[Closed] chenny8888's Beginner SNG Coaching Sunday 1030-1200 CET

Hi everyone!

Today's coaching was interesting. We managed to identify one of my biggest leaks: I say unfortunately too much!

Onto the hands though, we played a couple of fairly interesting hands that more or less reinforced some fairly fundamental concepts as well as some do's and don'ts of micro-limit SNGs.

Some interesting hands:

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $6.00+$0.50 Tournament, 25/50 Blinds (9 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

saw flop | saw showdown

Hero (MP3) (t1435)
CO (t1325)
Button (t1465)
SB (t1425)
BB (t1535)
UTG (t1080)
UTG+1 (t1855)
MP1 (t1925)
MP2 (t1455)

Hero's M: 19.13

Preflop: Hero is MP3 with Q, Q
4 folds, Hero raises to t150, 2 folds, SB raises to t1425 (All-In), BB raises to t1535 (All-In), Hero calls t1285 (All-In)

Flop: (t4295) 3, 10, 3 (3 players, 3 all-in)

Turn: (t4295) 10 (3 players, 3 all-in)

River: (t4295) 7 (3 players, 3 all-in)

Total pot: t4295

Results:
SB had K, A (two pair, tens and threes).
BB had 9, A (two pair, tens and threes).
Hero had Q, Q (two pair, Queens and tens).
Outcome: Hero won t4295

Here I have intentionally showed the results just to reinforce something: NEVER FOLD QUEENS/AK PREFLOP EARLY GAME AT THIS LIMIT. While we are "afraid" of BB, because he should never have anything other than KK or AA here, we can see that our opponents' ranges at this limit are simply never this narrow. Sometimes they will just "put you on AK" and make that sort of spewtard call.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $6.00+$0.50 Tournament, 10/20 Blinds (9 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

saw flop | saw showdown

CO (t1500)
Hero (Button) (t1490)
SB (t1480)
BB (t1500)
UTG (t1530)
UTG+1 (t1500)
MP1 (t1500)
MP2 (t1500)
MP3 (t1500)

Hero's M: 49.67

Preflop: Hero is Button with A, Q
UTG calls t20, 2 folds, MP2 calls t20, 2 folds, Hero raises to t110, 3 folds, MP2 calls t90

Flop: (t270) 10, A, 8 (2 players)
MP2 checks, Hero bets t160, MP2 calls t160

Turn: (t590) J (2 players)
MP2 checks, Hero checks

River: (t590) 3 (2 players)
MP2 bets t350, Hero calls t350

Total pot: t1290

Results:
Hero mucked A, Q (one pair, Aces).
MP2 had 8, 8 (three of a kind, eights).
Outcome: MP2 won t1290

In this hand I have AQ and flop TPTK. Our opponent check/calls us on the dry board. While we don't have many reads on our opponent at this time, it looked like he played fairly solid, so we take a more advanced line. We check behind the turn for pot control, as it is what is referred to as a WA/WB or Way Ahead/Way Behind situation. Our opponent either has a worse ace, in which case he is only calling at most 2 streets and has few outs to beat us (so we don't need to protect), or he has 2pair+, in which case we have at most 8 outs. Our opponent could also have some random air, which will bet the river if we check behind on the turn. So therefore I check, with the intention of calling a bet if he bets (and thus getting value from air and some worse aces), and bet/folding if he checks (thus getting value from Ax type hands). The full article is here, for those of you who are Gold members already.

In any case, we ended up about 7 buy-ins, which is definitely a good result ♦. See you all next week, and good luck at the tables.

Hi everyone!

Sorry for the belated coaching review. Variance finally reared her ugly head yesterday morning, and for what may be the first time since the beginning of these coachings, I booked a loss for the session (zomg). What's important though is that we played well, which brings us directly to what I covered in my coaching, and will re-cover in this coaching review (also because there weren't too many interesting hands to talk about).

TILT. It happens to all of us. When our aces "run into" pocket 2s for the 6th time that session, and we bubble out of yet another SNG, tilt will get to even the best of us. What I like to do to address tilt (and most of the time prevent it altogether), is continually reassure myself that I am playing correct, long-term profitable poker and I will, provided I keep playing against the same opponents, profit in the long-run. So I don't really care if that midstack calls my bigstack shove with J6s on the bubble, because I know that if I keep playing with him in the longrun, sometimes I will be the shortstack in that spot, and I will win a ton of equity in those spots, even when I just fold my hand. I find that when you have confidence in your game, it becomes very tough for a rough patch short-term to shake or tilt you. So to achieve this, you should make sure to continually improve your game, by posting tough situations in the forums, visiting the coachings and watching the strategy videos. Then, when variance does rear her ugly head, you can quite confidently just shrug it off :).

Hey everyone!

Again, apologies for the late review. This time we didn't have too many interesting hands, and owing to my very early bust-out in a fairly high stakes live MTT, I wasn't in the best of moods (hand is here: 500+50$ Live MTT Early). We also managed to run bad in the coaching, losing about 2 buy-ins (but that's SNGs for you).

See you all next week, when hopefully we will have more interesting hands and a coach in a better mood ;)! And Happy Chinese New Year all!