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Reginald Perrin said:
Story 2. Main event turbo. 3rd last level. I have a medium stack. The dealer from my final table sits down as he does not have a shift & is now playing. He raises from CO, folds to me in the BB. I re-raise 3x with black Aces & he calls. Flop is Q83 rainbow and he insta-jams 3x pot for all my chips.

Decisions?
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Call. You are looking for a stack to bag. What are you waiting for?

If it's Nelson then he is also looking for a bag and trying to bluff you off . AQ to QQ or worse.

Call
 
Reginald Perrin said:
Story 2. Main event turbo. 3rd last level. I have a medium stack. The dealer from my final table sits down as he does not have a shift & is now playing. He raises from CO, folds to me in the BB. I re-raise 3x with black Aces & he calls. Flop is Q83 rainbow and he insta-jams 3x pot for all my chips.

Decisions?
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Did you check or bet the flop, or did he jam out of turn?

Not that it really matters, I can't see a reason to fold. You should have a lot of unpaired hands that it doesn't make sense for him to overbet for value. He's losing a lot if value if he has a set and you only have A-high, and no two-pair hands make sense for him. Feels very much like Qx.
 
MrKK said:
Hmm. UTG overshoving when he's at risk vs BB makes me lean to a fold, but it's really close.

If their stack sizes were reversed i would call. Not sure if my thinking there makes any sense whatsoever lol.
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This was my line of thinking...
GreyCrow said:
I think MrKK is right to question the stacks because unless there is a maniac somebody has better than QQ and you need to hit.

Fold
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And I did.

Now you'll find out how stupid it all was. BB apparently IS a maniac, Higor didn't make all that money playing tight, the tourney was still within the re-buy period, AND I had a spare ticket. 🤦‍♂️

Q on the flop. They both had AK.
 
GreyCrow said:
Call. You are looking for a stack to bag. What are you waiting for?

If it's Nelson then he is also looking for a bag and trying to bluff you off . AQ to QQ or worse.

Call
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It was the young Japanese guy with the wrist brace. He dealt the last few hours of the Deep Freeze final table the night before so had seen a lot of my cards shown. He's also new, and possibly averse to post-flop play.

MrKK said:
Did you check or bet the flop, or did he jam out of turn?

Not that it really matters, I can't see a reason to fold. You should have a lot of unpaired hands that it doesn't make sense for him to overbet for value. He's losing a lot if value if he has a set and you only have A-high, and no two-pair hands make sense for him. Feels very much like Qx.
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Sorry, check was automatic for me in the spot. Would you ever lead? :think:

It was indeed Qx.

I tank because my spidey sense is telling me something I don't want to hear, which is I should not be continuing in this hand. For the second time this week I ignore it and call. He has QQ and takes all my chips to day 2 with my blessing. He made the cash and was thrilled. Probably bought into the event with the tip I gave him. :tearsofjoy:
 

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Reginald Perrin said:
It was the young Japanese guy with the wrist brace. He dealt the last few hours of the Deep Freeze final table the night before so had seen a lot of my cards shown. He's also new, and possibly averse to post-flop play.


Sorry, check was automatic for me in the spot. Would you ever lead? :think:

It was indeed Qx.

I tank because my spidey sense is telling me something I don't want to hear, which is I should not be continuing in this hand. For the second time this week I ignore it and call. He has QQ and takes all my chips to day 2 with my blessing. He made the cash and was thrilled. Probably bought into the event with the tip I gave him. :tearsofjoy:
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I'm wondering why you wouldn't CB after being the PF aggressor, but I feel it's a real gap in my thinking about when not to CB so keen to hear your thoughts.

I'm still shocked he had QQ there. If you're seriously considering folding AA, then what hands is he expecting to get value from?
 
MrKK said:
I'm wondering why you wouldn't CB after being the PF aggressor, but I feel it's a real gap in my thinking about when not to CB so keen to hear your thoughts.
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It's a fair call. Not necessarily a gap in your thinking, probably just my style of play. When I think I have the goods I generally play passive & get the other player/s to make the moves. Often to 3 bet, but it doesn't always work that way. I feel I leave a lot of chips behind. I will vary that a little. My main problem is I don't think long enough. Some of my mates say I don't think at all. :tearsofjoy:
MrKK said:
I'm still shocked he had QQ there. If you're seriously considering folding AA, then what hands is he expecting to get value from?
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I'll ask him next time I see him.
 
Blinds 2/4k utg raises to 15k

I look at pocket AA utg2 jam my pitiful 17.5k

Utg3 jams last 25k.

Call call

Utg1 also has AA

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I admit this was a donk move but I had my reasons

Blinds are 10k/20k and I am BB with over 300k - Button has 65k and SB has 105k total and its FT

I have 58o - yes I know but I was BB

Button and SB limp. SB is a tight passive player who bets when they hit button is a passive player on FT

Flop is 347 - button checks SB jams their last 95k

I think a few things through - mostly how much the button has - but also why did SB jam. Well because they hit

If they hit the 3 or 4 I have 2 overs

If they hit the 7 I have 1 over plus I have a gutshot straight draw - and I have 300k - giving 95k is not chip dumping but I also know unless the player has a hot streak those chips at these blind levels will erode away

As noted I am not concerned about Button as the 95k is the effective stack

I shrug my shoulders and call - button folds and SB turns over 79o - the 6 on the turn sees my gutshot hit and ok I was feeling slightly embarrassed but mostly elated at the chip collection. Daddy needs a new microwave

The table erupts and I am left trying to explain the thinking behind it all and my only defence is -- '' I got a stack ''

Donkey GIF
 
Played a small game last night

Playing heads up, 30-60k I get Q4 of diamonds on the button, limp in, BB checks

Flop is 278 of diamonds, he rips it and I snap, he rolls over 9T of diamonds for the open ender, looks at my cards and says oh well this will be a fun one and binks the 6 of diamonds right away on the turn

Had the bloke covered by about 5 to 1 when it went in, I had a middle pair gut shot combo brick against top pair a few hands later and paid him off on the river, then he stacked me 10 minutes later when this whiffed for me...

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I think I'm starting to figure out some of my errors in game selection based off my inconsistent results and variance over the last year

The bigger field 15 minute level games I simply have to start either binning or limit the amount I go to, if they get over 50 runners a week there's no point committing to too many unless I have a strong record in them and there's a ticket or 2 on the line. The smaller 3-5 table games need to fill the void here if I think there's value in them as I generally have better records in smaller field 15 minute level games, less players to manoeuvre around, for example I came 2nd in my 3 table game last night, I crippled 2 players early on with a nut 9T straight vs a pair of 5-9 straights, then chipped away for over an hour to get to 200k (60k freezout), then afterwards I ended up stacking 10th, 7th, 5th and 3rd on the way to my 2nd (should've won really, but all well, lost all the pivotal flips)

However

I had a look at my historical 20 minute level game data as I only play a few of these types of games a year, it's very strong and it doesn't matter what the field size is, I simply have more time to adapt to the situation. I simply need to start going to more of these big weekend games when I can (only seem to be on Friday night, Saturdays and Sundays) as I have more time to utilise my TAG playing style, rather than get blinded out regularly in these bigger 15 minute level games when the blinds go 3-6k, 5-10k/10-20k with antes etc and have a heap of big stacks to navigate around.

So I think the plan is to make my surplus buy in money in the smaller games (2 come to mind), then dump that into the 20 minute level games in the $100-200 range where I have a chance of making some solid coin.
 
Played an event in Townsville and we were 2 off the cash bubble. I'm on the feature table with piles. One player open shoves from UTG+1, folds to the SB who also shoves for slightly less. I'm in the BB with K2ss. The bet represents about 10% of my stack & I decide it's worth the risk to potentially take 2 players out, so I call. (the wisdom of that move has already been a hot topic)

UTG+1 has AT, SB has AQ. I flop them both dead with a flush & redraw to the straight flush which is not required because neither ace is a spade. SB is a tad upset that he missed out on cashing after grinding all day because his chip stack was 3K short of the other player. He makes a point of making me aware that if I wasn't in the hand, he would have won & made it to the money.

If I wasn't sharing a room with him, it could have been awkward. 😆

It also helped that I won.
 
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Played the Hachem Deepstack through APT Friday and Saturday. Bubbled the ****er... 15 hours of grinding for zero lol

Made what I think was my crucial mistake with about 5 runners to go until the bubble burst. Blinds 4000/8000/8000, stack around 400k in SB, dealt AJ hearts, went a min raise, and the BB called.

Flop A3x, I put in a bet of 30k, villain calls. Turn 6, I throw in 40k, calls. River 8, put in 45k, villain reraises to 130k, I tank for a bit and find the call. Villian flips 63, and I flip my shit internally

Should have raised much more before the flop, not sure if the guy would have found a call there

Overall, that event had such a great structure though, 40 min blinds, no rush to accumulate etc
 
Finally had my first decent run in a bigger field game for the year last night, had about 260k at one point after the first break when my kings held against AQ went all in on a queen high flop, lost about 85k out of the BB defending with Q9os before 2nd break, I flopped a double gutter T86 rainbow, called the cbet then made top pair on the turn and the girl shoved there, was about 2 to 1 on a call, I tanked for about 2 and a half/3 minutes and decided 13 outs once against aces and kings wasn't enough and let it go, she showed aces so I was right she had aces or kings.

After the break short stack shoved UTG, I rejammed with AQ suited, she only had 6s, brick city and I was crippled to 95k, folded my BB as SB jammed and I only had 75 suited, only had 65k on my SB, same bloke jammed button next hand as he had both me and the BB covered I make an f it call with A8os, BB actually woke up with queens while button only had Q4 suited, I get a dream board and suck out a full house on a 98877 board, then it all turned, I got queens a few hands later against 6s girl who only had A5 suited and flopped a set so I got it all back with interest from her, then had over half the table of limpers on my next BB, I have A7 but was 3 tight players including 6s girl in the hand so I checked, I flop a gutter with backdoor nut flush T96, checks to 6s girl who jams for just 35k, I make the call, aces girl from earlier calls also, I drill the gutshot on the turn and fire off 100k, aces girl folded, other girl had K9 so stacked her there then picked up A9 on the button against 2 short stacks KQ and A6 and stacked both of them.

Anyways got to final 2 tables and 1 bloke got lucky on me twice AQ vs AJ before the FT about 13-14 players left to take half my stack and AJ vs JT at FT 7 handed for about 20-25% of my stack, every other player I was chipping up off before FT just not him aside from once where I had to jam on his BB with A4 and won the flip there, he ended up finishing me off blind on blind 4 handed though, blinds 150-300k, middle pair no good had me out kicked, he at least won. The blokes who came 2nd and 3rd were the ones getting the hands knocking most of the others out though so I had enough chips to fold down aside from that AJ vs JT hand for pay jumps. Anyways, on another night I run slightly better and find the win.
 
Another solid night where I got it in and escaped with the money

A couple of hands - started with 230k and instantly stole the blinds 20/40k with AK

A few hands later JJ v AQ and held 550k

Two big hands set me up

In the money and I was actually after petrol money which it covered and I looked at A6s - with 490k - ALL IN - call by AA - ugh

Flop 6h random Spade and rubbish

Turn Spade

River spade - yeaowwww

Blinds 50/100k - limp limp - hmm pocket 9s - the player I cracked AA is usually a wider caller when seeing limpers - he was in the SB and I had a choice of shoving or waiting for a flop or waiting for action and seeing what the others in front of me do - I also limped

Sure its nitty but ehh - he does indeed shove his last 500k - BB folds the 2 limpers fold and I shrug and call

99 v A2 - yep thought as much - but also he has 5BB so ehh

9 first card out yeoowww again and a very good night was had

I got petrol and booked a service
 
GreyCrow said:
In the money and I was actually after petrol money which it covered and I looked at A6s - with 490k - ALL IN - call by AA - ugh

Flop 6h random Spade and rubbish
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gross!! :D
 

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The other side

AK raise 2.5 couple of callers

Flop 83A middle position bets I call

Turn K they bet 20k I jam 80k (pot20k)

I figured they would fold mostly and 2 pair was the best they had

Calls and turns over 83

3 on the river
 
Rebuys down to 24k blinds 5/10k pocket 6s

All in - 2 callers

First card 6 giggity and they hold 80k

Few more hands QQ all in 60k

2 callers AJ and 88

Queens hold AJ takes out 88 after J on the turn

Make it to final table with 210k then see pocket 8s - all in

Holds against JJ after 8 on flop

And quad 2s means once again I am on Smoooothy Facebook feed
 

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