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Hello, friends. Today we have another educational analysis, where we'll go over the key hands that led to our success. The tournament had a $3 entry fee, and we won $16,000. There are these phased tournaments where you get
Educational poker analysis of a $3 tournament win with key hand breakdowns and strategic insights for advancing to Day 2 and winning big.
Key Takeaways
- Play according to stack-to-pot ratio and board texture to optimize betting and folding decisions.
- Avoid hope-based calls with low probability draws; fold when unsure or mathematically disadvantaged.
- Use opponent profiling to adjust aggression and bluffing strategies effectively.
- Leverage community resources like streams and coaches to improve poker understanding.
- Disciplined, strategic play is key to advancing through tournament phases and winning big prizes.
What the video covers
- The video analyzes key hands from a $3 entry poker tournament where the player won $16,000.
- Focus on phased tournaments where Day 1 aims to reach the top 10% and build a stack for Day 2.
- Detailed discussion of betting strategies, stack-to-pot ratios, and opponent hand ranges.
- Emphasis on the importance of understanding poker mathematics and avoiding hopeful calls.
- Advice on when to bet, check, fold, or all-in based on board texture and opponent tendencies.
- Use of double-bluffing and sizing strategies to pressure opponents, especially under tournament pressure.
- Encouragement to seek knowledge from coaches, streamers, and poker communities for better decision-making.
- Analysis includes mistakes made and lessons learned, such as calling with low flush draw odds.
- Discussion on adjusting play style against amateurs versus good regular players.
- Overall focus on disciplined, mathematically sound play to maximize tournament success.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and Tournament Overview
- 03:49Strategic Checking and Betting on Rainbow Boards
- 07:18Double-Bluffing and Pot Sizing Strategies
- 11:26Opponent Range and Hand Reading
- 15:09Stack Management and Betting Adjustments
- 18:50Defensive Play and Equity Realization
- 23:11Player Profiling and Adjusting to Opponents
- 26:15Final Thoughts and Mistakes to Avoid
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into the top 10% of the field on Day 1, build up your stack, and advance to Day 2, where you're already fighting for the big prize money. We already had a guest here recently. We analyzed his run from 25 to 5,000. And today we've
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had another success. It turns out that all that training last time wasn't in vain. Well, of course, there's an element of luck involved, especially when we're only taking a short period of time. The guests, like last time, are off-camera and off-mic. Some people
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want to remain anonymous, but we're very grateful to them. I came to this analysis for you, for motivation and knowledge. Let's watch. We're starting on Day 2.
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And we're making a tribute to the flight. Okay, we got a call. Again, yes, increased sizing, as long as there's a three-draw and a flush draw, before the board gets worse and we get paid.
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And a dangerous turn. You might think, damn, that's it, the straight is done, and the flush, we should check and give up, but the stack-to-pot ratio is 1. We understand that in addition to the flush and straight, there's also a jack,
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king, jack, queen, jack-10, jack-9, tens, and nines. So we have to bet all. And, uh, yeah, of course, there will sometimes be a high hand, but we have to understand that 9-10 there are only four flush combinations. Some of them
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are like queen-10 of diamonds, queen-9 of diamonds, ace of diamonds, and box. We could have gone all-in on the flop, so we have an easy all-in here, but for some reason we bet 13. What's the problem with this bet? Perhaps we
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thought we'd bet 13 now and fold on the LD. Or was that the case? I don't remember. Okay, no problem. And why is this bet worse than a shill? Because, let's say, our opponent has ace-double diamonds, ace-jack-diamonds, king-jack-diamonds preflop, and he's
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getting fantastic pot odds after the flop. Let's say he has nines, tens, and one diamond. We're giving him 20% pot odds to improve. So, let's say he has tens and diamonds. He has nine outs to the flush draw, which is 19% stun on the
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river. And he also has two outs to the ten. Two outs multiplied by 2 and 2 equals 4.4%. So, he's currently at about 23% to improve, which we're giving him. We wouldn't want that because we're essentially trying to earn an
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extra 13 chips, but we'll be periodically losing 53, which is critical for our stack. Therefore, when our stack-to-pot ratio is roughly equal, around 1—yes, they're very similar —we should bet 1 if we plan to play this hand to the end. But in this case,
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well, it's hard to imagine why we wouldn't want to play it to the end. So, we bet 13, our opponent called, and on the river. Again, we shouldn't play anything other than call because our opponent might have king-queen-diamonds.
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He might not fold ace-jack, and so on. Yeah, we bet, our opponent folded.
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Okay, let's move on. Again, it's worth filtering through all the hands where we entered the game. If you remember a spot where you didn't play but you'd like to analyze, let us know and we'll find it. Or, if you want, I can turn on
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a filter so that all hands in a row are shown where we didn't play, if you think there were any hands like that.
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Okay, the hero of this analysis asked to show all hands. I think many of you are in favor of this too, so we'll look at all the hands. Okay. Opened. Tus pl.
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Call. It's best to check here. The board is very, uh, rainbow. A huge number of turns will ruin it. That's it. We can get a run and not see a backdoor on a flush draw. So, checking is best. Let's say we bet now, the
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opponent calls, a huge number of bad turns. Uh, six, seven, eight, nine. Everything up except the ace, hearts, and five is bad. So it's better to check in situations where we might see a lot of bad turns or raises from our
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opponent. Plus, let's say he has the ace of diamonds now. We check, he checks. The ace comes. Great. We have two pair, he just has an ace, and we'll make money on it. We've got a race.
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Well, we have to fold because our opponent could have a straight, he could have a set, he could have two pair. We could have either 0% to win or 4% to win on backdoors on a backdoor flush if he has, say, a set of nines,
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sevens, and fives. So, to avoid that, we should have played the cover. If that happened, we should have folded.
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We called. That was a mistake. Would you like to discuss, well, why you think it's necessary to call or think it's necessary to fold? So, hope will wear out. What's the problem with such hope? Usually, it's a misunderstanding
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of poker mathematics. But here we're calling to hit a flush. The probability of that is 4%. That's very low.
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Considering that we're now investing, uh, five, uh, there, well, let's round up five and five blinds, which is one 16th of our stack. That's, well, quite a lot for very, uh, small chances of improving. At the same time, again, yes,
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if we have a six in the flush, well, let's say a six of hearts comes there and then some card of hearts or an eight, then the board will be a straight. And even if we hit a flush,
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our opponent won't pay us much, because he'll, well, assume that we can have either a straight or a flush. So, not even all cards that will give us a flush are equally useful. Consequently, we shouldn't try to draw some great
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outs, right, because, well, they're unlikely to come to us, and when they do, we might not get paid. So, again, betting on a board like this shouldn't have been the first thing, but if we do, we should fold. And if we're thinking,
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"I don't understand why he's doing this," then we should definitely fold. Our job isn't to guess. If we don't understand something, we fold, then ask more competent friends, coaches, or go to a streamer's stream and ask a
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question. Again, there are a lot of poker streamers these days, and most of them answer questions about hands, so, uh, there are a ton of ways to get your question answered. You just have to stick with it. Oh, and the worst thing
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is to do something and then analyze it. It's best to fold, play more passively, and then analyze. Okay. Callers should fold a terrible turn. Okay. Don't make it worse. These are easy folds. Then, standard call. But here, if we saw, say,
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that the opponent is a good regular, we should dong, because a good regular on this board, which we often hit, might check his jack-ten-hearts, which we'd like to knock out right away.
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Therefore, we want to dong here either against a good regular or a passive player. If Balda's player always bets a continuation bet, then, of course, we want to check and bet the all-in, because even against aces, we have a 55
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% chance of winning with a straight and a flush drop. Again, we'll keep the all-in, because she has a small stack; we wouldn't bet against a big stack.
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Check-check. A ten rarely suits him. I'd be aggressive, aiming to knock out some TU7 of hearts. Great, they called.
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And I need to double-bluff because my opponent also checked to me on the flop with Ace5, Ace2, Ace3, and a cloud.
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Yeah, the cloud closed, but the other hands didn't. He also has some Tuskrolls and Tuskdams that he could draw. So I need to double-bluff, like, 65-75% of the pot. That's an interesting sizing. Here, we're aiming strictly to knock out everything that's not a
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straight. And that's a good strategy, especially when we're talking about getting through to Day 2, when my opponent is under pressure and doesn't want to bust. It's a great strategy.
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The only thing you need to look at is the opponent, because if this opponent is a good player, they can easily see that we have a huge number of hands not just flop draws, but also 78, 79, 89. So,
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for a good player, 65-75% of the pot would probably look more convincing, as if we represent a wider range, yes, there's Ace 10 and some two pairs and so on. But for an amateur player, all-in would be good,
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afraid to bust out of the tournament. But again, yes, when I say regular, I'm talking generally. And of course, in a $ 3 tournament, there aren't many regulars. So, queen 4 is Olympie if everyone folds, but everyone doesn't.
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Okay. Toss queen. We'll move on with limps. Okay. You could sizing it smaller, like 6 with a pot, because the effective stack is small. Ah, but what they gave, they gave. Okay. So, we definitely check here. We checked.
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Great, because there's a king. Someone might have a king, and weaker hands won't call. Four all-ins. We call, because here, with a king, the opponent would almost always bet all-in on the flop, since the pot is two and a half
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times bigger than his stack. Therefore, we think the king bets more here, but there's no king here. He would push the flop. We obviously have the easiest call. And we check the river. But I don't really like the bet. Why? Yes, we
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can assume there's no king here, but still, given that this is a $ 3 tournament, people play randomly, so it's still possible. But we have to understand that this isn't a blank card . We covered 16 straight combinations,
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jack 10, and the player called pre-flop , meaning he's an amateur, and he went on to the next round. So he could easily have all 16 straight combinations. And he might not have any weaker hands. And the most important
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thing is that we can split with any ace . A pair of aces, a pair of kings, a kicker-dum. So we don't have two pairs: aces and queens. We have a pair of aces , kings, and kicker-dums. So we can
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split with any ace. So, it turns out that we're not getting called by any weaker hand here, but we can lose to stronger hands. So this bet doesn't make sense. So. So, a race call. Well, if this were a knockout tournament, I'd
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always prefer to play a race of blinds of 16. Actually, you can do that here too, because it's hard to imagine that someone here, holding aces, king-dums, queens, jacks, and so on, would just call. They'll most likely raise to make
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more money from us or to knock us out. So, we go like, "Race 12 dash 16" and knock him out blinds, so we get into a game situation where we've invested two blinds for a pot of 13. And that's cool
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, yeah, like a good opportunity. We'll knock out all sorts of val 10 9 10. So, I'd rather play the race here. Check, check. We play the race. There are 16 blinds on the board, a bunch of streak
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draws, flush draw matches, and so on. Well, obviously, we like 75%of the pot 22. Well, more is fine. It's either some king jack, king queen, king 10, king 9, king vo, which pay, or, well, nothing pays. So, okay. It's fold call
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call call. Oh, they immediately bet more on a draw board. Good. Pass. That's it, we fold. Why do we have a trippot? You bet a raise on a board with a ton of draws, and the guy plays a race. He's playing a 3.5 x race. What
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hands does he have in the raise? A set of sixes, a set of nines, a set of jacks. That's nine higher hand combinations. He could have a jack-nine suited. That's three more combinations.
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A jack doesn't play like that because you're representing a very strong range . Well, obviously, jacks-xes don't play like that. Can a hand like king-queen, king-10, queen-10 of hearts play like that? Maybe, but we're 50-50 against them. And, accordingly, the player is
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now asking us whether we want to go 75 big blinds 50-50, or be completely screwed against a set. Well, the answer is no, we don't want to call. What's the point? Like the guy will suddenly stop betting. Hm, but why should he do
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that if he has a strong race range? To avoid these kinds of things, I recommend watching streams or stream compilations periodically, but streams are better because the compilations usually feature the highlights of strong regulars. Take GQ, for example.
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Yes, I've seen them in my analysis three or four times. There's a guy there who has about $ 1.5 million, $ 1.5 million, or $ 8 million in profit.
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He doesn't save his streams, but when he streams, you can watch. Or there's Aurora, or someone else. Why is it useful to watch high-stakes players? Of course, at low and mid-stakes, all the knowledge they don't teach you can't be
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applied. But what's the bonus? When you repeatedly see a professional player bet and then just fold an overpair you would never fold, you start to think, " Maybe there's a reason for that?" And here, well, it's like, again, yeah,
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this isn't a dead-end spot, where the opponent might raise some dreaded hands in position to make it look weaker.
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This is, after all, a three-way pot, where we've increased the sizing. And, accordingly, if the opponent has a really strong hand in their range, we just fold. There's no problem with that . Well, the turn, of course, is
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terrible. And we folded. It's good that we folded on the turn. And the guy even showed us so we could be like, "Dude, do you even realize you could have folded on the flop?" Okay, let's move on. And by the way, never show your
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cards, because, well, you can show a bluff, right? There you go. Most of the time, we make chips in poker with flush hands. Oh, and when you show your flop, you're giving your opponent information that next time, please fold on the flop
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, and that's not advantageous for us. Our goal is to make our opponents make mistakes. And therefore, if you give your opponent information, you're doing yourself a disservice and theirs a disservice. In poker terms, it's bad.
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We opened, got a three-bet, and called everything perfectly. The set runs, everything's great, convenient. Oh, thanks, a great opponent has made our game a lot easier. Can we checkrade if we think our opponent opens a lot and continuation bets a lot, since we have
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good backdoors, but on average we just fold. Okay. Okay, a race call is loose.
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The guy opens with as many as five hands, and you're out of position. Um, let's say, on average, the tus calls well there or three-bets against the bat, the cats nop with as many as five hands. That's loose. Okay, call. Ah,
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well, the flop is clear. They folded. Okay, queen, jack showed. Alyn folded. Excellent. Fold, fold. Pass, pass, pass . So far so good. We're playing. We fold bad hands. Super. Okay, three-bet opening. Didn't go for a set, since
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they can't fit. Eh, as many as six blinds for a small stack. A super good fold. Tuskorol opened, got called. Call . Continuation bet a third, since the board is dry. Fantastic. What happens next? The call on the turn didn't
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change anything, so we continue. The only thing is that the opponent's stack isn't that big. Yeah. Now we bet eight.
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He calls the pot at 29, he has 26. We could probably do a little less there, like 6.87, so that, I don't know, we could also hit the queen more often there, so as not to scare him too much,
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since after all, two players started the flop and we continue the turn. It looks incredibly strong. If the stacks were bigger, there's more motivation, since we want to ban more to win more.
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But overall, if the river is going to be a bust anyway, you can save a little there. And seven, damn, that's interesting. Logically, there shouldn't be four X's there, especially. And logically, you should bet all-in.
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Because the opponent is kind of telling us that I have a king, I'm not so sure; I wouldn't want to get all-in right now . Can we see the river for seven? And it would be a good idea to bet all-in
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anyway, since people who do that don't fold anyway, because they're bluffing. So, on average, betting all-in would be the better play here. But we called, and there was a player there, and he ended up with two pair. But it's worth
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noting that he played poorly. He took the river, and we obviously should have bet 27 times his blinds. He took, well, saved us some chips and, what's more, knocked out our bluffs. I mean, well, that makes absolutely no sense. Here,
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the player was simply afraid of missing out, but because of that, he missed out as much as possible. Is it worth raising two pair on the flop on a dry board? No, because if he raises now, it will be really scary, like with aces.
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Yes, there were a ton of draws with aces that he could theoretically come up with, but here the board is dry.
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What hands does he raise with for bluffing? Only exclusively some, uh, jack-10 is unlikely to be raised often against UTG in a three-way pot. 9-10 folds 9. Ah, so 10 usually folds. But amateurs don't raise them, they just
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call them. So, basically, if he raises, it will be king-queen, king-four, and queen-four. So, if we were our opponent and we were up against an amateur, raising would definitely be a good idea . But if we're up against a regular, a
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smart player, or an active player, then just check, check. Checking is the best strategy because we're leaving all our bluffs here and not scaring away strong hands. So, ace, limp, limpcheck. Bad board, we do nothing. We'd limp here,
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but we weren't allowed to. Check, check , check. Bad hands are coming in. Why shouldn't we open here? Check. They've come in somehow. Raise 2 with 100 blinds. We have an easy fold. Why is the guy raising? Well, it's possible to
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call with 200 blinds. 200 with 100 blinds still significantly worsens our chances. And there's a restile stack behind us. So, we scale now, he bets all-in. There are already seven blinds in the pot, and we're just losing chips
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. So, we folded on two blinds, and on two with a flop check. Okay. Okay, that would have been an opening, but we weren't allowed to. Same thing. Well, here again, yes, if there's no information that the opponents are
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super-mega-aggro or there's information that someone likes to open, then it's perfectly okay. We folded, no big deal.
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Okay, and Race and call, and again, when opponents increase their sizings, if there's no information on the opponent, it's often a stronger hand and it's better to just fold. But sometimes there are players who understand something; they can increase
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their siding on the flop to get, uh, more folds and then fold. If there's information, we draw prponito. If there's no information, then it's better to fold. Okay, check-check and bet for value. We got a call. Okay.
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Well, it's weird that he checked the turn, giving us free implementation, although there were many hands with which he could have hit and defended.
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Those pocket pairs. So, they didn't open the 5-shoe. Although again, yes, if we see that our opponents are tightening up, we have a good hand, we could easily have opened it now against six opponents. We don't need to open
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that seven, it's a fold. King 10 race call. Again, if our opponent opens a lot, you can rebet, uh, to avoid getting alls here, to knock out the opponent more often. The hand is not bad, but calling is again more standard
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. Okay. Okay, so they didn't let us play. Nothing goes well for a long time . And then the king 10 somehow went well. Okay, the race was tributed in position. The size is good. You can give 5.5, you can give six. Okay, okay.
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It's good to bet Melko. You can hit from hands like queen jack. You can knock out some pocket hands with some equity. Okay. You don't have to look at the table here. If there are a ton of tights, you can open, but generally you
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shouldn't open. We didn't open. Okay. So, threes. Race. And generally, it's okay not to open here when you have a resteel stack behind you that can push, but if your opponent is really weak, then I'd open and add a blind and a
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half for a chance to win at 20 there, twice as much. That's precisely why I wouldn't call. Now, if he also had a 30 -blind stack, he'd fold less often after the race, and we'd make a lot of
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money from him more often when we hit a set. But he'll fold normally. Okay, 78 was a small stack for opening. That's clear. Pass. Oh, weird, we open different ones, we don't open suited 8s . So, here, if I noticed correctly, yes
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, 33.8. Oh, no, it's not the same one. But first of all, I wanted to see if it was the same player who opened it before, because, well, he seemed to open a lot from here. In fact, our
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stack isn't very big, but people play pretty calmly postflop at low limits, especially. They don't always make a continuation bet on the flop. When they do make the flop, they often don't bluff. That is, we realize more often
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at low and mid limits than at high ones . So, calmly, well, again, this is a plus. You can calmly call 8 here. So, all in, all in. It's clear here, everything played well. Let's move on.
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You can open 7vo in four-handed situations if the players there are weak. So, you shouldn't open four-handed situations. The stack is too small. So, That's it. Oh, okay. If the players there are weak or it's a knockout tournament, the race would be
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better. But the average stack of 14 blinds is a good one. Well, here we go again, a $ 3 tournament, people are getting in on jack 10. Terrible minus action. Okay, we didn't go for it.
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There was an opportunity to go for it here, but again, we have a restile stack behind us, folding a relatively small stack there is no problem at all.
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Ace 7 is a great hand for a bluff three-bet. And here it's good to three-bet and call. For some reason, they folded. I don't think we need to tighten up here. Only if we put pressure on our opponent and saw that
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he had a pre-flop race there, I don't know, 5%10 or something really tight, then yes. But I like the tribe better because here the stack is short, there he calls the race, he goes all-in, it's all-in and that's it. And they didn't
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give us a chance to play. Oh, but I also like the tribe call better than folding. Okay, nothing worked. So everyone folded. Okay. 54, we're not going for the race. With a small stack, Ace 10 Race Call. Good. And betting a
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third is good on average. People often folded when they checked [ __ ] on checkrace. Good. Okay, Ace 9 didn't open. Actually, with five players, that's not a bad opening. Well, maybe they were squeezing in the back. Okay,
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I understand. So, pass, pass, pass. ZC Race Call. For some reason, they folded here too. Why? So the argument is that we don't know how to play a weak ace out of position, so we don't defend it.
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You have to understand that playing a weak ace is very simple, right? We add one blind, well, in this case 1.3 for the pot is almost five times bigger. So , we're already in a favorable position to enter the game. And, in a good way,
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we should defend here and continue to simply play according to our equity. So , we hit top pair, hit a draw, hit a flush draw, hit a match, and we continue. We hit nothing, so we don't continue. So, there's no magic here, no
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secret strategy for how to play this weak hand. Again, to learn how to play, you have to play with these hands. If we fold, we won't learn how to play with this hand. So, we shouldn't fold.
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We have to call every time and then analyze the outcome. Again, against the first three early positions, folding is no problem because we have a strong range there, a ton of aces, which dominate against late position, which opens wide. Well, we have to defend,
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because, well, the range of openings there is too wide, our pot odds are too good. So, again, now we'll play the situation as a big blind, focusing on similar weak hands. Okay, the race is a call here again, but if there was
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information there, click on the guy, that his pre-flop race is very small, yes, then you can fold, because usually with such a stack, an unprepared player will still open an ace to a carlidan.
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But in general, this is to...Okay, this would be a race if everyone folded, but everyone didn't. King queen is a race.
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All right, pass, pass, pass, pass. King , queen race All. All right, clear. They beat the opponent with skill. Okay , here, ah, they didn't let us play.
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Here we can open. They didn't. Eights opened. Call. No need to bet. No need to bet. No need to bet. Super. Race.
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Yeah. Good. And no need to open. A. Four blinds, no need to call. King four . Alyn is super, excellent play. Good.
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They outplayed the opponent a little. Well, it happens to everyone, both us and them. Okay, nothing's going well here. We fold. Everything's fine too.
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Everyone folded. Okay. And 108 folds, of course. Okay, fold, fold, fold. They opened here. Good. Okay, let's call on the flight. But they didn't give us anything again. Why won't they let us defend the big blind there? Okay, 108.
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That's all. M. That's a plus one. And if you look at the all-in chart from the small blind to the big blind in GTO Wizard, 15 blinds 108 is a plus one.
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Especially when we're in the late stages, people are holding back, the action is plus. Raising is also okay.
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The expectation will be close. If it's mentally tough there, yes, they shoved there and that's it, lost there and we're still sitting there, sad, then okay. But in general, from a mathematical standpoint, the flop is plus one. And the main thing is not to
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fold your hand, and then no matter how we play, raise or limp, it will be good . All-in is the most relaxed and simplest action. A king-seven all-in is great. 108 is about the same strength, but a queen-three suited is too, uh,
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wide. Something like a queen-seven suited is being shoved here. A queen-3 is still too wide. And if we recall that player who called 14 blinds against a wall of 10 off-suited hands, people can also call him wide. And the
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wider they call, the worse our hand will be. So a queen-seven suited hand is okay. A queen-three is still a smash . In a similar game situation, where both opponents have 10 blinds behind them, as we see, we shoved with a
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queen-eight. Well, if we consider that in this case we don't have 10 placards, but 40, then it's obvious that a queen 7 could also get through, but certainly not a queen. Okay, all-eight. And if we saw that the opponent limped a lot,
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then we isolate three blinds. If we see that the first time, you click on the player again, and there you can see, there are great stats in the room, and that the person is in the pip, that is,
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how often he entered the game. If he is big, that means he limps a lot. And the pre-flop price is small. Pre-flop is small and the pip is big, which means he mostly calls. Then we isolate. If the pip is small, and the race is big,
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then when he limped, there were strong hands. That's it. But we just folded, but again, there is an unknown in the far lane, well, okay, no problem. Okay, 42 race and we folded. That's a mistake . First, those who play small to big
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don't know that we need to either shove or raise big, so we don't give them good pot odds. Therefore, in our opponent's range, this will be a very wide range. We need to add one blind for the pot, for a final 5. That means
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we need 20%to win against our opponent's range. Even with 7: 2 offsuit against ace-king, we have 33%or 35%to win, and with 42 samesuit against ace-king, it's almost 40%. Therefore, when we're in the big blind against the small blind on a minraise, we defend
Speaker A
everything that makes a flush, everything that makes a straight. In fact, if you play well in position against a weak player, you can defend any two cards, and when the minraise is on, But, let's put it this way,
Speaker A
understanding that you and the spectators can still be fuzzy in these situations, I wouldn't recommend defending any two, like 72 is different , but I would definitely recommend defending all the flush-forming straights. Alyn played super well, well done. Okay, race and fold. Race folded.
Speaker A
And so, two six races. Oh, Alyn. Well, folded, of course. This isn't a knockout tournament. Two Alyns to close , even if they're not very big, but it's not like we really need them. Okay , nothing's going to happen after that.
Speaker A
If the second player hadn't shoved, then six blinds, of course, would have to close 106. In fact, even with 10 blinds, B against BTN, he closes with any ace because BTN shoves wide. Uh, so . An. Yeah, that must have been some
Speaker A
kind of setup. Uh, interesting arguments. That happens to me too. There were a lot of tables, and I hope the computer saved me from busting.
Speaker A
Well, that too, yeah, I've had it happen to me that because there's a lot of action, the table gets set up somewhere or the time bank isn't enough , and you think, "Well, that's for the best." Or I'm riding in the elevator,
Speaker A
and, I don't know, the internet goes out too. Oh well, no big deal, it happened. Okay. Let's move on. Jack 8 raised, got a three-bet. A good fold at low limits, bluffing three-bets from the big blind isn't even possible, so
Speaker A
that's a good fold. Okay, and the deuces, and they folded the deuces. In fact, you could open 2 with the big blind here, get it all in, and give this one worse odds, like so that 9-6 or something else doesn't come through.
Speaker A
So, I'd prefer to open here. Especially when there's a short stack on the button, it's good for us, because if there wasn't a short stack, then in that case he could have caused us problems, say, by going all-in and we
Speaker A
would have had to fold. But we called 2 or 2 with a pot and we need to add a penny for an already good pot with a made pair. So I wouldn't fold here, I'd open. So, so, so. We'll fold too,
Speaker A
obviously. Jack five. Are we going to play somehow? They didn't let us play. Uh, they didn't give us jack queen five . We could have limped too. Well, we should have, if they did. Nothing's going well here. And 97. Yeah. Not far
Speaker A
from the action for us. So, ace king, everyone showed. Pass. Okay. So, so, so . King 10. Open. Microlн call is also quite okay. Obviously, no need to bet.
Speaker A
If there were a knockout tournament here, I'd rather bet so that, yeah, when he's got 10, we'd knock him out more often. Okay, he does have pairs that beat us. Some aces who might not fold, probably. Still, check. Okay, we
Speaker A
bet. Well, the hand has equity, obviously. It definitely can't be bad. So, Olyn, Olyn. Okay, we're ahead of Olyn's range, unfortunately, we were unlucky. King seven is Olyn of the scotof, but they didn't let us do that.
Speaker A
And queen eight suited, eight blinds of five looks a bit wide in the back.
Speaker A
Queen nine would probably be a lung here, and queen eight of about four would probably push with that kind of stack. As we can see, in the back, even seven blinds don't push against queen eight suited. It's not hard to remember
Speaker A
here, really. If the king is eight-suited, it's a zero-decision shove. We simply remove it and remember that a nine-suited shove is seven blinds, and it's better when we have five players behind us. Accordingly, eight blinds is a minus-decision shove
Speaker A
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Speaker A
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Speaker A
Okay, the stack would have been smaller there, okay, or fewer people behind, but there were too many people at the table, so they folded well. Okay, all-in all-in. That's a really bad lung on queen 10. How important is it in
Speaker A
poker to be able to play short-stacked? Well, that's an insanely bad lung. Tons of people behind. Thanks to our opponent's bad play, we came back with a good stack. Okay, everything bad worked. Yeah, si. Yeah. Okay, Race Lin
Speaker A
is a tusvalet. Great. Great play. And here I want to limp in if they give it.
Speaker A
They didn't. Okay, nines. Race Anl to call. There are some weaker pairs there , some aces. Bradway won great. All-in is also good. It's clear that there isn't much action in short stacks, but still, some useful things can be noted.
Speaker A
And on our side, and on the opponents ' side. Okay, no need to call here.
Speaker A
Deuces, all-in, super, played correctly . Unlucky that there's a king there. Our job is to play correctly. And that's what we did. So, nine-to-six, we folded. Good. King-jack can be opened.
Speaker A
We missed. Actually, it's a good opening. And six players in the back isn't much. King-jack opens great. It plays well postflop when you have stacks like that behind you; they can't call, they can only push or fold. That
Speaker A
is, they'll fold very often. So, I'd prefer to open here, not fold everything. Okay, we're pushing sixes here. If he'd pushed 10 big blinds, I'd probably still like to fold. Oh, I'd definitely like to fold, but with half
Speaker A
a stack there are often a lot of hands like tus2, tustri. There are random all-ins from people who don't know how to bet all-in. Great. Okay, I'd open a bunch. We didn't open. With four players, there's no problem at all.
Speaker A
Opening a suited ace. It's super profitable. People also out-fold, yes, when we get deep in a tournament, people tighten up. We tighten up, and people tighten up really badly. So we'll get an incredible number of folds on our flight. That's why we missed a
Speaker A
profitable opening here. And king-jack is also profitable to open. Here's another flight. Everyone folded bam-bam-bam. Well, obviously he didn't fold here, but it will work globally.
Speaker A
So. Tu 10 there's ann one blind line. Four players shoved. Short stack. Okay. So, no need to push the whole thing.
Speaker A
Okay. Here, in fact, when the short stack is 3B, you can even consider the option of, perhaps, minraising. And for the reason that the most dangerous opponent at the table is the big blind, because he most often, yes, has added
Speaker A
one blind and can see the flop. Accordingly, when he has a small stack, we'll definitely realize 100%of the potential of our hand and it will look very strong. You can consider a min-raise in this situation. That's clear. Fold. That's clear. N. You can
Speaker A
consider a fold here. Also a min-raise. Tee, like, we have aces there, but again, ah, pushing too wide. Okay, fold . Great. No need to enter here. No need to waste your stack. We just wait for strong hands, double up. We're doing
Speaker A
very well in this regard. I really like that you don't over-bet, because many people who come to the analysis, they really, well, over-bet. You even fold a little here and there, but that's okay.
Speaker A
The main thing is not to over-bet with some trash hands. You just wait for a strong hand, bam-bam and you've built your stack. So, so, so. King five. Was there a chance? No, there wasn't. King, jack. Ah, well, they should be pushing,
Speaker A
raising, calling, everything, everything, not folding. Yeah, we're being offered 1.4 big blinds for a pot of four. Given that we obviously have a strong hand, yes, there's a super-wide range here, any two cards here. So, ideally, we're shoving here with
Speaker A
roughly the same hands we would have shoved if this lin weren't there, against stacks of 9, 11, and 14 big blinds. Obviously, this lin eats up some of the equity, yes, because he's still laying claim to this pot. But
Speaker A
then again, our hand is very strong. If you're really scared, you can call. If you're less scared, you can play a min-ray there, you can play an all-in, but folding is just too tight. Okay, okay. And that's a fold. Pass. That's a
Speaker A
ray, okay. I like that you're not going all-in because many people are afraid, again, in a long run with a strong hand , they go all-in, not allowing their opponents to make mistakes. Okay, there's some real action going on here.
Speaker A
An all-in is a fold. Okay, great, because it's a strong range against the 32-blinder. Even though our range isn't that big, it's important what ranges we're playing against. Okay, everyone folded. Okay, kings, that's the point.
Speaker A
Okay, fold. Okay. No, no need to call. When, say, professional players consider calling in a situation like this, when they're playing against another aggressive player who opens wide and will bluff wide against a wide call from the big blind, then it makes
Speaker A
sense. But when you're not even sure you can play a cactus 3, so to speak, then, of course, there's no need to invent anything, just go all-in and that's it. Moreover, just as we're clamping down, yes, opening ace-suited
Speaker A
hands there in the back, a lot of micro-limit players are clamping down. Therefore, the range is narrower here, and it's advantageous for you to bet a shove now, say, get all-in with tens, nines, jacks, anicolize and let an
Speaker A
ace-queen come out and kind of scare them off and that's it. You can't take it away, so, yeah. So, oh, that's the whole point. Well, that's if there's a really hardcore amateur there, good play. If you don't have that
Speaker A
information, it's better, because it looks like aces, yeah. But obviously, you can't come up with a bluff 3bet with such stacks, so you need to look at your opponent there. So. Yeah. So, you could have opened if there are weak
Speaker A
players there and you're confident. Well, he didn't want to. Okay. So, roll a queen. Good. They folded to the shove . Well done. You're doing the right thing, it seems like only one of the blinds shoved. But it's clear that
Speaker A
against Ling's range, our hand is very, very bad. Okay, let's move on. So, what's here? Jack Power. Okay.
Speaker A
Basically, it's a call, but here the pot is kind of protected by the all-in, and he could have seen the player with a tight top. Okay. Okay, race, good. 10 folds, of course. Okay, king de all-in calls. Got it. Okay, we could have
Speaker A
limped here, but we weren't allowed to. Flight nine. We're not going in with that kind of stack, of course. They didn't give us the ice either. Ace 10.
Speaker A
Oh, well, of course. And I wonder why we didn't want to go all-in with 4 c5 blinds, when there were all the weaker aces, broadways, pairs. Why didn't we want to bet? Even if we're in the pre-final, we have to understand that
Speaker A
our chip stack is, well, a pittance, right now, it's not really worth anything. And, well, figuratively speaking, our goal is to build it up as much as possible so we can show something at the final table and advance. Therefore, if we're asked to
Speaker A
invest four blinds to win six, against whose range we're often super-high, then we absolutely have to jump in. We have to overcome ourselves, say that it's scary, of course, but we have to build our stack and go for it in this
Speaker A
situation. Well, that's [ __ ] up. This is my favorite part of the analysis: when I'm really scared, when I'm ahead of the range, betting all-in. But here, when we, obviously, yes, the guy opens, and we bet all-in with a weaker hand.
Speaker A
Well, that's weird. Now we're no longer afraid. The problem with such a big blind is that we might not have fold-quite, right? That is, it could be that a person has opened now, I don’t know, an ace 2 even, and he’s like:
Speaker A
“Damn, I should add six blinds for the final pot of 18. Any two calls that he opened, and that’s bad for us. And such hands are often, if you look at the mathematical calculations, they are often played either by folding or
Speaker A
calling pre-flop in order to realize the potential of the hand. And if there’s already an all-in behind, there are already so many chips that the call continues. And all-ins are played with a bigger stack so that there is, well, fold equity, so that
Speaker A
the pot odds are not so favorable. With the same stack in the back, if you think the final table is close, well, you just shouldn’t bet l. That’s why, if you have to choose between those situations where to call, then 10
Speaker A
was clearly better to call. So, here they folded. Well, again, yes, not a bad situation. It was possible to call, two blinds, because there are only four people behind. Here the person He shoves two blinds when there are blinds
Speaker A
on him now. So, he's obviously doing it , uh, with a wide range out of desperation. He was dealt a king three there, a king seven. He's pushing all-in because now he'll have to go all-in with any two in the big blind.
Speaker A
So, 102 gave us the blinds. Thanks, guys. Or you can limp, uh, if you're afraid to push. You can push if we see that your opponent is super tight. But then again, if you have no information on your opponent and you see that the
Speaker A
antenna is full, apparently at the pre-final table, limping is the most ideal strategy. We're adding half a blind to win a gang that's four times bigger than ours. People at low mid-stakes play very poorly. And if you limp from blind to blind, everyone will
Speaker A
check. And then, of course, they'll push hard, but that's a small part of their range. Otherwise, everyone will mostly check and give us good realization. And we need 19%to win in this situation. Well, that's it. There is, uh, our range, uh, the potential of
Speaker A
our hand against his range. Obviously, against any two cards, yes, we have 86, but we'll scrape together 19%, because even against him we'll soon have 30, 7-38%or something like that. That's why we need to limp here. We can't know
Speaker A
what TusWallet was there, again, so we just need to play correctly and that's it. Yeah, it's usually correct. You can open a king from a cat. If you see people clamping down, you understand: " Yeah, yeah, I'm risking two blinds."
Speaker A
But I can get 2 with a pot incredibly often, because people will clamp down often, they won't get anything often, and so on. They have any two cards, we've already prepared. King nine. Not a bad playable hand. And so, jack race
Speaker A
is fine, limp is fine. Play both ways normally. The main thing is not to fold . So, threes. Damn, we had a stack of 20 or 30 blinds, we didn't open deuces 2 with a blind. Here, for some reason,
Speaker A
we open three blinds, and with a big stack. So, in a good way, we should just fold here. And 14 blinds for a lung is a bit too much in a long run in the pre-final. Ratrying the blinds
Speaker A
doesn't make sense. Again, let's say the jack is suited, what will he do? He'll call anyway. And when he bets all-in, you'll lose a lot. So, I would recommend folding or folding, choosing between these two. So, oops, that's the
Speaker A
topic. But again, I prefer to bet uln when the stack is small, and for the reason that there are less than ten blinds, for the reason that, well, such a ratry looks very strong with such a stack. There should be, well,
Speaker A
everything you said is really logical. then we just opened with three blinds. Therefore, people think that we are opening super wide there. If you You played so smart, you're awesome. It's just cool. Yeah. And if it weren't for
Speaker A
that background, the race would look too weird. With that background, it's really, uh, a cool idea, but then they just dealt ace queens. Okay. All in, they got it all in and won. Queensix folds, four folds. Okay, so the final
Speaker A
table was 24 blinds. The average stack got bigger at the final table. Okay. Trusix, we can't do anything. King jack . Ah, the chip pot showed. There's not much point in us fighting with the chip pot, especially with a hand with good
Speaker A
potential, with which we'll now three-bet him there, I don't know, four bets or a call. So just call in position. Good play. Check-check.
Speaker A
Overall, it's cool. I like it. Three streets for value. Weaker hands. They won't pay unless there's information that the opponent is some kind of tough amateur. Ah, give him a chance to bluff , visually weaken our range. Not a bad
Speaker A
idea. Okay, bet-call is good. Bet-call is good, because sometimes he can have a stronger hand, and, ah, a weaker hand won't pay off on the flight, and we can lose more. Great play. That's it, he played super. And if there's
Speaker A
information that Panet can open a lot, and when he also opens to another person who sits out, then the hand is great for bluffing 3bta. Ah, well, if there's no such information, then, of course, fold is super. The main thing
Speaker A
is not to call. A call would be a bad play. Okay, everyone folded. Queen jack . And calling is definitely not allowed . We just fold everything, yeah, that's it. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Okay. Okay, tus 9, flight 2 with pono. Again, we
Speaker A
saw how he shoved that seven-suited hand on the flight of wounds. We can conclude that this is some kind of regular player, right? That is, he kind of understands what's going on at the table, and therefore we can Bluff
Speaker A
three-bet here, like, there are 6 blinds with pono, that's it. And 7 with pono. And for the reason that it could be that he kind of understands that he can open wider at the final table. But at the same time, he's deliberately
Speaker A
doing 2 with the blinds so that, uh, he'll be three-bet or called less often . The hand is not bad for a three-bet, but if he decided there and figured that he'll open narrower against the guy, then while he's deciding to take a
Speaker A
closer look, folding is perfectly fine. The main thing is not to call. At the final table, our primary goal is not to win chips, but to not lose them. That's why we often want to play a three-bet or a fold, not a call first. And here
Speaker A
the question came in, how should we evaluate the situation where a player on the flight from early position shoved there. And here we need to understand that if this player knows that this player is opening wide here, especially against the second player,
Speaker A
then he can, mathematically speaking, bet all with any...A single-suited ace because this player should fold everything he's opened, and he should close all-in, let's say, on an ace, a king of off-suit and higher, some tens plus, well, something like that. That
Speaker A
is, he should call so tightly. But when we are covered on tussles of off-suit, which are against a tight big blind range, they shouldn't do this. Why is the big blind tight? Because he can add one blind and see the flop, but instead
Speaker A
he posts 17 big blinds. That is, obviously, a strong range. And when a player plays like this, he could have two options: yes, you can assume that this is an amateur, and he just shoved for nothing, but amateurs often just
Speaker A
call. Therefore, when I see this at the final table, I assume that it can be a regular occurrence. Again, yes, why does a regular play a $ 3 tournament?
Speaker A
Well, because the prize pool is huge. Since there are prizes for first place there If they pay 16,000 or something like that, then we can assume that this is a regular first and foremost, not an amateur. But, of course, you can't draw
Speaker A
long-term conclusions based on one hand . We need to look at how a player behaves in a large number of hands and then try to build a picture of their player. So, we opened a big pot and got
Speaker A
three bets. Ideally, we'd just bet all-in. Obviously, the chip leader will three-bet us wide, and with all-in, we'll take 11 blinds right away. There are aces there. Well, it's unlucky, yes , but if we harden to avoid hitting the
Speaker A
aces, the king will come now, and we'll still lose to the aces. But this way, we don't let him realize his jack, queen, hearts in the trippot, so to speak, yes, and we'll also lose 11 now, plus another 4 with a pot, which we'll
Speaker A
throw in. In short, the most profitable play here is simply betting. We played the call, the problem, right? That is, in our case There are 15 blinds in the pot, more than a third of our stack.
Speaker A
And it turns out that we're kind of afraid that we might get in, but because of this, we're more likely to get in, allowing him to either realize the potential of his hand or bluff us.
Speaker A
So I would recommend just leaving OLN here. If the stacks here or there were blinds, I don't know, 60 plus, then okay, call, because you, uh, risk more, win less in relation to your stack, compared to your stack. Ah, but in this
Speaker A
case, Alyn would be better. No, well, with flops like that, of course, you can play any way you want. But I wouldn't raise the flop. Why? Look, when you raise, you tell the guy: "I have two pair or a set." And the guy,
Speaker A
if he thinks about it, he can just fold to the tussle right away, because, well , often at the final table, he took the second stack against the first, went to the chupak Telling who's boss on the board, where there are a ton of draws
Speaker A
and he has aces, which you most likely don't have. Well, that's a dubious story. Most likely, you just have a strong hand, so you don't give your opponent a chance to make a mistake, but you could make one yourself. Well,
Speaker A
basically speaking, yes, it's clear that in this case, even against a set, you have good potential to improve, but only a flush drop. And against you, Valyn will essentially only go with a flush draw, if your opponent, well,
Speaker A
understands where he is. So, you should get all-in now, with 39%to win, well, you shouldn't, when there are a ton of short stacks. So, simply calling, giving your opponent a chance to bluff, is the best idea. Here, it's clear that
Speaker A
with blank cards, like, 2: 2 will come up now, we're already against it anyway ; if there are aces or ace-10, we already, well, have nowhere to go, we'll be eliminated. But our goal is to give our opponent a chance to make a
Speaker A
mistake. On the flight. He rarely makes a mistake. He will. So, tos 4 calls. We can bluff with a quiz. We see that the player is constantly opening, meaning we know he's not squeezing. Therefore, if we think he's not squeezing, then
Speaker A
he'll often fold to a squeeze, unless we had information about squeezing with an off-suit ace, because here we should bet about 12 blinds and should fold an off-suit ace. If there's no such information, we can give rings, because
Speaker A
again, the guys are playing a three-dollar tournament. Obviously, they won't play optimally. I'll assume we can realize the potential of our hand well, so giving rings is no problem. Here, he folded, if okay, no problem either. So, for informational
Speaker A
purposes only, we looked at what the guys played. We draw conclusions. Yes, on the flop, the guy bet second pair on a super draw board against a strong range, which went against Chipak. You shouldn't bet like that. And he paid
Speaker A
the flight. There's no need to pay here . So, we understand that the guy is stubborn. Okay, we don't need to invent anything against someone like that, we just collect. So, we see, yeah, he didn't fold the king-ten on the flop,
Speaker A
and he didn't fold on the turn either. So, ah, this one's aggressive. We label this one as aggressive. We label this one as phone. So, it would seem, okay, you didn't fold the flop, but I folded on the turn, he still takes, draws to
Speaker A
the end. So, we've already marked the guys, we already have a rough idea how to play against each of them. It's absolutely necessary to create a player profile. Yeah, damn, it's interesting on the flop that he raised, which
Speaker A
somehow shows that he's aggressive. In the end, the 3BT call is something pressing. Well, thanks, we'll keep it.
Speaker A
We kept it. The caller has a king. Well , that's a terrible play, how it should have happened if everyone was here.
Speaker A
They knew how to play well. Race 3BT ace king old. Yeah, we have to fold race three bet, four bet line. Okay, everyone there just has a will, super-strong ranges, we have to fold. A guy like us, yeah, he's afraid of
Speaker A
losing to Stuskar, therefore, he plays a suboptimal line and loses because of it. That's it, it's his own fault. That is, if we have ace carly, he'll lose anyway. And so, he flops Kolomna, allowing both this range and us to
Speaker A
realize their potential for four blinds . He played poorly. Well, thanks to him , of course, but I doubt he wanted this fate for himself in the tournament.
Speaker A
Okay, cool. This guy doesn't hold back at all, he opens all the time. Okay, race called, good. We can raid. We saw, yeah, he draws wide. We have a pair of top kickers, we can play btbet and collect value. Super. Well played. Okay
Speaker A
, all in, good play, well done. We're putting pressure on the guy in the final. Okay, Rasleigh fold. Well, again , you can open. These guys will be super tight, outlasting each other. I don't see any problem with playing
Speaker A
straight against a fish in position. Well, he tightened up and tightened up. Okay. Okay, Rasleigh folded well. Good.
Speaker A
Okay, King three alls. Great. Pass. That's an opening. Got it. He opened. Here you can, uh, you see, yeah, the guy who wasn't really tightening up opens. And he opens with a calm battle.
Speaker A
We just played calmly with two karatyshs against an amateur. That is, calmly there, we put three bets on him with 4, 5, or five blinds, and he folds everything. Even there, different thuds are different, because it looks, well,
Speaker A
most likely. Because it will look very strong. And what he should do is unclear. So, BLFT could have been put here. By the way, Let's see what happened on the post. Yeah. So, our unloved Ace3 again. Oh yeah, no. Well,
Speaker A
how can you not defend your busty against an amateur who gives away chips ? That's awful. So what does 108 have to do with you, yeah, defending or something like that. And there's no tour. Although, well, damn, defending
Speaker A
one blind is a great hand. So. Alyn is good king jack. Alyn folds. Excellent.
Speaker A
Daman. Super. This is an opening, but they didn't give it. A good opening. 2 with pono. I would have defended against an amateur. And our stack isn't such that we can somehow lose it now with a high probability. At the same
Speaker A
time, it's a pretty playable hand against a weak opponent. I'd still prefer to play a call here. Okay. So, Alyn threes. Super. Cool. The guys are doing nothing. Of course, maybe they don't like it, but we're really enjoying ourselves. Again, the king de
Speaker A
and 106, give or take, there are hands of the same feather against this player . But you shouldn't do it like that.
Speaker A
Why shouldn't you do it like that? Because, firstly, we might already be without outs when the opponent here has , uh, Say, I'll say aa aces, kings, queens, ace king and so on. In general, if I were in my place, I wouldn't hold
Speaker A
out here. We saw that the player is stubborn. We'll hit the king nine. We might not win much, but we can lose a lot, and even more so, butt heads here, uh, when there are three short ones.
Speaker A
Well, I wouldn't recommend that kind of thing. You need to keep yourself in hand at the final table, not give in to emotions, don't hold out like that, because again, this is when we play a dong, we play a dong when a card comes
Speaker A
that strengthens our range. Let's say the turn is an eight, we have a bunch of eights in the big blind, we bet an eight and we try to knock out The opponent has a better hand, like king queen, king jack, king 10. The strategy
Speaker A
is questionable because he has a million aces that won't fold, but at least there would be some logic here.
Speaker A
The five didn't improve our hand at all , and for some reason we're going to donk into the five. Against the guy we just saw, he didn't fold second pair on a dangerous board and didn't bet on the
Speaker A
turn. So this guy isn't the type you should be grinding. He called, so what's his calling range here? Lots of pairs, lots of matches, aces. The five comes, doesn't change a thing, and we keep betting. That makes no sense.
Speaker A
That's not how you make money in poker. In poker, you hit a strong hand, make a day's profit, and that's it. In this case, you're bluffing almost the size of the pot, and you'll very often get called by your opponent and lose. Yeah,
Speaker A
You got lucky now, but you won a small part of the pot that you shouldn't have played at all on the flop, enjoying yourself and being sixty-two blinds.
Speaker A
And the fact that you gave in to emotion and the guy pestered you with, oh, well, he opened a lot, well, he's the chip leader, he has the right to do that. And you ended up risking being left with a stack of 38 big blinds
Speaker A
instead of 60, when you have three super short stacks and your job is to sit there picking your nose, wait for them all to bust and destroy the fish heads-up. Well, that is to say, this is a completely unnecessary hand. So, 10.
Speaker A
But again, I would probably try a three-bet, because again, I don't want to expose myself, to see how he reacts to trips, because it seems like no one has tried it yet. The hand is good.
Speaker A
Well, calling positions, of course, is not a problem. So, BTL. So, what kind of check? Well, on There are a lot of draws on the board. It could be an amateur who bet the flop. It didn't work. And if I turn it, he'll pay 75%of
Speaker A
our bet with a jack, with a king-2-dash , king-9, with a five, a six, with a flush draw, with a three-draw. We can't check here. Absolutely not. It's good that we hit on the river, but we checked to pretend that we have nothing
Speaker A
. We need to hit 75-dash on the river, 100%of the pot. We're not strictly hitting half the pot. The opponent will either think we're bluffing and will pay a lot, or he won't pay either. Okay , 93. That's it, pass 3 pass. Pass.
Speaker A
Okay. Okay, 10 Rй pass. What was that, guys? Okay. Three max. Great. Lim is good. To bl is good. Super. King 6 race . Good. Race. No, no, that's awful. Oh my God, that's awful. Race. We're tribute betting less than 3x out of
Speaker A
position. That's awful. First. Why the hell should we bet against a stubborn chip stack when the biggest pay jumps are between second and third place and between first and second? We could be eliminated from the tournament now when
Speaker A
it's blind by 7. Why do we need that? Why? Can you explain it to me? First, if we decide to three-bet, it should be a sizing of 4.5 x at the final table out of position, if not more. When a
Speaker A
stack like that is even bigger. Our goal is to get the person to just quit the hand and not play with them. But we don't need to play a big pot out of position with any hands. That is, even
Speaker A
with aces you can call. If we want to play our range consistently, don't three-bet anything, just call. When there's a xyline, why did we three-bet now? Let's say there are kings, the person calls, we're out of position, pot with an ace, pot with flush with a
Speaker A
three. We can't strategically bust right now when we have a huge $ 1,000 payout and a 7-bet line. What's stopping you from waiting a few seconds for him to bust, and then, uh, strip the amateur? Look, you played a
Speaker A
three-bet, he played four. So what should you do? Fold, of course. Why does someone four-bet for the first time at a final table? What do we do?
Speaker A
We do it if it's a bad call in a chip environment. Well, what if we beat our opponent's range, that he's tightly four-betting. And that's obvious. So, the guy is playing a $ 3 tournament and he's an amateur. So, how did he get a
Speaker A
bluff like 4b? So, we just went and gave away chips out of nowhere, and then the guy sits there with popcorn and says, "Come on, guys, play hard, give me a ton of money." Well, that's disgusting, just monstrous. And we were
Speaker A
lucky that we didn't hit an ace or a jack now, because we could have Eliminate. How should we have played it ? Race call flop, check call, turn, if we don't improve, check pass. That's it , we should have played it. But instead
Speaker A
, we lost 16 big blinds. Well, it's a real horror. At the final table, every elimination brings us a ton of money.
Speaker A
Our task: we see Karatysh, fold everything, loot the bobos, and have a blast. That's it. In the end, the guy bet and showed us three-of-a-kind. And it seemed like, yeah, can we really draw any conclusions? Oh, so we played
Speaker A
great, we were ahead of him. Oh, well, we were just unlucky that he'll obviously bet, continuing his aggression, and even with the bigger hand, we can't get to the river. It's obvious; there's a short stack. And given that, we shouldn't be in this
Speaker A
hand. Again, we need to understand that even if the player is bluffing us, he's not bluffing often enough for calling four bets to be profitable. That's one.
Speaker A
And Two—we're getting into a hand where we can't win much, because even if he bluffs and an ace comes, and he has aces, he won't lose much. And we can lose a lot against ace-king, aces, and so on. So there are no excuses. We
Speaker A
should have called postflop. Also, when we three-bet here, with this sizing, we don't knock out many hands. It's better that he has 67 suited hands there now, which have a 45%chance of winning against us. Yes, he'll add, we're under
Speaker A
3x3. Obviously, we're not really achieving the goal of knocking our opponent out of the pot. And the worst thing is, we're knocking out hands that we dominate. That is, we're knocking out a stupid off-suit hand from the guy
Speaker A
, and we shouldn't do that. So, yes, we made a mistake. Don't raise, limp. We limped before, and he checked. Why would we want to increase the pot without posturing against a guy who just showed us a three-of-a-kind in a
Speaker A
four-bet pot when we're short? There's no point. I'm saying this with emotion, to help memorize it. They bet on the flop. Okay. Don't bet on the turn. Why?
Speaker A
Because if there's a flush draw, there's definitely one. But we saw that the player was calling. So, it could be that he now, say, calls 5-of-a-club, and the queen is 10-of-a-club, 91- of-a-club, but if he checks the river,
Speaker A
he'll bet, and we're forced to fold, and we'll either be bluffed, or overbought, or there's already a flush, top pair, and so on. You can't invest much with weak hands on a dangerous board. We won, but then again, it was
Speaker A
most likely just the same hand, which we would have won anyway. Yes, the Wales gram is weaker than the four, and so on. How should I have played it? I should have either checked or tripled later. Okay, folded. Okay, folded,
Speaker A
folded, folded. King jack should be limp if the floor raises. And if we again chose the raise option, we should bet a third of the pot on the flop. We need to burn his equity with 7-triple threes. 7-9 threes. Okay, okay. And
Speaker A
Tata does it this way. Ace pass. Okay. Limp again like this. Oops, finally it happened. Okay, let's see. Check-check.
Speaker A
You shouldn't do that. If a person on the board is jack-jack-seven, where he should 100%of the time make a continuation bet, but he almost always doesn't, it's ace-king, ace-queen, or jack, or ace-king-queen, who are afraid that we have a jack and are afraid of
Speaker A
losing a lot. That is, usually a very strong range. So, when a ten comes, which strengthens everything, we shouldn't bet. Yes, in this case we were lucky that he had a weaker hand, but we need to think about what will
Speaker A
happen more often. More often than not, it will be that the hand is stronger.
Speaker A
And we shouldn't do that. We just need to check and go to the showdown. You saw this before. He checked king high, checked to the river, and won there.
Speaker A
Maybe now he has some kind of king six of the same suit. We'll check to the river in the same way and take ours. So , so, so, so. 95 Alymbas. Excellent.
Speaker A
Same limp. Super. He's a good limper. Totally cool. We're playing small pots, having fun. Hmm. I'm not sure about that, because we don't kill anyone with a coincidence. And an ace can, if anything, be knocked out on the river.
Speaker A
And now he has a bunch of hands, a coincidence plus draws, so I'm not sure about that. Perhaps checking is better, because he really did have a bad card.
Speaker A
And the straight added some boosts, and the straights closed, and the match plus with fshdrost, in short, a whole bunch of stuff. So, maybe it's better to check and bluff the river. So, ace 2 race. No, again. Well, this is crazy.
Speaker A
Why? Well, someone just bet you 4B on a tribute and showed a three. You, instead of drawing conclusions, call, you bet a tribute without a...Well, that's illogical. It's illogical. Zero logic. Yeah, you ask yourself: "Why am I tribetting with this sizing? I don't
Speaker A
get it." The answer is simple: you're afraid of making a mistake. You're afraid of losing a lot. You've got a plan. I want to knock this guy out of the pot, but, damn, I'm scared of losing a lot of chips at the final
Speaker A
table. So, if you can't execute your plan well, I'll three-bet here 11 blinds, which is roughly what you need to use here, and call. What's stopping you from calling? The guy just had a TooStry with Ace3, he raised, you
Speaker A
called. What did he do? He checked. This isn't a dude who's post-flop bet-bet-bet, and you don't know what to do. You fold, give up. The dude [ __ ] checks, gives you realization, take it, call. Why do you need a big pot out of
Speaker A
position when you're short-stacked? I don't get it. This is, well, I say this in all my reviews. Why do I make the same mistakes every time? I don't get it. Again, you don't have to bet the flop. The board is just awful. He hit
Speaker A
all his ranges. Yeah, he missed some small pairs, but after a check-check on the flop or turn, you can knock them out on the river. Well, damn, we're playing a tough hand. You can just play it cool. We're coming up with something
Speaker A
. A bicycle on level ground. Okay, Alynkol, good. Eh, finally a head-scratcher who'll go through four hands. Okay. 102 split. So, you split right from the first hand. Okay, split.
Speaker A
Okay. For the future, when we play heads-up, everything we limped, the player checked, we post one blind. Why?
Speaker A
The guy just missed a lot, raised strong hands pre-flop, so posting one blind here would be good. Okay, then 75. Yeah, you split, started gambling further. Got it. Well, okay, split and good. 16. Those bucks, a great result.
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