How To Build A MASSIVE Stack In Poker Tournaments

What's up guys, dog talk here and today we're going to take a look at some hand histories from the early stages to the

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to help you learn how to

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a big

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. We'll be joined by the newest swing team member for Toshiba Say Now/-he's got some pretty impressive tournament results, in fact, he's won over $5.3 million in cash. Oh wait, it just happened to me. What the hell are you looking for? He has an impressive tournament resume and his highest score was over 800 km in Macau. and he obtained a $25,000 reward last year for nearly $100,000.

I've had the honor of working with the producers a lot over the last few years, and while it has a very good theoretical approach to the game, it also had some solid readings along the way. that the group of players played as well as many specific log reads, making him a fierce player in many of these

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, so with that being said, let's go ahead and jump into this video with /- SH and keep a couple in mind of the hands we're blocked by the webcam but our opponents had us covered and at least the first one so you know what the relevant

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sizes are and we're going to go ahead and jump to our first check that we're going to look at. first in my hands, then we are going to enter Prats, but I selected your hand here and thanks for coming to help here on the channel, hey, how are you doing guys?

I really want to see it and you can do great, okay. Go ahead and take a look at the first one so here we have my fourth favorite blackjack hand and the action folds until a player in middle position decides to open so let's go ahead and start by talking about some of the differences here between playing. in a game without ante you know, game versus ante game and what are you looking to change here? Your preflop strategy with that in mind. I'm definitely playing a lot tighter. You know there aren't that many chips available to be one, so I'm definitely just three-betting and sliding a smaller range versus an opening, so if we had a facility where I would make more incentive eyes to try to, you know, fight for the pot, so how does that manifest itself?

How would the hands appear? Do you consider three bets here or I guess it's really the other way around because we're going to play tighter. What are some of the types of hands you're looking for, maybe flat or folded here, that you've considered three reads in a game? with Angie or you know, once the tournament IDs I think some of the hands like a nine seven suited in eight six suited some of the bottom three connectors like six five suited I'll definitely start folding them when it's pre Annie, but if there's an Easy, definitely, you know, look at maybe three examinees and you know, try to win the pot preflop or you know I have an interesting profile situation, it makes sense, it's also worth noting that you're removing the blinds , especially the big ones.

The blind has a lot of value and even more so when there is an ante because I assume that the defense of the bigs will increase substantially once there is an ante involved, so you know, I assume that we are going to go to Dubai jacks. We've highlighted some interesting ones, we don't know the exact action or the full cards, so we're all on one street, but we bet three jacks and get a call, so this seems pretty standard, ace nine seven, any check, what are you doing? Here, what are your thoughts? I'm definitely checking. I don't think we should worry too much about the denial of equity.

Here I think Jax is not a hand. We want to go three streets, so I'll definitely go ahead and second. Playing to bluff Cashner, what about you? Yes, I think I'm leaning toward passing, but there's certainly a discussion to be had with the senior peers in our rank. I think it's pretty fair to say we can have tens all the way. The kings here are almost always right, maybe looking for flat tens pre versus and tighter players, but certainly Jack's queens and kings probably also tend to wait as well, so you know we have to rank these pairs in different ways and there are a big difference for me. between tens without swords and kings with swords, you know, King of kings with swords is like you know, I think it's a mandatory check.

I see that there is basically no real merit and betting at all there is really no really bad spin for you. I mean, I'm not saying you're happy if it turns out like a suit ten or a date with an officer, but there really aren't any super surprising twists for you and us, so there really aren't any super bad twists for you, as long as let's say you have like a tens with you know there are no spades in that situation, going for a more equity denial approach might make some sense, what do you think? Yeah, I think that makes a lot of sense, you know, just a lower level where we have them more could be denial. we have one more year on cards that he could potentially hit.

I think Jackson faded. The deaf man approached a check. I think like you said, Jackson tens without spades, that could be it and you still get some value with a nine or you. I know even potentially 87 to two or seven six we did Saipan, so there's definitely some value, so there's definitely some merit to betting, okay, cool, so I think we're going to check, check and it does, and we get a fee. I guess with Jax, but also, in general, how are you going to structure your anger in terms of trying to balance your bluffs and value bets here on the turn?

For value betting, I'm definitely going to value bet Star of the Valley any eight that might have checked on the flop, so some of the suited aces we'd have free that and maybe like an ace with ten off , maybe check if there is some balance. on the flop too, so those that would be my value do it and then my bluffs would be hands that I didn't really think I could make too many turns and rivers with, so it's actually like a queen Jack of Diamonds or something, maybe Maybe I know that I released that free fall.

I thought, oh, I'd rather delay and block the turn. I think that hand would make sense, any hand I like and maybe some of them didn't have any real backing capital on the flop. You know, at some point you have to start bluffing. I think those kinds of guys have to make sounds on the turn. Okay, so we're definitely going to look for some value with all the ASXs that traps can clog up, but what do you do with some of them? these pairs because I think we're going to have a lot more hands like kings, queens, jacks and then we're going to have sex.

I mean, yeah, when we have top pair it's pretty good, but you know we have a lot of other hands here that You know, realistically, we're quite a bit ahead of our opponent. I guess it's debatable how far apart they would be with two sets of bets, but you know, since you know, we think about the flat range preflop for the first match and then on the flop we're going to check. check the turn, occasionally he can catch some aces, but you know, especially on the non-ante part of the tournament, it's hard to imagine him holding an ace unless he's like me, a hand like a ten suited or something, what do you think ?

I'm going to bet any of those callers on the turn. I usually don't, but I can definitely see the merit of it. I think especially a hand like Jax or ten, that you know can get value in the tournament, maybe needs a little more. more protection than a hand like Kings, which can basically play well in all rivers. Emily sees America, you know, betting on the turn. I usually pass a lot of these, but it could definitely be a week for me, but I think there's definitely We have a lot of value when he hits me, especially if we think he's passing eight like everyone else if you've bet any aces at that point, okay, yes, it seems pretty close.

I can get angry in any way, one of the reasons. What I'm inclined to pass is that you know, if you're going to bet, bet how many hands you can free up to give value and you know it's also worth noting that there's definitely a difference here between tens, Jax and Queens, you know when we're. we are that deep before the flop. I'm probably expecting a four-bet with queens, but I wouldn't be too surprised if I saw a flat back, but I think the tens are certainly fighting against the three-bet and Jack will most likely be a deuce, depending on the way he stacks up. make. this player wants to play it so it might be a place where you know you might want to delay with Samantha Kings and yeah I think most people would mark Queens in the slot in tournaments like there are definitely some people who want to enter, but I think I think there's a pretty big difference between kings, jacks and tens here, so I'm going to trust your readings on what the terminal players are doing because I mean, yeah, I think there are very few, unless that you know the quote from the famous story of the dynamics of tournament players or whatever.

I don't think most people are in favor of betting on Queen's ears okay cool so check check and we get a Queen River and our betting point is 800 so I guess my first question is: do you know how you

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your calling range and then how you play your raises? I guess I'll definitely call Kings if I check as an ace on the turn, which I could refer back to doing that, I would call it, but you know, obviously, that's not like that, there's not too many combos, um, not to mention you know that before from dropping the aunt, assume you're taking them out a little less aggressively, yeah, I mean.

I think I would still bet on the aces on the wheel, but I think I wouldn't bet for free like an ASIC, a six or eight, eight or something, so it definitely has a lot to do with, you know, it's a pretty weird place, waiting happily not to be called an ace here, so I think you should definitely call the king, uh, if this is so, I mean we have queens here, which is good obviously for our raise, but I don't know, I don't think I would call, I would call Jax here. , I think it's just not like that, it just doesn't seem like we're going to be good enough here often enough, yeah, I think if you have a hand like kings or king queen, you have to call.

I think there's a chance that our opponent, I mean, realistically, is representing a queen here. I mean, he might have some weaker aces, but I have to imagine that a lot of the hands running the spa are hands like king, queen, maybe for Queen Jennah, depending on how thin he looks. Wow, yeah, but he actually represents a weak strong queen, so whenever you have a hand that can beat some of the value bets, you just have a quick call, obviously, and then you know we can obviously have a hand as King Queen, ourselves not too. We'll probably have Queen Jack, yes, yes, no.

I think Queen Jack we've always started blocking the turn, maybe it's just me. Queen Jack makes sense as a nice twist. Bluff, you know when you're approved for a queen or a Jack you almost value. bet for a reasonable elimination and then obviously if you get hands like step six, step six is ​​to fold a pretty big win for queen jack, so yeah, we can win on kings, yeah, they have king, queen, they definitely have queens, what do you think about us thinking about matching one? hand like Jack's here versus calling a hand like ten nine suited um I mean I guess the thing with the 10-9 suit is that we block like the Queen unsuited and some like the weird value that is that he caught there on the river, so it might be a little bit better than a Jax call, but yeah, it seems pretty close, I think overall, and a lot of these go up to the points on the river where there are no relevant suits, you know, yeah, we got spades, but and there was a spade draw on the flop, which isn't really the most relevant because one of his faith bet on the turn anyway, so yeah, exactly, I guess I'm just saying that those hands are for Manly to bet on the turn, so in a lot of these situations where the suits aren't that relevant, I think I generally lean toward a more linear approach and call with, you know, my stronger hands. , doubling the weaker ones and then raising, you know, they're good hands and you know my kind of middle hands between the call development, so what do you think? about this hand as a bluffing hand and what do you think about the size?

I think if we're going to call the king clean when we have him and we want to fold under, obviously that makes sense because it's the Next, so yeah, I'm done with that, if we were going to call Jax or Thames, we'd obviously raise our best 9 that we could have, so yeah, I'm definitely willing to go up here because I just, yeah, I don't. I think we're going to be good enough to fall here, yeah, I think it's close. I can see a kind of marriage going both ways. You know, I think there are some hands that I'm also going to fold like King Jack or maybe eight seven a. eight or ten nines of the same suit, so if you're also going to fold tens or jacks, you know that maybe you're folding too much, which you knowcould be a problem, but you know I might also be a better hand to call with a hand like ten. nine or nine eight then like Jack's in terms of elimination.

I'm not sure, I'm not totally sure, but I think we want to have a hand like King Jack or maybe Jack Ten that he spotted and just played keep at the beginning of the game. turn and give up there, so I mean, maybe you can make sense as a fold and convince myself not to do it, but yeah, we're moving on here and going for the end, so what do you think about the sybiz here, how are? balancing this out, you know why you're representing for value and yeah, I mean, I think we're representing Queens or a slow game with good serve, so I don't think we don't have any other value that's really good on top of that. those two hands, so I think it definitely does something to the way we're representing the top set, our second set right now, so I think the size makes a lot of sense.

You have to be very careful here though because you know that you will have three combinations of Queens and yes, you may have one or two combinations of Aces depending on how you are going to play the little one until the turn. I know Eddie let the plane have a hand as King Queen, we only have one Queen combo left. Yes, if we are going to make this play, we have to be very confident that this is the hand they want to use. but you also have to like doing it with just one hand like Jack's some of the time because if you're like the jacks above are worse than the next ones, I want to call, I'm going to break them, there's six of them, yeah, you've got too many.

He blows too many bluffs, so yeah, I think I like this play looking back, although you know I'm a little result-oriented for Resorts, except I'm not because he didn't go over 10 in one hand. I can definitely see here. I figure my image doesn't help me play any terms and I'm playing and yeah, I think you're like the only person they call. Yeah, I think if I think of a date, this is one of those where you can try this. at home because it's going to work for you, but it's not going to work for you, yes, yes, diagonally, it's definitely worth an opinion, but I still strive for balance, although yes, I'm not saying you shouldn't do it, but you know, a lot of times in I like videos and stuff when they're teaching someone.

You know you say don't try this at home, but you know I say definitely try this at home and you know if you've got it, as long as you don't have Doug's image, which is most. Probably not, probably it really is I always say that you have courage to bluff, well, things are too strong, ah, yes, what do you call? So to start, I think we can agree that king queen is a much better decision than age. 10 in terms of what you're blocking, you know, when I jam here, he can mostly fold, so I'm not totally sure how I feel about that because you know if he calls king queen suited and let's just say he goes to bet a hand like ace queen or ace jack suited on the turn.

I was, you know, maybe I'm close to having enough payouts with just king queen. I guess not, I don't mind adding a tendon. but it's definitely important to take into account here your elimination versus the range of hands your opponent represents and so sometimes yes, a second pair would be a better hand to call with the top there, sure it has a king too black and a queen, as I definitely see a lot. There are a lot of foreign players psychically here so you might think that you have nothing better in hands of eight to ten because here about a second your queen on the turn then your time is the best hand you never have a queen and He might just decide that he has to pay for it, so I mean, I'm just trying to get inside his head, but yeah, that makes us one of the things I like most about dubbing King Queen more than Queen Jack. the Kings combos your opponent can have and you also know you're going to buy with king queen whereas with a hand like Queen Jack you know you're right just do it so I think it could be a pretty reasonable place to check with a hand like Queen Jack or Queen Ten instead, but bet with one hand like King Queen Yes, I like Fine King Queen.

I've seen so many checks in that slot that I think his logic might be that this was the best hand so far, but maybe he was thinking of a block or something, I'm not so sure, yeah, or maybe Doug is just bluffing. too much, okay, let's move on to the next hand here, ace four suited, oh yeah, I died, I didn't. Look at the buy-in, but in general these will probably be higher stakes tournaments. I guess I'm not playing too much in the big 22 in general, but here this has to be like a co-op main tournament, I think, because we're like EF deep.

Yeah, okay, in keeping with the general theme of the video, of course, talking about the previous place in the tournament, we opened it to about a quadrillion big blinds and we were faced with a bun and this really ties you into this decision. I review it. This, I thought, this is pretty interesting, the big blind cold calls the 3bet, just come back to us, how do you feel about your options here? I mean, obviously, she backs out, the table wouldn't go past that. I like to equalize here when we are so far away at the beginning of a tournament. a hand like this can do the best things, which is really sweet and you know, I mean, there's definitely value in betting because you know the big blind tightens the three better in the sense that you know you have to be worried about a guy behind them and this is a hand that we would often use for this, but I prefer in these deep stack situations, like not making hands like suited aces and things like that, I prefer to flatten and just try to play like a big pot. here, when we hit a flush or a straight or maybe even two pair.

I definitely see some merit in betting, but I definitely really like the floor here and you know a lot about what we're going to do. lose on some boards, but I think just the ability to try to stack someone for 50 days pretty well, yeah, I think there's a couple of things to play, I mean calling, obviously, is printing, I don't think I mean we. We need 17 percent equity and we have a little bit of a tough calling day to not get 17 percent, but I will say that I think when we see this little button, bet three and then the cold, flat big blind, I think the big blind big almost never has a hand that one he wants to play against to bet because I think he is not going to take this line with hands of looks and kings.

I'm trying to isolate the button or build a pot or whatever so that I have a lot of like nine queens soup and like ace queen suited ace jack the food was that every time I see this cold call preflop I tend to put my opponent like nines and like ace Queen of the same suit which is like those hands that I really do, but I think the act endings are there a lot yeah, I bet I mean queens like with this action, I mean, aren't you happy about About this, I feel like I am, but I think most people are flawed, but you know, maybe they say, "Oh, what if I get five beds?" and I don't like the way so many Tauron players think about these flaws. like you can only make the final bet if it is clear that you are folding or entering, so like a hand like ace jack, they would like to bet the ace jack-off and call Queens here because the ace jack-off is like a clear bluff. hand and Queens aren't really sure what happens if another bat comes in, so as it happened, there are so many interesting slots that they enjoy, I think in the beginning, when people have these kind of strange three and four bed ranges in the that they're like they're going flat like kings or queens like before and then they release it like a jack or a scooter or a suited nine and they end up being super fluffy or, you know, they have super weird ranges and I think you definitely can.

I'm not ruling out Queens here, okay, I definitely noticed it, so maybe in some hands I could call the four, but then yeah, no, no, yeah. I still think that overall this is a pretty weak hand and so, you know, from a betting perspective it looks good. The three button betting range is obviously probably pretty wide and pretty loose, you know, it can definitely hold all the good hands, but I think generally people use this three bet size and say, "Hey, I'm going to go with Pretty aggressive range here, yeah.” I try to isolate you and we are deep, you know?

So I don't think it's the Beckett four's plan to even out. I guess the real question is whether we're going to use a hand like the ace four of diamonds as a bluff. On the one hand, are you looking to select two to balance? Do you know what your strength range is here? Where's your go-to place to organize your pre-belt look? I think Ace Jack-off would be the first time it really comes to mind. I know he can flop some decent pairs, but he's not especially that deep, he doesn't have too many tables where he makes top pairs or as you know, a lot of situations can have a good top pair when he has an 8th when he has. a lot of ace, queen is king and that makes it convenient, some dangerous points advance like a drive up that has some elimination effects and then it doesn't play that well either, but done for the same suit it would probably be first hand.

I accept it. let's read and apparently I agree with you, so let's get a flop here, there is certainly some chance. I think I was doing a randomization and I found a coal, but okay, so we took a flop jack five two rainbow check button half pot bet and I think we actually have another interesting spot here, so what are your thoughts here? ? I can really see some merit again for anything except retiring. I definitely like the queens here a lot to be honest as we have all the sets I think the big blind could have Jackson with the cut crab jacks but other than that we have Jack's eyes and I induce and this looks like I want the first candidates that we would want to start moving up the list to go along with some of those value increases, I think.

Jack we probably just called because you know such a strong hand induces advantages. He would definitely think about going up. I think this hand makes a lot of sense. It is left like this hand with the back door. I'm sure I'll finish the shot. He can definitely shoot. so many twists and rivers and it has so many outs and we can really put these guys in a really tough situation when there are some especially so deep where you know the kings and aces really won't feel comfortable paying for that much. my chips versus our range, which may have many of you know good hands, so I definitely like a lot of chakras here.

I mean, I don't think check tracing is like that, obviously, as long as they're not withdrawn and enforced. you're okay, but I definitely like the concealer to be okay, so we're looking for something like sixes combos for value, how are you? How are you assigning your Bluff range given that we have a caller because you know if this is if this is? a heads-up pot obviously we want to be a little more relaxed you know you're probably looking to continue with hands like you know 8 or 9 how you're changing your calling range how you're changing your raising range from what what's what FA PK 2 to 1 to Whatever I'm doing here, how does that change what your strategy is?

I'm definitely definitely still on the side of my calls so like you said I'm folding 8 to 10 which I would always be calling versus just one person I'm also floating a lot less I think this was heads up like floating a ace king on the screen or a king eight, if we didn't do that, they would be our backdoor portions and we would spend a lot of time with them in just seven. six of the backdoor flush draw, you know, three years in a row, three foot n flush guy It would definitely be like considering floating those hands and those are just quick hold now I think I still call any Jack, whether it's heads up or three ways, but it definitely affects him a little bit because you know we're worried about the guy, especially considering it's not just him, he's a triple, he's a triple better dribble, so he's got a lot stronger range to start with. with so I think you know it's even like what the hell is Jack nine of a kind, we don't love it, we're obviously Paul, but it's not, you know, like Oh, slam-dunk, it looks like let's make our decision in the river where are you.

We're not even considering what could happen in the term, okay, that seems fair enough. I'm still putting a fabulous K on the nines here, even if you want to make them queens. Yeah, I think in retrospect, I really like a raise. I think I'm going to do it. for the call here, I think my logic might have been that I had other hands that I wanted to bluff with, you know, maybe I was looking to raise more ace threes, maybe I was just going to use some of my a scores, maybe I wanted you a bit. hands like King Queen of Hearts I'm not, you're not completelysure again from a hand from a while ago, but I like the raise in hindsight, I think it's okay, very interesting, the turn checks the button bets, okay, so the story the button tells here It's a bit interesting now because yeah, you know, I guess it goes down a little bit, so how is ACE X going to play some hands on the flop?

How are you going to play an ace king, some ACE queens? the flop, your main value is the main value and represent our hands as king and queen starting with two kings or queens or maybe a hand like ace jack, which obviously you still know makes sense here, so we face this bet, do you? how are you playing your range? here facing the spot oh I don't think I would do it if I didn't raise on the flop. I don't think he raised on the turn here. I think I'm mostly playing outside of a calling range.

I would. I mean we have. a few seconds like this, if we don't raise them on a flop to call, I'll definitely follow up with a percentage of jacks on the turn. I think I have my worst jacket, it's not a great place, I think a jack 9. suited or Jackson suited when he starts betting on two three two people on the turn can definitely develop, we may have some too backup color shows, which is nice, but you know, they're pretty weird combinations, but I don't think I would do it. be check-raised so long here, yes, I don't like a check-raise, it's also worth talking about that you don't have to defend as much when someone bets two people on the person of two people, yes, how do you know if this was like, let's say the fabulous K folded on the flop, then we could have continued with a bunch of pairs and then we got this turn.

You know, you could certainly take out a lot of those, but we probably need a two-person basis, you certainly can. looking towards folds some jacks and I think the bad thing is that there isn't a big difference between them, whether it's a ten-suited jack or a hand like King Jack, but there's still a difference, you know, if you have King Jack, it's more likely that you block a hand like ace king I'm still that bad you have a little more elimination against a hand like maybe Kings that is looking to bet that check I'm not saying that I think it's very likely here on the flop, well here on the turn, but another hand that is possible and you also know that when you have a hand like Jack 10 or Jack nine, I feel like those could be your opponent's cards because they are bluffing with a little difference between the jacks and I think you can leave something. of them go here on the turn, sure that's fine, so we go ahead and check, we call pretty clear, it's the place with the ace 4, we find it very difficult to navigate River here, three ball control and betting, so obviously we're going to go all out actually.

Can I go ahead and clarify my question here is, firstly, what hands are you going to call with against this bet and then secondly, what hands would you consider looking for in Bluff Jam here, since this is an interesting slot, oh, Sure, I think because this isn't a swallow, we should have a lot of sex, so you know, it's possible we could have an ace, queen, and an ace king, but it seems pretty unlikely, given the flop and preflop action. Also, I mean, me. I'm definitely going to pay with either pair or whatever I have. Those are easy decisions.

I think maybe even you could make an argument for upping some of them depending on the key value of Accutane. Betting a blocker is king in the river, like raising a jack. raising five definitely makes a lot of times um I don't think I don't feel very comfortable calling King Jack here uh given what's happened in this pot so far um I don't really like it I don't think there's elimination it's like If this isn't the case, the Elimination is really an opinion, because I think for the check-raise bluff, you know it's not a point like the non-flush where what you want is the blocker or something like it doesn't really matter in the point. so I think I would just take the best hand that I'm folding and I'm having trouble finding an ace that I'd like to fold that's going to hit Andy on the river like that, so I think King Jack would be the first hand one, that really has sense, a name, yeah, so there are some things that you definitely don't have to call any Jack like that in general.

I would say if you pass, call a street where you need to pick up part of a pair and pay the rest. The soul is not the best of those, yes, they almost never have to call. You can always find calls within the rest of your range. You know you'll probably have a hand like Jack's. You know you can improvise, so. You'll have Jack, you'll have a four suited, so you know, I think you'll double Jack's call, yeah, again, it's weird if you have sex or not, there aren't that many combos of them, to be honest, well, really You don't have that many combos.

I'm crazy here, like giving you a really narrow range, I thought it's a narrow range point, so I would say I wouldn't want to bluff with a hand that contains a sword, yeah, I think you know that if you have a hand, that Jackal King . King of Spades I wouldn't want to bluff on that because it's certainly a card that you would like your opponent to have and yeah, you're not really going to have an easier one, so I think it's kind of like calling to match, I think I even think that Jack is probably a little too thin, I mean, I don't know if that's too essential or not, but you know that you had to get over half of the calls correctly and that your opponents would surely have aces, you would surely play jacks like this and such time. they check the flop sometimes but mainly they're going to have jacks here and then they might have a hand like four three suited yeah four three two two makes sense for sure or maybe like a six four spades hand or maybe like a six four of like I'm going to try it and yeah, sure, definitely, I have something so I think Jack, I think I think a set of traps is the lowest.

I'm going for value, which means we have Yeah, kind of um, you know, a couple of suited ACE combinations and some jack combinations, so we can just bluff, like you know, one or two combinations here, so you have to be somewhat specific and I. Think generally in those places if we really can't have an ace like this, like all our aces are two pair, yes, I think it has to be our best jack, which is the king jack, yes, but even then you shouldn't get So. I got carried away with the elimination, you know, I know there are a lot of people who say that you guys really care what your kicker is, but you know there's a card for me that I like if you're fielding some of the nobles. value, but in a nutshell it's like you want to say, yeah, yes they're going to be free, but you want, man, come on, East King, years too long, yeah, I don't bet he's the king here in three streets, it's pretty ridiculous , it's happening like Scandinavia or something.

For me to consider that the offer of he is king is clove does not seem Scandinavian and it does not seem like a skein and the three sevens and the three eights do not make you believe it either, so the key is not to worry. We're just going to stack them with a local foreman, so we, Jim and two peers, stack it for you to write the money, so let's go ahead and jump into one of your hands, then yeah, great, let's jump right into it to have to King. Jack in the small blind, we're going to face a high raise from Jackman, we fold and before we even take a look at what you're doing here preflop, what are your thoughts here on how you're going to play this Hammer Ski Open?

I think this is a pretty interesting place, the opener is a good rec and the big line is also a very good reg, so I guess this is a tough one for the tournament and I think hands like King Jack can be quite interesting in the line small, I think. many people tend to play three times better from here. I think that limits our options. I have to play in Tibor's range. I think a hand like King Jack when we know the big line is going to overpay. Definitely a lot of things can make sense for flat, you know, we dominated some of the opening range and I think three-betting this hand is definitely okay, I think I'd rather fold, but I think especially this is a minmei with an ease with which we just are. getting such a good size that I think going ahead and sliding in is definitely reasonable.

I think it's close, so I think there are some arguments here for free bets. I'd like to hear what you think. I love detecting. I think overall I'm playing three. that fold here, one of the places that I have struggled with the most in the ring has been a small wine, you know, I have always found that I have had very good results compared to the field, both in the large and in the button when I play in the ring, but I tend to be a lot worse than most players in the small blind, so that usually makes me lean towards being a little tighter and playing with more high ivory range, but yeah, you know when you're playing in a tournament and you're facing a minimum raise, it's like a very different animal than when yes, you know you're in a cash game like in upswing lab, we talk about not having a flat range here, but you know if you're facing a 3x and you know you're in the small blind it's raked and there's no aunt, so yeah, there's no flat snow, the range is fine.

I mean, you know there are a couple of hands that might make sense, but generally not calling is fine, but when there is there won't be rake because you know obviously the rake is collected when you enter or don't enter each hand and then there's a ante and then you know you also had the big blind. More like, I mean, the big width probably pays off, I guess. Well, you're getting a relatively attractive spot to call, so I'd probably fold three times better, but I can certainly see that you know some logic to calling, yeah, I think, especially with both plans, since the players are very good, I think it's much more of an argument, you're free, better fold taking that strategy than in a softer way where I was maybe a mediocre big blind and a mediocre opener where I think you know, you know we can't worry about having those split ranks or whatever.

I definitely see the merit and you know my first instinct was, "Okay, I should bet for free" and then they started convincing me because you know there's a small price, there's a price so good that it doesn't even increase and there's a good price, but I definitely think you can go either way if you're going to have a better three-pronged strategy. I think this is a good time to do it, so we call the big wines and I'm in favor of the rainbow, definitely. one of the best misses you can ask for and we're looking at a super small bet here, well I guess it's not a sure bet that it's a relatively small bet here on the flop, like a standard Norman bet, well it's around 35 percent of the boat or whatever, definitely. a bet on the smaller side.

I don't see much merit here for anything other than calling, yes, my name is Tyler Sandberg. I mean, one of the advantages of going up there might be to take your breath away, but what you normally do is the streets, you know how it is. So yeah, I definitely like a call here, yeah, blindfolded, there's just a fun place if you're the big blind, they dismiss you pretty aggressively when we're like, you know, you really put the small blind on a lot of flaws. of salsa. Are you talking about Jeffrey on the flop? You know, if you're the big blind, this is like once it's called, I think it's five, you can definitely attack, the kidnapping can be exciting or whatever, and the little blonde is like you.

I know it's pretty difficult for a lot of good hands, so I think it's definitely fun. I think you're going to say that we don't like handling bizarre have to equity and things like that. I definitely agree with that, but I also think that when the small blinds call their hands tend to be Broadway and then pocket hands. I think I think the small light, one of the problems with a flat small blind range is how specific it ends up being, so I'm moving on, so another day. I'll try it first, so one of the problems with that is that when the small blind calls on Jack nine four, I anticipate that means they're going to have long hands played pretty well against the Rays, I mean.

I'm not saying that the small blind will have a bunch of really strong hands, let me do that, but the small blind will definitely have a stack. King Jack, maybe just King Jack suited, Queen Jack suited, Jack ten suited, and then occasionally hands like nines and fours. or a hand like Queen Ten, they can also follow up with Queen Ten suited, so I think that might be a place where I'm going to have some tables that are a little bit lower. I think that's true with your table more like you. I know it can work more like nine seven four or nine seven five, where the big line has a lot of hands that the strong line doesn't, but I don't think that on this board it's too good a place for the big blind, you know. you might want to make at least some moves, but I don't know if I agree that it's a great board for that, yeah, I mean, I think it just worked like a couple of Capital One, so maybe we're not. deep enough, but I think if we aredeeper you know you can base it on the run oscillator but yeah obviously we definitely have some good hands here but it was never won it was pretty rare for them to be really strong and that just shows the problem with the blind range limit small like you were saying, especially even ignoring the big one, the kidnapper should have a pretty good idea, you know what types of hands we have, which makes playing waiters say hello much more difficult when you retreat from the face of the range, it's well that makes sense to me but the big blinds fold and we take a turn to check and what do you think about our opponents in terms of bet size?

What do you think he is representing with this? bet and how do you plan to play your ranger on the small board? I mean, this is a strange social thing, from small to large, the strange thing is that the six does not interact with this board at all, so usually when a tournament player does this. something like they fed too little in this furnace and suddenly started bombing out of nowhere on the river turn, usually means they somehow hit the card, although it doesn't make sense that they fit the card, but I think with this six, that's not something we can really consider, I mean, I could have excluded Jax or something, but you know, that's so weird, I think I definitely could have changed a lot of flash trails and things like that where it was, you know , as loss of support. he's like, you know, like he's begging for him to try to beat him and now that he's like da da da he wants to try to start putting a lot of pressure on our Jack tens or 98s, you know, our weakest hand and he's decided that.

Well, it's time to shoot, I think the size makes a lot of sense from a theoretical perspective, like it's going to maintain that like you know it's representing a strong range and we have a face up range of you know, medium. for a pair, but I think when the tournament player does this, you should definitely notice it because the fact that he doesn't bet like 900 to 1200 here is definitely not a very noticeable size and changes the way his range interacts with the cards, that they are elephants. you think he's got a draw here, a lot of things done like something I feel like you're getting to, yeah, I think he's more likely to have that and you might have a good hand too, you know, maybe he just died with nines small on the flop and knowledge decides, okay, I get stuck as a guy and also start to fail, but it's something you always have to pay for.

Pay attention to when weighted people who are not playing on a super theoretical basis, if they start making a weird size out of nowhere on a certain card, chances are your rank will interact with the card really well or in a weird way that even if you don't like it I totally predict that it just tends to happen well, so like if you're someone a little like if you wanted a flush draw on the flop, completed the flush and they bombed it, they probably don't have a set, yeah, example, they're going to like it. I'm going to try to trick you out of half a small box if you start dying now, okay, then we're facing a bigger gamble here.

I mean, I can't imagine anything to call. Yeah, okay, so we go ahead and the flat configuration is kind of interesting. pot-to-stack ratio on the river about to export behind and check and we're facing a 4700 chip bet which is very big here on the river yeah this is uh I think it's a very difficult lot actually I mean that We have some better hands, you know? they have like nines and fours Jack nine suited Queen Jack suited ace um I think this hand given the line that happened I think it's definitely reasonable, we could have even floated some hands like King Queen or Queen 10 on the turn and I think that this hand is basically down or laid out, so I think it has some good Locker properties and walks like a king 10, for example, but I think having the king clubs here and, you know, I think it just doesn't stand very high in our range. it means that's how we're better when we fold and given the sizes and stuff, yeah, I think this is definitely a hand I'd like to see folded.

I know what happens, but yeah, I think it's just the way I am. I look at it now. how I would think about this so far, there are a few things that stand out to me to start with, I think King Jack is a better hand than Ace Jack here because you block King, attend, that's what I thought. I left. I remember it, yes. I think I think King Jack is a stronger call than Ace Jack, so between the two I would call that first. I think Jack ten suited is a stronger call on either one because really when he bets this big on the turn, this big effort, I don't do it.

I don't think this is really a pair hand. I think we're looking at sort of two more pairs here, so having a 10 is a good card because you know it's not really just that many. hands where I could have gone to one less bluff, you know, maybe a very weak 10-7 hi jack opening or a 10 of clubs day or something like that, but overall I think Jack ten of the jacks is the strongest Jack to call here, so I would say that I think having a suit in my hand makes this fold, you know, yeah, from the jacks that I can have.

I feel like having the kicker, which as a stick is not very good, the stick that can't, doesn't really change. too much, I think Ace Jack with Ace of Clubs would be like a pretty terrible decision, yeah, because hands like a flush draw there are a lot of those that could be opened before you bet, bet um or better vet, I think King jack with the can of clubs you are actually just blocking Ace King of the same suit or maybe like a loose king is the king seven of clubs open what you know in tournaments can happen there may be a loose opening that you know if you come out in a moment you want to Take it wait, so I think those things make me lean a little bit more towards a full year.

I think actually, even with Jack ten, I mean, yeah, like you know if you're going to catch your range on the flop, you should do it. If you call fold then you certainly can have Certainly you can have some sets You certainly have Queen Jack you know maybe you could have a hand like King ten of clubs maybe you could have a hand like Queen ten so I mean maybe maybe I don't even really have than to call Jack just combo and I could do it with that. Perriello depends a little bit on how you try to play the stack size, so oh yeah, I guess I like to let it go, yeah, I didn't let it go.

I think the king, we have the king. I decided it was our downfall, but So looking back I'd invest like I think it was a bad fall, well the king is better than a is fighting the Katy clubs worse, yeah you're redrawn, the six was him, yeah, I mean, I think it's really funny, you should always pay attention to that kind of thing, jobs because, although I think from a theoretical perspective, it makes sense for him to just start bombing with his value, agents lost like they just people were betting that the stream of under-23s has a paycheck at that point. so it's definitely something to consider, yeah, I think it's okay to have to bet sizes, especially when you have a hand like you know, Jack, you block so many calls that you're going to have to go a size smaller if you're going to split. , but yeah, I mean, people you know really want the first thing that catches my eye when you see the division is, you know, look to start decorating a little more aggressively when they go through the small stuff. size because you know that if you're going to go for smaller size bets with ten value, which you know if you're splitting you should, then you're going to have to call more aggressively given the fact that your range I don't have a lot of those really flat hands. , okay, thanks for joining us on the channel today.

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