atlantafalcons0
Legend
Silver Level
Plz comment on my play in part one of this tournament.
Thanks!!! (I will post part 2 soon)
YouTube- Part 1.wmv
Thanks!!! (I will post part 2 soon)
YouTube- Part 1.wmv
tomh7795
Visionary
Silver Level
I am going to be very blunt with you. There was probably a mistake with everyhand played. I feel like i'm having a go. You don't have to listen to me.
Hand 1 - You pick up A4 with blinds at 15/30 on the co. I would just fold here. If you pick up the blinds it doesn't do anything to your stack. If your opponents pick up a higher ace and you hit top pair then your going to lose a lot of chips. If you do have top pair and no one else does then your going to win a small pot. This is a hand where you'll either win a small pot or lose a big win.
Hand 2 - You pick up j7s in the sb vs a min raise from btn or co. blinds are 15/30. I would fold here. Your oop with a hand that can really only hit a flush (st8 is very unlikely with this hand). No point getting involved here.
Hand 3 - This was the worst played hand out of them all. You called off 1/13 of your stack with 78s oop. Your not going to hit a st8 , flush or trips enough to make this a profitable call. Only way this would be okay is if you know your opponent was going to bet his all stack. Even then i would probably fold. The turn bet was 80 into 280. If your going to bet, bet around 150-200.
Hand 4 - You picked up 77 and raised 3x bb (which i like). Nice cbet on flop with the hand. (180 into 260). Was safe board so you maybe could go for 150 but i like how you played it.
Hand 5 - You pick up K5s and its folded to the btn who limps. The sb folds and the flop comes 239 rainbow. I like a bet out here. You could have any 2 cards here so it can make your hand seem more believeble. You have a K or a 5 which might be good and a backdoor flush and decent fold equity if you bet. Only way i wouldn't bet is if my opponent was a extremely loose opponent. Would be useful if we had stats but i would bet here against average opponents. From the limp on the btn i suggest he's loose passive. Your opponent will bet about 90% of the time if you check the flop. Well a high % of the time.
Hand 6 - I forgot this hand but here it is now. We pick up j10 off on the btn. I remember we had about 25 bb ( i think) so raising 3x here is marginal. I don't think it's to bad. Depends on how your opponents are playing. If their loose then just fold but if their tighter then def bet.
Hand 7 - you have kj off utg. I like a fold here. I know it's 6 max but i feel as if it's just not strong enough to get an utg raise. I like the raise amount 3x bb.
If theres a hand i forgot, i am sorry. Like i said i may be wrong but this is how i would play them.
Hand 1 - You pick up A4 with blinds at 15/30 on the co. I would just fold here. If you pick up the blinds it doesn't do anything to your stack. If your opponents pick up a higher ace and you hit top pair then your going to lose a lot of chips. If you do have top pair and no one else does then your going to win a small pot. This is a hand where you'll either win a small pot or lose a big win.
Hand 2 - You pick up j7s in the sb vs a min raise from btn or co. blinds are 15/30. I would fold here. Your oop with a hand that can really only hit a flush (st8 is very unlikely with this hand). No point getting involved here.
Hand 3 - This was the worst played hand out of them all. You called off 1/13 of your stack with 78s oop. Your not going to hit a st8 , flush or trips enough to make this a profitable call. Only way this would be okay is if you know your opponent was going to bet his all stack. Even then i would probably fold. The turn bet was 80 into 280. If your going to bet, bet around 150-200.
Hand 4 - You picked up 77 and raised 3x bb (which i like). Nice cbet on flop with the hand. (180 into 260). Was safe board so you maybe could go for 150 but i like how you played it.
Hand 5 - You pick up K5s and its folded to the btn who limps. The sb folds and the flop comes 239 rainbow. I like a bet out here. You could have any 2 cards here so it can make your hand seem more believeble. You have a K or a 5 which might be good and a backdoor flush and decent fold equity if you bet. Only way i wouldn't bet is if my opponent was a extremely loose opponent. Would be useful if we had stats but i would bet here against average opponents. From the limp on the btn i suggest he's loose passive. Your opponent will bet about 90% of the time if you check the flop. Well a high % of the time.
Hand 6 - I forgot this hand but here it is now. We pick up j10 off on the btn. I remember we had about 25 bb ( i think) so raising 3x here is marginal. I don't think it's to bad. Depends on how your opponents are playing. If their loose then just fold but if their tighter then def bet.
Hand 7 - you have kj off utg. I like a fold here. I know it's 6 max but i feel as if it's just not strong enough to get an utg raise. I like the raise amount 3x bb.
If theres a hand i forgot, i am sorry. Like i said i may be wrong but this is how i would play them.
atlantafalcons0
Legend
Silver Level
atlantafalcons0
Legend
Silver Level
cjatud2012
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Silver Level
Just a couple of general comments:
1) Stop calling raises with trash hands out of the blinds. Hands like J7s, K9s, etc. need to be insta-mucked when facing a raise, especially in the early levels. We're c/f-ing most flops, so why even call the bet pre-flop?
2) Tighten up from early position. In a 6-max tournament, I'd suggest playing very tight in the first two seats, loosening up a little in the CO, and raising a wider range on the BTN. Hands like QTo, T9s, are not hands that I'm looking to play with out of position. These are good steal hands from late position, but we shouldn't be raising them from the early seats.
3) Make your raises smaller. You had a couple of good steals in the videos. However, I would suggest raising only 2.5xbb or so, because you risk less chips to do the same thing-- that is, someone that folds to a 3xbb raise isn't going to call a 2.5xbb raise most of the time, so just stick to the smaller amount. It may not seem like much, but over the long run, those chips saved add up.
I know these are very broad suggestions, but hopefully they help!
1) Stop calling raises with trash hands out of the blinds. Hands like J7s, K9s, etc. need to be insta-mucked when facing a raise, especially in the early levels. We're c/f-ing most flops, so why even call the bet pre-flop?
2) Tighten up from early position. In a 6-max tournament, I'd suggest playing very tight in the first two seats, loosening up a little in the CO, and raising a wider range on the BTN. Hands like QTo, T9s, are not hands that I'm looking to play with out of position. These are good steal hands from late position, but we shouldn't be raising them from the early seats.
3) Make your raises smaller. You had a couple of good steals in the videos. However, I would suggest raising only 2.5xbb or so, because you risk less chips to do the same thing-- that is, someone that folds to a 3xbb raise isn't going to call a 2.5xbb raise most of the time, so just stick to the smaller amount. It may not seem like much, but over the long run, those chips saved add up.
I know these are very broad suggestions, but hopefully they help!
atlantafalcons0
Legend
Silver Level
These are the kind of comments I'm looking for.
Thanks for the great info and advice.
tomh7795
Visionary
Silver Level
Hand 1 - You get 27s on the btn and raise 3x. You have plenty of chips so you don't need to steal the small amount which won't make a difference to your stack
Hand 2 - Good raise pre-flop. I've notice in this short amount of time that you cbet bigger when you have a pair or hit the board then you do with nothing. Bet around 2/3 around the pot normally. You probably should have cbet around 250 here.
Hand 3 - Fold pre-flop! it's an utg raise and your calling off a 1/9 of your stack with k9s. It looks a pretty hand but really it's very weak again an utg raise. The turn shove was dreadful. 975 shove to win 390. Bet around 250 here. If your called then shutdown on river. If they fold you win 390 for only a 250 investment. Saving you 725 chips then the way you played it.
Hand 4 - A10s in the sb and utg limped. I think raising is probably the worst move of them all. You still have 20 bb and against a loose player (by the way i have seen) and you will be oop. You did a nice cbet but this was because you flopped a pair. I'm sure if you didn't flop a pair you wouldn't cbet as much.
Hand 5 - Marginal here but i think it's a steal if they are very tight but if not then just fold. 2 callers and the flop comes A102. 1 check and you bet 500. If they shove you only have 800 left. Thats why i don't raise pre-flop. If you get called and then have to cbet, your gonna be pot commited. I think just c/f on that flop against 2 other opponents.
Hand 6 - I like checking pre-flop and checking the flop. Other times i'll bet out but on this wet board i think we should just give it up.
Hand 7 - Lot of limpers and just make up sb with j9s. You flop a flush draw and you c/c. I like that because you had good pot odds. On the turn you made a good fold. well played.
Hand 8 - a8 from middle/early position. When the blinds : stack ratio get lower you can start raise 2.5x bb. Saves you the extra chips and means you can cbet less. But here i fold pre-flop. I am pretty sure you have at least 1 loose opponent to your left, probably two. The cbet you made of 500 is a little to big for me because a bet of 400 is still a large % of most your opponents stack. On that flop i might even be tempted to push. How ever much you bet you'll be hard pressed to fold to a shove. I say shove and let your opponents have the final move.
Hand 9 - You get ace 6 in the sb. There's over about 10% of your stack in the pot and you have a6. Easy shove. Don't raise to 3x and let your opponent shove. That call you did was pretty awful. Your not beating many hands and are behind to so many hands that would push here. Lets say he will push with any pp, any A5+, k7+ and q9+ and i added in a couple bluffs because that is a fairly tight range i put in. I put in 12 bluff hands by our opponents. Which is probably ott but it evened it out. With that range and your A6 it's a 50-50 coin flip. You don't really want to call of a lot of your stack for probably a small favourite or a coin flip.
Hand 10 - I like this fold. He hasn't played a hand yet (by what i've seen). I think a shove by us is also a okay play. Depends what out stack is. If we're short then we go with it. If we're deep we might go for it. If we're in the mid stack then we probably just let it go.
Hand 11 - btn min raises and we have j7s in the bb. We call which is the best play. flop comes 689. he bets 900 which is pot. This is a spot where we either push or fold. I don't know which one is better. I am a tighter play so i would just let it go.
Hand 12 - This is a hand where you think easy steal spot. i think this is a fold here. We have 17 bb so a raise and a cbet (and we get c/r) and our stack is crippled. A2 suit is only a 60% and he won't be calling with ramdon. Pretty much all of his range either has us crushed or a slight underdog.
Hand 13 - Fold q10 here. We're to short stacked to try 3x bb to steal. Raise 2.5x if your going to do it. You also have 1 loose opponent to your right (and we don't want a call). So fold pre-flop and look after our chips.
Hand 14 - Good fold with 5s. We are probably just beating his range but we don't want to call half our stack with for a coin flip.
Hand 15 - This is the hardest hand out of them all. i think i need stats to give an answer here. If he's raises about 15% of his hands then push. he seems a decent tag. Also he raises half his stack which normal means he's trying to get max value with a monster. I probably would have found a fold here but i might have just said that because of the result. I'm pretty sure i would have folded.
Hand 16 - easy shove with AK
I probably have made a few small mistakes but i am very tired and i will look through part 2 again and see if i need to change my answers.
Start folding rubbish hands pre-flop and you're a little to loose on the flop.
Start cbetting the same if you miss and if you hit.
Start using hand charts for each position you play. Early you should play any hand better then AJ and 88+. Middle position you should play 66+ and A10+. On the cutoff and button you can really open your game up and start playing lot more hands. Of course the hand ranges change by how your opponents are playing
Hand 2 - Good raise pre-flop. I've notice in this short amount of time that you cbet bigger when you have a pair or hit the board then you do with nothing. Bet around 2/3 around the pot normally. You probably should have cbet around 250 here.
Hand 3 - Fold pre-flop! it's an utg raise and your calling off a 1/9 of your stack with k9s. It looks a pretty hand but really it's very weak again an utg raise. The turn shove was dreadful. 975 shove to win 390. Bet around 250 here. If your called then shutdown on river. If they fold you win 390 for only a 250 investment. Saving you 725 chips then the way you played it.
Hand 4 - A10s in the sb and utg limped. I think raising is probably the worst move of them all. You still have 20 bb and against a loose player (by the way i have seen) and you will be oop. You did a nice cbet but this was because you flopped a pair. I'm sure if you didn't flop a pair you wouldn't cbet as much.
Hand 5 - Marginal here but i think it's a steal if they are very tight but if not then just fold. 2 callers and the flop comes A102. 1 check and you bet 500. If they shove you only have 800 left. Thats why i don't raise pre-flop. If you get called and then have to cbet, your gonna be pot commited. I think just c/f on that flop against 2 other opponents.
Hand 6 - I like checking pre-flop and checking the flop. Other times i'll bet out but on this wet board i think we should just give it up.
Hand 7 - Lot of limpers and just make up sb with j9s. You flop a flush draw and you c/c. I like that because you had good pot odds. On the turn you made a good fold. well played.
Hand 8 - a8 from middle/early position. When the blinds : stack ratio get lower you can start raise 2.5x bb. Saves you the extra chips and means you can cbet less. But here i fold pre-flop. I am pretty sure you have at least 1 loose opponent to your left, probably two. The cbet you made of 500 is a little to big for me because a bet of 400 is still a large % of most your opponents stack. On that flop i might even be tempted to push. How ever much you bet you'll be hard pressed to fold to a shove. I say shove and let your opponents have the final move.
Hand 9 - You get ace 6 in the sb. There's over about 10% of your stack in the pot and you have a6. Easy shove. Don't raise to 3x and let your opponent shove. That call you did was pretty awful. Your not beating many hands and are behind to so many hands that would push here. Lets say he will push with any pp, any A5+, k7+ and q9+ and i added in a couple bluffs because that is a fairly tight range i put in. I put in 12 bluff hands by our opponents. Which is probably ott but it evened it out. With that range and your A6 it's a 50-50 coin flip. You don't really want to call of a lot of your stack for probably a small favourite or a coin flip.
Hand 10 - I like this fold. He hasn't played a hand yet (by what i've seen). I think a shove by us is also a okay play. Depends what out stack is. If we're short then we go with it. If we're deep we might go for it. If we're in the mid stack then we probably just let it go.
Hand 11 - btn min raises and we have j7s in the bb. We call which is the best play. flop comes 689. he bets 900 which is pot. This is a spot where we either push or fold. I don't know which one is better. I am a tighter play so i would just let it go.
Hand 12 - This is a hand where you think easy steal spot. i think this is a fold here. We have 17 bb so a raise and a cbet (and we get c/r) and our stack is crippled. A2 suit is only a 60% and he won't be calling with ramdon. Pretty much all of his range either has us crushed or a slight underdog.
Hand 13 - Fold q10 here. We're to short stacked to try 3x bb to steal. Raise 2.5x if your going to do it. You also have 1 loose opponent to your right (and we don't want a call). So fold pre-flop and look after our chips.
Hand 14 - Good fold with 5s. We are probably just beating his range but we don't want to call half our stack with for a coin flip.
Hand 15 - This is the hardest hand out of them all. i think i need stats to give an answer here. If he's raises about 15% of his hands then push. he seems a decent tag. Also he raises half his stack which normal means he's trying to get max value with a monster. I probably would have found a fold here but i might have just said that because of the result. I'm pretty sure i would have folded.
Hand 16 - easy shove with AK
I probably have made a few small mistakes but i am very tired and i will look through part 2 again and see if i need to change my answers.
Start folding rubbish hands pre-flop and you're a little to loose on the flop.
Start cbetting the same if you miss and if you hit.
Start using hand charts for each position you play. Early you should play any hand better then AJ and 88+. Middle position you should play 66+ and A10+. On the cutoff and button you can really open your game up and start playing lot more hands. Of course the hand ranges change by how your opponents are playing
atlantafalcons0
Legend
Silver Level
Wow, that's amazing - This information will really help me improve my game.
I really didn't expect this much feedback from this video.
I appreciate it a lot!
Poker Orifice
FoolsTilt
Platinum Level
Thought I could hear you on the phone or something during one of the hands in part 1.... .why not include a voice commentary >>> saying why you're raising..... why you're calling.... why you're folding, etc.
Part1 all folds except for the 77 hand. Hated how the rest was played.
In the one hand where you do call off with (I think 87) OOP... why not donklead the oesd on the flop Ace? (unless you were planning on check-raising that flop.... otherwise why do we call OOP with a hand like that in early levels???... if you were including a voice commentary I'd be better able to comment on the play... ie... "we check here with intention of check-raising this flop to rep. the A.. while semi-bluffing a well-concealed oesd which if we hit we're sure to get paid off HUGE... as villain would appear to hold an Ace if willing to bet/call a check-raise on this board" (just an example but is what I'm getting at by the benefit of providing a commentary along with the play).
btw... we 'should always' have a plan for why we are betting. Most of the hands I've seen played (so far & in EARLY LEVELS) don't seem to have 'a plan'... instead they appear to be spewy bets & calls.
Part1 all folds except for the 77 hand. Hated how the rest was played.
In the one hand where you do call off with (I think 87) OOP... why not donklead the oesd on the flop Ace? (unless you were planning on check-raising that flop.... otherwise why do we call OOP with a hand like that in early levels???... if you were including a voice commentary I'd be better able to comment on the play... ie... "we check here with intention of check-raising this flop to rep. the A.. while semi-bluffing a well-concealed oesd which if we hit we're sure to get paid off HUGE... as villain would appear to hold an Ace if willing to bet/call a check-raise on this board" (just an example but is what I'm getting at by the benefit of providing a commentary along with the play).
btw... we 'should always' have a plan for why we are betting. Most of the hands I've seen played (so far & in EARLY LEVELS) don't seem to have 'a plan'... instead they appear to be spewy bets & calls.
tomh7795
Visionary
Silver Level
Wow, that's amazing - This information will really help me improve my game.
I really didn't expect this much feedback from this video.
I appreciate it a lot!
When i was playing poorly someone looked at my hands and helped me so i feel as if i own one back to cc.
I'll do the third video tomorrow. Am tired.
Poker Orifice
FoolsTilt
Platinum Level
Great idea though to post your HH's in a vid.
I'd consider commenting on more of the hands (ie. in Part2 as I watched most of it) but honestly I don't have the time (too much to write about too many hands... could write quite a bit just about a couple of the hands alone).
Just one note.... I'd consider leading out with more semi-bluffs when you actually flop a decent draw (in some cases...vs. some villains not all... you obv. don't want to get check-raised off a half-decent draw if you won't have odds to call for example if their raise is too big or they put you allin).
I'd consider commenting on more of the hands (ie. in Part2 as I watched most of it) but honestly I don't have the time (too much to write about too many hands... could write quite a bit just about a couple of the hands alone).
Just one note.... I'd consider leading out with more semi-bluffs when you actually flop a decent draw (in some cases...vs. some villains not all... you obv. don't want to get check-raised off a half-decent draw if you won't have odds to call for example if their raise is too big or they put you allin).
rounder22
Rock Star
Silver Level
I don't understand the k9s hand the turn brings a flush and you instantly shove allin the only hand that calls you here is the flush, 3/4 pot would have taken that down seeing he bet pre checks flop so he probably has nothing.
atlantafalcons0
Legend
Silver Level
If I bet anything other than all in there - that guy woulda called.
I'm sure of it.
Thanks for the comment though!
forsakenone
Legend
Silver Level
i don't know, maybe it's because i am not a mtt player i would have folded almost everything there, especially in the BB where you called a raise with 74o WTF man?
i am saying you play waaaayyyy to many hands, other than that i let the specialists comment.
i am saying you play waaaayyyy to many hands, other than that i let the specialists comment.
atlantafalcons0
Legend
Silver Level
I posted this video for analysis.
From MTT players.
If you're not one - why are you trying to tell me how to play?
Why don't you post a video?
LOL