Sunday Saver Series: iPoker Hand History Review with Chris Moon (Part 4)
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Concepts In This Video: 3-Betting • Final Table • hand History • Heads Up • High Stakes • ICM • iGaming • Post-flop
peppergrinder
Congrats on the win and producing a great video with a clearly explained thought process in lots of interesting situations. Learned a lot about ICM final table considerations. You really took control and put them in some tough spots.
Riar
I usually dont comment often but the 55 hand was pretty intresting !! Chris do you really have a bluffing range on that turn ? or is it completely unbalanced ? because I personally dont have a bluffing range there ( i would call the turn and bluff some rivers with a fd), so if you do I would like to know with what hands you would bluff there…I agree with you that there are quite a few scary river cards for our villain’s range but usually, and in this case particularly, that turn raise LOOKS SUPER STRONG imho: i think a good player could fold AA KK QQ there, so since we dont want those hands to fold, i think we have 2 options here: we either construct a bluffing range for that turn so we can bluff him off those hands when we dont have a hand or we change our line to get value from those hands when we have a monster. (or we keep being exploitable which in mtt is not that big of a deal afterall)
Since i Already asked you about how to construct the bluffing range I ll talk about alternatives lines:
You immediately discarded raising the flop but i wouldnt be so sure about it: i mean we are 5 handed on a paired board with a flush draw against a good aggressive player I know it sounds crazy but maybe raising that flop is not such a bad idea imo, what you say it’s true cause we do make him fold a lot of air , but:
1) i also think that with that air he is not going to second barrell that often
2) our percived raising range on that flop is A LOT weaker/wider that our turn rasing range (i mean we could be raising this flop with a TON of weakish stuff: fd, oe, gutshots, pocket pairs like 88 99 just to make him fold two overcards
3)i mean WHAT ARE WE RAPRESENTING THERE with a raise ??!! a skilled opponent with good hand reading skills would never put us on FH here therefor by raising we give him a chance to spaz out or raise to get it in with a FD (AKhh AQhh KQhh etcetc)
4) we give him a change to get it in with AA KK QQ that could fold on next streets
Instrested in hearing what you think =)
Please forgive my english, and the long comment, I hope I made myself clear enough
peppergrinder
So final table last night down to 7 players, one huge stack played like a rock, 2 big stacks about the same, me in the middle and 3 short stacks. The rock just sat and waited, the 2 big stacks kept attacking each other, 3 small stacks basically blinded off before making a move with no FE – everyone played in the worst way correct? I basically played patiently picked some spots to steal the blinds and chipped up a little without taking too many risks and let them destroy each other…..I think watching this video the day before really helped me. I ended up HU which made me pretty happy since I got to FT without too many chips. Thanks!
FatHarryPotter
Enjoyed this Chris!
Well done for trying something a little different and focusing on the general game strategy and table/player adjustments as opposed to the usual monotony of some HH reviews.