Sunday Million & FTOPS Main Event (part 1)
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Nice video! I especially like your explanation behind the delayed CB, they are effective. I look forward to the rest of the series.
Thanks! I feel like the next part will be even better ;)
Great video Esben - looking forward to the remaining parts. Cheers from Denmark :)
Congrats on the scores! True boss! - And thanks for sharing the footage.
Cheers mate :D
Obv huge congrats for the results but certainly your game become much more solid since I saw your first videos here in Rio. Nothing special to talk about this one, very coherent decisions, crafted in solid foundations and arguments... looking forward for the next part.
thanks man, yeah in this one my stacksizes stayed pretty much the same throughout, will be more swings later on :)
Wonderful performance Espen....well deserved. Thank you for sharing this with us.
At 12.36 you open shove over 50 BB from the SB with AK. Did you think BB was the type of player that could call off light or you just really don't like playing AK op? With a hand this strong don't you want the chance to play it?
The guy in BB only had 9.5 BB left. So Espen is risking less than 20% of his stack. And the BB will call many worse aces.
Yeah Keyser is right. Effective stacks are all that matters (meaning the shortest of the remaining stacks)
Thank you!
Congrats on the strong results! Super solid video making, too. This is the first of your vids I have watched and I found it a gem. :-)
Thanks a lot :) Im looking forward to releasing more parts of this!
at 36m mark. you open 33 with alot of reshoving stacks behind. I've always felt that we don't really want to call a 13-15bb reshove and that small PP have very little value other than a steal. What you think?
Normally, yes. In this particular spot I like my open quite a lot. kasher soze has to be very tight jamming on us since he is 3rd in chips and we cover him by a decent amount. 33 has enough equity to call off both the CO and BU. So we are mostly worried about the blinds, but they also have pretty harsh ICM handcuffs given that they really don't want to bust before the 8.2bb stack and the 6.5bb stack. All in all I definetly feel like we easily profit from minraising here and calling off the two shortest when they shove.
I'm super excited for more videos to come :) Congrats mate on the big scores! Keep up the good work.
gratz you beast, love how happy you are making this vid , nice vid
Awesome video, mate!
cheers!
:') REPRESENT
hi espen, ty for this series. i see u start the video with 100 left in the ftops. well it would be good to know how to even get this far / how u manage to chip up constantly. i barely manage to hold an avg stack. yesterday i played the ftops 6max 11$-R . avg stack was around 40-50bb. tough field overall. busted in 300th something /1150 players. there are strong regs which had 5x avg stack. idk how they do that, how they chip up so nicely ?! i guess i wont cover your early hands, since its too much probably anyway. maybe a fast replayer video with hands that u played where u won chips, to even get to this point with 100 left. i cant imagine u will send me your full HH, would be too good to be true. ofc i am not sharing with anyone and we'll never meet online. since i play lowstakes and not solely mtt. ty for your answer.
Honestly does have a lot to do with running good in all-ins. You start this tourney with 6k chips and I had around 15,000-20,000 on the bubble (1700/3400 + ante blind level). A very short stack, but just in a couple of hands after the bubble burst I coolered someone, won a couple of flips and boom, up to 200k. Don't worry too much about where your stack is at any given time. Study how to best take each spot with the stack you have. Focus on improving every aspect of your game, from perfecting jamming ranges preflop to knowing when to hero-call rivers. Any one tourney has waaay too much variance to think having just less than avg stack means you have played badly. Some strong regs will end up busting first, some will have 5x avg stack. It is just the nature of the game. All you can do is improve and study, learn from others, ask questions and talk strategy, and soon enough you will find yourself in those spots too.!
hi ty. sure but in a deep mtt with 40-50bb avg stack there are not really a lot of allins. well the regs are just better. so i have to improve somehow. in the 36min mark: your 99 sb vs bu. it gets really awkward on the flop with 2.5:1 pot-stack-ratio. what if he dont folds on the flop? would be nice to explain (also in the videos)what you'd have done on the turn. bc i'd feel lost now in a huge pot now oop. do u give up now? or do u c-c turn to a small bet if no J, Q or A comes? a spade gives u a weak FD. 100k in pot with 135k left. i think i'd checkraise allin turn on a nonspade , non-T, J, Q or A. 2nd king would be great ofc. if he raises flop i'd never fold. lots of draws possible and why should he raise a K. idk very difficult. personally i 3bet more pre, that i get more folds to avoid such tough situations. here he gets pre over 3:1. he'll call everything bc he can afford it. and playing oop with this pot-stackratio + 1-2 overcards on flop is really hard. what are your thoughts on that? hope that wasnt too much. ty
Im not 100% sure what my plan was at the time. If he calls the flop I probably start checking to get to show down. It is possible he called with some worse pairs than 99 and wants to get to show down also. I would feel really dirty stacking off with a pair of 9s here, I have so many better hands on a K high board.
ok ty. 1) how do you proceed after a flop-raise? as said i'd not fold. and 2). i dont understand the todays standard smallish 3-bet oop. why give the ip-guy so good odds? imo just leads to ugly postflop decisions. especially with a small pot-stack-ratio. this was also a question by me last time. seems like u did not interpret it as such one lol. seems like u dont feel committed at any point, no matter how large the pot is compared to your stack
1) I think I'd probably fold, but I think it is very rare for him to raise here. 2) It is just to give him room to 4b/f. I am planning on going with this hand. If you make it closer to 30k, it makes it so he has to put in way more of the eff. stacks to 4b/f, That said I wouldn't mind going a little bit bigger than this.
Hello Espen. These are the sport i struggle with :(
When you open lets say A2-A7 from button and cuttof with with 20bbs and you get shoved on from the button-bigblind for 8-15bbs, what do you do ? Should you be shoving any ace from cutof HJ and button with 15bbs and below ? how would you play at these spots on mid-late and FT stage ?
Do you call any ace of from BB when button and SB shoves for like 10-15bbs ?
The spots you describe can be vastly different. to your last question; yes, but not if they both shove :P
Hi, thanks for the video.
At 38:40, you talk about shoving KJ vs a SB open. Given that its quite ugly ICM wise, what range do you think you would generally shove here?
You mean without the icm implications?
No, in this particular spot with icm implications. As you said it can be
a bit of an ICM disaster if he calls so i was wondering how strong/wide
you are shoving if he opens the SB.
Hey sorry forgot to reply to this. I would probably jam something like 22+, A7s+, K9s+, QJs, A9o+, KJo+, and flat most suited connectors/2gappers/some 3 gappers and probably all worse aces. Some times I flat AA/KK here too to let him barrell (pretty good spot for that actually as he will fold a lot pre but can try to put pressure on post).
wouldn't you be better off to flat KJo here because of the ICM implications?
Also a good option. May well be a better option, Im not sure. depends a bit on villain
I was watching you play the sunday million live...you played amazingthat day by the way ..one question....about 4 handed at final table you asked for a moderator ....what did you ask for moderator for?
Thank you! I didn't ask for a mod, I believe I said something like "mod plz" and I just meant plz stop saying it's possible to make a deal. I wasn't interested at that point in dealing so I didn't want to get spammed about it.
yes that's correct that's what you said..understood...well done man that was about as impressive of a sunday anyone can ever dream of....excellent videos also thank you
thanks!
Hi Espen great video loved it.
At 15:00, the SB 3b with 88 vs 19bb EP minr, u chose to 3bet, and i initialy thought it was a Fold/Shove spot.1- can u provide me with some explanations why a 3bet would be a better option that a shove even tho you dont plan to fold?, 2- and what is your range for 3betting in that spot?, 3- Do you even have a shoving range for shoving in that spot vs 19bb minr ep?
Thanks in advance looking foward for the answers :D cant wait to watch the rest of the series!!
Optimally I would like to shove there because by 3betting we can potentially see some flats from suited broadways that we would like him to just fold. In this particular hand we have another player behind us with 32BB. If he cold 4b shoves on us, we have an easy fold and by 3betting small we save ourselves from losing ~70% of our stack the times he wakes up with a very strong hand.
thanks alot for answering, i agree with your explanations..
as far as range goes, would you play premiums like TT+ AKo+ the same way to induce., and would you shove decent hand like AJo-AJs, AQo-AQs to maximize fold your fold equity OR have only one "merged" range with 88+AJo+ as 3bet some folds/some call to cold 4b shove from 32bb
again thank you!!
The last thing you said, 3bet everything small and fold some to the cold 4b
Hi, Espen, 15:33, can we shove a6o there?
Hey,
In my opinion it is slightly too weak, as we don't know if these guys are putting enough emphasis on the icm or not.
This is my first video I've watched here and I think the part where you raised all of your chips but 1bb (think you had A5dd) to stall out on the pay jump was brilliant. Looking forward to the rest of the series.
Thanks man :D
@ 30:00 you fold the AJo to the 3b. you're getting a pretty great price and dominate some of his 3b bluffs. even w/ some card removal you're getting a price to flop a pair at like a 3 flop spr. can you explain why you don't think this hand can be played profitably as a flat? help a brotha out.
I think being oop plays an important role here. Having flatted we'll have a hard time extracting a lot from hands we dominate, because he will be able to control the size of the pot a lot. When we do hit a top pair top kicker kinda hand, we are not even very comfortable calling him down, because his value range dominates us pretty hard. It's just going to be really tricky to play it post.
Obviously I could be wrong, but I think I prefer using this hand as a 4b/f or just fold it
Thumbs up from Norway :)
Hey man,I've seen that you have a button to 4.96 open and wanted to ask you in which spots, you use this sizing.Thank you and sorry if my english is bad :)
not too often, but you can use it early on if there's a few limps or you can use it for 3betting
Hi! On minute 8 in FTOPS you cbet AKs on 542r and then check the queen turn. What about tripple barreling there? After opp call the flop his range will be smth like Ax, 6x, 5x, 4x, 3x, 87. And considering that he is 30bb's deep on BB looks like he is capped. Also not much Qx hands he can have there. Am I mistaken? What do you think?
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