THIS Is Why You Take Risks In Poker - WSOP $3.7 Million One Drop

What's up guys,

this

is Doug Polke? Welcome back to another episode of

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hands. Today we're going to

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a look at a hand that I played in

this

year's one

drop

, probably my favorite hand that I played in the tournament and that I've been Now I get a lot of questions about the hand. I know we talked about it a little bit during one of the One Drop vlogs I did. You guys want to see that vlog of the entire tournament that I ended up winning, but I want to dig a little deeper and talk about some of the things at play, as well as how I should approach the situation for both positions.

Well, on that note, let's go ahead and jump into the World Series action, yes, and I needed it. I think you won the 10k or the 25k 6 max 2 which is a really prestigious amount and by the way it's a good game to fold, although I think it just means losing the situation where he or Martin or easily 30 days of freedom conditional on Twitter. and you don't understand that it seems to be with 5

million

chips now our hand starts the final table of the one-

drop

at this point I have already reached the money so at least you get two and a half three ties and there are 3.7

million

up approximately around 34 35 buy-ins the action folds Martin Jacobson decides to open with a king of spades and the action folds until he is the big one with a ten of the same suit now I really think that preflop is It's an interesting situation in deeper stack sizes .

I almost always see this hand where you negate the value of hands that have a ton of value against you. Maybe you can even eliminate some hands like two or three in hand, which is a big win and then After the jump, your hand has excellent playability and in fact, the deeper it goes, the better the hand becomes. You let yourself know that you get the best flush when you hit a flush or if you go straight, you know that overseas, obviously, you are the best flush, so this hand. replaces excellent even when you go deeper, especially as you go deeper.

I like it, I like that play, here's the problem, we're at 22 big blinds and you can't really deploy three or three small ones until you hit a jam, your odds will simply be too good, but here's the problem: there are some serious ICM implications of making three small bets and calling a jam, if you call and bust you get paid last place money and if you double up you don't even have first place chips, in fact it would only. ever with 10 million, so I would be in about second or third place if I got a full double, so if you lose as little money as possible, if you win, you're not even guaranteed much more, so you have to make sure.

Your three bet sizes are more polarized when you are in a 22 big blind stack. One last note on that, you can't really bluff too much because if your opponent thinks you're bluffing too many hands he can start attacking you with anything and then you really have to have a very strong hand like ten plus or ace king to be able to do that. call anyway. I decided to go ahead and

take

the conservative option which is flat and let's take a flop so I don't get surprised by the caller. from Bulky, if you are going to take scratch or call freely from the big blind, you will have to call a strong hammer, this is a great candidate, you are already here for Jacobson, it is an amazing flush draw for poke.

Oh, Jacobson, I know, I'm sorry. all graphic I thought he checked the flop, which would have been very surprising and I could see he called. I can see going up and just coming in here. It's an interesting point in Jacobson's small bets, so he's making a bet with Fiat to simply call. and take a cheap card here, well yeah, but I think Doug also recognizes that he checks the raises here. I don't think Martin can possibly call with anything, but he expects king or better, so the pack comes king down to diamonds in a spade, we both hit this flop.

Pretty big and so far all the action has certainly been standard. I pass it to Martin and now with King Jack and around 1.5 million in the pot you have a bet here and get some value. I wouldn't mind mixing in a check every once in a while just so you can have a top pair when you check again, but I'm leaning toward some weaker kings like the suited king 10 or maybe even the suited king 9 and The stronger the king gets, the more you need to bet, he decides to go ahead and bet a little less than 1/3 of the pot.

I like that game too. This is a board where many hands have failed on the flop. If I have a hand like Jack 10 or even Ace 8 with no diamond, I'll just have to let it go. and there were many hands that will have a hard time navigating against small size. If you had a weak hand like Queen Jack suited, let's say clubs, you could bet size like a bluff, it would be very profitable too, so it's a good way to bounce off some value bets as well as some bluffs and Stefan Utley, the standard play now on me with the max flush draw.

I think you actually have a couple of good options here, you could certainly raise a few times and I looked at the Jam spins or call a Jam yourself or you can look at the spot and the spins in general terms, when I have the best flush draw. I usually like to play it more as a call on the flop because I have more showdown value, however, I mix it up. on some of them, particularly strong, it makes a lot of sense if I had a hand like ace 5 of diamonds or H 3 diamonds, a shot to the stomach and the maximum flush, my hand is so strong that Chuck raising here can let you know a lot of things. advantage for me, particularly if my opponent draws a little more than four straws or even if he has a hand like King Jack.

I got an ace. I got my ladder. I got color, so it may be taking some of my stronger color. draw and look to check and raise on the flop, maybe also some hands like 5 3 of diamonds, some very strong flush draws, but overall this stack size is a bit strange, let's think about what we talked about before the flop, how know if we fold. It's not good for us, but if we lose it's terrible, well that's the same problem here, if we check, raise a flush draw and have to call a jam, that call, although it could generate chips, loses dollar value, so again you need to have a more polarized approach in how you check and raise and if you do check and raise a flush draw, it will have to be very strong.

You can still argue that check and raise this hand. I think it's totally fine, but I'd like to have something. from my calling range to plan some later streets. I can make a move down. You could also check, raise some bluffs. I like a hand like six, five suited, we have a channel to the nuts. I like a hand like some spades and backdoor spades. hands, anything, a lot of those hands are also good Bluff candidates, but hands like the Queen Ten of Diamonds aren't as big a fan of making a hand move like that anyway, I decide to call on the flop and let's take a turn and I think wow, well, in fact I think Martin will probably check here, this is a place where he can actually hide the fact that his top hair is getting better simply because he knows that swords aren't bad for him, they're very good. and if he checks, it'll be really interesting to see if a spade comes because it's a card that Doug could really try to represent something like a draw with spades or four fives of spades, there's a bank that's not standard, well, I think doc.

You know, he's shown that he calls very white from the big blind, so Martin is probably thinking that I'm way off here on the three of spades rounds, which is certainly an action card that I upgraded to a gutshot and a draw. color. and then Martin Jacobsen has top pair on him but now gets his backdoor flush draw, so this card helps us both in different ways. This is what is interesting about this letter. I think this card is more favorable for the big blind range. opener can absolutely call the flop with a hand like ace five or maybe six five.

I didn't choose to check and raise or four three or king three or pair of three or three two suited, there are plenty of hands I could have here. who have upgraded to extremely strong Holdings now, what does that mean? It means that we should include some check-raises in our game if we face a bet, but actually let's talk here first about Martin's decision with his King Jack of Spades, now this is a bit of a precarious place as an opener because yes, you can have a lot of top pairs and your top pair usually has the big blinds, the top pair is out, but there's a whole class of value bets that you just won't get very often. yeah you could have a hand like 65 suited, although I don't know how much that hand will open in these exact stack sizes, a lot of small stacks that can hinder your opening and if you were to open hands like that at a full board you might start to see Jam people about your opening and the opening becomes very unprofitable, so I don't know if it comes back six times here at all the time in these certainly deep stacks where we would surely do it, but in this place I think it is somewhat unlikely, the main hand , I think the opener has always done it, that is a problem for the greats: ace five of the same suit, the hands always open, the opening has great equity, a great elimination, it will simply be a hand that you know a player is going to search. play if you fold to them in pretty much any position, so that's basically the only really strong hand other than the sets that opener will have now the big blind again has six five ace five all those two pair pocket threes, not to mention that the opener can't pocket threes either, but both players have the same number of sets in terms of combos.

Now what should Martin do here with a top pair? And, frankly, I like the decision to gamble. You know you have a hand that can get many. value of the worst kings other drawers pair more pairs of straight drives more flush draws and maybe even if I get sticky with a hand like fives or six of hand is where you know that now I have a pan with gutters or without it and it to accompany my pocket pair preflop, so I like your take on betting, but if you bet you're going to have to call a jam, you just can't bet fold your hands as top pair in a moment of nervousness and I know it's not cool, I know you're not.

I'm happy about that and a lot of players are just not going to bluff here because you know it's a scary situation. You can get a stack at a big final table, that's how you want to go out, but there is no option to bet and then fold. If you want to come back from time to time, I don't mind playing too. If you check again you'll get some unlikely flushes and also if the big blind is the small Bluff II and I'm pretty sure you can pick this one. folding a bet on the river many times it's also good to have flushes usually when the turn creates a flush draw people barrel when they turn that flush draw so it gives you some very unlikely flushes if you check again on the turn so that both The plays are good and Martin decides to go ahead and bet that he probably doesn't plan to play him like four threes offsuit or three twos of the same suit, so this is a fantastic board for him and continue lying down I think It's definitely a smart move.

I think the check could be good too. I don't know why Max is evaluating Martin's game. Martin played the perfect final table and had to play a better final team match. That's true. I mean, whatever he does, whatever he does, he had a lot of nice material. That's it and he came out earlier than he wanted, I was sure, so he must have made a mistake at some point, right? I think he could have played a little better. I am happy with my patients. I know I think that's it. There's no way Martin escapes, I think he's thinking, but now here's where things get pretty interesting in the big wine.

I think you're definitely going to have to fold some flush draws and I know that sucks and your odds here are. It's pretty attractive to call, but you're out of position and it's not really a good way to get value when you hit, so if I have a hand like Queen Ten of Diamonds, I'll just let it pass and I know it sucks. It's not exactly how we want to play, we always want to try to make our Equity, but there's a lot we can really do about it now, once I get flush draws, I want to continue with these will be some of my best Bluff hands. ace to have diamonds, I think it's not a particularly good bluffing hand because I block some aces, kings, some aces and also five aces, these are all hands.

I think my opponent would bet and then probably call a jam plus my hand has a lot of equity. if I get called King Jack of Spades, I stop 30% of the capital here, so I'm not doing too bad if he decides to call, but here's the other thing, thinking back to those ICM considerations before and on the flop . That same pressure that my opponent could put on me if I raise and he goes all-in, now I'm putting pressure on him because even if calling gives him some chips, he loses a lot of money, if I have it very often, it's not a chip for adollar, which is an interesting concept, tournaments are actually a little strange, since each chip you win is not equal to a dollar, like in a cash game, sometimes you have to make plays that are chicken chips, this one is The thing is, though if you're in Martin Jacobson Shoes, you just have to match it with your top pair because yes, I can have a spy, yes, I can have six, five or two pairs, but at the same time, if I'm trying to take an approach balanced in the big blind, should have some hands like flush draws.

Maybe from time to time you should have some hands as a pair plus dog straight draws and take those hands and check and raise them all as a bluff. Another good bluff hand could be a hand like pocket fives where I think it is right now. much less likely like ace five or six five of the same suit. He calls. I have a lot of equity, so there are a lot of good Bluff candidates in the big line that I can choose from, you know, maybe some other max flush draw, maybe a hand like you know, ace six of diamonds, maybe once a hand that flowed on the flop like ace jack of spades that could also be a more reason hand to have a reasonable bluffing hand as well, so there were plenty of hands I could use to bluff with and this is the cool thing about this place because of the amount of good hands I can have in the big blind and because of how bad an ICM is.

The place puts the person bets, it's a really great place to bluff, like half of all your ends here could be bluffs, which is a lot of combos, you'll want ace five, you'll have six fives. We'll have two more pairs and sets, so you know, just from a theoretical point of view. I think there are a lot of great hands here to put in that range. Now I am not talking about them from a practical point of view. I know not. I don't talk too much about the exploitation game, but I'm going to dive into it just for a moment, well, how I feel the points are going to go.

I don't think in this place if my opponent bets a king, I just don't do it. I see them keep going because even if they have, let's say king, queen or even ace king, if I have those value bets, he's just dead, okay, if I have a five or six five, he just, you know, takes a cut at best and this is for your life in the tournament so I think too many hands will want to bet the flop to bet the turn for value, try to get some value from a good top pair and then I just can't risking everything at stake here in the hopes of bluffing. if I'm bluffing a lot of equity, if I'm not bluffing you're completely dead and out of the tournament, so I think too many king x hands will just bet the flop, bet the turn and hope to get some value.

As I was thinking about this on the turn, I thought man, I'm only going to get paid here. I think if you have a hand like King with ease? Are you going to pay aces? Those hands are also a little weird because you know you have a little more equity if I have a hand like the one you know, obviously you Now you can get an ace, as well as a 5 against an ace king, but aces na skåne versus a straight or a set or whatever, but at the same time you know you don't have much more equity and you're really going to put your life on the line here, so I felt like from a balanced perspective it was good.

I felt from an exploitative point of view. Maybe this is a place where you could bluff more if you really wanted to. You know, drop the hammer and go for it. But there is something that is important and that is why I would withdraw some flush draws. You have to fold some of your worst flush draws on the turn or you're just not going to fold any hands, you know? And I think there are some showers of color. I would rather bluff with some hands that are more like I don't know, let's say 7 6 of diamonds were in the channel and less showdown.

I would probably buff with those hands before bluffing with a hand like Ace 10 of Diamonds, but again we have to have tons of bluffs here because we just have a lot of good hands and that puts our opponent in a very difficult situation, so back to Martin Jacobson and he's going to let go of his top pair flush draw, that duck has been a little flashy so it's certainly a tough spot but I think there's too much there and he's got an ounce no matter what Doug polkas him has given Martin Jacobson a lot to think about and Martin is probably kicking himself right now for not checking this, turn it around, um, he's thinking about folding because it's really a real waste of a hand like this.

Now so much equity fails, now a good fight, what a literal sigh it is, you're right, I hope you enjoyed the analysis. that the breakdown of how I saw that spot and you know what, don't be afraid to make moves that put your points in tough places, you never know what they'll fold, yeah, I don't think most players would do that I think. most players would call but push them by working on some Bluffs and you might find yourself winning the tournament oh yeah before I go guys hit the subscribe button join the Empire. I'll see you soon too if you're interested.

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