Hi everyone,

I Recently FT'd the BIG 11$ 40kGTD for the second time in a month, first time came in 2/4637 for 4400$ and last friday chopped it 4ways for 5500$ with 5959 runners

I was wondering if there were poker coachs or trainings websites where I could get my tournments analysed to get an opinion on how much of a factor luck was and get somes advices about later stages in tournaments and some hands that I played.

No denying I got quite lucky in those 2 tournaments but still, I feel like I played them well. My main concern is about the really late stages of the tournaments where I feel like I might be playing too tight in some spots.

Thanks everyone for your answers!

You could post some hands here.

And of course you got lucky. You cannot win a tournament that big without luck.

Yeah of course luck is important to win tournaments but what I mean is there is a difference between running good and luckboxing a tourney.


Anyways, here of the hands that I remembered the most that I would like to know peoples opinions.




Villain was 3betting a lot and playing many hands but this time he 3bet me when i'm UTG so maybed I should've just respected his bet and folded since it was a huge 3bet but I went for the call with AJ suited to see the flop.

flop is 3 low car and gives me a flush draw. so now pot is just a bit under my stack and decides to check my draw. Villain bets more than half pot so at this point I think there are only 2 options fold or shove.

I was thinking that 1/2 pot was way too much for him to have AA KK or QQ because I would fold too often on such board so maybe he had a smaller pair like 88 99 1010 that he would want to protect or even AK AQ that he would try to make me fold my hand.

So I decided to go with the shove hoping he would fold hands like AK AQ and that worst case scenario he had AA wich I tought was very unlikely, I still had the flush draw and that even against KK QQ JJ It would still be a flip with 45% and if he had a smaller pocket I would have been ahead.

So what do you guys think ? Should I have folded that pre if not would you have folded on the flop or shove like I did ?

BTW he had KK wich I think is weird seeing how big he was betting as he would probably not get much value for his hands.


Thanks for your opinions !

I'm not really sure how to play a 30bb stack, but I think I fold to the 3-bet, as I don't really like playing AJ OOP with an SPR of about 1.3. There aren't many flops where you're actually comfortable about getting it in, since villain will often have AQ+ or an overpair.
I don't see much wrong with villain's post-flop sizing. You should have a bunch of (second-best) overpairs on that flop, and villain is all set up to jam the turn.

How many spots paid? This is quite relevant to the preflop decisions. I'd make it 50k with that AJs preflop.

As played you got it in with 45% equity and you're only really worried about three combos of AA that have you crushed; I like it.

If OP has been opening the same amount and stayed balanced in his bet sizing then changing that would be bad.

OP, there are a ton of coaches who can go over a hand history review with you, but why are you wanting to know just about how lucky you got? Of course you need to get lucky and win flips to go deep in MTT's, but if you hire a coach you should want to do that to improve your overall game.

Yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeah you got pretty lucky on this one. Honestly the times the times someone 3bet an UTG+2 raiser with less than JJ is countable on 3 fingers. The call pre was pretty horrible honestly, especially against this big sizing.

Dont let the naysayers put you down buddy. Yes, you must have good luck to bink such large field tournies. But, that's not to say lesser skilled players would replicate the feat (given the exact same scenario).

You are obviously doing a LOT of things well. You say you think you are often playing too tight in the later stages? IMO, you need look no further than the likes of Phil Hellmuth and DN, to see that tight is right during these stages. You could look at it in two ways. Either go crazy and try to find every small edge to accumulate ALL of the chips, or, play tight with surving being the name of the game. Surviving will naturally lead you to earn every chip, anyway.