Ask Collin Moshman and Katie Dozier About Sit ‘n Goes!

[Collin Moshman]

Sup Collin.
I have your Heads-up book and really think is great content.

What do you think about poker rooms not running Heads-up decent MTTs anymore? Some might say they are stopping offering because of bots. Sometimes, like in the last SCOOP, we had few HUMTTs... but this is not usual.

Other poker rooms simply don't care and don't offer at all. Even WSOP are running only expensive games in this format.

Do you see any chance of Heads-up Poker being respected in the future?

Thanks Grudina!

I didn't realize that the number of HUMTT had declined substantially. Maybe for online it's that a single heads-up MTT takes so much focus that people aren't multi-tabling much when the play them, and for live it's just the expense of having two players per one dealer? Either way I definitely agree it would be great to see more of this format and hope that happens soon.

 

[Allyte]

Hello Katie and Colin
On your guide you have allist of card to play from the button only.
My question is if someone has raised before it got to me on the button, and I had something like a K7s or a Q 9 off, would you call a bb raise.
If you would, at how bb raises would you not call?
I know this is very general so assume the player was average in tightness.
Thank you for your time, Allyte

 

[Allyte]

Hello Katie and Colin
On your guide you have allist of card to play from mid position.
Similar question as above, if there is a call or a raise, how many bb would you fold at?
Again assume the player is neither tight or loose.
Thanks

 

[Collin Moshman]

Hello Katie and Colin
On your guide you have allist of card to play from the button only.
My question is if someone has raised before it got to me on the button, and I had something like a K7s or a Q 9 off, would you call a bb raise.
If you would, at how bb raises would you not call?
I know this is very general so assume the player was average in tightness.
Thank you for your time, Allyte

I would usually fold both of these hands. Even against a 2bb minraise, I would still be folding. Play much tighter facing prior raises!

Hello Katie and Colin
On your guide you have allist of card to play from mid position.
Similar question as above, if there is a call or a raise, how many bb would you fold at?
Again assume the player is neither tight or loose.
Thanks

I would also tighten up a lot here because players in late position or the blinds can reraise us. So a similar guideline would apply

 

[Allyte]

I would usually fold both of these hands. Even against a 2bb minraise, I would still be folding. Play much tighter facing prior raises!




I would also tighten up a lot here because players in late position or the blinds can reraise us. So a similar guideline would apply

Thank you, perfect answer. I was wondering was I missing chances. It’s good to know I’m doing the correct play.
Final part of the question, with these card at the button would you limp of raise an extra blind.
I’ve found myself doing both. Mixing it up because I’m not sure.

 

[Katie Dozier]

Thank you, perfect answer. I was wondering was I missing chances. It’s good to know I’m doing the correct play.
Final part of the question, with these card at the button would you limp of raise an extra blind.
I’ve found myself doing both. Mixing it up because I’m not sure.

It is very rare that I open-limp the button; I'd recommend pretty much always raising when we are the first players to enter on the button and want to play our hand

 

[Allyte]

It is very rare that I open-limp the button; I'd recommend pretty much always raising when we are the first players to enter on the button and want to play our hand

I would usually fold both of these hands. Even against a 2bb minraise, I would still be folding. Play much tighter facing prior raises!




I would also tighten up a lot here because players in late position or the blinds can reraise us. So a similar guideline would apply

Thank you both so much for taking the time to advise a fish.

 

[Bird173]

 

[jirasuonna]

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[Collin Moshman]

Bird, feel free to elaborate if your questions haven't been answered in Jirasuonna's links. Generally in low-stakes 9-man turbos, a 5% ROI is solid and you would want a sample of at least 500 games to have an idea of that ROI. 1000 games is better, and it takes closer to 5000 games unfortunately to have a fairly high degree of accuracy. Hope that helps, good luck!

 

[Allyte]

Hello again and thanks for all ur answers so far. Your 30 day course has brought my game up so many levels, and I only went to day 13 and played for a couple of weeks and then went back to see did I miss or not understand something.
Thank you.
Anyway, is there a such thing in preflop as a bad position to try get someone to shove.
I don’t think so but someone has told me this.
You won’t hurt my feelings if I’m wrong.
Thank you

 

[Collin Moshman]

Hello again and thanks for all ur answers so far. Your 30 day course has brought my game up so many levels, and I only went to day 13 and played for a couple of weeks and then went back to see did I miss or not understand something.
Thank you.
Anyway, is there a such thing in preflop as a bad position to try get someone to shove.
I don’t think so but someone has told me this.
You won’t hurt my feelings if I’m wrong.
Thank you

You'll have profitable shoves from all positions, but typically the most opportunities from late position -- most of all from the small blind because there's only one possible player to call your all-in. Hope that helps and glad you're enjoying the course!

 

[Allyte]

You'll have profitable shoves from all positions, but typically the most opportunities from late position -- most of all from the small blind because there's only one possible player to call your all-in. Hope that helps and glad you're enjoying the course!

Sorry I edited it to say with pocket aces in this position.
What do you think

 

[Katie Dozier]

Sorry I edited it to say with pocket aces in this position.
What do you think

When I have pocket aces in the small blind (or any other extremely good hand where everyone has folded to me and I'm hoping to get action from the big blind), I always try to take a second to think about any information about my opponent. If they're a reg then my primary concern will be balancing the way I play aces with how I also would play the weaker hand in my range. Essentially I think about the best way to hand against myself, and play it that way.

In the case of the big blind not being a reg, I would try to use any info I have to make an exploitive adjustment. If I have seen the player shoving over limps, then I may (uncharacteristically) decide to limp. However, the same play would be a real mistake versus the type of opponent that we've pegged as being more of a loose-passive/calling station type. In those spots, I'd think about the largest bet I may be willing to likely to encourage action with in terms of my opening size. As a final thought, if I have been shoving a lot, and at a similar stack size to the one I hold at the time of being given aces, then I would tend just to shove almost regardless of reads on opponents because pretty much everyone will call me wider there and to shove the nuts takes advantage of players putting me on a very wide range.

Hope this helps

 

[BlademasterX]

Thanks for all the info. Makes the head spin sometimes because there’s so much to learn.

 

[Katie Dozier]

Thanks for all the info. Makes the head spin sometimes because there’s so much to learn.

Hang in there, it will get easier!

 

[VovanBaron]

Hi Katie,Collin! I am playing sngs now and I started it several months ago.Before I played mtts .
I notice that now I study a lot more than before and the limit that I started playing gives me a high level of return on investment but I win less now than from multi-table tournaments. I would like to know what I need to rely on before I go to the limit more expensive ? It seemed to me that the whole point was in my bankroll before, but now it seems to me that in order to be fully confident in yourself it is more important to play one limit for a while to consolidate your experience and level of understanding of the game. I will be very grateful for your advice how to go up the limits correctly.

 

[Collin Moshman]

Hi Katie,Collin! I am playing sngs now and I started it several months ago.Before I played mtts .
I notice that now I study a lot more than before and the limit that I started playing gives me a high level of return on investment but I win less now than from multi-table tournaments. I would like to know what I need to rely on before I go to the limit more expensive ? It seemed to me that the whole point was in my bankroll before, but now it seems to me that in order to be fully confident in yourself it is more important to play one limit for a while to consolidate your experience and level of understanding of the game. I will be very grateful for your advice how to go up the limits correctly.

Yes, you want to have a good sample size before moving up in buyin, at least several hundred games if you’re confident players at the next level are making significant mistakes, and potentially of games if you want to be statistically sure you’re winning at the current level.

Alternatively, take some table-selected shots at the higher buyin, and continue based on your results

 

[mt2lhd]

Hey! If I have 50 buy-ins for a SNG table would you suggest to grind it? If you do, how many SNGs should I play in a single day?

 

[drtedvoodoo]

Hi,

I've never used a ICM calculator before & relatively new to online MTT/SnGs.

1) Do you have any tips on how to use one to study ICM spots or analyze hands?

2) Out of ICMizer & Hold'em Resource Calculator, which one do you prefer & why?

Many thanks for doing this AMA

 

[Collin Moshman]

Hey! If I have 50 buy-ins for a SNG table would you suggest to grind it? If you do, how many SNGs should I play in a single day?

Yes, so long as you’re willing to move down or mix in lower buyins if needed. 50 buyins is a good partial bankroll for STT but if you played long enough, you’d have a downswing that’s over 50 BI.

There’s no right number of games to play in a day, it just depends on your goals and what you enjoy doing!

 

[Collin Moshman]

Hi,

I've never used a ICM calculator before & relatively new to online MTT/SnGs.

1) Do you have any tips on how to use one to study ICM spots or analyze hands?

2) Out of ICMizer & Hold'em Resource Calculator, which one do you prefer & why?

Many thanks for doing this AMA

You’re welcome!

1. Pick Hands from your games where you’re unsure what the correct range is and focus the most on studying those.

2. ICMizer because it has the better user interface and more features, including auto analysis for importing entire tournies at once and automatically pulling up the potential errors.

 

[moshie]

If you put your chips into pot heads up where you are at least a 60/40 favorite and have to call of your stack are you playing your best poker or leaving to much to variance? EX I have AK suited flop is A 4 9 with 2 hearts and one diamond. I have AK diamonds. I only have 25 bb stack before hand started.

 

[Katie Dozier]

If you put your chips into pot heads up where you are at least a 60/40 favorite and have to call of your stack are you playing your best poker or leaving to much to variance? EX I have AK suited flop is A 4 9 with 2 hearts and one diamond. I have AK diamonds. I only have 25 bb stack before hand started.

Being a 60/40 favorite is a great spot to get our money in! Our job is to get our money in when the odds are correct to justify it; which means we will sometimes be correct to call when we actually have the worse made hand at the time. Hope this helps

 

[drtedvoodoo]

Hi,

The only site I play on (at the moment) is Party which doesn't allow HUD's. As novice in SnG's, I'm currently only playing one table, where I can use observation & take notes to make reads on my opponents.

After watching the YouTube video of Katie playing 40 SnG's (which I find amazing) & I was wondering how an experienced player would be able to make reads on their opponents without a HUD whilst playing so many tables?

Thanks