Hand 2: Not a fan of the min raise. I don't know what the table dynamics were prior to this…maybe minraises were getting through. I think min-raising is better when you are deeper in tournies and blinds are much larger. The bb here has a big stack and too tempting to call a min raise here for him. May still have called…who knows, but prefer to maybe 2.3-2.5x pre. Have to puke call the shove on the flop, but nice hold.

Hand 5: Like the iso here. Go heads up and not be playing oop.

Hand 13: Checking behind pre is fine to disguise your hand a bit, but I prefer raising his sb limp. You have a decent stack and you can just take it down pre. Again, don't know what previous action was.

Hand 19: Fold after you get 3 bet unless you have a read or villain has been out of line

Hand 23: I still don't know if blind to stack ratio is good enough to be min raising here….with his stack, he's defending that too often. I like the turn bet.

Hand 45: Probably fold the A9 here, open it HJ and probably MP2 as well.

Hand 51: I was going to say you could open here, but I actually like the fold. You would be committed to bb shove here which is 30% of your stack…so good fold.

Hand 91: You mentioned this hand in your notes. You are getting 1.7:1 on your call….so you need 36.7% equity on this hand.  If I used pokerstove correctly (I'm new to this equity stuff) then you should be well ahead of his calling range (I used 99+, AJ+, KQ+) on that board. So I guess mathematically its a call?? Even with 55+ you are still ahead.  Now in game play, I probably fold here cuz I would crap my pants.

Hand 99: I'm trying to be more aware of stack sizes, so with KJ I think with 6 people to go through, and 4 of them reshove stacks I might not open here….thoughts?

Hand 130: Keep your raise size consistent. You might have been trying to look weak by 3x there, but better to just keep your weak hands the same as your big hands.  Also, you folded a few sb in a row to the bb….so a limp may be better and get him to think you are still playing weak.

Hand 147: That's a pretty big 3 bet. bring it down to around 8K, maybe induce a 4 bet or at least get some action with a call (I assume you want it with KK).

Hand 176: Probably open the KQ here. You aren't comitted to any stack if you get repopped.

Hand 193: Again, I think you can open KTs here…only the button has 10 bb stack, and I think he has to have a hand to play. Fold is fine too though…

I think that's it….hope it somewhat helps. Open to discussion on any of the hands I mentioned.

Ok first off I went through this HH by going through the text file, no replayer. So I didnt

really get a feel for the dynamics or anyones table image. I will say that it seems to me

you played a very good game and are probably a better MMT guy than myself. With that being

said here are some comments on some hands in order (sorry I dont have hand numbers). Maybe

you can get something out of my thoughts 🙂

JJ I like the shove on the flop after he reraises us. I figure an over pair repops us

pre flop. So draws are a huge part of his hand range, he could have a set but Im not

folding there.

AK Standard

AA 3bet size looks good.

QJs   You open and get raised OOP, I dont mind flatting because the hand flops well and your both deep.

You flop top pair with a backdoor and an over card. I think I prefer to check/call

depending on his bet size. Our hand could improve or he may slow down. I dont hate the

donk but I wouldnt want to be raised and if he had say AKs its a clear raise for him.

As played I fold also.

KJs   We are in the blinds facing a raise. I like the flat our hand has some strength and

when we totally miss the flop we let go.

97s   I like the open but I think you need to take a stab on that KJx flop which should

more times than not hitting our range. How do you play that when you check and then

he takes a stab at it with his 44 or A5s?

A9 I dont hate the open from EP because you have a food table image but obviously if we

didnt or we thought we would get called a lot OOP we should fold. When we get repopped

its an easy fold. Welll played.

Q9 The open from MP is borderline but you got it through so good read.

QQ I like the shove there, we cant just flat and raising puts too much of our chips in.

AJ The guy shoves like 14 bigs UTG I think the AJ is probably ahead of his range so I like

it.

AT   We need to be a little more consistant with bet sizing and we just mini raised this. Im

not a fan of the mini raise until the blinds are bigger 800/1600 depending on how deep

everyone is. When we bet and he shoves I think we have a clear call.

KJs  Easy raise..easy fold.

76s  When he checks behind on that board I dont think he has a very string hand at all. The

2 is a blank I actually like leading this turn with 3rd pair. We can easily rep the K.

We may have the best hand and we could get some PP to fold. If called we check/fold

river.

KJs I like the open and the fold to the shove from the 24big blind stack.

AQ Standard imo

KK Got it back to back very nice 🙂

KK   I like the 3bet, I may have made it a little bit smaller. I also wonder how he would

have reacted to us jamming making it look like medium PP, AQ, AK??

TT Disciplined fold after an open shove and a reshove.

AA   I like giving this guy some room to double barrel us after he donks that flop. When

he checks the turn I dont like checking behind and I agree that betting is the best

chance of getting some more value.

A9  In the cutoff I would have probably opened this hand.

AA   Your small repop is for over 1/4 of your stack it says to me Im not folding and I want

action. I think you have a better chance of getting action by shoving imo.

AT   I like the open and the fold to the reraise.

K9   Same as the AT we are right around 20 bigs and looking to make something happen. Easy

fold to the raise.

JJ   standard

Great idea for a thread. But I have noticed a few things and have some suggestions to make it easier to read:

All hands include hand number and the Hero's cards.

The hero chose's some hands that we all review. We can then add additional hands we find interesting. I have noticed we seem to pick different hands; would be nice to see why we choose a specific hand.

EDIT: Re-read JDOG1645 post, didn't use a replayer.Fair enough. But use it dude, its annoying otherwise 🙂

Havent heard from Taiji yet on this, hopefully he checks it out.