17 Responses to “Sunday 500 – Hand History Review with Andrew Brokos (Part 1)”

  3. Riar

    Great video Andrew, i had a couple of questions:
    -In the A8o limped pot, It’s true that as you said we might even have the best hand but being oop doesnt allow us to check call here, so since we have a lot of good backdoors (so a lot of good 2nd barreling cards) what about leading instead of checking ? we make him fold small pairs that he might limp with or we could get called by worse hands like draws…
    -If pablito 4bets you (I’m talking about the second AJo that you tribet and flop trips) how would you proceed ?

  4. Foucault

    Thanks, good questions.
    1. Betting looks good, maybe even better than checking. A lot comes down to how passive he’ll be. If he checks back a lot when he has nothing, then I prefer checking the A8.
    2. I think call a tiny 4b (easier to do that IP) and fold to a larger one.

  5. Sen

    Yep, very nice content and analysis as expected. What would TPE be without your input? – Well, it would still be great… but maybe not awesome!
    Btw: Lots of famous “faces” in this one! I would be scared to death (or maybe overmotivated… which can result in some bad outcomes, too).

  7. Carlos

    38-40 min Small suited connectors.

    I 3-bet these in position vs some aggro players who may not be positionally aware. Although they cant make top pair often, they make good barreling hands that allow me to rep top pair plus when combined with the fact that I 3bet.

    I wouldn’t do this against just anybody, but I would against the most aggro players. If nothing else, I would try it once to see if they are going to let me get away with it. If they fight back effectively, then I would fold them preflop going forward. I probably just fold suited one gappers right away, unless I’ve seen a guy open a ton and fold to a 3bet OOP before.

  8. Carlos

    44 min A5s utg.

    I open this every time. Should I be tighter from this spot and does the level of competition you are up against factor into the decision to fold with a hand like this?

    Good point about letting the game come to you. I tend to be the type to play overly aggressive in the early going in order to set up an image that will get me paid off later or I sometimes play a nitty image earlier that will let me steal later. It all depends on what the table lets me get away with. I start by observing what others are getting away with and then testing my theories when I get a hand that plays decently well post.

  9. spfeifer22

    Great video again! In the 99 hand at the end, we don’t have correct odds to set mine do we? But is it OK because we’re planning to continue on many flops?

  10. Foucault

    I find that in the early stages of MTTs a lot of people are way too tight when it comes to spots like this, and you can exploit that by just not giving them action. That said, you’re right that as a hand with decent blocker value (though you do block some of the hands you’re trying to put pressure on as well, such as AQ and KQ) that isn’t quite good enough to call, it’s a viable light 4B candidate.

  11. Foucault

    Makes sense given this read, but be careful about extrapolating too much from a small sample. Most players who have been opening a ton know they have been opening a ton and expect people to play back at them. Also the fact that he’s folded to a 3bet before doesn’t necessarily establish that much, maybe he just had the bottom of his range that time.

  12. Foucault

    You should in general play fewer hands against tougher competition, but it’s also more important to be balanced and hard to read. With 100BB stacks or with antes out there I would play this. Probably it’s quite close to neutral in this spot, which makes me want to fold it.
    Re: your second para, I’ll repeat my point about small samples. What “the table” has been doing has more to do with the hands people have been dealt than the way they play. You’re dealing with eight different players, not a table, and for the most part those players are just playing the cards they are dealt.

  14. mike666

    At 36 min with AJo hand: isn’t it too lite to 5 bet and get it in? I don’t expect villain to be 6 bet bluffing here and I also see that we are about 100bb deep. So how about 5 betting and then folding to his shove?

  15. Foucault

    I just listened to my analysis of this hand and I don’t think I ever advocated calling a shove. But yes, I think it’s one of the weaker hands I’d 5-bet in this spot and consequently not a good hand to call a shove with.

  17. Foucault

    If you want to watch people play a lot of hands with no explanation, PokerStars replays the final tables of the Sunday Million and other big tournaments with all hole cards exposed. I think, though, that you’ll learn a lot more quickly from hearing thought processes explained instead of trying to guess at why players make the plays that they do.

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