October 20th, 2022. This likely won't be too detailed for now as I have to sleep, but here's what we have:
Tournament 1 (PKO) 12th of 47 entrees :
I played overall well, and was +cEV by the time I busted out in 12th of 47 entrees after 1hr 45. I lost with QQ vs villians Ace King so not a bad spot but things just didn't pan out which is unfortunate, but that's the game and soon I will be on the other side off the variance.
https://www.cardschat.com/replayer/59pM1zT
My worst hand I played was one in which I got top pair trash kicker. I felt like I was being bluffed as villian bet the 7 high flop and then continued the turn. I felt like it could be a standard flop c-bet then villian just trying to keep up the story on the Queen turn. I re-raise as there's no way he has not pair anymore is what I figured. Oh course he wins with Q7s 2 pair.
https://www.cardschat.com/replayer/59pM1sz
Best hand was this one in which I got great value out of King Jack using a pot based bet sizing pot flop and betting as I thought I had the best hand. The reason I called the river bet was I figured there was no way he wouldn't of bet by now on this super wet board without something by now to somehow hit a river flush although I acknowledge now there is some flushes he could of had, I thought this was him trying to make a final attempt to save himself and bluff me on the river. Guys like this are why it's hard to tell if I'm getting bluffed on not.
https://www.cardschat.com/replayer/69pM0Mb
Another hand that I did well with was Ace King betting with pot related bet sizings and betting while I still thought I had the best hand. Tips I got from many helpful people on this forum. If this guy called this many times with a bottom pair 9, I'm excited to see myself really start crushing these stakes.
https://www.cardschat.com/replayer/59pM1hy
Tournament 2 (Satellite) 16 of 30 entrees:
Played well for 20 minutes, but then did a bad play as I thought I was getting bluffed... dumb. I lost the hand, and lost the tournament within the next 5 minutes after. Time wasted.....:
https://www.cardschat.com/replayer/29pM5Fa
This is a hand I played well. I had T9 against a LAG player who bets every flop. I check raise him with top pair, decent kicker. I then check raise him on the turn as well. End up getting a good pot here:
https://www.cardschat.com/replayer/29pM5AQ
Tournament 3 (PKO) 10th of 10 entrees:
In this tournament I learned from a spot I had yesterday in which I had QQ and raised 2x. Got raised 3x and then I called as I didn't want to get beaten by Ax without making sure there was no aces on the flop or kings. Went to the river and villian had 77 and I missed out on big value. So I decided this time that I would raise Queens all in and get big value for my hand and get called by the hands like 77 to jj, AK, AQ, AJ all of which I crush.
I 4! all in a and got called with Kings vs Queens so I bust out in the first hand unfortunately... it happens, but it still stinks as I waited 3+ hours to play this MTT and was excited to take it down.
https://www.cardschat.com/replayer/29pM5P9
Ultimately, I think I played this hand right but I'm still learning so we'll see if that holds true. Hand2Note HUD says QQs all in is -cEV. Not really agreeing with that but okay.
Tournament 4 (PKO) 35th of 71 entrees:
I was positive +cEV for this tournament.
I was doing well but unfortunately lost one hand when I didn't hit my outs on the river card. Basically I had a flush draw with 2 overcards on the turn, for 15 outs. I was facing an all in. I quickly calculated my pot odds out to be 15 * 2 - (15 - 8) = 23% and the odds I was getting from the pot was around the same. I couldn't really finish the calcs in time as I only had around 15 seconds total to run both these through Windows calculator, but I knew there were around the same. I decided to make the call, and unfortunately didn't hit it. As I write this I realize I had slightly less than I needed in pot equity to make the call but not sure if the difference is large enough to not make this a situation that can go either way.
https://www.cardschat.com/replayer/39pM9Zy
Right after that hand i ran into a 2 pair on the flop, beaten by the river card. giving my opponent a higher 2 pair. ace 6 2 pair vs ace king 2 pair king on the river.
https://www.cardschat.com/replayer/19pMa86
I keep playing and I work my way back up to a decent middle lower field stack. The blinds eventually go up and at a point I'm with a short stake, and I'm waiting for a playable hand. Unfortunately, I got tired and shoved King Jack suited which was a mistake as I didn't want to be doing that particular play and I lost.
https://www.cardschat.com/replayer/19pMbxb
Overall, I followed the math. It didn't work out this time though.
Tournament 5 (GTD) 7th of 38 entrees:
I joined at late reg. I played myself up to the money bubble. Unfortunately I got into it with a short stack. I knew that any ace would give this guy a straight as it was a 4 card straight board and he had opened the pot as a short stack but by this point I had just gotten to the computer as this was my first tourno in hours. I ended up defaulting to my original play style when I first learned the game which was to make all these crazy bluffs (*sigh*). I tried to bluff the flush but of course guy didn't fold and shows an ace... I then realize we were 1 person away from the money and I stupidly did that and went from like 3rd to last. So dumb.
I busted out with Ace Queen vs TTs.
This tournament was negative cEV all because of that one hand I just described but other than that I played well.
https://www.cardschat.com/replayer/69pMeRY
Now, I did like this one hand in which I had low chips and had a good hand. I decided to min raise blind vs blind from the SB since I knew that would get the villian to shove. He did and I won against Ace 3 with Ace Jack.
https://www.cardschat.com/replayer/69pMeMa
So ultimately I will keep trying and working on my game. Hopefully tomorrow is way better.
Thanks for reading. Feel free to leave constructive feedback below.