43 Responses to “Bigdogpckt5’s Sunday Million Back to Back Win Hand History Review – Week 2 (Part 4)”

  1. mikewebb68

    At the end, before you even took an action, I was thinking that you were just going to raise the flatter, only because since he has tangled with you before, knows you’re agg, and thus might be flatting the shover with a monster. Was a bit surprised given that dynamic that you shoved. That’s the ONLY reason why I didn’t like the shove, given just about all other reads in the scenario I thought the play was 1 million percent correct. Your thoughts?

  3. pocketsims

    As soon as I see him flat oop i think it is 44 55 66 77 somewhere in there and figured bigdogs raise wld squeeze him off of it. Maybe he was setting that play up it was a smart play just got unlucky. i wld make the same play bigdog did as im sure every1 else wld too.

  6. cap

    in 35:00 with the QKs i feel you played great until the river. in that board the only hand that beats you is 66 or 33 , so its most likely that the guy was floating and just bluffing the turn. he never takes that line of 3betting you on the turn with showdown value hands like 88,99 etc.. . so given how shallowed is his value range, isnt better to check the river? ill guess the only hand you get value that he would check back the river is 66.
    great series, you are the legend!!

  7. W1ispher

    Love the point about stack preservation mode and slight change in hands you would otherwise play, when you feel field is generally week and you are able to exploit more spots against “lessor”players.Its something i feel i can adapt into my play in one particular tourney i play regularly whereby i feel only 10 per cent of field can win.

  8. W1ispher

    with regards to aj shove at end, i would have put flat caller on small to medium pair alot more often than big pairs or ak(that is hands he may call your allin with) and therefore think my aj shove was fine to get flat caller to fold most times, taking into account his and your stack size. Another point is i think AK caller should have shoved his stack to isolate, after all , should you call, he is out of position with his ak and does not know where he is should his hand not flop nicely..your thoughts bigdogs?

  11. W1ispher

    P.S if you agree that he should have ideally tried to isolate with his AK then that would make me think AK even more unlikely he flatting with

  13. jpizzle107

    I agree that the flat looked super inducive given the dynamic between bigdog and the flatter. It seems to me he would be isolating with weaker hands like smaller pairs there knowing that big dog is likely to iso when he flats. I thought big pair or AK as soon as he flatted given the brief history between them. Seemed sneaky.

  17. gutbuster200

    Myself I would induce call with AK and JJ + I think AK is a great hand to induce with given people likely jamming range. ATs+ and 88+

  18. jpizzle107

    I agree with you 100% gutbuster. I think he traps with AK there because big dog is the only action left and will most likely isolate with a lot of hands that are dominated by AK.

  19. HoldemHero

    I think the push with AJ was a mistake, you have tangled with him several times, he folded all those times, you’ve been very agg at the table so far, he knows whats coming, his only reason to smoothe call is he has a monster, but I’m a fish. Love your commentary, awesome, thank you!

  20. W1ispher

    not sure if there are “a lot” of hands that big dogs will push here which are dominated by ak..subject to what bigdogs says in his pushing range i would only imagine two hands aj aq.

  25. Clarke206

    I love the AJ shove at the end and don’t think there are any other options really. I don’t understand his flat with AK but gg hand him I guess, whatever. I think he’s folding almost all of the time including hands like 22-88 or even 99 and AQ. I’d try to isolate the initial shover every time unless there were HUGE ICM implications in which case I’d tear my hair out.

  26. Clarke206

    Also, against bad players, you’ll get called off with AQ but you’ll also get called off with other weaker aces which is awesome.

  28. black666

    in the KQ hand where you river a full house villain obviously had 66 .. pretty standard fold for him at that point. he is never b/3betting the turn without the near nuts.

  31. J-Tyler2008

    Hi i’m new to tpe and fairly new to MTTs so would really appreciate if someone explains if and where my thinking is wrong :D.

    The final hand of the vid because the flatter had KAs would his play be to Iso big dog because of the few hands they had previously played? If he was setting up the squeeze from Big Dog shouldn’t he have had at least a pair in the pocket?

    Thanks guys

  32. ehhh7

    I don’t get the defend with K, 5… you said he’s a competent player, and he’s 2.5xing a 17BB stack

    I don’t get what the plan for defending was

  35. foxforcefour

    Really can’t agree on “totally standard” with the shove on the last hand. It’s apparently one of the valid options and without knowing how competent the villain is, would he really flatting small / medium pairs instead of iso raising there against a similar stack? I would obviously expect him to raise/induce with AK as well instead he decides to trap with (which I believe is the wrong play). Considering him to be a somewhat decent player, what other hands than premiums (JJ/QQ – AA) would really make sense to flat/induce? Also, would be interesting to know how the bidgdog would have played the villains hand, stiing in his shoes…

  36. icantmtt

    black_aces72 should be shoving this everytime because even though he has AK its still only an A high hand. By shoving he takes the play away from the bigdog.

    Nice shove from the bigdog imo. If I was in that spot I could easily put sb on Axs, 22-88, KJs+

    nh bigdog

  37. Ian Griffin

    hey man i just wanted to say I am fairly new to the site and glad that I became a part of it. I have viewed a variety of videos from a few of the pros on this site. Not to take anything away from them cause I have learned from and enjoyed their videos as well.. However I find your vids to be the best. I say that cause I like your play style. I also like your commentary. And being as though I was already experinced player before I joined this site, I just feel as though the way that you go through your hands your explenations are straight to the point with still giving good insight to what your thinking and why. So I just wanted to say thanks and let you know that I have learned heaps in a short amount of time on this site mainly just from watching you.

  38. G_bergs

    A day ago happened the same situation with me. Played micro mtt at ftp. Hade nice deep run, two tables left. CU shoved his ~7bb, SB snap called, i on the BB jamed with AJo.SB and i haved even stacks. I decided that im dominating SB. He showed some fishy stuff before. SB called my jam and turned over KK. No Ace on the board, i busted 14th.

    I allways get a bit suspicious when have to face with situations like that, unfortunetly i had solid hand to jam

  40. Fabioxaxinho

    The whole video you talked about stack preservation and then you shove an AJo? He would only call with hands better than yours (99+, AQs, AK) for 220k. Sorry, but I think you just contradicted yourself.

  41. AK Mr Blonde

    Its hard for me to say what i wouldve done in that situation at the end. my thinking would be by shoving all in right there, black aces would fold most the time just to see what range i was shoving with, but of course black aces isnt folding AK

  42. Sanzei

    I’m kind of a newbie at poker and MTT’s in particular, only won a few micro tourneys, but I felt like I wanted your input on this particular thought looking at your final hand in the video (AJ shove into the flat).
    Most often than not isolation shoves are to get better hands to fold when your facing a guy with a wide shoving range, am I correct in assuming this or do I have the whole concept wrong?
    If we assume I’m correct on the above, shouldn’t his pure flat raise some kind of warning bells considering he’s willing to let you come along into the hand cheap? I’m probably not good enough to read opponents or ranges yet and I might be wrong about this, but this thought just popped up into my head immediately as the hand progressed and I wanted your input on it. So what do you think?

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