Anatomy of a Sunday Million (5 of 5)
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Especially when we were pretty tight all the final table and played about couple of hands (the very first - steal from CO, light-3bet with J8s and then when picked up blinds with AK ) I dont expect him to play back to us all that much. And I also dont expect blinds to be very light in resteals, since you, SB and BB have pretty close stacks and they both kind of handcuffed with ICM payouts, so probably fold a ton (for example I guess its even hard for SB to reshove A2s-A6s). So in general I believe its profitable open with A7o.
And not sure if I like open-limp with QT 15bbs deep, it looks like for me like "damn, I am tired of being that short and folding every hand, I want to play at last and try to win smthing!". I think here (in contrary to A7 fold) we should keep discipline and keep folding, especially when chiplieder can limp a lot of trash and will be I suppose pretty damn callingstation postflop when we dont hit anything and it will be annoying to play 3-4 way (esp OOP to chipleader). And ofc he can raise our limp and we have to fold all day. So with QT I like disciplined fold.
I guess last hand is ok, you should trust your gut instinct sometimes, no matter what he shows. Think the plan was reasonable.
p.s. and pls back to part 4 comments - we need you there :)
That's interesting to hear your thought on how that limp would be perceived. I thought it would be perceived in much the opposite way, but your thought could easily be true instead. I don't think the argument for folding is strong enough though. The reasons you gave for doing it are good ones, I just don't think their strong enough. This is because if we limp, and have to fold to pressure preflop, no big deal. Having 14 bb instead of 15 isn't a problem. Once we get to the flop, we are able to c-bet such a small amount that we're going to make a clear profit. We're going to win this hand postflop so often, and usually right there on the flop with a simple c-bet. Plus our hand is pretty good, and we'd like to play it. I know this seems to contradict the fold we made with the A7o, but I think the spots and hand strengths are different enough where my decisions in each can be justified. I still stand by this QTo limp, and I'm a little bit shaky on the A7o hand. I will stand by that one as well, although like I said, I could never fault anyone for raising and making a clear profit there.
With my bustout hand, K8 limp / call allin. I'm glad you're thinking of my thought process and not the play itself. That is a perfect mindset for approaching and analyzing poker man, I'm really happy to see you using it.
Part 4 comments - I shall return! Thanks for the heads up on that :P
Really valuable to listen to your sometimes unique thought processes and even though mathematically your K8o hand might be a mistake or what not, it's the mental aspect of the play that makes me, as a viewer and student, learn much more and think of similar spots and creating limp/call ranges and how to deal with similar spots differently than shove or fold what a chart tells me to.
Hope you make more and more videos and continually apply the same thought processes. Really great stuff.
That's my thought process, so you can be sure it'll be in all the videos going forward. Cheers man.
You mentioned in part 1 i think in the comment section you planned to do a live session recording as your next series. Is this still your plan? If so, that'd be amazing. That'd go right to the top of my watch list along with James Obst's series. You guys have a brilliant approach to poker i admire and learn from the most.
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