$162 6-Max Final Table Review (part 3)

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$162 6-Max Final Table Review (part 3)

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Sam Greenwood

POSTED Apr 05, 2014

Sam breaks down his heads up play as he goes for the top spot in in $162 6-max.

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Dan Quinn 10 years, 11 months ago

Hi Sam, great video!

First hand K3s - def like the flop float vs. raising.  In spots where I'm considering both I try to think in terms of whether cards that are good for my range are good for my perceived range.  If they are I lean towards raising, and if they're not I lean towards floating.  Here the King turn is good for your range, but bad for your perceived range, and I'd argue the same is true for the Ace.  Question: what's the play on an Ace turn of the various suits if he checks or if he bets ~250k? 


Sam Greenwood 10 years, 11 months ago

I actually think the ace is pretty good for my range since i'd rarely fold ace high on the flop and he won't three bet too much Ax preflop. Since the ace is good for my range i'd be happy folding my weak floats ott. In spots where we are deeper, i prefer raising hands that have good turn cards to continue on, but shallower i'd rather float those hands since i'd hate for the villian to shove and prevent me from realizing my equity.

Demondoink 9 years ago

nice video series, really enjoyed it!
was this the $162 6 max that you made itm with your big stack when you were recording your Sunday session? the vid where you are 3 tabling the $162 6 max, Sunday $500 and $2,100 WCOOP challenge.
its just out of curiosity haha xD

main point in relation to the actual game play, can you believe that a high stakes mtt reg (big dawg) gets to heads up in a major and is so bad? the regs are better at hu in $15 sng's. it seems to me that some regs, a surprisingly high amount, just don't bother at all to work on their heads up game- aw i don't get to HU hardly at all as tournament fields are big, but when i do ill just kinda try wing it and see what happens. that seems a lot of mtt pro's strategy at heads up.

like even although you aren't, as you say, one of the best heads up players in the world you are obviously MILES better at heads up than 99% of mtt regs. i just don't really understand it, cos when you get heads up in a tournament you are playing for a huge amount of buy ins- i dunnoo say on average 100 buy ins. so your result in a given HU can have a huge bearing on your ROI and profit over the long run.

i have started playing $15 and $30 hypers/ turbo sng's at the end of mtt session to lower variance of an mtt session/ improve my short handed play/ improve my heads up play. i have done very well at them and when i get HU in a tourney i now feel really comfortable where as before i panicked when i got HU and played terribly. also watching Sauce123 play helped :P

it may not sound like a lot but i think even just a month of doing something like playing sng's at the end of a session, watching a good player play HU, thinking about your HU game can have huge future EV. for example i get HU in a big tourney vs a random mtt reg or even a fish, i should mostly always have an edge.

like obviously i am more than happy that mtt regs continue to neglect their heads up game, but i just think it is a BIG population leak, do you agree?
i was watching a streamer the other weak and he got HU where he was laying for a couple thousand. he just played so bad, like all final table he was composed, thinking through decisions, making logical, good plays. then he gets heads up and starts doing these random leads on flops, calling 3 bets with T7o etc etc. like what??

going back to Nig Dawg briefly, sorry i am rambling, but clearly he was playing far far too tight with his button opens, wasn't defending bb wide enough, wasn't doing anything creative, was just shipping like 30 bbs to avoid playing post flop. he is clearly a good player but heads up he's hopeless.

anwyays don't know where i am really going with this, its an old video but would be cool to get your views on what i said here. you must have been so excited to get HU and your opponent starts open folding 50% of buttons.

great series, cheers!

Sam Greenwood 9 years ago

I played this tournament in Jan 2014. So I am glad you enjoyed this, eventhough it's such an old video. Getting good at one form of poker is tough enough and I think many MTTers neglect getting good at HU play because it's take a lot of time to learn and it's HU play represents such a small part of total MTT play. I think learning HU is really valuable because it will make you a better hand reader, range analyzer in all forms of poker and it's something I recommend every poker player try.

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