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Mid/Low Stake MTT Live Session

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Espen Sørlie

POSTED Jan 31, 2014

Espen live grinds a smattering of mid and low stakes MTTs, walking through his thought processes as hands develop.

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Supermod1fie 11 years ago

(on 11$+r buy in)can you tell me why did you jam KJ on small blind , you called it standard shove? i am just curious?

Espen Sørlie 11 years ago

Just the fact that we expect people to open somewhat wide on the co, we have a hand with decent blockers to his top hands and we have pretty good equity when called. If he is a complete nit with less than 20bb then maaaaybe we can fold but I doubt people are really opening tight enough for us to do that.

if this is his range (blue opening, yellow calls off our jam), we can jam this:


KJo making a 4k profit. I dont know how much he is opening and calling off so I gave him kind of a tight opening range. many people might open far wider than that and some might call off tighter if they are nervous being deep in a big mtt. One more thing is I dont think this takes blocker value into account. I imagine that makes jamming here a decent bit better too.

SirBEAAST 11 years ago

Hi man!
You are from Norway, right?

I was just curious about how you cashout/deposit? Personally I use entropay .. Or at least I did. But now my BR is too high to use that since it costs me alot of money! Therefore Im asking; how is the best way to cash out or deposit in our country? Do you live here still, or did it cost you too much money? 

Any advices would be very helpful :)
Thank you for a good video :)


- Chris

Espen Sørlie 11 years ago

I live in a different country atm,so I just do cashout to bank. pm me if you want to discuss it further :)

Finn4uw 11 years ago

The 77 3bet/call against the bigstack with another bigstack behind is pretty bad imo. You are late game with a good stack and I really don't see him 4bet shoving worse (22 you said? Are you serious? Even if he's loose you don't have to take such a thin spot. That was just a gamble, sorry to say that. You could have just set mined imo.

Espen Sørlie 11 years ago

His stats are extremely wide over ~300 hands. If he is opening as wide as it seems and not backing it up by jamming some worse hands, Im making a huge profit in the first place by 3b squeezing. the range I need him to jam to make a profitable call is 66+, AJs+ and AQo+. meaning one hand that is worse and some flips. He might flat to trap the other bigstack in with KK+ some of the time also imo. I didnt mean he is always jamming 22+, just that sometimes we will see smaller pairs and after doing the math, we only him to go with one worse pair if he also jams AJs and AQo. None of this is taking into account that he might show up with Axs, and even sometimes total airballs like Q7s (had this happen to me in almost the same spot in the same mtt some weeks ago). 

You can talk about the value of my stack and not taking thin spots. I agree with that and at the time I was unsure if I made a big error, but it seems to be fine after looking at it again imo. 

Frogman3 11 years ago

Can you explain why the J4s is a triple barrel ? Obv it worked but you seemed pretty sure it would and thats a spot I'm not taking in mtts enough . Just wondering how you range him to mostly having a hand that will call the turn (I guess with one pair + club) but then fold to a normal sized river bet ?

Espen Sørlie 11 years ago

I can just see in my head how many combos he will fold on each street. On the flop I expect to get called by any pair, most A highs, club draws he might check/raise might call and 2pairs+ I expect him to almost always c/r. Ott we pick up some equity with a straight draw, we get bare ace highs to fold in addition to probably any 5 or 6 that doesn't have a club, an 8 or a 7. otr everything misses so all his 1pair + equity is now only a weak bluffcatcher we have no sdv against. my range is very uncapped and his probably is capped. I dont expect to see many combos of flushes or 2pair as most of them if not all of them probably check/raises before the river. 

Basically in this hand we are shaving down his handcombos to the river where he is now pretty weak and we have no sdv but a pretty strong range. the combination of the turn giving me an open ended, him some more draw equity with some of his weak pair hands(some not and they prob fold), and the total brick on the river makes it a good spot to follow through. hope that makes sense, have a bit of a hard time explaining all my thoughts about it for some reason :P

atwu 11 years ago

I like this reasoning and it makes a lot of sense, but it also expects our opponent to be disciplined enough to fold. I mean, there is a lot of players meaning even "regulars" who will call with some kind of a pair(obviously just a bluffcatcher) just because: "they have already invested a lot", "they are tilted that they missed" or because "they dont want to fold". Some will even call in certain spots with A high not because it makes sense but just because they have seen some good players make calldowns with that(online or on tv etc.) I have seen this so many times in so many ridiculous spots live and online that it makes me think that some players will almost rather intentionally call and lose than fold.

So how much do you take this into account or do you just pounce in good spots and it usually works? I sometimes see a good spot like this but dont take it because of all this. I have a note for lose aggresive and by my judgment bad regulars and I especially try not to bluff those much on the river because imo they are especially prone to make those calls.(Perhaps because they run themselfs a lot of barrels?)


Of course this is very general, but any opinions on this?


Espen Sørlie 11 years ago

most opponents will fold when my line makes a lot of sense and they are usually weak. If he overcalls heavily as you suggest he might, I have a lot of very strong hands here. The fact that I pick up a weak draw and still have no sdv makes it a good candidate to my airballing range and controls my frequency. If Im not bluffing without some kind of draw and without sdv I dont have that many bluffs compared to strong hands I dont think. Plus Im not following through on every river, this is a particularly good one. this is a whole lot of guesses and I will try things out in CardrunnersEV after my session today to try and get some solid answers/numbers

Frogman3 11 years ago

thx man - appreciate it :p just a comment , if you expect him to c/r strong hands before the river and he expects you to barrel on most turns after he just calls flop then seems like a c/r from him on the turn would be super profitable ?

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