$55 NL HE MTT: MainEvenet

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Unfortunately, this is the only way I can play this hand. It was at the 888 Main Event this weekend, where there were about 60 of us left. I think I played this hand badly, and I was starting to get tired.

PF: Bet is fine, but I fold have 3-bet, or maybe if you had a suited J10, then you could have called.

F: I don't think the flop is that good for him, BTN 3-bet A10 K10 1010 could have hit him or he has an overpair, but for pot control, a check would have been better.

T: If he's aggressive enough, he could have 3-bet with A5, then his turn came straight, and again, a check would have been better.

R: And on the river, how can you say all-in? Would AQ KQ have followed through? I don't think he would have folded on the turn, A5 1010 A10 K10 amiver, but he could also be bluffing a lot.

I played this hand badly, but I was lucky. What do you think? The stakes were getting higher here, with the smallest bounty being $40,but that doesn't matter here because I didn't cover it.



#Game No : 724594830
***** 888poker Hand History for Game 724594830 *****
6,000/12,000 Blinds No Limit Holdem - ***
Tournament #280854148 Free 10 Max (real money)
Seat 8 is the button
Total number of players : 7
Seat 1: TAZAR ( 390,674 )
Seat 3: abarone68 ( 144,250 )
Seat 5: Gyurika90 ( 499,352 )
Seat 6: EFC_R_ACE ( 334,892 )
Seat 7: Ralleh10 ( 914,787 )
Seat 8: GIGIBIGI1974 ( 578,906 )
Seat 10: magnavita37 ( 291,349 )
Gyurika90 posts ante [1,500]
abarone68 posts ante [1,500]
GIGIBIGI1974 posts ante [1,500]
TAZAR posts ante [1,500]
EFC_R_ACE posts ante [1,500]
magnavita37 posts ante [1,500]
Ralleh10 posts ante [1,500]
magnavita37 posts small blind [6,000]
TAZAR posts big blind [12,000]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Gyurika90 [ Js, Td ]
abarone68 folds
Gyurika90 raises [24,000]
EFC_R_ACE folds
Ralleh10 folds
GIGIBIGI1974 raises [60,000]
magnavita37 folds
TAZAR folds
Gyurika90 calls [36,000]
** First runout **
** Dealing flop ** [ Ts, 4h, 3c ]
Gyurika90 bets [62,250]
GIGIBIGI1974 calls [62,250]
** Dealing turn ** [ 2c ]
Gyurika90 bets [124,500]
GIGIBIGI1974 calls [124,500]
** Dealing river ** [ Qd ]
Gyurika90 checks
GIGIBIGI1974 bets [330,656]
Gyurika90 calls [251,102]
** Summary **
Gyurika90 shows [ Js, Td ]
GIGIBIGI1974 shows [ Ah, 3h ]
First runout Gyurika90 collected [ 1,024,204 ]
 
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PF: Unless I have a really good read on the raiser, I don't like calling Jack-Ten off-suit for a three-bet OOP like that. Just me, to each their own but calling there is really awkward post-flop unless you hit the flop hard.

F: Agreed that a check is better here. With you that he should miss that flop more than not, and you are blocking TP but they easily could have AA, KK, QQ, 44 or 33 that have you slaughtered. I'm not folding at this point if they c-bet to our check, but what if they raise - are you continuing?

T: That's an ugly turn for us, but the fact that you bet again and the villain flat called is weird - are they setting up a bluff or are they content to just letting you bet your stack off. I probably would have checked this to gauge their reaction but..

R: I don't think you could fold given the action as a shove for 2X pot definitely looks like a bluff as played. There aren't a lot of hands that improved - so it's their initial three-bet range that we need to evaluate. Overpairs definitely continue to call; sets are still in play, but would they call down with AK?

Overall you did get lucky that they bluffed off with nothing but definitely some learnings with this one.
 
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CRStals said:
PF: Unless I have a really good read on the raiser, I don't like calling Jack-Ten off-suit for a three-bet OOP like that. Just me, to each their own but calling there is really awkward post-flop unless you hit the flop hard.

F: Agreed that a check is better here. With you that he should miss that flop more than not, and you are blocking TP but they easily could have AA, KK, QQ, 44 or 33 that have you slaughtered. I'm not folding at this point if they c-bet to our check, but what if they raise - are you continuing?

T: That's an ugly turn for us, but the fact that you bet again and the villain flat called is weird - are they setting up a bluff or are they content to just letting you bet your stack off. I probably would have checked this to gauge their reaction but..

R: I don't think you could fold given the action as a shove for 2X pot definitely looks like a bluff as played. There aren't a lot of hands that improved - so it's their initial three-bet range that we need to evaluate. Overpairs definitely continue to call; sets are still in play, but would they call down with AK?

Overall you did get lucky that they bluffed off with nothing but definitely some learnings with this one.
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PF: Yes, that was a mistake. The tournament had been going on for about six hours, and by that point I was completely exhausted and started playing more loosely, which was a mistake.

F: If he raises my raise, I'll fold. Not many weaker hands will raise back here.

T: It's better to check, and he has more chips. If I have a strong hand here, I'll just give up because of the bounty.

R: Since I played the previous streets that way, it would have been a mistake to fold. If he has something, then he's definitely stronger than me. I was lucky in the next hands.
 
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Then came this Party with the same opponent

PF: My 3bet could have been bigger, 130-150K

F: I think a small Cbet is fine

R: The A comes, I continue to bet and he goes all in. Actually, thinking about it, I don't play many hands here, AQ Aj, but the draw straight flush protects his cards, he could have 1010 66 or even 22, but I don't think I can fold here, I also have a K straight flush.
#Game No : 724596229
***** 888poker Hand History for Game 724596229 *****
8,000/16,000 Blinds No Limit Holdem - ***
Tournament #280854148 Free 10 Max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 7
Seat 1: flusher1978 ( 913,924 )
Seat 2: Gyurika90 ( 1,133,706 )
Seat 3: BLEFI ( 1,224,841 )
Seat 5: lucasfall11 ( 617,817 )
Seat 6: iasi68 ( 503,276 )
Seat 7: Lauchita28 ( 273,346 )
Seat 8: Juckas ( 259,848 )
lucasfall11 posts ante [2,000]
BLEFI posts ante [2,000]
flusher1978 posts ante [2,000]
Juckas posts ante [2,000]
Lauchita28 posts ante [2,000]
Gyurika90 posts ante [2,000]
iasi68 posts ante [2,000]
Gyurika90 posts small blind [8,000]
BLEFI posts big blind [16,000]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Gyurika90 [ Ac, Ks ]
lucasfall11 raises [32,000]
iasi68 folds
Lauchita28 folds
Juckas folds
flusher1978 folds
Gyurika90 raises [88,000]
BLEFI folds
lucasfall11 calls [64,000]
** First runout **
** Dealing flop ** [ Ts, 2s, 6h ]
Gyurika90 bets [73,260]
lucasfall11 calls [73,260]
** Dealing turn ** [ As ]
Gyurika90 bets [169,611]
lucasfall11 raises [446,557]
Gyurika90 calls [276,946]
** Dealing river ** [ 7h ]
** Summary **
Gyurika90 shows [ Ac, Ks ]
lucasfall11 shows [ Ad, Td ]
First runout lucasfall11 collected [ 1,261,634 ]

This hand doesn't work in the converter either.
 
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Commenting on the first hand with JTo

Preflop
JTo is not even an open from the LJ seat or MP or whatever, you want to call it. So fundamentally none of this should ever have happened. You can open JTs but not JTo. Then you get 3-bet. It was a relatively small sizing, but it was not a min-click or something, so you are supposed to fold the bottom of your range. And if you are not even folding a hand, you were not supposed to open in the first place, what are you ever folding? From a theory perspective this is a problem.

Flop
Once again looking at this hand a bit from a theory or if you will GTO perspective, I cant imagine, that you are supposed to have a leading range here, and certainly not with an in between hand like top pair bad kicker. This is almost certainly a check-call from a GTO perspective to keep his range as wide as possible. And then you make some decisions on later streets depending on, how the board runs out.

Turn
Its a pretty good card for you, since it does not complete anything other than A5, and you still have top pair. But still. Are you going for 3 streets of value here, or what is the plan? I would never get here like this, but as played I guess, its ok to bet again, since any AX now picked up a wheel creating more hands, that you can get value from or deny equity. So I am more ok continuing here, than I am with preflop or the flop play.

River
Now you definitely ran out of value, so the play is to check and evaluate. The Q is an overcard to your T, but the only real way, it hit him, is if he has AQ specifically. And if he can have AQ and call both flop and turn, then he can also have AK or AJ, that missed. So I guess, its ok to call here, if you assume, the opponent is capably of bluffing? You are getting around 3:1, so you only need to be good 1 in 4 times. As played it would be very weak to check-fold now after basically putting in half your stack already.
 
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fundiver199 said:
Commenting on the first hand with JTo

Preflop
JTo is not even an open from the LJ seat or MP or whatever, you want to call it. So fundamentally none of this should ever have happened. You can open JTs but not JTo. Then you get 3-bet. It was a relatively small sizing, but it was not a min-click or something, so you are supposed to fold the bottom of your range. And if you are not even folding a hand, you were not supposed to open in the first place, what are you ever folding? From a theory perspective this is a problem.

Flop
Once again looking at this hand a bit from a theory or if you will GTO perspective, I cant imagine, that you are supposed to have a leading range here, and certainly not with an in between hand like top pair bad kicker. This is almost certainly a check-call from a GTO perspective to keep his range as wide as possible. And then you make some decisions on later streets depending on, how the board runs out.

Turn
Its a pretty good card for you, since it does not complete anything other than A5, and you still have top pair. But still. Are you going for 3 streets of value here, or what is the plan? I would never get here like this, but as played I guess, its ok to bet again, since any AX now picked up a wheel creating more hands, that you can get value from or deny equity. So I am more ok continuing here, than I am with preflop or the flop play.

River
Now you definitely ran out of value, so the play is to check and evaluate. The Q is an overcard to your T, but the only real way, it hit him, is if he has AQ specifically. And if he can have AQ and call both flop and turn, then he can also have AK or AJ, that missed. So I guess, its ok to call here, if you assume, the opponent is capably of bluffing? You are getting around 3:1, so you only need to be good 1 in 4 times. As played it would be very weak to check-fold now after basically putting in half your stack already.
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Thank you for your detailed analysis. It was an unfortunate situation; I played poorly, and I get completely exhausted at the end of long competitions.
 
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Geo90 said:
Thank you for your detailed analysis. It was an unfortunate situation; I played poorly, and I get completely exhausted at the end of long competitions.
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At least it worked out for you this time, since you won the absolut maximum.
 
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