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PokerStars Sunday $500 (part 4)

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Nick Rampone

POSTED Feb 05, 2014

Nick takes his healthy stack to a new table and looks to continue to build chips and momentum for a deep run.

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SirBEAAST 11 years, 2 months ago

Hi Nick!
Very good video! I like how you mention the dynamics vs some player that people MIGHT think of as well as peoples frequency in bluff spots. And since we see every hand, I find it easy to understand some of your deciscions, like the KQ vs acoimbra. I like to see every hand. Best way in my opinion for a tourney review! 

Thank you! :) Hope to see more of this kind of tournament anlyze of some more tournaments in the future. Again, good video :)

SirBEAAST 11 years, 2 months ago

I also want to add that this is better than only seing hands! Tournaments are so much more than just hand analyzis, and I think you present it in a good way. Seing the 4bet fold from villain at SB around 25:00 is also a very good thing! People actually pick up upon others dynamics, and you dont see that from any other form of reviewing a tournament! :) Good Nick, good.

I'm sorry for my poor English .. I'm not in my Enlglish-speaking zone .. lol

Nick Rampone 11 years, 2 months ago

SirBEAAST, thank you for this feedback. My goal is to give as many people the videos they want to see as I can, so comments like this let me know if I am or am not coming close to making that happen. The dynamics are so huge! I completely agree with you. In fact, when I watch videos, seeing every hand is my preferred style of video as well. I responded to a similar comment by Tom, below, which might be worth a quick glance. 

Tom M 11 years, 2 months ago

I really like seeing every hand so that if we see you deviate from you "standard" line in a pot, we'll see the reason why you did that. A big part of MTT poker, IMO, is not playing all hands in a vacuum.

I see and hear that stuff too much and feel like we should be exploiting our villain's every chance we get which sometimes means going super tight or super wide with our ranges, and our own ranges can be exploitable vs. bad players but not so much vs. good players. 

Anyways... /rant! Awesome series and score, man. 

Nick Rampone 11 years, 2 months ago

Tom, thank you man. I appreciate you an sirBEAAST commenting on the format. This is my preference as a video-watcher, and I know there are other people in this boat as well. Of course, it's not everyone's favorite format, but I think this hand history in particular is a good template to bring up concepts from the start of a tournament to the final table finish. 

You're quite right in that we should be max-exploiting in every chance we get. We'll save the well thought-out and balanced ranges for the 200 rebuy, where opponents are almost all tough. Of course if there was a rookie that happened to play in that tournament, I'd look to exploit him there too! Provided it didn't expose me too much to too many other opponents in the process. And since the name of the game is exploitation, the gameflow, recent history, and meta-game sort of considerations have a major impact on one's decisions in an MTT. As both you and sirBEAAST said, this is an excellent argument for seeing the entire hand history.

On a more simple level, narrating through and entire HH is the way for a coach to provide maximum information. The trade-off is that it takes more time. I try to be efficient in my discussion of concepts and hands in this video format, in order to maximize the information bang for the time spent buck. 

Thanks for watching and leaving comments so consistently, Tom. I get a lot out of your feedback. 

Zboubinou 11 years, 1 month ago

Hi Nick !

at 8;50 you have 3b/ call 66 against 22 28bb deep

what do you think about 3b shove? it allow to remove his equity with hands like suited connectors that he can 4b shove , or flat .

if he's opening so wide, we have a very good risk reward , even if he have a wide calling range ?

I will not be happy if he flat . very difficult to play oop vs an competent opponent who will not be fit or fold postflop...


Nick Rampone 11 years, 1 month ago

Hey man! Good thinking on this spot - it's always the right approach to be aware and to consider all of one's options in a hand. But here, noooo, I think a 3b/call is much/much better than just shoving. The reason is that I expect this villain to: 1. Be wide to open and 2. Be extremely aware that he's opening wide, and expect people to play back/3b him a lot, and 3. The part of his range that is going to 4b vs these frequent 3bets he's expected to face is hands like 22-77, and A2s-A7s. I do very very well vs this range. If I shove, he simply folds these hands, and I've prevented myself from getting into a very profitable spot of calling a 4b allin with a hand that dominates his range.

You're totally correct in identifying the downside of this - that sometimes he will flat my 3b and I will have to play 66 OOP. To be honest, I'm not sure how to assess my profitability of having 66 OOP vs his range of hands that calls my 3b (Which should be a lot of broadway hands and suited connectors). I imagine that this is still a profitable situation for me on its own, though admittedly only slightly. It's possible that this is a losing situation for me. However, even if it is losing, it's going to be losing much much less than the amount I win in the instances where I 3b to 15000, and call a shove vs a range that I dominate. 

I hope this explanation makes it clear for you to see that 3b/calling a shove is a more profitable option than just shoving. If not, please ask more questions! One final note - This is a very specific situation, where I am aware of villain's unusual tendency of being very wide to open. I am also aware that villain is a great player, and is going to (correctly) respond to me with much aggression when I 3b here. In a lot of situations, it is very possible that 3b/calling an all in makes less money than either just calling the open or shoving would. The main take-away here is that the profitability of a play is hugely dependant on the tendencies of the villain we're facing, and we must adjust accordingly. 

Zboubinou 11 years, 1 month ago

Hey Nick !

Thanks for quality of your answear ;)

I think vs a competent player who have a high rfi and low f3b, we should adjust regarding his 4b % and flat 3b% .

I agree with you that until we have a read that he adjusts to our 3b by flatting a very high %, we should just 3b call :)

If you have a few minutes, i will be very thankful if you can answear to my question about handling a final table beeing huge stack on run it once forum, just click here guys ;)


Thanks a lot Nick


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