Pads - just witnessed that brutal river on the $2100 for around 5th in total chips..with 25 remaining

wow what a day lol/

Yesterday I played a session and made day 2 in two amazing tournaments, the $215 6max rebuy which is basically my favourite tournament, and the $2k 8 max which is pretty reggy but very fun. We were around $20k behind the Swedes in the bet, but I had around 10k locked up here, day 2 started at 3pm, so I had to start 3 hours earlier than normal, which I was really concerned would **** my rhythm up.

Woke up at 1pm, watched Arsenal/Chelsea and got Sunday roast.

Got back just in time and built up my stack in 215r. Bust out hand was relatively interesting, fishy kinda guy opens cut off and I have like 28bbs in the sb with 99, obv absolutely loving life, I think I would sometimes induce here vs certain guys, but jammed this time. He kinda tanked a bit and called KK got a decent score in like 15th though and confidence was high.

Had to reg the other tables and wait 4-5 hours for the second day 2. Playing was pretty fun, I made sure that I would play 8 tables max, so I wouldnt be overcrowded for the day 2.

Day 2 came around and I build up 3x my stack early and then played this hand.

https://www.boomplayer.com/25287709_EC076FDA30

Can't remember exact stacks left in the tournament, but we were down to 3 tables and this would give me really great stack. His call is just absolutely absurd, but we have to remember that we want him to make the call. I shouted really loud words I cannot write in this blog, but believe me it wasn't pretty. My dog came upstairs, I think she thought I was calling her name to give her some food lol.

Anyway, I had some good stacks so plowed on, I got 2 big stacks, one in the Sunday Grand and one in the 5k on Party. I was 5 handed on party, locked up $35k and then had the most ridic hand I've played on an ft I think



My friends were telling me that they thought raise would look too strong, but I just know how these guys think and how they respond to playing vs me. River I kinda couldnt believe it, I thought I had misread the action or the board or the hands or something, just couldnt understand how he had called. Whatever though, again we need these guys to make these calls for us to be able to keep putting bread on the table

Also an important thing here is not being entitled, we have to remember the times that I won AQ v AK aip or 77 v AK for big pot etc, sure we may not get it in with such low equity, but even getting like AA v KK for chiplead is getting super lucky, whenever youre on an FT, everybody on the table including yourself has ran amazing to get there, unfortunately as humans we just remember the last hand more than the rest usually, and unless you win the tournament, you always fool yourself that your'e most unlucky guy, ofc its not true!

Anyway, one last table and had the $1k. 39 left, 31 paid, I guess average is like 30bbs, I open and get called by VAMO South American guy

https://www.boomplayer.com/25291474_29B356AEBE

I think flop is standard/vg, but turn I think is diceeeyyyyyyy, pot is just so huge though, so I guess we close our eyes and get it in, god knows though. Obviously kinda unfortunate, but guess I did get the majority of the money in dead.

On a scale of 0-100 I want to play tomorrow around about a 3/100. Lets see how I wake up though.

Jfc some of those hands

Btw betinoleg = nikolasdlp on stars and is also chipleading 1k phase last 9 now

Are they one tabling or what? I checked on sharkscope and two of them have played 3k-4k tournaments a year. Hardly impressive. If you want to see something sick check markovitsus. I would say that guy has some heart.

they are using lots of sites/screen names, play all live stops, all way through vegas etc, they really play more than anybody at hsmtts i think.

"My friends were telling me that they thought raise would look too strong, but I just know how these guys think and how they respond to playing vs me."

Is this just seen as openly acceptable these days? Discussing spots in real time with a group of your stable friends?

Stables obv good for poker

[ ] TOS one player per hand

Btw congrats on scores pads and guess u also win week 2 of bet, shame romeo is not part of bet this time he is crushing

No. Flop comes, "wowwwww got the ****ing nuts" I'm going to min raise, these guys never fold vs it" "wow that looks super strong, I just call these spots" "nahhh this is way better"

I actually think, even if you have like the 2 best players in world next to you, changing what you're doing because of what they think is very very bad, not ethically, but just because you know the gameflow, your own image, and lots of small thigns they cant see from glancing over to your screen for a second. I would never ghost horses deep in tournaments, not just because of morals etc, but because they will actually know better than me a lot of the time. Very dangerous to do something that your brain tells you is wrong.

But yeah, definitely not asking people in game for help, I often actually wind friends up, lets say this was the board and I have A8o, I tell them I have 72s and I think its great spot to bluff because they are going to overfold and they must be thinking wtfffff

At least he ignored their advice I guess.

Then it makes sense. Live events take forever. Would you say there's any value playing live tournaments? Just from hourly perspective.

Suprised to see you flat 75s in sb (definitely not saying it's wrong or I think it's bad etc, just suprised it was a flat), and then lead it. Would be curious to hear more about the thought process behind it if possible, and perhaps some of the other hands you lead in this spot.

Passive BB who wont squeeze very often, very very good price, know how opener and button play very well, will be able to get a lot of value that I shouldnt get, like leading this flop+turn size.

See from V perspective, why is this call absurd?
You play your hand like 76 or 97, maybe JT, you have to admit, your line looks somehow (semi)bluff heavy. People dont expect you to flat 75s, donking huge into 3 players, and then overpot jamming turn. I dont think his call is that absurd as you think just because he made running boat and got lucky.

Sharkscope Groupe Name ?

Besides JT, what exactly is TT beating here? Ideally, pads has JTs/98s/66/99/88 that he plays this way. I don't think he leads 97s or 76s here 4ways. Villain is blocking pads' (likely) only semibluff here and has 19% equity vs the range I listed. If we add in 76s and 97s it's a call.

Why should pads lead here strong hands, and even lead almost pot size on this flop? And overpot shoving Turn with a boat? I just dont see it.

First of all thanks for replying. I initially asked what other hands you're leading in this spot, but I of course understand why you omitted that part in your response. I still don't like the call pre, despite your reasons (I was reluctant to give my thoughts on the hand at all as I feel a bit silly as an average CG player telling a HSMTT player "I think pre is bad"), happy to hear any other readers' thoughts on it though.

Secondly I don't think his call is as bad as you make it out to be. If his call is really bad then surely our flop leading range is super imbalanced towards nutted only hands. I guess it all boils down to his perception of what your range is preflop and then your range is for leading the flop. I think his call is somewhat ambitious because the 8 is a much worse 'board pairing' card than a 6 or a 9. Reason being is that I imagine a chunk of your semi-bluff flop leading range is hands like 78/T8. Having said that if we do have a leading range here OTF then 8x would be a decent hand to put into our x'ing OTT.

I guess I'm just thinking about what we balance our flop leading range with (if we need to have a flop leading range at all 4 handed otf in a srp sb vs bb vs ep vs btn).

Really interesting spot and cool hand to discuss. Curious to hear any other thoughts.

stfu

lmao

The bigger question is how can we apply any of this to improve our Run It Thrice skill

hahaha

Hey - any chance of a YTD graph for the whole stable? That is one of the coolest things from this thread and I'd be keen to see how it's coming along.

Are those Vlogs you talked about earlier still on the to-do list?

Hey pads, really unfortunate about that hand ;(.

How is the bet against the swedes going?

Not even sure who to root for here!