and we have arrived at the wind slash encore casino it's four o'clock late reg is till 4
20. plays it so we're gonna max light redge and come in with i believe 12 big blinds for 550
you might say boesky that's a horrible deal well tournament pokers are weird
icm is a thing proximity to your min cash risk of ruin one bullet
maximum feels good to be back let's uh run good and win our first all in we need to
sit down with 10 minutes left in late reg take our seat we're immediately in the big blind 600 1200
1200 we have 20k folks the button who quickly jams exactly 12 000 couldn't wait to get it in there
usually not indicative of a premium but a hand that's an automatic jam asacs suited broadways
mid pairs when the small blindfolds and it's back to me in the big blind i look
down at king jack off and uh you know i got to set the set the tone right away
will it be our day we put in the call and he shows us ace 10 classic 60 40 and we have video
32 000 ships one bullet coming back to 1000 1500 1500 i believe let's get to this final table and
get that trophy this may seem obvious but it just really hit me this series that my mood directly
correlates with my chip stack and recent amount of pots won of course that seems normal but mine's a
little more extreme i get too low i get in a rut when i lose four or five pots in a row and it's
hard for me to recover i might make some errors i might not play my a game when things are going
poorly so i gotta focus on that make the best of it not become a negative ned or negative
nancy and uh enjoy the good times really appreciate the pots i went with blind's at
1 1500 1500 action folds to a guy that's just tilting his brains off and he min raises to 3
000 hazen male aged 21 to 22 goes deep into the tank with his 35k stack and eventually
shoves it all in just over 20 bigs holds me in the big blind and i have ace queen off suit
how light is the shovel rejamming i think pretty damn light this guy has already raised called with
a lot of marginal holdings getting value very wide here and i think ace queen is ahead of his
value range so we're all in 26.5 original razer who has 50 000 chips snap calls he has jack 10
off suit three better has ace jack off suit and we got double domination going on let's hold okay
the blind's at one thousand two thousand action folds to
the same twenty one to twenty year mail who quickly jams all in mostly all in
fifteen thousand of us twenty thousand in the middle recall from the small blind with east
jack offsuit big blindfolds and we're all in on the flop against queen jack of diamonds it's all
bricks and we get the elimination adding a 25k to our stack we're now over a hundred thousand
blind's at one thousand two thousand two thousand big blind ante under the
gun opens to four thousand he has about eighty thousand in a stack
i'm on the button with a hundred and twenty thousand and pocket tens three betting seems
fun but we do have to respect the under the gun range and that range includes pairs higher than
ours so we flat call the button with pocket tens the small blind calls and the big blind
says two words and they are all in for thirty four thousand under the gun tank folds what i
believe is pocket eights we put in the call and we're heads up against ace king offsuit a great
situation 57 to eliminate this player and scoop this 80 000 chip pot luckily we got video
good end but the 2500 big blind folds me in middle position i have about a hundred
thousand in my stack and a six seven of spades a premium you make it 5500 to go and action folds
to the big blind who puts in the call he started this hand with sixty thousand let's see a flop
flop comes jack four three two spades do not have a straight flush draw but we do have a combo draw
and out of left field he bets 15 000 into us what do you do with seven high facing this bet
i don't think we can fold if we call any jams to turn and we're not improved can we call it off
a lot of times people lead in these spots with top pair bad kicker or a
middle pair to find out where they're at well i'm going to show him where he's at i'm all in
we have him covered he has 40 000 behind goes deep into the tank i'm doing my best to convey
strength but he eventually calls and we're going to need some help against ace jack of hearts
turns a brick and uh we got video again check out this river classic race
who's gonna get lucky
when a few more small pots before we go on dinner break with a 210 000 chips stack coming back to
two thousand four thousand over fifty blinds rapidly approaching the money 53 pay 80 remain
this is when tournament poker is fun you got a stack to play with and you're getting
close to that money bubble let's find some good spots and really accumulate get that dopamine rush
we made the money 53 remain final table incoming the very last hand before break opened eighteen
thousand at four eight forty four players remain pocket nines pulls to the button who makes it
forty seven thousand pretty small three bed sizing he has about four hundred thousand to start i have
two ten no idea good call could fold could jam all in this time i'm gonna go with the uh yolo
i'm all in i'm putting you on ace five suited he asks for a count and quickly calls
this is probably not good until he shows pocket sevens let's hope
eleven hundred dollars locked up in for 5.50 much better experience at the wind in the world
series already it's a one-day event there is a trophy i like win trophies let's get a trophy
with blinds at 6 000 12 000 run to the gun with e6 of clubs we haven't played a hand in a while
so i open to twenty five thousand folds around to the small blind who quickly shoves all in for
a hundred and twenty thousand ten bigs folds back to me what do you do with ace six suited having my
opponent covered with about 400 000 chips in my stack do we gamble or do we make the discipline
fold what hands do we beat let's think about the pot odds against hands that beat us for likely 30
against the majority of his range but he should respect my under the gun open so we
fold a6 suited we'll call this guy player x with blinds at ten thousand fifteen thousand
fifteen thousand middle position opens to thirty thousand off of 250 k stack player x shoves all
in for three hundred thousand twenty bigs folds me in the small blind and have ace queen off suit
and six hundred and fifty thousand so it would be about half our stack to call it off here is ace
queen good versus these two ranges feels close it feels pretty close man a 25 players remain and we
put in the discipline fold everybody else folds and player x takes down the pot oh he thought
i was gonna call it off just because i have the hand history the blind's at ten thousand twenty
thousand we have about seven hundred thousand in our stack and ace king suited at least seven
handed raised up to forty five thousand big blind defense flop comes eight eight seven two clubs
we got those spades great time to uh check it back ace high has good showdown value let's play some
run outs turns and off suit deuce our hand still stands to be pretty good and my opponent bets a
pretty large sizing 75 000 what's he repping i kind of like the bigger sizing because it
kind of polarizes his hand strength to 8x maybe some 7x some draws 910 jack nine flush draws we
do not block any of the club draws so we put in the call the ribs in offsuit five a brick
all obvious draws missed and within five seconds he shoves all in for 265 000. so i go deep into
the tank i actually like his quick big jam it makes you look more polarized and we like that
bluff for nuts a size good versus bluff or nuts we don't want to see some merge value shove with
a 7x or something the problem is he puts us on east high now it's a big meta game decision
the clock is called on me i might be in the tank for five minutes with five seconds left i put in
the call ace high 750k pot and he shows two clubs the six and the nine nice river read them right on
the turn read them wrong on the river and we're down to about 300 000 ships we get a re-steal
through the very next hand with king queen and we got 13 blinds with 19 people remaining
a few assumptions need to be made these assumptions are that you would not bet
pot on the river with two pair of combos only with straights and trips and a few boats we have
the best hand to bluff catch with we don't have clubs and we don't block any of the miss straight
draws there's even the rare chance that he's trying to get us off ace king with a hand like
ace jack or ace 10. polarized timing polarized sizing let's ask ben cb what he would do in
this situation pretty ugly decision here for jeff boski on the river let's go through the
hand from pre-flip we open race big blind calls with his rough trendy big blinds and the ball
is eight seven seven which is not a great ball for our range we have a rift a lot of the times
with all king jack king queens king 10s etc that don't connect with the sport
so in theory definitely want to be having some checks just because he can just check jam so
many draws so many 7x and 8x against us and then we would have to fold a lot of our over cards so
in theory but in practice i would just go ahead and bet especially in live games where
people are not so aggressive if he has something like a6 and diamonds ace nine and diamonds which
would be a reasonable hand to race with or the jack 9 jack tents people just usually call it
especially when their tournament life might be at risk on later streets when we cover them so
this is a spot where in theory it's advised to be also checking those kind of hands at these some of
the time but in practice you can just comfortably see by everything and you also avoid these nasty
guessing games on later streets that we will see here later so i would just go ahead and bet of
course if if you know you're playing against an aggressive opponent checking is definitely
the way to go but a parody forward in live games 100 200 and 500 even one and two thousand dollar
tournaments against an unknown i would just go ahead and see that turner seduce we can
definitely call once we're still ahead against a bunch of draws so we call once river is the five
and this is where i would always advise to forge here on such a card because the six nines get
there the six five i don't think even this maybe the five six five could even value jam because we
just have so many ace kings and ace queens in our range um ten nines jack tens jack nines etc really
need to bluff a lot pretty much every single time in order to for us to make it a profitable call
so he still have all the 7x he has all the six nines yeah i'm not sure if he's going all in with
his buster flush draws i doubt it especially the better ones he blocks a lot of our faults so this
is where the main bluffs are coming from 10 9 jack 10 type of fans and i would believe that he really
needs to bluff them 80 90 frequency in order for us to make it a profitable call or even 70
because he's he's ha he's he has seven four suited queen seven off a7 seven three suited seven nine
off seven six of them that's a lot of combos right and he can value gem any eight here i mean it's
pretty obvious that we have an asic type of fan he can easily comfortably value gem against that
so against the average player in a live field i would definitely fall because i do not expect that
the average opponent is going to be bluffing 60 70 of the time uh with the 10 nines jack turns jack
nines in order to make it a somewhat legitimate hero call so i believe people then start just
checking it giving it up protecting the terminal if you know how it is in live games people just
always have it and yeah i would stick to that hero folding trump's hero calling and i don't
think this is a good spot if the river is a three or a blank like not a five not a six not
a nine and not a ten we could definitely argue for hero calling because then he can just have
way more bluffs but on this five where also a lot of his straights get there i would just
fault and jeff decided to call and the opponent had six nine which is of course very unfortunate
17 players remain when it folds me in the small blind with queen five of hearts it's probably
a shove but pretty marginal so this is live poker so i limp and the button checks behind after some
thought flop comes eight deuce deuce two hearts pretty good flop for our range odds are they're
gonna miss we bet small 25 000. and my opponent thinks about it and raises the 70 thousands
what hands would they raise here flush draws deuces
eights could they just be repping the deuce putting the pressure on and two
wide ranges i'm not buying what they're selling and we're gonna take the aggressive route on this
holding queen five of hearts we're all in and my opponent says really i put the chips
in the middle and they call with king eight off suit probably 40 to win let's get there
good call
and we are out of the win slash encore 550
tournament 500 players we got 17th for 2500 after tip almost a 2k profit not bad but
it's not easy to get this deep you got to really make it count and i did not
a controversial ace high call probably cost me but you got to think about the other side when
i'm right and i'm sitting on over a million ships as the final table bubble approaches we're putting
ourselves in a great position to win so i guessed and i guessed wrong but i made a lot of good
decisions to get to this point and that's going to do it like subscribe definitely comment below
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