshoves from SB, and I lose to A8dd even though I flopped equity.
 
Hey guys long time lurker first time poster. Big footy and poker fan. Mostly play online but recently enjoyed gettin in to the crown to play some 2/4 and the occasional MTT. I dont really know any other poker players but i met online sicko dave allen and his friend nam and we had a few beers at the bar. they were great guys and were telling me how most of the guys they know would be keen for a drink or 2 any time they are at the cas. Anyway ill see you guys on the forums and hit me up if youre gonna be around!
 
ashley12 said:
Yeah, super elite seat for day 3 o_O

Had the hardest table in the room by a mile. Me, Chu, Chidwick, Xuan Liu, Lim, Raiden Kan was not exactly piles of fun. Early on, I was pretty nitty and straight-forward early on since I kind of wanted to see what the field would do before I did anything else. Most interesting hand was the button opening who was pretty tight. I 3bet 98dd since I assumed he would fold way to much of his button opening range. Xuan now 4bets, but leaves me a really inviting spew stack size. Button folds, I thought about spewing it off like a ****** but eventually settled to fold.

Later, I was lucky enough to be changed table for balance purposes and got what I considered was the best table in the room. Lots of older local players, so I expected a pretty cruisey time of slowly accumulating chips. That didnt happen. I slowly bled away chips and made a few bad opens with 23-16bb, which when I got action from other meant I had to fold and eventually got to a stack where I had no fold equity vs opens for the most part with 12bb.

Last hand I shove J7o from the button vs two "nitty" players in the blinds based on what I had seen so far. I anticipated a calling range with 24 left 21 paid of something like 88+ and AJ+, so assumed I could shove pretty much any two in that spot. Instead, the BB tanked for a minute and called with K6cc and I didn't win, which shocked me, since he was left with under 10bb if he called and lost. I lost the run out (with a mate dealing) which was pretty crushing.

I came back later that night and came third in a side event at least

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Played the High Roller today. It wasn't a great spot, but there were at least 6 players who were dead money, and another 8 I would be pretty confident I was better than.

Early on, pretty straightforward. Got lucky to bust Jono K AA vs JJ pretty short in a straight forward hand. Played a few hands with Ben Willinofski that were curious, definitely interesting playing with someone where a lot more goes thinking goes into your betting strategy since you are so liable to getting check raised when you bet too thin.

My bustout was quite sad. I had 40k at 500-1000. Martin Finger opens to 2200 with 27k stack, worst player in field IMO calls button, I 3bet to 7500 from SB with KK. Finger tanks forever but folds (I thought I had him). Button calls again.

FLOP: 8:diamonds: 7:spades: 3:diamonds:

Villain shoves for pot out of turn. I check and call, he has Q9dd and makes a flush on the turn, I miss my redraw on the river with Kd.

That left me short, I shoved A5hh for 7bb from HJ. Steve O'Dwyer reshoves from SB, and I lose to A8dd even though I flopped equity.
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God almighty that is awful. You still a boss though.
 
ashley12 said:
Yeah, super elite seat for day 3 o_O

Had the hardest table in the room by a mile. Me, Chu, Chidwick, Xuan Liu, Lim, Raiden Kan was not exactly piles of fun. Early on, I was pretty nitty and straight-forward early on since I kind of wanted to see what the field would do before I did anything else. Most interesting hand was the button opening who was pretty tight. I 3bet 98dd since I assumed he would fold way to much of his button opening range. Xuan now 4bets, but leaves me a really inviting spew stack size. Button folds, I thought about spewing it off like a ****** but eventually settled to fold.

Later, I was lucky enough to be changed table for balance purposes and got what I considered was the best table in the room. Lots of older local players, so I expected a pretty cruisey time of slowly accumulating chips. That didnt happen. I slowly bled away chips and made a few bad opens with 23-16bb, which when I got action from other meant I had to fold and eventually got to a stack where I had no fold equity vs opens for the most part with 12bb.

Last hand I shove J7o from the button vs two "nitty" players in the blinds based on what I had seen so far. I anticipated a calling range with 24 left 21 paid of something like 88+ and AJ+, so assumed I could shove pretty much any two in that spot. Instead, the BB tanked for a minute and called with K6cc and I didn't win, which shocked me, since he was left with under 10bb if he called and lost. I lost the run out (with a mate dealing) which was pretty crushing.

I came back later that night and came third in a side event at least

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Played the High Roller today. It wasn't a great spot, but there were at least 6 players who were dead money, and another 8 I would be pretty confident I was better than.

Early on, pretty straightforward. Got lucky to bust Jono K AA vs JJ pretty short in a straight forward hand. Played a few hands with Ben Willinofski that were curious, definitely interesting playing with someone where a lot more goes thinking goes into your betting strategy since you are so liable to getting check raised when you bet too thin.

My bustout was quite sad. I had 40k at 500-1000. Martin Finger opens to 2200 with 27k stack, worst player in field IMO calls button, I 3bet to 7500 from SB with KK. Finger tanks forever but folds (I thought I had him). Button calls again.

FLOP: 8:diamonds: 7:spades: 3:diamonds:

Villain shoves for pot out of turn. I check and call, he has Q9dd and makes a flush on the turn, I miss my redraw on the river with Kd.

That left me short, I shoved A5hh for 7bb from HJ. Steve O'Dwyer reshoves from SB, and I lose to A8dd even though I flopped equity.
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hey ash it seems youre one of the gurus around here so im really interested about your all-in move there with the J7 offsuit. I use a chart called jennifear when im playing my 180man sessions and would never jam there. i thought the chart never lied that was what i gathered. what goes in to making that all in play against the maths?

cheers and ul
 
Hi mate.

Most push-bot charts are designed to tell you would shoves you can make that your opponents will be unable to exploit. That is, no matter if they call 100%, 60%, 10% or 1% of hands, they can not come up with a range that will exploit you, since either 1) they will fold too much and you can win the blinds and antes or 2) They will give you too much equity with the hands they call with.

These charts assume that generally speaking, your opponents will be calling with a perfect range. From what I had gathered, I had both opponents as pretty nitty, and that they wouldn't call with correct ranges, and generally that they would fold too much.

A quick google found this article which gives a decent idea for my logic.

http://www.sitandgoplanet.com/sitandgo/sng_bubble/Push_Call_Ranges.html

I had assumed a calling range of approximately 6% of hands for the SB (something like AJ+, KQ, 88+) and a tad looser for the BB. With the looming pressure of the bubble, I had assumed that they would be loathe to call off a high percentage of their stack preflop. Once I knew this guy was going to hero with hands like K6s and better, then I would shove a lot tighter. However, I didn't know that at the time, and it bit me in a bum so to speak.

Best plan would have been to hit a jack or a seven and to double up, but oh well.
 
Oh alright thanks for getting back to me and once again ul in the main. from what youre saying does that mean i can start going allin with less than premium hands according to the chart because the others on the tab are just unable to call perfect
 
footy_poker69 said:
Oh alright thanks for getting back to me and once again ul in the main. from what youre saying does that mean i can start going allin with less than premium hands according to the chart because the others on the tab are just unable to call perfect
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It depends on your read.

Nash ranges are hands you can shove where there is nothing they can do to make profit against you. However, you can jam an exploitive range, which can make more cEV then a Nash range by making the most of their mistakes. Extreme example, you have 10bb in the SB, but think your opponent will call with only KK and AA (he is a huge nit)

In that situation, you can shove any two cards since he folds 99% of the time, allowing you to win 1bb 99 times and have about 20% equity on 20bb 1% of the time. Obviously an extreme example, but you get the point.

So it comes down to what kind of an opponent you have as to how much you should jam etc in those situations, or as elegantly put by drummer, how much HEART AND COMMITMENT you have

 
^ ^ K6 suited call is borderline, but its a roughly a call without knowing exact stacks, obviously this is a Nash take. However, most (good) players fold the bottom of their range in that spot, so K 6 is not something you can go with there - tbh the shove with J7o and the call are both borderline, but if both blinds are nits J7o is a pretty easy shove overall.

10 6 suited, 10 9 o and K 7 o probably acceptable (borderline) shoves from bttn if everyone nashing.
 
Also should be mentioned, in poker sometimes you take a line where your expectation is to lose - early in tournaments this happens for example you are in the
SB, limped pot (Ok, not a great example) with a pocket pair, you complete hoping to set it. You don't, and fold to a flop bet, so basically pre you are expecting to lose the pot pre, and in fact most of the time you will. Later in tournaments you are taking a sort of similar risk with shoves, but with much, much greater rewards, but with much higher expectation of winning. Winning with 22s is much more likely at the end of the tourney than at the beginning, but if you are called holding something like J7o or 22 you probably should think about your stage left exit speech (even if villain likely spazzed out from his nit strat and made a correct Nash call).
 
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