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EPT Main Event Day 1
I approached day 1 very well after speaking to Rob Tinnion on Skype. I sat upright all day, good posture, good attention and didn't play any 4bet pots all day, I played ranges appropiately and played exploitatively.
I think I made a mistake with JJ, tight old Italian fish raised to 500 and I decided to flat intead of 3bet. He had around 12-3k and I ended up losing a pot against somebody who cold called behind on QQ287 where I bet 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 and folded to min raise on the river. I think I should have a linnear range here when 3betting and had previously 3bet KQo vs him in a postion where I would never 3bet KQo but have been working on different 3bet strategies vs different calling ranges and it was the highest ev play.
I had a good table, only 2 good regs, one was Martin Jacobson who is probably the best player I've ever played with live, I tried to remember what my mental coach told me about not battling with good players and exploiting the weaker players.
I had one other decision I was very unsure about. 2 orbits left of the day. I open off 45k to 1500 at 600bb, btn who played extremely tight but now seems to be playing aggressive 3bets to 4600 off 90k, I have KTcc. Very tough spot pre, I think I could 4bet as he will be over 3betting and its probably the highest EV play. I decided to call though, definitely debatable.
Flop KQ2r, he cbets 3800, I have a pretty easy call.
Turn KQ25xxss, I check, he bets 8100, seems very tough spot now, hes setting up big river bet and I get to the river pretty weak, I'm perceived to be 4betting KK/QQ pre and potentially raising KQ to his small flop size, although all of the above is perhaps incorrect.. I think turn is very marginal and perhaps somewhat regret it, but decided to call. Very unsure and happy on input here.
River KQ25Jxxsss I guess I just always lose this hand now, I don't think donking is good, c/f seems very good, especially without the Ks. He checked back a worse hand though which was very surprising and imo pretty bad.
I ended the day with 65k. I did one huge bluff but it would take about 30 lines of text to write so won't write that, it was pretty good though I think.
Day 2
My starting table was pretty tough, I flatted QQ to Jason Wheeler pre for deception in a spot and folded on Axx
We moved table and I went to 90k from 50k pretty quickly. I played a cool hand vs Macau businessman.
I called his 2500 open pre in the bb (he was in button) with Kh Qd, flop was J98hhh, i c/called 3500, turn was Td and I led 2100. I love this sizing because if he has a flush he raises 100% but flats basically everything else, when he flats I can super bomb rivers vs him and he's going to think I'm fos. Turn size was like 2000 into 14000 and would perhaps bet 23k on the river. When I check back often he checks back or doesnt valuebet qx twice and I can't c/r turn for value as my hand isn't strong enough.
He calls. River is J98hhh T J and I would always check my entire range here 100% of the time but vs a mark I think betting exploitatively 5400 is the best play, he called with q6.
I then had my first big dent of my stack. I raised to 2400 at 1kbb, Eugene flat the hijac and the Macau guy made it 7500 in the bb. We know from this sizing he's never squeezing light because he's using a sizing that will never get folds from Eugene, so it would be nonsensical to squeeze a hand as weak as say a3o and generally bb squeezing ranges will be (rightfully) strong. I had JJ and decided to flat and Eugene flat behind.
I knew I had red JJ and the flop was A93ddd, and Macau bets 8000 into 28000, I think he is likely to overcbet hands such as QQ/KK/AQ/AK and I think the fact I don't have to double check my suits is a very strong move, I made it 20300, into 36000 giving myself a good price and IMO a good % chance to win the hand. If he does flat I also have equity. Flatting here would definitely be an option, but another thing is that when I raise Eugene has to fold AQ/AK if he has it (pretty sure he plays it the same) but the downsides are when I raise flop and Macau jams AK no diamond I throw away a lot of equity, but part of the reason for raising was because I assumed he would b/f AK no diamond a tonne of the time based on reads. He snap jammed and ofc I folded. I really don't regret the hand, but I lost around 30% of my stack.
An orbit later OMGITSHUNT, opens UTG to 2300 out of 80K and I flat KK in the cut off. Of course 3bet is ok, but I think flatting is better for lots of reasons. BB who was weak (
) flat and we got the Q72hh board. OMG cbets 3500, i call ofc and bb calls quickly. I assume often they will check to me on turns, I will bet and they will likely call once between them and perhaps twice.
The turn was the Q725hhdd and OMG bet 12k into I guess 18. This may not seem big but live this is a big bet. I checked my stack and this would leave 40k into 40k so it seemed like he was setting up a river shove. I call of course and bb seemed to reluctantly fold a queen.
River was Q725Jhhddh and OMG took 1 minute and bet 24500 out of 40k effective. Such a weird bet size, he set it up for river shove now uses this sizing. I was very, very confused. I tanked around 10 minutes into the break and a big rail of people came to watch the hand. I didn't really like that and kinda hoped they would just go and take a piss.
I figured if he has all flush draws he likely gets to the river with all diamonds too, its very likely that I fold all non flushes on the river and call all flushes on the river to any size. Was he just trying to risk less with diamonds. Previously in EPT's I've been a huge station on rivers and never ever been good in the big pots. I started visualizing back to 5x tournaments where I've called rivers then afterwards regretted it, I really needed to take time to make sure I didn't call here then regretted it. I eventually folded which at the time felt a huge fold but may be really standard. I'm happy I took the time and folded but very unsure on my rationale behind it. I considered so much stuff in the hand such as 1) did he even expect me to call all fd's on the turn? 2) how far up in my range am i? 3) is this even combos wise a good hand to choose to call with. I weighed it all up, tried to get a read from him etc and folded. I'm obviously very unsure about it but I think if you are in a soft tournament with a soft field passing spots and being cautious may be the best decision and something I haven't done previously. I didn't have Kh btw fwiw.
I came back from the break now with 40k instead of the 100 that I had previously. I then had another really interesting spot where I wanted to call the river.
I raise QJss UTG, sb (Macau) peels and bb (very very splashy italian reg opening k9o utg) peels.
Flop Ts 8h 4h, the bb decided to lead 4500, I obviously can't fold here, Macau guy folds.
Turn Ts 8h 4h 8s, very interesting turn. I think betting is probably best with all the equity we have, he checks and I decided to bet 6100 and he called.
River was Ts 8h 4h 8s Tc and he snap went all in. I've played this funky goofy style he is playing and jammed rivers here, but he is sqaurely repping solely Tx here and I felt super unlikely he would play Tx like this. 1) Lead flop, seems unlikely, felt more drawy, 2) If he leads Tx because of the draws why not bet turn that doubles the flush draw combos??? 3) Why snap go all in and not think about it, act weak etc? It felt like he could maybe have 4x, 77, j9, hearts etc, theres a chance he just has K2hh which would suck. This was for my tournament life, if I fold I have 20k, if I call and win I'm back upto 75-80k or whatever. I always called previously, I was always the hero, my instinct told me to call, everything told me to call, but for whatever reason I folded, I know it sounds absurd that I'm unhappy I folded Q high for my tournament life and for different reasons I'm very happy I folded and other reasons I'm very unhappy I folded.
orbits later I jammed a9o vs a very loose opener with a big stack from France and unfortunately he had AA and it was gg on the flop.
I think I appraoched this EPT and in general live poker way differently to previously. I basically aired on the side of caution and didn't push things, folded a lot, folded lots of close raise spots etc. Maybe if I had played differently I would have had 200k right now, but I feel like if I could look behind my back and see myself playing I would be very content and happy that I took the nitty options as thats something I've struggled with previously.
I will skip the 5k tomorrow because I think the mark up I charged isn't fair as the structure is a turbo and it will be very tough for me to be +ev at 1.18 and don't want to just try to gamble it up. If it were rescheduled for another stop and the rake was different I may sell at no markup. I will refund investors tomorrow.
Looking forward to vegas!
I approached day 1 very well after speaking to Rob Tinnion on Skype. I sat upright all day, good posture, good attention and didn't play any 4bet pots all day, I played ranges appropiately and played exploitatively.
I think I made a mistake with JJ, tight old Italian fish raised to 500 and I decided to flat intead of 3bet. He had around 12-3k and I ended up losing a pot against somebody who cold called behind on QQ287 where I bet 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 and folded to min raise on the river. I think I should have a linnear range here when 3betting and had previously 3bet KQo vs him in a postion where I would never 3bet KQo but have been working on different 3bet strategies vs different calling ranges and it was the highest ev play.
I had a good table, only 2 good regs, one was Martin Jacobson who is probably the best player I've ever played with live, I tried to remember what my mental coach told me about not battling with good players and exploiting the weaker players.
I had one other decision I was very unsure about. 2 orbits left of the day. I open off 45k to 1500 at 600bb, btn who played extremely tight but now seems to be playing aggressive 3bets to 4600 off 90k, I have KTcc. Very tough spot pre, I think I could 4bet as he will be over 3betting and its probably the highest EV play. I decided to call though, definitely debatable.
Flop KQ2r, he cbets 3800, I have a pretty easy call.
Turn KQ25xxss, I check, he bets 8100, seems very tough spot now, hes setting up big river bet and I get to the river pretty weak, I'm perceived to be 4betting KK/QQ pre and potentially raising KQ to his small flop size, although all of the above is perhaps incorrect.. I think turn is very marginal and perhaps somewhat regret it, but decided to call. Very unsure and happy on input here.
River KQ25Jxxsss I guess I just always lose this hand now, I don't think donking is good, c/f seems very good, especially without the Ks. He checked back a worse hand though which was very surprising and imo pretty bad.
I ended the day with 65k. I did one huge bluff but it would take about 30 lines of text to write so won't write that, it was pretty good though I think.
Day 2
My starting table was pretty tough, I flatted QQ to Jason Wheeler pre for deception in a spot and folded on Axx
We moved table and I went to 90k from 50k pretty quickly. I played a cool hand vs Macau businessman.
I called his 2500 open pre in the bb (he was in button) with Kh Qd, flop was J98hhh, i c/called 3500, turn was Td and I led 2100. I love this sizing because if he has a flush he raises 100% but flats basically everything else, when he flats I can super bomb rivers vs him and he's going to think I'm fos. Turn size was like 2000 into 14000 and would perhaps bet 23k on the river. When I check back often he checks back or doesnt valuebet qx twice and I can't c/r turn for value as my hand isn't strong enough.
He calls. River is J98hhh T J and I would always check my entire range here 100% of the time but vs a mark I think betting exploitatively 5400 is the best play, he called with q6.
I then had my first big dent of my stack. I raised to 2400 at 1kbb, Eugene flat the hijac and the Macau guy made it 7500 in the bb. We know from this sizing he's never squeezing light because he's using a sizing that will never get folds from Eugene, so it would be nonsensical to squeeze a hand as weak as say a3o and generally bb squeezing ranges will be (rightfully) strong. I had JJ and decided to flat and Eugene flat behind.
I knew I had red JJ and the flop was A93ddd, and Macau bets 8000 into 28000, I think he is likely to overcbet hands such as QQ/KK/AQ/AK and I think the fact I don't have to double check my suits is a very strong move, I made it 20300, into 36000 giving myself a good price and IMO a good % chance to win the hand. If he does flat I also have equity. Flatting here would definitely be an option, but another thing is that when I raise Eugene has to fold AQ/AK if he has it (pretty sure he plays it the same) but the downsides are when I raise flop and Macau jams AK no diamond I throw away a lot of equity, but part of the reason for raising was because I assumed he would b/f AK no diamond a tonne of the time based on reads. He snap jammed and ofc I folded. I really don't regret the hand, but I lost around 30% of my stack.
An orbit later OMGITSHUNT, opens UTG to 2300 out of 80K and I flat KK in the cut off. Of course 3bet is ok, but I think flatting is better for lots of reasons. BB who was weak (
) flat and we got the Q72hh board. OMG cbets 3500, i call ofc and bb calls quickly. I assume often they will check to me on turns, I will bet and they will likely call once between them and perhaps twice.The turn was the Q725hhdd and OMG bet 12k into I guess 18. This may not seem big but live this is a big bet. I checked my stack and this would leave 40k into 40k so it seemed like he was setting up a river shove. I call of course and bb seemed to reluctantly fold a queen.
River was Q725Jhhddh and OMG took 1 minute and bet 24500 out of 40k effective. Such a weird bet size, he set it up for river shove now uses this sizing. I was very, very confused. I tanked around 10 minutes into the break and a big rail of people came to watch the hand. I didn't really like that and kinda hoped they would just go and take a piss.
I figured if he has all flush draws he likely gets to the river with all diamonds too, its very likely that I fold all non flushes on the river and call all flushes on the river to any size. Was he just trying to risk less with diamonds. Previously in EPT's I've been a huge station on rivers and never ever been good in the big pots. I started visualizing back to 5x tournaments where I've called rivers then afterwards regretted it, I really needed to take time to make sure I didn't call here then regretted it. I eventually folded which at the time felt a huge fold but may be really standard. I'm happy I took the time and folded but very unsure on my rationale behind it. I considered so much stuff in the hand such as 1) did he even expect me to call all fd's on the turn? 2) how far up in my range am i? 3) is this even combos wise a good hand to choose to call with. I weighed it all up, tried to get a read from him etc and folded. I'm obviously very unsure about it but I think if you are in a soft tournament with a soft field passing spots and being cautious may be the best decision and something I haven't done previously. I didn't have Kh btw fwiw.
I came back from the break now with 40k instead of the 100 that I had previously. I then had another really interesting spot where I wanted to call the river.
I raise QJss UTG, sb (Macau) peels and bb (very very splashy italian reg opening k9o utg) peels.
Flop Ts 8h 4h, the bb decided to lead 4500, I obviously can't fold here, Macau guy folds.
Turn Ts 8h 4h 8s, very interesting turn. I think betting is probably best with all the equity we have, he checks and I decided to bet 6100 and he called.
River was Ts 8h 4h 8s Tc and he snap went all in. I've played this funky goofy style he is playing and jammed rivers here, but he is sqaurely repping solely Tx here and I felt super unlikely he would play Tx like this. 1) Lead flop, seems unlikely, felt more drawy, 2) If he leads Tx because of the draws why not bet turn that doubles the flush draw combos??? 3) Why snap go all in and not think about it, act weak etc? It felt like he could maybe have 4x, 77, j9, hearts etc, theres a chance he just has K2hh which would suck. This was for my tournament life, if I fold I have 20k, if I call and win I'm back upto 75-80k or whatever. I always called previously, I was always the hero, my instinct told me to call, everything told me to call, but for whatever reason I folded, I know it sounds absurd that I'm unhappy I folded Q high for my tournament life and for different reasons I'm very happy I folded and other reasons I'm very unhappy I folded.
orbits later I jammed a9o vs a very loose opener with a big stack from France and unfortunately he had AA and it was gg on the flop.
I think I appraoched this EPT and in general live poker way differently to previously. I basically aired on the side of caution and didn't push things, folded a lot, folded lots of close raise spots etc. Maybe if I had played differently I would have had 200k right now, but I feel like if I could look behind my back and see myself playing I would be very content and happy that I took the nitty options as thats something I've struggled with previously.
I will skip the 5k tomorrow because I think the mark up I charged isn't fair as the structure is a turbo and it will be very tough for me to be +ev at 1.18 and don't want to just try to gamble it up. If it were rescheduled for another stop and the rake was different I may sell at no markup. I will refund investors tomorrow.
Looking forward to vegas!