Partypoker 250K guarantee review part 2

Finally here, had to push it to the end today (even after my voice was a little shaky from having lost it last week). There seems to be some small problems in the video like the recorded area jumping around, but it shouldn't be anything too big.


The video can be found @ [link removed~tb]

Comments and questions below, please.

It was a nice video...I have a couple of Questions about the Plays in-itself...A) Do you think it's wise to Constantly Be shove over the Top of Raises Thinking that most players would Give you respect for a monster hand (Even though, you've been playing so Aggressively)? Wouldn't this actually hurt your chances of getting respect since your raising alot of pots preflop, and there-fore wouldn't they think that your just bullying the table because of your stack size?

B) With that AK limp hand vs your AQs raise, and then he automatically shoved his Entire stack (Which was a big portion of your stack)...My question is this, when players do this aren't they actually Sand Bagging with a Monster hand? You stated that there weak (What makes you think that they're weak(?

C) Yes you did get very Unlucky to have AQ running into the Top end of there Ranges, but Couldn't you have just waited to pick up better spots to go up against players, or is it just better over all to just put them to a Decision for there Entire stack?

D) The last with the 2s vs AQo hand, Had you RR rather then Shoved A.I, that player A) Could've shoved A.I preflop (With you getting good odds to call you'd have to call), Correct? B) The player could've Flatted, and then the Set would've hit, there-fore you would've still been Broke, Correct? My Question is, What type of player was the Player in the SB? If he was the type to Not fold/Give respect to Raises then how Could have you dealt with this Situation besides the way you dealt with the situation? I personally agree with you that his Call was Poor/Unwarranted and over all Bad...


GL next time in it, BTW how is the Challenge going for you?

Ok I will try to answer some of your questions nauruto:

A. I do usually remember that I have been loose and aggressive and take it into account. I think in this particular example there are two important additional factors. First, the players on the table changed a lot which means that since we have no history I can get away with more. Secondly, most of the players in this tournament seem to be a little bit uncomfortable with the stakes and play tight or very tight which means they will not call with a very wide range even though it looks like I am bullying.

B. This one was a timing tell. The way the player had been acting I thought that he wouldn't instashove with AA or KK, but instead use a couple seconds. In retrospect I should have folded given that the tell can be wrong some % of the time and I wasn't getting really great odds either.

C. I find that in a larger field tournament you have to be pushing the action to give you a good chance to win the top prize. A lot of the time its very good to put players to the decision since you can get a call with a worse hand, get a fold or suckout.

D. I think that this was a situation where the re-raise would have worked better. I actually did a insta-all-in which looks like the kind of play I would do with my hand of AQ or AK (a timing tell). I do make that play with big pairs as well but it would be better to re-raise in this situation as it looks like the stronger play (and my hand is somewhat vulnerable). The villain would have probably folded to re-raise here given that there is not much chips behind, but its much more important to think of what he would do with his range. Representing a big hand by making a re-raise would be ideal since we can pickup the money in the middle a big percentage of the time.

I hope this answered the questions which are very welcome. My challenge is not going very good since I have been heading in the wrong direction after some NL100 and a bad run in some tournaments. Recently I have been playing some PLO25 and making some nice money for the level, but its still a long way to that 100k.

Ok, i watched your part 2 too.
I agree with naruto about the fact that u abuse of shoving, Ive seen a couple of hands at least in wich a rr would have saved you. Such as the last one.

Anyway, thanks for the videos, I enjoy watching them.

PD: AQ is such a losing hand, huh?¿

Amroth said:

Ok, i watched your part 2 too.
I agree with naruto about the fact that u abuse of shoving, Ive seen a couple of hands at least in wich a rr would have saved you. Such as the last one.

Anyway, thanks for the videos, I enjoy watching them.

PD: AQ is such a losing hand, huh?¿

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I think that abusing shoving is a conscious decision in this tournament given that many of my opponents will be very scared to put their money in without the nuts or close to it. I might be overdoing it a little bit though.

Unlike most other players I didn't choose this tournament because I played very well and wanted to showcase, rather I thought that there were some interesting hands and I did make some mistakes as well.

As for AQ, I haven't had much trouble with it in tournaments other than here, but many professional players (such as Daniel Negreanu) deem it a trouble hand since it is strong enough that it is difficult to fold, but weak enough to have massive equity against most ranges.

Excellent video! Thanks for posting it.

flint said:

I think that abusing shoving is a conscious decision in this tournament given that many of my opponents will be very scared to put their money in without the nuts or close to it. I might be overdoing it a little bit though.

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Only watched first twenty minutes but IMO your play is solid. Shoving is standard when blinds get high. If you have 15-20BB 3b shoving is a good play as you not laying the right odds for them to call. I like taking the aggressive shoving route too as - as you say - its very hard for them to risk their tourny life. If you raise, it's a lot easier for them to shove w/ hands than to call a shove.

Eitherway, I like you style of play.

Thanks for all the comments so far. I was playing around in Camtasia studio today and I updated the video with a table of contents for easy navigation.