MTT Review

[ThatsSoMinusEV]

http://www.flopturnriver.com/Online-Poker-Tournament-4381.html
I played a $4 180-man mtt, and would like to put it up for review

Is there any leaks in my game, as I'm really trying to rebuild upon my fundamentals.

Any input would be appreciated thankyou

[Graham C]

Can you upload it to a replayer, perhaps the one at Cardrunners?  Bit easier to look at than a huge hand history.  If you can't upload it yourself, if you want to send me the history file, I'll upload it then post a link if you like.

[Horneris]

I quite like your overall game for this $4.40 Stt looking at all the hands.

I like your raise amounts and i like your squeeze shoves.

The only 2 hands that really struck me as mistakes were the following:

Seat 2: URWM (4435 in chips)
Seat 3: treesor (3103 in chips)
Seat 4: kraass (1575 in chips)
Seat 5: Eggiberti (2600 in chips)
Seat 6: sherox (4100 in chips)
Seat 7: Hero (2415 in chips)
Seat 9: nala314 (3550 in chips)
Hero: posts small blind 75
nala314: posts big blind 150
Preflop: Hero dealt 5 5
jimbojet007: folds
URWM: raises 450 to 600
treesor: folds
kraass: folds
Eggiberti: folds
sherox: folds
Hero: raises 1815 to 2415 and is all-in

I think this is always a mistake. He's made it 4x pf from a 29x stack UTG +1. I think this is pretty much always a fold with 77 and under, as his range is just too light and very likely to make the call.

Id probably actually only shove this with TT, AK+. Possibly 99.


And this is the other one, which id like to know other peoples opinions on, because i am possibly sidetracked by the fact that i know TheTench is Nakor off Blonde and is a decent solid TAG player:

Seat 3: TheTench (8063 in chips)
Seat 4: marcha18 (19303 in chips)
Seat 5: Hero (2960 in chips)
Seat 6: Osasuna (4503 in chips)
Seat 7: beenjamin77 (8315 in chips)
Seat 8: kuipkanjer (3887 in chips)
All players post the ante 25
Hero: posts small blind 150
Osasuna: posts big blind 300
Preflop: Hero dealt J A
beenjamin77: folds
kuipkanjer: folds
mubarek1: folds
Blue iiiii s: calls 300
TheTench: raises 900 to 1200
marcha18: folds
Hero: raises 1735 to 2935 and is all-in
Osasuna: folds
Blue iiiii s: folds
TheTench: calls 1735

This might be ok if you know The Tench has frequently been squeezing limps a.k.a hitthehole style, but i highly doubt he has, and he should be calling your shove here 100% of the time having made it 1,200 looking at the stack sizes, so id be looking for a stronger hand than AJ to shove here. AK, TT+ would be more my range for shoving this. Probs AQ too, not sure.

I appreciate that you only have 10BBs here, but i think id look for a better spot than a 4x after limper from a solid stacked player in MP.

[ThatsSoMinusEV]

its weird how these were the two main hands i struggled on too

my reasoning with the first hand. I did not know what to do in this spot. I also hate shoving small PPs to EP raisers and looking back I think that TT is a auto shove but 99/88 is sketchy. I think 77 and less is a fold imo. The factors that made me go for a shove, was mainly due to my lack of hands and that I thought that the villian would be raising some JTs kinda hands that I can fold out that have equity against me.

my reasoning for the second hand. I knew at the time, that I had no fold equity with my stack. Therefore I was correct to assume that whatever he's iso raising there he will call me with. I believed that being IP and in the CO that he might raise a lot of Ax hands, such as A9s/ATo and sometimes as low as A7s. I also figured a lot of Kx hands and PP's lower jacks raise enough to make this ok. I figured AJo to be ahead of his range here, and although I could fold and use my stack for what is more effective for open-shoving, that I didn't really want to pass up a what seemed like +EV spot at this stage w my stack

[TheChipPrince]

havent had chance to read the history, but your talk and opinions seem a lot higher standard than someone who plays $4 comps, any reason?

[ThatsSoMinusEV]

ty sir

and no i only have a roll for $4 180-man combined w tilt and stars so no higher than micro stakes im afraid

[TheChipPrince]

ty sir

and no i only have a roll for $4 180-man combined w tilt and stars so no higher than micro stakes im afraid

keep it up anyway...

P.S. I probs fold the AJ, but dont hate the all-in...

[ThatsSoMinusEV]

i'll try, thankyou

wuld appreciate more input into this

[Nakor]

And this is the other one, which id like to know other peoples opinions on, because i am possibly sidetracked by the fact that i know TheTench is Nakor off Blonde and is a decent solid TAG player:[/size]

Horneris goes to the top of the Xmas card list.

Its on Blonde must be true.

[ThatsSoMinusEV]

Horneris goes to the top of the Xmas card list.

Its on Blonde must be true.


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what did you have lol?

[swamper]

your game looks solid, playing your hands strongly and pushing in a few spots pre when sensing weakness. Besides the two hands highlighted i would add the hand were you pushed with 55 pre flop. In all three situations the opponenets were most likely not folding and small pairs and ace jack aren't the best in these spots.