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$Freeroll NLHE MTT: $ : How do you see freerols? / Can you learn from hands like these?
In this thread I'm gonna show you 2 of my loosing hands from ACR freeroll 50$gtd. 6Max, and try to bring you freerolls closer a little, and maybe from your perspective see, what else should we do in situations like these.
part1
blinds 20/40
UTG (hero) 3560 : AQo raises to 100
MP 3100: fold
CO 2130: raises to 295
BTN 344: all-in
SB 2650: fold
BB: 806: fold
First hand:Ah Qs
So we are first to act, limits are 20/40 and there are two low stacks. Almost every time they will go all-in, so
to make them go for it, i decided to bet 100, and give them space to do it. CO reraised to 295, which is really interesting,
looks like he want to make the pot bigger. This raise is not so scary, but he won't fold if we go here all-in or 3-4bet, so
I'm just call, and see what flop brings.
Flop: 9c 7c 8s
Now this is horrible, but we are in a great position to check and see what he is gonna do. We checked and he checked back.
He definitely didn't want to raise the bar, so we both not connected to this dangerous flop, cause I really expected him
to raise here.
Turn: Qd
What a turn! So I hit a raise to 300, I just sitted here a minute ago, and don't have any information about that person.
You can raise here even up to around 850, but freerolls the fold equity is very low, I didn't risk that this time.
He made a call, so we are leading now.
River: 5c
Very bad river card, but a safe raise from my side to 450. As he was so passive, it will work if he didn't hit here.
He 2bet to 900. People here in freerolls will not bluff at this point that big, he went with 2/3 his stack, so AQ is a really nice-looking
hand, but I made a fold here.
He had Kc10c so the whole time have every nuts to beat me. Even if I was very passive, so usefull notes from him, and
very big mistakes on his side giving me space to get strength, and not rating his hand as a powerful one.
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part2
blinds 50/100
UTG 1320: fold
MP 2150: bet 200
CO 2230: fold
BTN 3015: call 200
SB 4146 (hero): raises to 700
BB 3965: fold
After that, MP reraised me to 1200, BTN called, and I went for all-in and both of them called me (not suprised)
MP: Ah 5h
BTN: As 9h
FTR:6s Jh 10d 7s Js
BTN won with A9o.
So what was this?
To be honest I rate my combination as a strong one, and didn't want to involve 3+ players in it. However I raised not enough
to make even one of them fold, and MP even reraised me to 1200 which show from both of our sides power, but A9o still
manage to call us.
Theres a question here that should I open more or 3.5BB re-raise were enough or better to just call here?
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Anyway, you can see that there's not so much value in freerolls, so try to make notes fast, and assimilate what you have
at your tables, cause as its opened for everyone, and free - so many actions and weaker combinations can showned up.
Its definitely bring the fun side of poker, great experience but in real money these kind of actions won't happen. And I wanted to share these freeroll experiences to see, what people are doing here, and ask, what else should I do in these fields? Make bigger bets, get myself into flips more often/ more rare?
Thanks if you read it, and your answers too.
In this thread I'm gonna show you 2 of my loosing hands from ACR freeroll 50$gtd. 6Max, and try to bring you freerolls closer a little, and maybe from your perspective see, what else should we do in situations like these.
part1
blinds 20/40
UTG (hero) 3560 : AQo raises to 100
MP 3100: fold
CO 2130: raises to 295
BTN 344: all-in
SB 2650: fold
BB: 806: fold
First hand:Ah Qs
So we are first to act, limits are 20/40 and there are two low stacks. Almost every time they will go all-in, so
to make them go for it, i decided to bet 100, and give them space to do it. CO reraised to 295, which is really interesting,
looks like he want to make the pot bigger. This raise is not so scary, but he won't fold if we go here all-in or 3-4bet, so
I'm just call, and see what flop brings.
Flop: 9c 7c 8s
Now this is horrible, but we are in a great position to check and see what he is gonna do. We checked and he checked back.
He definitely didn't want to raise the bar, so we both not connected to this dangerous flop, cause I really expected him
to raise here.
Turn: Qd
What a turn! So I hit a raise to 300, I just sitted here a minute ago, and don't have any information about that person.
You can raise here even up to around 850, but freerolls the fold equity is very low, I didn't risk that this time.
He made a call, so we are leading now.
River: 5c
Very bad river card, but a safe raise from my side to 450. As he was so passive, it will work if he didn't hit here.
He 2bet to 900. People here in freerolls will not bluff at this point that big, he went with 2/3 his stack, so AQ is a really nice-looking
hand, but I made a fold here.
He had Kc10c so the whole time have every nuts to beat me. Even if I was very passive, so usefull notes from him, and
very big mistakes on his side giving me space to get strength, and not rating his hand as a powerful one.
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part2
blinds 50/100
UTG 1320: fold
MP 2150: bet 200
CO 2230: fold
BTN 3015: call 200
SB 4146 (hero): raises to 700
BB 3965: fold
After that, MP reraised me to 1200, BTN called, and I went for all-in and both of them called me (not suprised)
MP: Ah 5h
BTN: As 9h
FTR:6s Jh 10d 7s Js
BTN won with A9o.
So what was this?
To be honest I rate my combination as a strong one, and didn't want to involve 3+ players in it. However I raised not enough
to make even one of them fold, and MP even reraised me to 1200 which show from both of our sides power, but A9o still
manage to call us.
Theres a question here that should I open more or 3.5BB re-raise were enough or better to just call here?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Anyway, you can see that there's not so much value in freerolls, so try to make notes fast, and assimilate what you have
at your tables, cause as its opened for everyone, and free - so many actions and weaker combinations can showned up.
Its definitely bring the fun side of poker, great experience but in real money these kind of actions won't happen. And I wanted to share these freeroll experiences to see, what people are doing here, and ask, what else should I do in these fields? Make bigger bets, get myself into flips more often/ more rare?
Thanks if you read it, and your answers too.
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