My tourney part 3

22.08.2010, 18:24 0

Hi again

Another set of hands.

Hand 7:
Simply bad played. He had played pretty tight so far, and not overly aggressive. And he would know i raised with a big hand from that position. I should have folded to his raise on the flop i think.

No-Limit Hold'em Tournament, 50/100 Blinds (10 handed) -

UTG (t2790)
UTG+2 (t16460)
MP1 (t3850)
MP3 (t19030)
CO (t2420)
MP2 (t11570)
SB (t2590)
Button (t4496)
BB (t4030)
Hero (UTG+1) (t9440)

Hero's M: 62.93

Preflop: Hero is UTG+1 with K♦, A♥
1 fold, Hero bets t400, 5 folds, Button calls t400, 2 folds

Flop: (t950) 10:spade:, K♠, 9♥ (2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets t475, Hero raises t1500, Button raises t3621 (All-In), Hero calls t2596

Turn: (t9142) Q♦ (2 players, 1 all-in)

River: (t9142) A♠ (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: t9142

Hand 8:
I could probably have extracted more on the river here. Maybe a 1/3 pot bet. I probably had too much strength here for a check to be profitable. Otherwize i think i played it well.

No-Limit Hold'em Tournament, 50/100 Blinds (10 handed) -

Button (t1890)
BB (t16060)
UTG+2 (t19730)
UTG (t3575)
MP1 (t2420)
UTG+1 (t11570)
MP3 (t1940)
MP2 (t9142)
CO (t9180)
Hero (SB) (t4744)

Hero's M: 31.63

Preflop: Hero is SB with 7♥, A♦
1 fold, UTG+1 calls t100, 6 folds, Hero calls t50, BB checks

Flop: (t300) 7♣, 2♠, 5♦ (3 players)
Hero bets t300, 1 fold, UTG+1 calls t300

Turn: (t900) A♥ (2 players)
Hero checks, UTG+1 bets t1000, Hero raises t4344 (All-In), UTG+1 calls t3344

River: (t9588) 7♦ (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: t9588

Hand 9:
Maybe a weak limp, but an easy fold.

No-Limit Hold'em Tournament, 50/100 Blinds (9 handed) -

CO (t9320)
BB (t28060)
Button (t3425)
UTG (t2420)
SB (t6326)
MP1 (t2790)
UTG+1 (t9142)
MP2 (t9180)
Hero (MP3) (t9588)

Hero's M: 63.92

Preflop: Hero is MP3 with 10:heart:, J♠
3 folds, MP2 calls t100, Hero calls t100, CO calls t100, 1 fold, SB calls t50, BB checks

Flop: (t500) 9♦, K♥, 4♣ (5 players)
SB checks, BB checks, MP2 checks, Hero bets t500, CO raises t9220 (All-In), 3 folds, Hero folds

Total pot: t1500

3 replies

muebarek

Joined: 31.07.2008

Posts: 403

24.08.2010, 11:46 0

Hand7: with the blinds being 50/100 i'm starting to adjust my raising size to smaller raises because of the shorter stacks on the table but if you're playing very tight in general, your raisesize should still be ok as well.

then on the flop, the check/raise is overplayed. you're overrepresenting your hand there which isn't the best thing to do holding quite a strong but "far from a monster" type hand. i'd just cbet the flop and then:
- fold to a big raise vs passive opponents who probably won't raise draws
- call smallish raises from rather passive opponents and fold to bigger action on the turn since i think smallish flop raises might quite often be inforaises with KJ,KQ type hands which probably check behind on the turn
- call a flopraise and go broke on blank turns (check/fold non-blank) against aggressive opponents who are likely to raise their draws on the flop

Hand8: simply valuebetting all streets would also be fine here, but i don't mind your line as well because the A on the turn will usually generate a lot of fold equity if you bet it which obv isn't your goal, so that's okay

Hand9: just fold that hand preflop and if you really want to play it then isolating would be better. on the flop then trying to bet out 3 opponents is too optimistic. and if i would try (which i wouldn't) i'd bet less (same reason as in part 1)

so in a resume of these 3 parts i think the things you have to work on are:
- try not to limp with weakish hands that haven't got much potential. overlimping pocket pairs, suited connectors or Axs in LP might be profitable in the early stages but not junky hands like A2o or JTo and especially not in UTG
- work on your betsizing (consider the board texture etc.). there are more betsizes available than just pot
- always ask yourself what you're trying to accomplish when you're betting. don't bet in the dark tunnel
- valuebet more often, slowplay less often