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Poker Video: MTT/SNG by AMT (Micro/Small Stakes)

Time Link to 00:34:37

LOL @ "results" great vid AMT!

Time Link to 00:18:44

A7 hand: I dont understand why you dont elect to raise his donk on the turn for protection (his mindonk on flop and turn look really weak and you are probably ahead). Can you pls explain why?

A7 hand: I dont understand why you dont elect to raise his donk on the turn for protection (his mindonk on flop and turn look really weak and you are probably ahead). Can you pls explain why?

Well I touched on it in the video throughout the hand. I think you can argue for a small raise on the turn similar to my comments on the river, but I wasn't really confident that I wanted to get it all in vs. this guy. We're not deep, but that doesn't mean that a passive player who is taking the betting lead here is getting it in light with me when any raise I make is sort of transparent. As I basically implied on the river I think I missed some value on this hand, but on the turn specifically I'd really hate to raise without a plan of happily getting it in if I got shoved on. If you're folding, you're basically turning a top pair that may be (but is not definitely) good into a bluff with short stacks, which also seems like a really discouraging prospect. So, I felt like I'd rather let him value bet his worse made hands and draws that he may not call raises with, or would put me in an uncomfortable spot if he did play back at me with them. Think raising turn is fine but so is raising river.

This series is awesome, just watched the first four this week and just shipped my first tourney in ages. Nice $180 for my $5, not bad for a Sunday night after a few beers. AMT+DC+Run good = Winning Stuff

Time Link to 00:43:52

Great series AMT. I feel like jonjames would be calling extremly tight givin the less than 1bb stack thats almost in the blinds. Wouldnt icm warrent him calling pretty tight in this flat structure. I feel like givin the situation i would ship any 2 just based on the fact that he seems like the type of player that will wait for that pay jump and pass up alot of hands. Is this valid thinking or a leak. thanks

Thanks PokerGnome!

jaime,

Great series AMT. I feel like jonjames would be calling extremly tight givin the less than 1bb stack thats almost in the blinds. Wouldnt icm warrent him calling pretty tight in this flat structure. I feel like givin the situation i would ship any 2 just based on the fact that he seems like the type of player that will wait for that pay jump and pass up alot of hands. Is this valid thinking or a leak. thanks

Yeah I think this is fine. In game seems like an any two spot, prob wasn't giving enough notice to the micro stack during recording, apologies. Worth mentioning I think, though, is if he had just a bit more of a stack, given how weird/bad he's played I think there's some merit to sticking to ~85-90+% and giving him a couple of walks--this guy seems like the kind of guy who can also not give much notice to the shorty and spazz out and snap off with like 44 or A2o, and if he's a bit bigger we have to worry more about the implications of getting called and losing when his call works against us too (aka it'd prob. be way worse for him from an ICM perspective, but pretty bad for both of us, even if he had like 10 or 11bb). Hope that makes sense thanks for the post.

Time Link to 00:41:47

Hi,
On a side note do you see any merit in showing the AA in order to make them incorrectly tighten their raising range. I think it is a good show given the table is 4 handed now and they will be making a mistake TOP wise if tighten up so it should have a +EV effect at this table(not so effective at the higher buy ins).
Curious what is your thought on that(I normally don`t show my hands but there was no action on this one)
BR
Chav

Hi Zenguy,

I basically never show my hands no matter what. I find it's just too easy for someone to interpret that information in any given context, in such a way that may make them adjust differently than you expect them to adjust, which could cause a lot of problems. I generally just try to go with my handle on the situation and make the best play as a result, and wait for people to show me their hands so I can gather information on how they're playing

In this situation specifically it especially should have no impact on anyone. I got a walk with the AA, and given the stacks it already means people are playing way too tight at this stage of the tournament. Showing them a hand that they have already folded to me, regardless of what I have, seems like it won't really give me any inherent advantage one way or the other. Personally I also play with auto muck turned on because I have a bunch of tables going on 2 or 3 different sites often so as to avoid time issues (and again cause I think it very rarely beneficial enough to show that I'd actually choose to do it without a really specific situation).

Time Link to 00:46:40

Is there any merit to simply calling instead of pushing here since there is no side pot? Obviously u are almost always behind and sometimes dominated with 64 and with a $1000 jump from 4th to 3rd i dont see why u wouldnt mind checking it down with jonjames and could probably even get him off a better hand if u do hit a 4 or 6 for some showdown value and push post flop.. Not to mention when jonjames does pick up a hand and calls your overshove which is obviously not likey since we have seen how tight he is but would deffinetly be in bad shape if he calls. I understand your reasoning to isolate and are probably never a huuuge dog with 64 suited to the all in players extremly wide shoving range but it seems to me that having 2 players vs. one here would be more optimal with your weak hand. And we cant be too worried about jonjames getting lucky and winning a few hundred thousand more chips because we have seen he is a weak player and the added incentive of now being 3 handed and $1100 dollars richer... btw loved this series and congrats on the win! Thanks!