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Dude you "turned everyone against you" on your own, dont try to put that on anyone else now.

You made that comment - which by the way was not a "feedback" at all but nothing more than a personal insult to Nick (which I personally dont even know, but that is no point at all).

Feedback, if polite and constructive is sure wanted, but your comment was neither of that.

And if you didnt know already, if something is on the internet, it usually does stay there, so you better think twice before posting in the future.

And to make a point on this topic - it really is funny, that you flame NotEvenOnce for his puplishing of your comment, when you could have sent that comment to Nick on a PM as well (wouldnt make it any better at all, but I guess you should still get the irony).

LOL, so I just read your comment on Nick's video, and let me say your membership was terminated by good reason and in my opinion you should have been banned from this site totally.

One great thing about RIO, besides the content, is that every one here has good manners and that there is a very nice climate here without the trolls that you find on many other sites.

So instead of whining now, you should first of all apologize to Nick (if not alreay happend) and then really get inside of you and think about if that is the way you wanna treat / talk to other persons (even on the internet) because - in the end everything does come back to you, one way or another.

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Especially with your "low variance approach" (which I like a lot and it opened my eyes that I often times go for a way to aggressiv / high variance play especially with 15bb+) I am with HenriquinAK on this hand and think that realizing the equity here will be very very hard. (at least for none pro's :P).

Besides that, like the first part, this is a great video and your explanations are really good and easy to follow.

I just started watching (essential) videos here on RIO some time ago, but for me your series is by far the best video content I have seen until now.

Thanks a lot for that!

More videos from Thomas James, please :)

His first videos where pretty cool so any new content (same format as his 22$ review preferd) form his side would be great.

Hi and welcome back.

You almost said what you need to focus on yourself - your post seems very self reflecting and you seem to know the basics even after that long break.

If you are using a tracker software you could go over your hand history after a tourney or let other players / coaches check them and see where you missed opportunities (if your really to tight) or what other leaks you have.

Additionally you could of course post hands for review in the forum and check out videos with a focus on deep stack play / mid stakes play in a tourney.

If your up to that you can as well join study groups, you can find some here in the forum as well.

Hand 1:
Its close but I would like a 3bet better in that spot because I would not like to flip against his AJ/AQ/AK combos here PF with nearly 25bb left, if possible.

If the stack was < 20bb I would jam as well but I guess with ~25bb there would be more value in 3bet/call and going broke on any flop with only 1 overcard.

By just 3betting you gain additional value from hands like KQ/KJs/QJs/QTs - /T9s/98s/87s - 66/77/88/99 which all might call a small 3bet (but would fold to an all in) and go broke loose on any toppair / only one ovcard board.

Hand 2:
It might be a bit nitty, but I guess I would just fold on his T bet as your still very deep stacked, and your beat there almost ever imo and would not get much value out of that hand anyhow (only getting into hard R spots)

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I cant see any mistake there.

Without any reads on BU I do like the 3bet as well as the size with AJs there.

Checking the F is fine as well and on the T you could imo go either way and bet as you did (I would have liked a bet between 160k-180k but I guess its not big of an difference) or check again and keep the pot small out of position against another big stack with our already good position in the tourney.

As played, on the R your fold is fine as well, your beat there almost ever.

Yes, I would like a call here better as well.

OTT you then can either take the free R card if he checks back or x/r (x/c if he bets small) the T and get on more bet in from the CO.

Maximum 3-4 tables, everything over that number and I am only stupid clicking buttons without really following the action.

Welcome!

Regarding your question, please see my comment here:

http://www.runitonce.com/mtt/amateur-tournament-player/

Additionaly I would advise you to stick to one variant of poker (MTT, SNG, Cash) at least at the beginning (of getting really serious).

You are mixing SNGs (18 players) and MTTs (180 players) and that can keep you away from improving at one of them / in total.

At a later point that most likley changes and you will / can benfit from playing other variants as well, but for starting, just focus your energy on one of them.

Last but not least, bankroll management is very! very!! very!!! important.

You should always play at a level where losing a couple of buyins doesnt bother you, and a generell rule for MTTs for example is to play with somthing around 100-300+ buyins (depening on whom you would ask, your skill level, how risky your are and what your goal is).

With your 100$ deposit and 3,5$ 180s your at around 28 buyins which doenst sound like a very good idea.

I hope thats somehow helpful.

I think the ch/r is the best play in that spot as well, and you went trought the possible options yourself very good.

If you know your opponents well and there is at least one calling station / fish, the ch/shove could be the better option though.

And then call down the river as well?
What if a diamont appears?

You scare away a lot of worse hands by betting the flop and risk being rivered by one card diamont hands by only checking the turn then...

Like ZeroDegrees I would like a check on the turn better.

With your bet you scare out worse hands - let him bet again and just call.

Then you can decide on the river depending on the board (giving up when a fourth diamont appears), if you wanna go for a small value bet (bet/fold).

As played I think your beat to his 3bet on the river most of the times.

Great comment Luis!
I think you evaluated the hand perfectly!

I think folding preflop would be way to tight, as you are ahead against his opening range even if your OOP - for that reason I like your 3bet + the size of it.

But as played with his 4bet the situation changes, and you cannot call that profitable imo - so I would fold to his 4bet as you have too big of a stack to risk it there in a very marginal spot.

[If he really does 4bet very very light, you could consider 5bet shoving there, but that would be very risky and increase the variance a lot

Another way could be to just call his bet and see how the hand turns out postflop - with the intention of calling him down lighter than you would do usually because he is over aggressiv]

Importance staggered in that order imo.

• Get a clear plan for every hand you play - ask yourself what you want to accomplish with the hand and how your stacksize / opponents / table flow effect your decission making

• Rewiew your played tournaments / hands and search for mistakes

• Post hands that you feel insecure about / on which you lost a big amount of your stack and include your thought process on the hand

• Watch poker strategy videos

• Read poker strategy articles / books

Home game with 36 ppl? Oo :)

As played: Your line with the small bet on the turn and the check on the river does look very weak so if CO was somehow aggressiv and aware I would say there is a good chance that he trys to bluff you off the hand which I do see players make quite a lot on paired boards.

As BarracudaNL, I would prefer to cb the flop.

Then 2ndBarrel on the turn - if he calls the cb and then still makes a 3bet on the T it would be dependent on the opponent / reads if I give him the Q and fold (less likley) or believe he is bluffing (more likley) and call the turn bet and ch/c the river for bluff induce as well.

Regarding the preflop play I like to mix it up between calling and 3betting there, depending on the opponents and table flow.

As for the River I would go for value there because I think he is much more likely to call you down with a top pair / pocket pair hand in that spot than to ch/c or ch/r you with a flush (except you got notes on him that say different), I think he would bet the river for value if he really had the flush.

I do see villian play and call you down there with ATo/AJo/AQo (with the A of spades) on F+T and AKo on the R as well plus TT+ mostly, so I think your ahead and therefor I would definitely go for another value bet.

I think a minbet is a possible option there as well, but it does depend on the range you are giving your opponent and the presumed probability that villian will check to your minbet.

I think against a crazy / lag villian the chances are big that he will either 4bet/shove to your minbet on the flop or that he will nonetheless continue betting on the turn.

I really wouldnt like to bring in around 1/3 of my chips that early only on a flush draw, and you dont even get the right odds to call his 4bet on the flop, so you should have gone for bet/fold there as played imo.

1. What where the stacksizes?

2. Shoving the flop with only a nutflush draw (especially in the beginning of a tournament when your still deep and against a crazy player) would be overdoing it a lot imo.

3. I would only call his flop bet and see how he is continuing on the turn - if he does bet again you can evalute the odds for calling and if he checks you can either bluff him out or value bet if the turn does improve your hand.

Hi scottybotty5,

first: "I am a bad mtt player" it does sound like your mostly an inexperienced mtt player, so dont be so hard on yourself :)

second: "please help me" I guess you wont change your situation with an attitude like that because no one here or anywhere for that matter will make you an better player for yourself, only you can do that - but it does take the will to improve and a lot of work.

Continuing on what the others posted I would recommend:

1. Move down buy in limits to a level where you feel comfortable and have fun playing (which is very important imo)

2. Start reviewing hands in which you were unsecure about how to play or where you did lose an sigificant amount of your stack and then post them here.

When reviewing think about what your plan with the specific hand was and important, add that thought process to your comment as well! (Even if you think that that thought process was "bad/stupid" - dont be ashamed as only by that others will be able to help you to improve and keep in mind that everyone of us started on the bottom.

First of all I would recommand using an hand converter or at least trying to format your hand / question manually in a way that makes it possible to understand the situation (you can check other hand history threads to get an idea).

Like posted above that is extremly hard to manage.

If you want change that I bet more people (and I myself) would be willing to use some of their time to give you feedback on the hand.

First: As mentioned by others - best line there: Fold preflop.
Defending your blind with under 30bb with such a marginal hand, especially against such an aggressiv villian is way to risky and you end up losing chips there way to often as villian can apply a lot of pressure against which you cannot / wont play in that situation.

Second: As played, I cannot find myself folding there ever. You do have top pair plus an OESD, and your ahead there almost ever. You could go for calling the flop and then hopeing villian gets another bet in on the turn, but either way the turn goes call/all-in or bet/all-in.

Counterquestion: If you dont wanna go broke there with top pair + OESD, which is basically the best spot you can wish for, why did you call preflop in the first place?

Hi Owen,
I find it really hard to follow your video because there is an extremly annoying and constant static background noise - its worst while your speaking breaks.

I just checked your other videos and it is the same there as well - the audio of other pros videos is just fine.

Am I the only one to notice that?

I was a little lost in that hand.
I somehow had a very bad feeling in that spot, that UTG would not give up on this board on my Flop cb and Turn 2nd Barrel and I didnt want the pot to get too big playing OOP.

Should I just standard cb this board?
Would just calling PF be a possiblity or is that too weak with AQo in that case?

I am just figuring out if my river desicion is just very dump or if there could be any reasonable sense behind it.
Unfortunatly I just didnt give myself a few seconds to think about my river desicion as I wanted to just pressure him out of the hand and turn my hand into a bluff on the Turn/River - afterwards I think I just need to give up there.

The BB has been pretty straightforward / tight until then.

I got a note that he makes minbet donks postfolp with marginal hands (middle pair / flush draw) - but I think still with that in mind, in this case after his call on the turn I need to give up as he is much more likely to have an Ax than anyhing other - right?