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Poker Video: MTT/SNG by AMT (Mid Stakes)

Time Link to 01:03:15

ATo hand.
What is the influence of your position for your shove ? 3 ppl remain to act behind you. Do you estimate that your play will induce very tight calls and that this frequency is irrelevant ?

Time Link to 01:09:34

Great video AMT! Keep 'em coming!

Re: how you should structure your videos

If you've seen Bond18 vids, he does a mix of things like, live sweats when he is early/middle/deep depending on what he wants to stress, and stuff like hand history reviews in a hand history replayer.

I'd like to see you go over your hand histories from a big MTT Score, like when you won the 55R or something like that. Just put them all in and go through 1 MTT hand by hand. Your sweat videos so far are awesome too, so keep it up. Thanks!

Hi AMT really like your thoughts and explaining so clear. It makes you think about the game more instead of playing like a robot.

1 question

At 06:07 you had TA in middle position with about 20BB left with antes. Is this a clear fold because of the number of players yet to act?

ATo hand.
What is the influence of your position for your shove ? 3 ppl remain to act behind you. Do you estimate that your play will induce very tight calls and that this frequency is irrelevant ?

Position is very important when considering resteals for a couple of reasons, the most prominent being: a) The # of people left to act behind you influences how often someone 'wakes up with a monster' behind us and b) hand/range strength perceptions are influenced heavily based on game flow and specific seating positions.

So yes, I think in most similar spots, and in this spot specifically, I'd induce a lot of folds behind from better holdings/holdings with a good amount of equity should they decide to get it in. Their frequency of over calling is certainly relevant to me here, but the fact that it is likely to be a very tight range is a good thing for me. We're less likely to see any action behind at all, and while we might be dominated by a AQ/AK type hand when we do get called, we also have ~30%+ equity still with our ace if JJ-KK type hands get it in. If we tried this same resteal vs his UTG open when we are sitting in UTG+1, the frequency with which someone calls behind (and quite possibly the openers range as well) goes up a lot. We do have some advantage in that spot because our UTG+1 resteal looks a lot stronger than LP v LP dynamics generally speaking.

weezy,

Thanks!

Cobrastatus,

Re: how you should structure your videos

If you've seen Bond18 vids, he does a mix of things like, live sweats when he is early/middle/deep depending on what he wants to stress, and stuff like hand history reviews in a hand history replayer.

I'd like to see you go over your hand histories from a big MTT Score, like when you won the 55R or something like that. Just put them all in and go through 1 MTT hand by hand. Your sweat videos so far are awesome too, so keep it up. Thanks!

Thanks a lot for the suggestions, some good stuff there. Haven't seen Bond's videos but have seen several similar to what you're describing. Will keep this in mind when producing future MTT vids.

Hi AMT really like your thoughts and explaining so clear. It makes you think about the game more instead of playing like a robot.

1 question

At 06:07 you had TA in middle position with about 20BB left with antes. Is this a clear fold because of the number of players yet to act?

Thanks!

Couple of reasons why it's a pretty close spot, but why I chose to fold. Firstly, yes, our position is not that great and we have several players behind. That in itself makes this open at a full table somewhat marginal. The other factors involve stack size and the players behind. It's nice to have the antes certainly, but playing our ~21bb stack can still get pretty tricky. Playing post flop without flopping TP+ is going to put us in a lot of difficult spots when called, and while a lot of the table seems to be playing tight/straightforward, we have a loose and splashy player in the BB with a big stack who might make our lives difficult. We're not really prepared to call a re-shove from basically anyone at the table behind, even though someone may well be capable enough at this table to have a hand like KQ/A9s/44.

I think this open can work just fine as a steal attempt, but doesn't have a *ton* of value otherwise so I think it can be argued for either way but folding is just fine. Doubt I'd fold much at this table with ~6k+ to work with, as we have a lot more maneuverability and more potential for gain.

Very good video.

A nice thing in this type of video (rather than hand replayer) is seeing when you fold.
You often discuss with which ranges you perform a certain action - this is very useful.

Great video. I like your explanations of both why you performed certain actions and what would cause you to do something differently.

Time Link to 00:48:16

Aren't you super unbalanced if you're slowplaying/trapping the nuts against him and shipping low pocket pairs? Are you just not worried that he'll pick up on this or are there any hands besides the nuts that you're flatting pre and call/call/raising?

Aren't you super unbalanced if you're slowplaying/trapping the nuts against him and shipping low pocket pairs? Are you just not worried that he'll pick up on this or are there any hands besides the nuts that you're flatting pre and call/call/raising?

Yeah super unbalanced for sure vs. that guy. I'd argue that being balanced vs. someone like him is probably pretty bad as you're not going to get max value in a lot of spots vs. a guy who just likes to put money in the pot vs. any type of passive action but is much more likely to just shut down when you come after him early in a hand. Vs. someone more observant, capable and with an ability to better harness his aggression for the best spots (and some evident ability to hand read) I'm definitely going to be more balanced in this regard and either flatting more marginal hands to opens pre and/or shipping a stronger range over opens depending on game flow considerations, stacks and who it is specifically.