Results Bodog Jan 18th

I am suckout king:

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Well played, AG.

I`ll get you next time (if my hand holds up).

Well played, albeit, so sic at final table. AG need to put the AGro back into LAG. Well played sir! very difficult to over come 10 to one and you did make call with any two and hit. So, congrats. We'll see ya at next one and hopefully CC events. Good job to all top five...think all 4 finnished with the best of it preflop?

Lucksack ( I totally mean it)

Sent me my money anytime in the next few days, ty AG.

Congrat's are in order, well done.

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agreed . with such a large starting hand selection you need to be .(anytwo)

can't figure out how your style works so well , when I get aggressive with crap it gets slapped back in my face , like today I guess I have to say you're the freaking comeback king too. if only egon would have had another $315. naw , I'm happy for you . good job .


congrats to all that cashed and good game to all who played.

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Nice screenshot, I remember he had a little less than that another hand or 2 later, and then boom, he was chip leader not too long after. Then he gets a runner runner to save his tourney life later on, but after that I guess no one could touch him. Very well-played though, as always.

Hint: I'm not really playing any two cards. There are situations where I am, but that's a lot less times than you think (I'll leave it to you to figure out exactly when these are).

Yeah, Nanu had just lost a big hand and shoved, so I figured he was really weak and three bet to isolate-- Egon woke up w QQ and called. Ugh.

I managed two "stop n go" plays in a row with the short stack to get back to just over 1k. It always amazes me that people don't realize your stack is so short that you will just be pushing in on any flop.

Just after that I had 22, saw the set and was lucky enough to have JD overvalue his underpair against me.

I then proceed to suck out against kat: blinds had just gone up to 150/300 and she was about to go through them with a stack size around 2900 (less than 10xbb), so she pushed utg. I re-raised to isolate w TT, and spiked my third T vs her QQ. This is a situation where the results were in my favor, but it's not like I just called off all my money like a donkey (I has ten ten)-- her range is pretty huge here I think, and includes medium suited aces and small pairs. Believe me I had to think about this one, as I am very aware that kat is a patient short stack player (I have said so openly in the past, she knows it)-- the play was by no means automatic, and it did, in fact, turn out that I was wrong this time. Overall, however, I am not sure this wasn't a good play.

The other suckouts were similar: situations where opponents happened to have big hands (vs. my ok/big hands), but didn't necessarily have to have them. People were playing back at me alot it felt like, so I decided stack sizes were such that I need to be the one three betting, not the initial raiser. So I added the limp/re-pop to the arsenal: limp w QJs, Egon raises, I shove, he calls and shows TT-- spikes the third ten on the flop, but I ran his top set down w runner runner straight cards! Not exactly a beat (50/50 preflop), but...

Later Tenbob raised in early position (although short handed), I find JJ in the blind and shove into his KK-- spike another set to take him out. Again, I'm not unhappy with the play here-- JJ is pretty huge five (?) handed, and I was doing the pushing, not the calling. Similar thing w A8s vs. Egon's AQo-- good hand for short handed play, and as aggressor, I suck out again.

I am pretty sure this is a record for me as far as dishing out the beat, however. Sometimes you get lucky.

Good analysis, AG.

I wonder what you thought of this hand:

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I made a small bet on the flop, figuring that a thinking player like yourself would know that, in this situation, if you have the fourth card the standard play is to check and allow opponent a free card to catch up.

I hoped that, by making a bet, I would convince you I didn`t have it.

You folded. Presumably, you had no hand. Or did you guess I had the quads ?

AG u knew u had quads, he always knows what we have
he folded poker aces there

well done to all who cashed, congrats AG{does this mean ur top the LB again}

What does "stop n go" mean?

A "stop n go" is a play where by instead of shoving all your chips into the middle preflop, you put them in regardless of what comes on the flop, and occurs primarily because you have a short stack. While your opponent probably can't fold if you shove preflop, seeing a scary board might earn you the hand regardless of what you actually have. It's important not to "chicken out" if YOU see a scary flop, however!

Usually you have a smallish stack in the big blind, and find a hand that you are willing to "go with" and risk your tournament on (given your short stack)-- instead of three betting the initial raiser you simply call, THEN push on the flop. This gives the raiser a chance to "miss" and therefore to fold.

For instance, with a small pair, say 66 you are 50/50 vs. two overcards like AQ, if all FIVE cards are seen. But if you shove the flop your opponent may fold having seen only three, say on a flop of K92. Same thing if you have the overcards, say KT, and your opponent has 99 or JJ: you call the raise then shove on a flop of AQ7, you might very well win without your opponent getting to see the other two cards.

PAY ATTENTION TO THE (SHORT) STACK SIZES OF THE BLINDS WHEN YOU ARE RAISING!!

A variation of the stop n go play also occurs when an early position player (again, possibly a blind) puts in a large percentage (35%+) of their stack and gets called by a late position player. This call is HORRIBLE, since the early position player is first to act and will be pushing all-in for a pot sized bet on any flop. If you call here you have to hit to win or guess if your opponent has a hand. If you have a hand that is playable enough to call a raise of 35% or more of your opponents stack, then just SHOVE and see all five cards! Normally calling a raise with position is ok, as you are acting after the other player, and have an advantage doing so; but here position is a disadvantage due to the early player not having very many chips overall.

PAY ATTENTION TO THE REMAINING STACK SIZE OF THE EARLY POSITION RAISER IN RELATION TO THE POT!!

... don't remember what I had exactly, but nothing to win in the middle anyway...

Yes he is (for the moment )

Nice win AG, nice comeback from a shortstack and all others in the money.

I had a nightmare game about 5 times disconnected, twice with the nuts

Congrats to all $$ winners, was a good game.