Andrew Brokos Reviews Carlos Welch’s Bovada 100k Win (Part 6)
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MORE IN THIS SERIES : Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5
Concepts In This Video: Bovada • C-Betting • Final Table • hand History • Heads Up • High Stakes • Late Stages • Member Spotlight • Popular MTTs: Sundays • Post-flop • pre-flop • tight play
leafsmets
Great series guys. The best videos are the ones with 2 pros discussing the hands. Congrats on the win Carlos!!
Mr Longhit
Congratz with the victory!
Carlos
Thanks man.
Carlos
Thanks man. Glad you guys liked it.
BotswanaNick
Loved this series.
In the early-middle positions, I noticed two things: 1) that Carlos wasn’t opening as wide as Andrew would have liked, and 2) that Carlos was very worried about playing post-flop. Given this, would it make sense for Carlos to use a larger standard open size for this portion of the tournament, say 2.5 or 2.75x? It seems like this size would fit better with his range, and also help discourage players behind calling as often.
Foucault
Yes, good points. As long as you aren’t so shallow that even small raises are rarely flatted by anyone other than the BB, this makes sense.
Carlos
Nowadays, I open wider from EP and MP using a 2.5-3x raise size. Good eye.
BotswanaNick
Let me tell a quick story:
Recently, I have been running bad and losing confidence. Yesterday I joined TPE. Last night and this morning I watched this series. Today, I jumped in couple Bovada tourney’s with renewed focus, and a new strategy: I pretended that Andrew was looking over my shoulder and analyzing every decision I made. Am I going to fold rather than defend here? What does fake Andrew say? “No Nick, with these odds you have to defend this hand!” Ok fake Andrew!
First tourney I played was $40 buy in 5k guaranteed. Guided by fake Andrew, I played great, ran great, and binked it for $1800 and my 2nd biggest Bovada score to date (full disclosure, I did enter 3 tourneys so this method not actually 100% guaranteed:)
I must admit, I still disobeyed fake Andrew a few times when I was too much of a chicken, but overall I was able to find more good folds, more profitable barrels, more steals, and just better, more confident play overall.
Thanks Fake Andrew! And real Andrew and real Carlos!
Foucault
Great! This story gives new meaning to the term “ghosting”.
Carlos
You’re welcome you fucking weirdo.
But seriously, I’ve done the same thing myself. It does work wonders. Nice job Nick!
BotswanaNick
Haha, yeah sorry…I wrote that message while still giddy from the win. I looked back at it later and thought, it’s pretty fucking weird. Oh well.
TheSwede
Great series and Congrats Carlos!
Also thanks for the excelent Thinking Poker podcast that made me find Tournament Poker edge!
Carlos
Thank you! Glad we could help.
Blaz77
awesome series. congrats Carlos. I have loved The Thinking Poker Podcast, new to TPE and looking forward to more great vids. Thanks Andrew, thanks Carlos, Congrats!
cavinchi
“Nice to see you still have some testicles down there” lmao
cavinchi
Good run man, and really nice review this is my 2nd run through. I’m actually playing a final table today in WSOP circuit and wanted to review before I play: )
ArchmanB
I just signed up to the site and this was the first thing I watched. Very well played and great advice from Andrew too!
Chapuisat
Enjoyed the video, 2 great and funny playa. Useful advices. If you want to win a tournament you have to have 4 KKs and win with them. No bad luck in key hands together with good play, meaning victory. That is the receipt. Good job.
cstrom
Way to go Carlos! Enjoy listening to you on Thinking Poker as well. Loved the video. Just joined TPE and glad found this review very helpful.
Paulsstrazdins
I have ti say i liked those series, and found them valuable. literally.. just (10 minutes ago) took second place 16$ Bounty builder on stars. i dont know how live or dead this site is (judging from comments), but just wanted to leave reply. funny thing is, i am leaving a ciment in this section, because i have only gooten so far in the class.. ok, fine, i saw news part one of next series , but you get the point.
watching these series made my thinking so much more relaxed and i would say less stressed – i found thst i can fold connectors in position, i found thst i can have raise/fold range, and i also found raise/call range. it more close to what i played when i was ayi g good, but now i kind of know WHY – again, you get my point 🙂 i lost with QQ to K8 (He was 4 my stack). and also i am happy, I am not EXCITED, because this was only logical tjat i will get there. i had some poor sessions before, but in the back of my mind, i KNEW I am going right way. thanks
Killingbird
Glad you enjoyed it!