Interesting hand from todays session:
Poker Stars $13.79+$1.21 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 4 players - View hand 2024542
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SB: t1305 43.50 BBs
Hero (BB): t1236 41.20 BBs
CO: t2724 90.80 BBs
BTN: t3735 124.50 BBs
Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with K
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2 folds, SB raises to t75, Hero calls t45
Flop: (t150) 3
7
A
(2 players)
SB bets t84, Hero calls t84
Turn: (t318) 5
(2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets t197, SB raises to t429, Hero raises to t1077 all in, SB folds
Final Pot: t1176
Hero mucks K
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Hero wins t1176
Preflop is obv totally standard, I'd defend much wider. Probably pretty close to like 40% of hands or even more. I'd say that playing bvb is a pretty big leak for most players, I think regs fold far too much. Most people (and esp regs) play incredibly abc post flop from the SB, so you can play very loose, almost as if you were playing hu.
It's even more extreme in a mtt during ante stage, where I might defend like 60-75% of hands. I heard Timex say that some players defend even atc, which seems bit too loose to me. ![]()
On the flop, you can definitely justify folding, calling and even raising, with folding being just standard poker that most sng coaches would probably suggest. I choose to call because K-hi is just ahead decent amount of the time, plus he's gonna check/fold the turn incredibly often even with some slightly better hands like 22, KQ, 3x and stuff that still has decent equity, but can't call. The thing about raising is that you simply don't rep much at all, although vs. a multitabling weak reg that's probably just fine and there's just not much he can really do without a hand.
He checks the turn, I choose to bet simply to protect my eq and to take it down. I don't expect him to fold stuff like Ax or 7x and I'm not trying to achieve that either. I'm mostly trying to fold out air, hands like 3rd pair and random gutshots.
His check/raise is obv really polarizing. But the thing is, that a multitabling regular is just gonna tripple barel with a value hand all day long, so I'd say that check/raising the turn here is a bluff like 98-99% of the time.
I know that a lot of people (what up ic3g3orge) are gonna say that I'm just a spewy donk who levels himself, but if you actually think when you play, stuff like this is actually really easy to figure out.