Just to show you guys some great hands and a bad beat hand from my last tournaments. I have been playing the SNG of 90 players and also some MTT's.
This is my worst bad beat of this month on the final table of the SNG 90 players:
Tripling up my stack with pocket kings:
Playing small and medium pocket pairs is a fundamental play in NL Holdem. When you hit a set and opponents hits something from the board be prepared to take down a big pot:
A flush ace high is always the nuts, the best way to take down a huge pot is when your opponent has also a strong hand like 2 top pairs but you manage to have some luck on the river and make the flush:
Well, sometimes we can face that against us. On this hand I pushed with my 2 pairs and opponent calls and hits trips of deuces on the river:
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Been playing the SNG's of 90 players. I had lost some races on some of them when I push my stack to the table. There was this hand that I pushed with pocket sevens against AKo from the opponent and the ace cames on the river. On another game I pushed with AQs against pocket teens from the big stack opponent and I lost.
I am hitting a downswing on my current results on the 90s after a good period of cashing. I think volume is the key and willing to identify some leaks and pushing ranges to improve the game are also important.
This weekend I will play 2 MTT's, one today and another tomorrow, it will be a big field with more than 4000 players and with a prize pool of more that $4000. I will play my game and lets see how is it going to work out.
Besides the MTT's I have an private invitation for the 2d time for one SNG of 9 players from Cardlovers, I will also play this one on Sunday. On the first one that I played last Sunday I made 2nd place but with some luck because I was sitting out more that 15 minutes due to internet problems.
I will grind some 90s SNG's and I hope I can post some hands on DC forum and also to watch a video from DC that explains how to play on the 180s SNG and extract some ideias and thoughts for the 90s.
My strongest enemy is the time, I had not enough time to do want I want, there is so much to do on the poker world and outside of poker world that sometimes my rest time is afected. I have to manage this better because is very important to have a healthy mind on a healthy body to play good poker and to do all the important things.
ITM: means In The Money When you reach a point on the tourney that more than a 85% of the people were eliminated and you reached the money.
Last days I have been playing the $2K GTD Tournament, simply means a tournament that has a guaranteed prize pool of $2000. Obvious, there are so many entrants that the prize pool is always much, much larger than $2K, usually reach more than $5K. This tourney is everyday at 23h (11 PM) and I played four on the last days. I reached ITM 50% and only ended really deep in one (has posted before).
On the other tourneys that I did not ended so deep I had some bad luck (I guess) and my strong hands were not so strong that I thought they were and I lost (a bad beat? Maybe in one of them). I manage to have a decent stack on each of these hands, but ended screwing things up when I thought that I had the best hand on the board.
The goal of this post is to show you those critical hands.
Hand #1 - Tourney ID: #209010746 Final Place/Total Players: 5643/6316
I more than doubled my stack early with pocket aces. I played this speculative hand with 2 purposes: first to make a flush king high in a cheap way; or 2nd to make top pair, good kicker with Kings; I was not thinking at all in doing a straight.
This saturday I played a MTT (Multi Table Tournament) with almost 5000 players. In fact there were 4998 players on total. I placed 14th and it was my best result ever on a big field tournament, I was almost on the final table.
I did not played any MTT since 20 July, so it was great to have this outcome. I was expecting the first place but I did a stupid push in one of my last hands with a pocket nines and I faced a pocket kings hand and was underdog. Before that hand I was having t490280 chips in 5th place and there were less than 20 players. I should have waited for a better spot to push and double (again) my stack.
Anyway it was a good performance with some good spots to push and it was a good return to MTT's games.
This is the final tournament results:
These are two pictures during the game were I have a great stack to take the 1st place reward, well better next time:
