FTP pros = goooooooooooooot

well, 1st of all, i have been running very bad lately, that's why i haven't been updating my blog quite as often... i should be running hot again soon.....

tonight i was having a good night, then i lost power with 7 sngs going.... uuuuuuuuuuugh... ruined that real quit.....


here is a hand that happened late last week verses JJ Liu, i guess she was on a WPT tv table or something... but she obv has no clue how to play sngs.... maybe not poker period.. not sure... but this was real bad. (my next few HH posts will be hands i win, i promise)



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also some chat after the hand, i will put her in red since FTP pros are red.


sprstoner: how did your name get red?
JJ Liu: get lucky on u
JJ Liu: I said people think I have never played
poker before
sprstoner: weird, wonder why

I'm not sure she speaks good english..... but there you go...

hope to have a positive post soon..... lol....

glglgl

a bubble hand gone wrong....

emptyseat88 got lucky, but this hand was played well... although i wished i had folded after the hand... but the long term +ev is pretty big here. there is a certain way to play on the bubble, there are spots when we have to push any 2 cards every hand, there are times we have to fold hands that are a good sized favorite because of the little stack still in. we determine all of these decisions with ICM....

in this hand we have the short stack but he called the big stack's push, and i am sitting on a descent amount of chips, but had to call as well.... to help to big stack bust fischman.




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what do we honestly think buzzer1404's pushing range here is? he has been very aggressive,and he now has the chip lead, which makes me think he will be even more aggressive.





in the above screen shot, we gave buzzer a 50% pushing range, which i honestly believe to be low, i would think he pushes 65%-100% here. i have emptyseat88 with a calling range of 100%, and i think with scott fischman that is possible, but maybe i should had lowered it. look at how huge the diff% is... with these settings we cant even think of folding here. but.........





not a big difference if we tighten him up....


now i have been thinking what if (i know he wasn't though) buzzer1404 was playing very tight for the situation....




as you see, it is still a call if he is pushing just 13.5%.

i think this was a good hand to go over, just because i feel a lot of people miss value here..... but to some of you it may be another retard post.. lol

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in a few days, i might post a hand against a real B&M pro, well not sure how good she is supposed to be, but she has a red name on FTP.....

and an email response from FTP when i asked them to bless my account after a bad few days.

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glgl

Bad fold????

i thought i was making a bad fold as i made it... so i decided to double check using sngwiz. and sure enough i believe i was right.



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i am not sure why gigabet or emptyseat88 (Scott Fischman) folded, must of had very shitty hands too. anyways, they were nice enough to give me a little +ev, and i passed on it as well.





as you see, as long as he is calling 51.6% or less this will be a profitable push... well he can call a little more, the break even point is about 64%.
a lot of people do call pretty wide here, but this guy was tight, and i really don't think he calls more than 51%. so it all depends. but as long as he doesn't call more than 22+,A2+,K2+,Q2+,J4o+,J2s+,T6o+,T3s+,97o+,95s+,86s+ (64%) it is break even or +ev.

if i put the BB's calling range at 51% and mine at 10% emptyseat88 should push: 22+,A2+,K6o+,K2s+,Q9o+,Q7s+,JTo,J9s+,T9s (36.0%)

so what do you think.... good fold or bad? i honestly think i missed a little +ev there.

interesting HH

a $500 where i made a questionable play early (i like it, still. not 100% sure if it is profitable yet), got super short stacked almost immediately, and made a comeback to win. should be very interesting.

btw, after my recent bad run, i have been playing slower early.

awesome news

WSOP news i saw today in a cardplayer article... saw it posted at P5s 1st.


"Harrah’s decided to double the number of starting chips this year. That means instead of a $1,000 starting chips in the $1,000 events, they’ll start with 2,000 chips in order to give players more play. According to a representative of the WSOP’s publicity firm, this will affect all the events."


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i think my bad run might over too, had my 1st positive day in a little over a week... was running bad, then playing tilted, then one day i had 8 tables going, and my dog hit my surge protector.... computer shut off... lol.... then one day, stars froze, took me about 10 minutes with several tables going before i decided to rebooted and get all my tables open again. more running bad, and over aggressive early gambling = horrible week and a half.

i am going to be out of town from friday to sunday night, so prob no posts and no playing until monday.

glgl

reader asking me to look at a few of his hands.

From: denbro7 To: sprstoner Posted: 09 Mar 2007 01:00
Subject: question on a few hands


Hey sprstoner,
I was wondering what you thought of hands 25 and 42 of the following sng




Hand 25: I get dealt Ak in the sb. Button raises to 150 and I reraise to 600. To big of a raise? I'm not sure what the best action to take is if I miss the flop. Just shove any flop or check and fold to a bet? Luckily I hit the flop and was able to get the rest of my chips in.


Hand 42: Again in the SB this time with 88. Same button raises to 500. I was not really sure what the best play was here. Did I just want to come over the top and shove on him? call? Fold? I opted to fold and I'm not sure if it was the correct play. I figured he put in a good portion of his stack and wouldn't fold, I was in good postion and didn't want to risk that with 88 - perhaps too tight/weak on my part but I'm not really sure.


Thanks for your time. Daren




on hand #25 you should just push preflop here. i do not like your raise. if we had a bigger stack, i don't mind your raise, and if i miss the flop, i am likely to push anyways.

#42, you weren't in the sb, you were the bb, and there was an utg limper.. i like the fold.

more questions, $225 HH posted on 3/8

From: denbro7
To: sprstoner
Posted: 12 Mar 2007 14:13
Subject: Question on $225 HH from March 8th blog
Hey Sprstoner,

I had a few questions regarding the $225HH you posted to your blog on March 8th.

Hand 20: Blinds 25/50. EP raise to 150 and you shove with AK for 1425 total.
Your called by 10's. I think the hand was played fine both ways. My question
is do you ever make a raise here where you don't shove but are committed
anyway. Say a raise to 600-800 or so? On several occassions I've been called in
this spot by 44 or 66. Does the shove scream AK leading people to be willing
to call with mid pairs? Does a reraise look stronger without shoving?


i only like the shove here.... it is just easier and your opponent knows you aren't folding on the flop. i raise big pairs the same way (usually) when a standard reraise commits about 1/3 of my chips. a lot of successful players do as you suggest, so i am not saying it is wrong, just not my style.



Hand 22: blinds 50/100 your in the cutoff with KQh and it's folded to you. You fold in this spot. Why? I would have raised to 300 or so.



yes you are right and i was wrong, sometimes i play like this when a particular opponent has been shoving me a lot and i don't want to play for all my chips, or i could had timed out... maybe not paying attention... could of had a more interesting hand going on at a few other tables, and was busy to the point i just clicked fold so i can worry about the more important hands.... who knows... but under normal circumstances, i should raise there. i agree.



Hand 25: blinds 50/100 with 7 remaining and your 2nd in chips. You get 66 utg and fold. Why don't you come in for a raise. From your other posts I'm guessing because you still have to get through 6 other players at a time of the tourney where people are looking to shove and the risk/reward isn't there ...



exactly... i hate to raise here and have someone shove on me... sometimes i raise it to 250.. people do seem less likely to shove without a strong hand when we raise from early position. but, usually i fold there.


Hand 27: blinds 50/100 your in the sb with K3s, gets folded to you and you fold. Why don't you either shove on the BB with 1200 in chips or raise to take the blinds? If the BB pushes you can fold and get away from the hand



i don't want to shove there, i could raise to 250 and see what he does... this is another spot where i can go either way. earlier in a sng though, i tend to play a little tighter most of the time. if he had 8 or 9 BBs then i am definitely shoving there.



Hand 34: blinds 75/150. your in the sb and it gets folded to you with JJ. You push on the SB with 1300 and he folds. Do you ever standard raise here trying to induce the BB to shove on you or is it just better to open shove?



there is no standard raise that will leave him with any fold equity. if a certain person is in the BB you can limp knowing he will push. usually better players, but i rarely do that, because better players know i am pushing a lot of trash there too. let them call with A5 and 77.



Hand 35: you fold 22 on the button in a unopened pot? No raise here to try and take the blinds?



i was prob worried the BB was going to push on me, but i should had raised barring any weird reads i have on his current play. a lot of times the BB likes to shove on you, when they see you play a few hands in a row, and his stack is perfect size for that.... i think i should had made it 400 though. lately people have been shoving like mad on me.... but i can be just running into monsters. so i have been trying to tighten up my button and cutoff raising requirements some.



Hand 53: blinds 100/200 5 remaining you have 1820 in chips and shove from the button with K3o into stacks of 720 and 1350, easy shove here?



well, i actually have 2020, and technically 2045 before ante is posted. i will enter this hand into sngPTs. lets say the sb with a short stack of 845 will call 30% of his hands, and the bb with 1575 will call 20%, sound fair?

30%=44+,A3o+,A2s+,K8o+,K5s+,Q9o+,Q8s+,J9s+

20%=55+,A7o+,A3s+,K9o+,K8s+,QJo,QTs+


if so my push is +ev for +$9.50 with a +.5% edge.

i am not so sure those are good ranges though.


i am going to change the sb to:22+,A2o+,A2s+,K8o+,K5s+,Q9o+,Q8s+,J9s+

and BB to: 55+,A8o+,A6s+,KTo+,QJo+



and i still think they are a little too loose... doubt sb calls with j9s and BB call QJ
but even if they do, we can push 75% here. the changes i made, makes the push even more valuable:

Hand 57: You indicate is a mistake on your part and should have shoved into the BB with 520 chips even though you had 10 3

well it is a thin edge, but one i believe is worth taking, sngwiz automatically adjusts suggested edge% per situation, sngPTs does not. but according to the wizard, this is a good edge here. i have sngPTs open now, so i will show you what it says IF we know he is calling 100% which he may not be.

Thanks for your time. Daren

thanks

been running bad...

when I'm running bad i like to double check some of the pushes i make to make sure i am not making any big errors... i found a few borderline pushes today, but nothing screaming bad play.

don't want to bore you with whining, but i had a horrible week. i hate variance.

anyways, i spotted a hand that was standard to me, not sure if it is standard to you guys or not.





i am sure most of you know this screenshot is sngPTs. it is a program that uses ICM to determine if it is better to push or fold, based on a calling range you apply to the remaining players in the hand.


in this hand (a $200 sng) it was folded to me in the sb. blinds are 100/200, i have 1200, the BB has 1560, before posting. i put in a 25% calling range for the BB which is : 44+,A5o+,A2s+,K9o+,K7s+,QTo+,Q9s+,JTs ; and i honestly think that is a little loose for this stage in the game. but IF he is that loose, and we hit the 'compute all' button, it will tell us on the bottom line what hands we should be pushing with.
i already know this is 100%, that is why i pushed 42o here. if we hit the 'compute' button it just calculates the value of the hand we had, so in this spot pushing makes us $11.48 IF he is that loose... will be more if he is tighter.


this is an awesome program and a must have for any serious sng player. i have downloaded a beta test upgrade, which allows me to paste HH into it, so i don't have to enter everything manually. you can find that in their forum.

glgl

questions about the 1k sng HH recently posted.

From: denbro7
To: sprstoner
Posted: 09 Mar 2007 00:49
Subject: questions on HH posted in your blog
Hey sprstoner,

I was looking at the $1100 HH you posted to your blog and have the
following questions:


Hand 23: blinds are 50/100 your in the sb with 1425 after posting. The button with 1900 chips raises to 300 and you fold A6s. Now lets compare this with hand 35.


Hand 35: blinds now 75/150 and were 5 handed. Your in the sb (2nd in chips) with 3000 chips after posting. Same player on the button with 2200 in chips raises to 450, this time you come over the top and push all in with A8, the button folds.

What is so different here that you fold the A6 earlier but now your pushing A8? Is it because were closer to the bubble? That you have a bigger stack then him now and can bust him?

yeah, basically, shorter handed, i had a stronger hand, and if i lost i wasn't out. also, i would do a lot more damage to the stack behind me. a lot of people will push the A6s too, and i don't think it is necessarily a bad play.

you see sngWIZ says it is a +ev push, BUT not as high as it should be in order to risk our current stack size for. i really like how sng wizard takes each hand and calculates how desperate we are, and automatically adjusts the suggested edge.

Hand 38: You get dealt A10 utg while still 5 handed and fold. Easy fold here? Do you ever raise here?



yes, i think this should be an easy bet here.... i must had been worried of having to call a push... still think it is a bet though.




Hand 62: On the bubble and your 4th with 1600 chips, you push Q5 utg.
I imagine your just shoving any two here?



no we cannot do that and be +ev, this push might have even been a bad push, very borderline.... in borderline spots, do not push if the big stack is in the BB and be more likely to push if blinds are about to go up. what is the big stacks calling range here?

Hand 71: 3 handed now, blinds 200/400 25 ante. the short stack on the button
pushes his last 560 and you fold 8J. Why not call the 360 thinking that holla@yoboy
will also call and check it down? The shortie pushes with 35 and basically triples up

this is a very good question, and if i knew the BB was a bad player, i would. but any good player would shove any 2 in the BB if i called, basically improving his pot odds knowing i cant call.

Hand 78: Blinds are 300/600 and your heads up. It's push/fold mode and you push your QJ and are called by 33. Do you like the call? Even your pushing any two he's basically a coin flip. If you win that hand your in control and have a great shot at taking it down.




yes, he made an easy call... it may be a coin flip, but he has chips to lose and still be in the game, a very easy call with the risk/reward he is offered.




Thanks for your time.
Daren

thanks
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same sng, questions from another reader:

From: brandonscimeca To: sprstoner Posted: Today, at 1:20 pm Subject: 1K SNG post So I have a few questions for you recent 1k sng post
1st few questions are not about your play

#13 Ammeadama plays this hand very passive and quite poor

#19 Ammeadama again very passive. I am just suprised to see this play at this level, am I off on this?




he busted in hand 18, so I'm not sure what 2nd hand you were referring to, but yes he seemed to be playing poorly.... he is a wining player too:

#26 BigJoe Calling on every street with 2nd pair, again suprised, but seems as though he has a read.




well, it was blind vs blind, and Brianna is a very poor player.




#34 The thing I took most from this video was this was the first hand you got involved in. At this point you are already 5-handed! Is this a normal time for you to start getting involved (minus you haven't picked up a big hand yet)




no, i don't mind playing earlier... just was how this sng went. i do need a good hand to play earlier, or a descent hand in position.

#46 10-9s on button in a unraised pot. Is this a standard fold at this stage?




i would have to say so, BB could push a lot here, and sb is a big stack.... i do not think the reward is worth the risk in this spot.




#62 you just lost a race and are now short stack. You push UTG. Are you doing this here with ATC?




i answered this hand in more detail above, but no. this push might had been -ev.





#64 again is this a push with ATC. Holla is the big stack and will call you with any decent hand. Is this thinking my hand must be better than the BB and I need some chips.





i don't think so....





if we give him a calling range of 23.5% we can push any 2, but if we give him a calling range of 27%, our J2s is just barely +ev. i think his calling range might be closer to the 27% which is hands as weak as JTs... maybe not though. its a close spot.

i was thinking if i won this pot, i would be basically guaranteed to cash though.

Thanks in advance


thank you

Hand i played way different than my norm -with Gigabet

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i played this hand this way, because this gigabet guy is over aggressive, and he could be reraising a wide range of hands.... he reraises me very liberally, i usually fold when he does so, but this time i decided i was sick of him. still not sure if this is a long term +ev play against him or not. i will have to pay attention and see if he seems to remember my loose push, and slow up against me.... if not i prob will make more strange pushes against him.

btw, he insta called with that 44.

a few more HHs

thought i would post a few more, maybe we can get more discussion on some hands. these HHs are ones i save from about a week and a half ago.... i might start saving a few more to post, not sure yet.

another $1k turbo, me and holla@yoboy HU... he took it down.


a random $225 turbo that i took down....



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btw, i had a bad night last night.... lots of bad beats, and continuously running into monsters.

i did play 3 $1ks, lost 2 got 2nd in one.... barry greenstein was in a few of them... and victor ramdin was in one....

gigabet has been in a lot of sngs i have been playing lately... he seems a little to aggressive, so i either need to tighten up when he is behind me, or call his pushes, and push his reraises more. i will probably do some of both.

i might post a few hands against him later....

Shark scope update

i took the last few days off... i will be playing tonight though....

i would like to get 1st, but i dont think it is possible, as i play mostly 200's, and those 200's im sure are pulling my average profit down.

Questions PMed to me about a HH posted #2

same thing as before, but a different SNG.

here is a PM i received from a forum about some hands in a HH i posted.... his PM will be yellow, my answers will be in red....

i welcome comments from anyone else that wants to look... that means you too lucko21.


these questions are about this HH posted on PxF, in my blog entry on 2/24

Hey Sprstoner,

I was looking at the 2nd HH you posted in your Feb. 24th blog entry
and had the following questions on Hands:

Hand 17: blinds are 25/50 you have 1415 in chips. utg+1 raises to
150 and you folded 88 from utg+2. I was kind of surprised at the fold
here. I would have thought you would at least call the 150. Do you fold this because more then likely the flop is going to contain an overcard and you'll have to fold to a continuation bet? Do you ever reraise here? Maybe if you the original raiser was from a later postion?

88 is a strong hand, but here i feel our stack sizes are to small to risk a call, and if i push i have to get 7 people to fold, one of which has already shown strength. i rather fold here and save my chips for a little bit later when i will need them more. if the 1st person in was in late position and i was in the blinds, i am much more likely to shove. there is a certain time period in SNGs where stack sizes are awkward, and this is the beginning of it IMO.



Hand 28: blinds are 75/150 you have 1415 in chips. You get 66 utg and fold. Is this an easy fold? I imagine your not just making a standard raise here, either your folding or shoving. Why do you decide to fold here? What is the minimum hand your pushing with?





there is just to many people to go through here, we are to likely to run into a hand. yes this is an easy fold with my stack size. if i am playing a little loose i will open push with with 88+, AQ+... SNGwiz says we should have a better than .75% edge to push here (because we have chips and are not desperate), to have an edge at .75% or better we need TT+,AK+.... 88 and AQ are still +ev, but just barely.



Hand 48: blinds are 100/200 25 ante you have 1290 after posting blinds. 5 handed and folded to the SB with 3260. He gives you a walk. Bad play by the SB, right? He should have shoved with any two here.



yes, i agree....




Hand 52: blinds 100/200 25 ante. Your now the chip leader with 4 left your in the BB and utg (comfortably is 3rd in chips) raises to 600. Everyone folds. Why don't you shove here? I know your hole cards are 45o but he still can't call you with much of anything. If you lose the hand you would still have around 1900 in chips.





for that move to be a very profitable move you need the shortest stack to be very short. it would likely work here as well, but i just wasn't sure i was ready to push him around at this point. i probably was waiting for blinds to go up.




Hand 53: Same scenario. 2nd in chips raises. No shove on your part? What determines when you would just shove with any two compared to folding?






i will give the same answer as last hand..... i rather the shortest stack be smaller, or the blinds be bigger.




Thanks for your time. Daren




no problem, i actually enjoy doing that.... its fun, it gives me blog material, and it helps me improve my game. LOL @ coryward's call on last hand.....

Crazy bubble hand from Sunday night's WSOP satty.....

if you don't have a free PxF account, you really should sign up. this hand history replayer is awesome and worth the 5 min hassle it will take you to register.

here is the hand on the bubble sunday night that won me my WSOP seat:



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obviously I'm a lucksac. although i did have a few unlucky spots earlier in tourney. and about 15 shorties doubled in he last hour.

WSOP +1... weeeeeeeeeee....

screenshot



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woooo hooooooooooooooooo

it was very close, it wasnt easy, but i got there....

raymer bad beats me (fossilman)

this happened last week, thought it was an interesting hand....


PokerStars Game #8644818408: Tournament #44015542, $525+$30 Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2007/02/26 - 22:49:01 (ET)
Table '44015542 1' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: Kitikati (1480 in chips)
Seat 2: gs02xzz (1480 in chips)
Seat 3: Assassin8tor (1850 in chips)
Seat 4: sprstoner (1480 in chips)
Seat 5: sharktci (1480 in chips)
Seat 6: FossilMan (1480 in chips)
Seat 7: Nordberg (1500 in chips)
Seat 8: noxqsez (1220 in chips)
Seat 9: Chess1956 (1530 in chips)
sprstoner: posts small blind 10
sharktci: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to sprstoner [4s Qs]
FossilMan: calls 20
Nordberg: folds
noxqsez: folds
Chess1956: folds
Kitikati: folds
gs02xzz: folds
Assassin8tor: calls 20
sprstoner: calls 10
sharktci: checks
*** FLOP *** [4c Qc Td]
sprstoner: bets 80
sharktci: folds
FossilMan: calls 80
Assassin8tor: folds
*** TURN *** [4c Qc Td] [6d]
sprstoner: bets 220
FossilMan: calls 220
*** RIVER *** [4c Qc Td 6d] [6h]
sprstoner: checks
FossilMan: bets 400
sprstoner: calls 400
*** SHOW DOWN ***
FossilMan: shows [Kc Qd] (two pair, Queens and Sixes)
sprstoner: mucks hand
FossilMan collected 1480 from pot



i really feel he played entire hand bad, a horrible river card came, and i made a loose call on river.... but how he played the hand he could of hand any number of draws. BUT not sure why he would chase a draw like that, but not sure why he would play KQ like that either.

according to shark scope he is a profitable sng player, i kinda doubt he will be long term.

he got 9th place, i got 3rd.

GG

moving up the leader boards

my star turned Gold today..... but im just barely in gold.... top 5 get gold.

month ends results - BEST MONTH EVER!!!!!!!!!!

here are my Feb results:




my YTD results as of the end of Feb:



BTW this is my best month ever.... feels so good... hope i can keep the great numbers up.

also here is an updated table of my 2007 SNG stats:





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started this month out great too, last night was my best sng night ever @ $5800

gl everyone...

Questions PMed to me about a HH posted.

here is a PM i received from a forum about some hands in a HH i posted.... his PM will be yellow, my answers will be in red....

i really would like to get comments from another sng expert lucko21, me and him are always discussing hands.



From:
denbro7
To:
sprstoner
Posted:
01 Mar 2007 14:25
Subject:
questions on HH posted in your blog

Hey sprstoner, I was looking on your blog at your Feb. 24th entry where you posted two sng's. I was looking at the first one and was wondering your thoughts on

hand 12: where you get AQd in SB and raise it to 90, the SB pushes for 1280 and you make the call. Why do you make this call? I would probably put him on a mid pair or possibly AK. I'm just about 100% sure I would have folded in this spot.

i have a huge hand, especially blind vs blind, and this guy over shoved huge. you are right , he could of had a mid pair or AK, but he also could of had A8+, either way i saw his push as inexperience there, and he should not be pushing like that.... usually in spots like this i will check my sharkscope search on the guy, or my notes, and use that to help me make a decision. i really hate making the call, and i prob took a while. i really believe it was a +ev call, i could be wrong. hands like this are currently hard to analyze with an ICM view for me, because the programs i used are to basic for this. there is a new program that is super advance coming out sometime soon, and i am excited to purchase it when it arrives, it will take ICM calculations to a whole new level., i am not sure it will calculate this situation for us, but it will do post flop calculations, which is huge. ICM toolkit .

Hand 14: your in late postion with 99 ... there is one limper ahead of you. You raise it up to 120. Would you typically raise in this spot? Do you limp here at all? at 15/30 I probably limp hoping to hit a set.

i will play it both ways depending on the situations and players, but 99 is kinda border line for me, i rather raise with it. i really really hate limping in sngs, the only times you will prob ever see me do it, is with a pair.. i raised here, because i really felt the limper would fold,.

Hand 15: You raise it up to 150 with QQ in mid postion. You get repopped to 400, action gets back to you and you shove. What hands do you put this guy on? I would think he's very strong. Do you ever fold here or flat call to see the flop and if no A or K comes proceed from there? At this point you have a huge stack ....

my reraise there looks super strong... his reraise did as well.... but i cant fold QQ in a sng against 1 opponent, maybe that is a leak of mine, but i will very very rarely ever fold a hand that strong against 1 guy in a sng preflop. we also need to realize that i have been in a lot of pots, and im catching cards, but these guys may just think im getting out of line.. will he risk his nice stack here? prob not without AA or KK, but he also prob reraises me with a lot more than that, seeing how active i have been. he is also a losing player, which means he does stupid things. obv he had AA and i sucked out on him, and if i didnt have to many tables going, hopefully i made a note of his raise size and hand strength. as for calling a raise and seeing if any scare cards come on the flop, i really wont be doing that with a big pot already, esp if i think i can make him laydown some hands he likely reraised me with. so if i am to do something like that, the pot has to be small, AND i want to be in position.




Hand 17: You fold AJ in early postion with 7 people left. Is this an auto fold. I would have probably raised here to 150 or so.

AJ can be a very hard hand to play out of position. i have been in a lot of pots,but i have shown down strong hands, and have shown im willing to call pushes.... and i was utg +1. but, i prob should had raised here. i think this was a mistake.

Hand 40: You get 44 in EP, utg limped and you folded. Is this a standard fold? With your stack why don't you come in for a raise here or limp as well?


this is a time when ppl will be shove over your raises a lot, and you will start to see a lot more pushes. however, i have a stack , and no one else sitting sitting real well. a raise by me commits me to the pot. after looking at this hand, i decided a large raise or a push here is prob the right way to play in this spot. sometimes i miss spots like this playing to many tables. im starting to run out of time because of a tough decision on another hand and i have 4 tables beeping at me at once, so i fold to many hands.... sometime i will push to many as well.... but if i only had 1 table going, i am pretty sure i would had put all my chips in here, or at least a raise and willing to call a push.

Hand 60: A guy on the button with 3400 raises to 600. You shove on him with 26 and he folds. Is this an easy shove as he can't call you with anything? Do you worry at all that he calls and wins then you just went from chip leader to trying to hang on and cash yourself?


i will shove there with any 2 cards 100% of the time... unless i know this guy is very stupid and makes very retarded calls, he prob needs AA or KK maybe QQ...if he knows im pushing 100% JJ might be a good call as well. i do get called in this spot sometime, by AA,KK sometimes A5. sometimes i suck out, sometimes im struggling to cash after i lose the big pot. but this push is very +ev, and is a must push. i have seen many times a guy bet more than half his stack, and i come over the top all in and he folds because of the shorty still in. look for these situations, they will make you a lot of money.

Hand 61: You shove from the SB with KK and Mrteddy calls with A4???? How horrible of a call is this when the shorty has 900 chips?

this is obv a very bad call by him, im not sure what he was thinking, but he is a losing player, and seeing this hand im sure that doesnt surprise you. in 9 handed sngs he is -4% roi. the call is so horrible it makes me laugh. thanks for making look at this hand again.. lol

Thanks for your time. Daren