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If we call this turn bet we’re going to be committed to this pot. So we’re calling with a plan to call a river jam or possibly reverse the action and lead jam the river. <div>
</div><div>If you think this opponent is bluffing at a frequency significantly above GTO strategy, then slow playing aces is fine. You’ll sometimes lose a sizeable pot when they outdraw you. But in the long run it’s a profitable strategy against this kind of player. You want to keep him in his overly wide range. </div><div>
</div><div>Reversing the action on the turn or river is very polarizing. Your overpair probably wasn’t close enough to the top of your range to do that, because of the kings on the board. The way people usually play when their opponent reverses the action, is that they’ll fold a lot of stuff they might otherwise continue with. You’re not getting called by worse hands or getting better ones to fold in this case.</div><div>
</div><div>I keep aggression factor on my HUD. Anything above about 4.5 puts me in call-down mode in spots like this, especially out of position. </div> -
Ugly spot. But this might be the type of spot we have to take to give us the best chance of running deep in tournaments. In spite of the fact you blocked flush draws, he still had many more combos of flushdraws than sets. Don’t forget the possibility of a flat call with aces. We can discount that 50%. It seems doubtful he would flat call your 3-bet with KK.
One thing I noticed in this WSOP is alot of players getting the stacks in on the light side. You weren’t at the WSOP, though.
One thing I’d say is your 3-bet sizing might have been too heavy. 2.7-3x would be preferable in position. His calling the 4x 3-bet indicates a very strong range, expecially from an EP player.
Range Trainer Pro makes this a call, using standard bet sizes preflop. In fact it calls with all the overpairs.
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I usually interpret a big donk bet on the flop as protecting something. But I wonder what this guy thought he was protecting his holding from. He already had two overcards to his pocket pair. Calling that protection donk was absolutely the right move.
Flop sizing should’ve been bigger, to isolate. I’d consider going for an iso raise as high as 6bb. What I’ve recently started doing is usually after I make the sizeable iso raises a few times I scale the sizing back. If you keep going with the large iso raises you’ll eventually get trapped by a limp-raise. They don’t like that, and they retaliate.
It’s hard to put someone like him on a range when he makes nonsense plays like that flop donk bet. Hopefully you put a good note in your tracker about him.
There’s no doubt he would’ve called your iso raise with that holding. The runout was terribly unlucky for you. It was hard to get away from.
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Who knows what this kind of Villian is thinking about sometimes? He might have understood that you covered him and thus were incentivized to play more hands against him in a PKO, which is correct. And he’s tired of being bullied when he’s covered and he learned his schoolyard lesson that you have to stand up to bullies (tilt).
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Very nice!
Did you contemplate changing tables? That’s what I do when I find I’ve been seated with a maniac on my immediate left. This maniac might’ve been too profitable even if seated on our left.
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Outstanding! I already have it. Time to get after it!
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I’ll be there on the 26th and later, a d can join unless I’m in a tournament.
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If you’re a frequent tournament player, these ICM spots are a crucial item for which you allocate study time. I recently posted a hand history here in which a theoretical blunder cost five buy-ins in $EV. Your annual subscription to HRC pays for itself the first time your study time in it prompts you to fold a hand that you might otherwise have mistakenly called or jammed.
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Do we have to pre-register again as we have the last two years? If so it’s a great idea to do that a day before your first event. Get your players card, then pre-register.
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Our plan when we barreled the turn and polarized our range was to fire again on most rivers. This 9 completed a straight draw on 76s – both players still have this in range. We can represent that, but we’re still mainly representing overpairs. Any paired 9’s left in our range would want to see a free showdown. Our betting range here is very polarized. We have to assume we’re targeting some sort of pair. This calls for at least a pot sized bet; an overbet is better.
In a tournament it’s never a mistake to think about just surrendering the pot if losing a big bluff like this severely compromises our tournament life or risks complete ruin.
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I’ll arrive there on June 24 and play the Salute to Warriors on the 25th. Probably play the Super Seniors on the 27th. Might take my first ever shot at the Colossus later in the week. Leaving July 4. Hoping to play something at the Wynn or Venetian. I’ll be staying with my brother in Vegas the whole time.
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I’m not a fan of flatting hardly anything, except in BTN and BB. KQo is not a hand I want to fold in the CO position against a LJ opening range. I’m going for a 3bet to 7bb against this min open with this stack size. This should clear the BTN and blinds out of this pot unless one of them has a big hand. I’ll be in a bread-and-butter situation if the LJ decides to see a flop. If LJ 4bets, I’m leaving against an unknown opponent, because KQo is too far behind a typical 4bet range. The plan if we see a flop is to aggressively cbet most flops, because of the bread-and-butter situation.
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There is some value to online cash games as preparation to tournaments. You can practice your postflop hand reading skills in deep stacked situations. But overall there are significant differences between cash and tournaments that affect strategy, especially in preflop strategy.
The goals differ, therefore it follows that strategy differs. In cash games your goal is to maximize chip EV in a raked game. Each hand is a separate event. The blinds, SPR, and effective stack sizes don’t change except when a straddle is on or you’re in a hand with a short stacker.
In MTT’s your goal is to win every chip in room, with milestones along the way that introduce Bubble Factor. There is no rake. The blinds escalate. This causes significant differences in preflop ranges as compared to cash games. Lower SPR’s cause changes to postflop strategy. So does Bubble Factor.
Good advice in poker and everything else is to practice the way you play. Stick to tournaments to practice tournaments.
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Best of luck to you!
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Very nice! It can be a challenge to find the time to study and play poker when you have competing commitments like a job, a house to care for, and loved ones who need some of your time. My job consumes my time and mental energy (another resource) to the point where I often have to neglect my poker game. To overcome this obstacle we have to actively plan in advance to study and play, and commit to it.
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I don’t see how you avoid getting it in here with this stack depth.
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Forgot to mention that I checked the first time the action got to me on the flop.
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Agree with everything here. I would add a caveat to the list of five – a full understanding of these concepts includes how to use them to exploitative adjustments to your play. This is especially true in low stakes.
To your suggestions about PKO’s and 4-card poker, I would add live satellites. This is truly some low-hanging fruit in poker these days. I haven’t tried online satellites yet, so I can’t speak to it. I plan to try.
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Villian’s flop call narrowed his range. He would most likely check-raise a 5 on this flop. But as played he could have an 8 with a mediocre kicker, an ace-high, or a smaller pocket pair.
A backdoor club draw just picked up equity on this turn, but we block it. That makes it less likely he has a club draw, thus more likely he has some sort of pair or ace-high. We still have two overcards, both with likely the best kicker.
We should bet about 67% pot on this turn, further polarizing our range and targeting his ace-highs and pocket pairs less than an 8. Our plan is to fold to a check-raise and fire again on most rivers if he calls.
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JJ is your fourth-favorite hand? OMG! JJ is almost as scary as a terminal shortage of bananas!