Didier Guerin

Before viewing the next hand I'd ask you to pause the replayer vs the flop raise.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4771070 - 3.3k Warmup at 2012 ACOP Macau

(Apologise for the sh**ty replayer. Notes: Ante was 25, therefore pot size on the flop was more around T2800, also my actual stack was somewhere closer to 45k and obv all the other stacks marked as having 30k aren't relevant.)

Flat in the CO is by a presumably good HS-MTT reg, was overly LAG in some spots I thought though, was easily capable of floating (and given how many times he attempted it vs me, more than likely doing so). Therefore, I was less worried about his range in this spot wth the given the action.

The raise on the BTN came from a European guy who had been sitting down for about 30 minutes, he'd done some limping and looked a bit loose-passive, just generally fishy. What was interesting was that he snap raised to 3k OTF, practically as soon as the CO had flatted. (I almost wondered if he noticed the pot wasn't HU).

Anyway, I guess I have a tendency to go a little crazy with pair+FD's, but I assigned him a range of something like this (feel free to correct me!) 99, 88, 55, 33, A8, T8, T8, 98 87, 86, 76, 64 and all AcXc excluding A8/5/3cc + little air. Basically all sets, all nut flush draws, 99 and a lot more top pair combos than usual, given a very limited read that the villain is a weak player, also leading toward me believing that I didn't think there was a whole lot of air in his range. I also include 99 because I believe that the bottom of his pair 3b range pre is likely TT+ pre and that he would raise 99 OTF.

How do you guys proceed from here? Obviously I know that I'm 'never dead' with a pair + FD but I'm looking for some deeper analysis and some thoughts on what the optimal line from here is.

I ended up raising to something like 9875, overepping in the hope to show that I'm commited and avoid what's likely a hugely high variance flip in what was still a soft, live, MTT.

http://weaktight.com/5327056

Hey guys, thought this was a real weird spot from the Bigger 55 last week.

I'm not used to good regs like pistons87 cold calling me, although I do feel his range *should* be more face-up when he does this. I immediately began attempting to construct a range pre of something like AA, KK, AQs, KQs (is this too nutted?) and, although I really doubt it, I guess he cooould potentially have some other suited connectors like JTs? I should note that I'm not sure about the last part and feel like I'm including it for the sake of widening his range. I'd be really doubtful of him doing this considering that he has shove stacks behind.

I'm also wondering how much you guys weigh the value of a blocker in this spot (I don't really value them in NLHE anywhere near like I would in PLO)

I should note that I was 3bing @ 10%....(only like 75 hands though w villain)

As played... I think that I'm close to the bottom of my value range OTF and given the range I assigned pistons87 pre, am likely behind at this point. I'm unsure if I should just always be betting like 1/3 pot in thse spots though in case I'm wrong or in the case he has like KK. Even then I'm unsure how often I'd have the best Ace vsing a call from crazy_zade.

OTT I think it's a fold, I'm doubtful pistons87 believes that both of us has air and I certainly don't believe that he is overbet jamming the river with air vs a likely top pair kind of holding by crazy_zade.

Am really interested to hear what you guys think about his range, and his play in general.

Hey guys,

http://weaktight.com/5326382 - Bigger 55 last Sunday, think with about 250 players left, already ITM. Obviously CHarder is opening fairly wide in the CO, but, this villain had been sitting in for 2 hands. This was his 3rd. SS stats: Count: 4751, Avg Stake: $41.69, Ability: 69.

Not going to lie, I feel like given how soft SharkScope rewards players on the 'Ability' stat (most slightly decent players seem to be above 90), that this stat probably had the most bearing on the decision that I made and let me open his range up considerably. (Is this bad?). Am I incorrect to turn those stats into an assumption that he is a bad reg given the 'Count'?

I'm still struggling to construct what I think a fair range is based on his play.... I don't like clicking fold here though.

Hey guys, just thought I'd note that I'm only able to create posts on Firefox and not Internet Explorer, as you are unable to select which 'Stakes' sub-forum you are posting in, might be something to check out!

Hey guys, apologise for the lack of specificity in advance... live hands etc. (Also apologise if this is in the wrong forum)

So; about 10-15 players off the bubble in the $1.5k @ WSOP this year, I open jammed about 7bbs from UTG+3 with a J7 perfect (J-7-4-3-2) and it folds around to a patched-up/sponsored Italian 'pro' in the BB. He doesn't think for all that long and makes the call, patting reasonably fast, within 3 seconds.

Unsure what the optimal line is here, I think it shooould be relatively close between taking one card and patting behind. Obviously I'm always very live when I draw one but I'm looking for some level of analysis beyond that.
I've played a decent amount of 2-7sd cash but I've got little to no sample in MTT's.

Thanks guys!