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Poker Video: MTT/SNG by Ansky (High Stakes)

Thx for all the great vids Dani! You are really doing a great job, grats.

Dani,

Keep it up...your vids are always well articulated and you're always honest with your self-assessment of your play. In particular I like that you limp the 88, talk about how you might sometimes limp a button, talk about your reasons for raising bigger than most MTT regs, and defend T6o in the BB. All this stuff is unconventional, but the thought processes you use are good. MTT regs are wayyyy too tight vs minraises in the big blind IMO, the price they're getting is just too good, and I'm not sure if they are afraid to play postflop or just following the masses who try to develop and define "proper MTT theory"

great vid, watching it made me realise what a donkey I am

needs more minraising

"Well that's it for this episode of whatever tournament series this is gonna be on"

^^Love it.
Couple things I kind of disagreed with in today's games but overall a nice video, some really good points raised. Thanks.

Couple things I kind of disagreed with in today's games but overall a nice video, some really good points raised.

Care to elaborate? Would be interesting for us viewers to hear both sides.

Dany Stern ladies and gentelmen

even though i`d like to see more cash from you, rather than donkaments thx anyways

Good stuff, looking forward to the next part.

Care to elaborate? Would be interesting for us viewers to hear both sides.

Sure, and it's nothing too major really, but I do think there's more room to minraise/make very small opens in spots where Dani seemed to hate it. Think there was one spot where a regular opened minimum with like 25-35bb's and while it may well not be optimal against ansky specifically in the BB, generally speaking there's really not a better raise size IMO when you have those awkward stacks and can save money the times you get re-shoved on/give less incentive to get re-shoved on in the first place [when there's less money in the pot to steal] in addition to some post flop considerations (pot size being the most obvious).
I do think the idea of raising bigger with those deeper stacks of higher buy in/good structured tournaments with reasonably sized ante's is a great point and one that most people brush past and I thought he did a great job of explaining that stuff as it relates to this tourney, but I still think most people don't defend wide enough to small opens so it's going to be OK more often than not.
People should be careful though because a lot of what he's saying in this regard doesn't necessarily apply to your daily $55 Freezeouts the same way. Pretty important to keep in mind considering most tournament grinders will be playing those fields more often than these 1k WCOOPs.

Probably obvious to you all, but have to make it clear here that Dani is far and away a much more advanced poker mind than I am and I'm sure he had great reasons for doing everything he did. If anything the little things that seemed 'off' to me were more a reflection of the way that MTTs have evolved to this point in 2010 moreso than any ideological difference in strategy considerations.

Really interesting Dani
Thanks !

Time Link to 00:10:13

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Cg6oXDn-ZQ (at 3:00)

Sure, and it's nothing too major really, but I do think there's more room to minraise/make very small opens in spots where Dani seemed to hate it. Think there was one spot where a regular opened minimum with like 25-35bb's and while it may well not be optimal against ansky specifically in the BB, generally speaking there's really not a better raise size IMO when you have those awkward stacks and can save money the times you get re-shoved on/give less incentive to get re-shoved on in the first place [when there's less money in the pot to steal] in addition to some post flop considerations (pot size being the most obvious).
I do think the idea of raising bigger with those deeper stacks of higher buy in/good structured tournaments with reasonably sized ante's is a great point and one that most people brush past and I thought he did a great job of explaining that stuff as it relates to this tourney, but I still think most people don't defend wide enough to small opens so it's going to be OK more often than not.
People should be careful though because a lot of what he's saying in this regard doesn't necessarily apply to your daily $55 Freezeouts the same way. Pretty important to keep in mind considering most tournament grinders will be playing those fields more often than these 1k WCOOPs.

Probably obvious to you all, but have to make it clear here that Dani is far and away a much more advanced poker mind than I am and I'm sure he had great reasons for doing everything he did. If anything the little things that seemed 'off' to me were more a reflection of the way that MTTs have evolved to this point in 2010 moreso than any ideological difference in strategy considerations.

exactly what i thought watching this, though far more eloquent than i would have been

good vid overall alsways good to see deep stacked high buy in MTTs

Time Link to 00:42:54

yah i was thinking that he is more likely to think he may be able to value bet thin on the river then hero call this river. the only problem is: i just think you have the best hand and going to have a hell of a hard time getting value. Im 50-50 on betting and checking. my first thought was to check to. idk.

Time Link to 00:44:27

i dont really like a 3 bet here, and think a lot more often it is a fold. i just dont expect that villain to be bet folding too much, he already has been throwing his stack around a decent amount. and even if you are ahead and he calls, your opening up a ton of variance when you have no reason to.