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

This is an awesome series and I love your detailed analysis of the hands and situations, but will you try not to burst my eardrums in future? I'll be needing those for your future vids

Also, was there a specific technique you used to drill your default ranges into your head because I'm struggling a bit with this at the minute and would love to hear suggestions on effective ways of doing this.

Thanks

Thanks for the comments Bonobo11
Yep pretty key to simply shove wide :3

BedSideCabinet, apologies again for the coughing through the video, again will try hard to make sure this isn't an issue in the future videos. Thanks for your comments.

In general, no, unfortunately. However, the more you play, the more experience you get and subsequently you should just get better overtime. I mean, at the same time you should/could be doing HH reviews (whether by yourself, or with a coach) and looking at spots, estimating ranges, then confirming either on a forum (like DC, 2p2) or using SNG wiz. This is very important if you are learning imo. Once you know the correct range in a spot, like we talked about in the videos and the whole series in general, these ranges adjust based on the variables. If your exact range in that spot should be AQo+ AJs+ 88+ (example only), then perhaps if the BB changed from a 12BB stack to a 6BB stack your range would be a little wider now and instead AJo ATs 77+ (again, example only). The more you play, and the more reviews/practice/study you do, the quicker and easier it will be to make such adjustments

Other than that, read on the forums, when other players post hands you don't need to necessarily reply, but certainly think to yourself what your range would be (and if need be, check it out - again with SNG wiz for e.g.) and do this a lot. Read these threads on DC and 2p2 whilst you're learning (and even after, from time to time) and you will just naturally get better.

Oh and I guess also look at some charts, since the charts help with a pure "default" range (which of course you can be a bit wider than since as explained players are calling on average tighter than equilibrium, so we should shove wider too)

This was really useful, thanks a lot!
Btw, only two episodes in but if you havent mentioned already I reckon its worth pointing out how playing within your bankroll makes the whole shove/fold process a lot easier - I guess this is the reason people play on ICM so heavily when it comes down to the final table of a MTT!

Haha yeah true if you aren't scared money you should have some benefits for sure!

Hi OMGClayDol,

Brilliant Work, Awesome, I lost my sleep, I will see all the other 5 Episodes tonight!

Thank you man!

Hi, OMGClaydol. Awesome series. I really learned a lot.

59:12 - Final table. You shove K5o 10.5bb's effective (accounting for antes) from the button. I put this into sngwiz and assigned 10% calling range to both sb and bb, and it says to shove 11% (66+, AT+, A9s+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs). I thought 10% calling ranges for the sb and bb were very reasonable. What do you think are their calling ranges in that spot? Thanks.

Hey man, thanks for the compliments, appreciate them. Good work with testing the ranges, I mentioned in the comment section of one or two videos later that a lot of my final table ranges were way off because I disregarded icm way too much (although I still agree with the fact that we should push a bit wider than sng wizs model suggests due to a few various flaws of icm).. I think 10 is pretty reasonable although possibly on the slightly looser side, but yeah K5o is definitely a fold Will be releasing a new episode in the next few days to cover these final table errors , let me know if you have any other questions, peace and gl

1:02:45 - sb shoves 10bb into you. You said sngwiz says to call with only 5% if he shoves atc, and you thought that was ridiculous. I plugged it in, and it says to call 34.2% if he's on atc. Just FYI.

Haha yeah that sounds about right, I misread/misunderstood some of the stack size implications at the time Also he is unlikely shoving atc or close to atc, because of icm etc. In this particular spot I think 55 A8o A5s KQ KTs sounds about right to call although arguably is on the looser side.

I have been playing poker a LONG time and am fairly successful in MTT's and SnG's, just started playing the 180's so I thought I would watch your videos.

I have one small neg comment, you know your shit very well, but you repeat yourself a lot, I am not sure if it is intentional because you are wanting to make sure a newbie will catch on or if it is a habit.

Anyway, some great stuff in here, I just had to come comment becauase you did a FANTASTIC job explaining the "freeroll" Stop N Go, I thought I knew just about everything there was to know about tourney poker, but I had never seen that before.

I think you won me 600.00 tonight in the 3 rebuy... In this hand below I would shove this KQ 100% (I think there were 14 left at this point) and let the chips fall where they may, but I recognized that it was a possible freeroll SnG so I called and donk shipped... went on to win the tourney... Thank You very much for the little piece of info, its a little gem.

PokerStars Game #69040578598: Tournament #455478482, $3.19+$0.31 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XXII (5000/10000) - 2011/10/15 23:25:00 MT [2011/10/16 1:25:00 ET]
Table '455478482 6' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: Seferko (99101 in chips)
Seat 2: GolfNutz88 (89490 in chips)
Seat 3: zzaazz123 (79665 in chips)
Seat 4: Cykelmyg (219664 in chips)
Seat 6: Sculatu (97704 in chips)
Seat 8: OLDGOD--6-- (153029 in chips)
Seat 9: avagom8 (244347 in chips)
Seferko: posts the ante 1000
GolfNutz88: posts the ante 1000
zzaazz123: posts the ante 1000
Cykelmyg: posts the ante 1000
Sculatu: posts the ante 1000
OLDGOD--6--: posts the ante 1000
avagom8: posts the ante 1000
Seferko: posts small blind 5000
GolfNutz88: posts big blind 10000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to GolfNutz88 [Ks Qd]
zzaazz123: folds
Cykelmyg: raises 20000 to 30000
Sculatu: folds
OLDGOD--6--: folds
avagom8: folds
Seferko: folds
GolfNutz88: calls 20000
*** FLOP *** [Jh 3d 8d]
GolfNutz88: bets 58490 and is all-in
Cykelmyg: folds
Uncalled bet (58490) returned to GolfNutz88
GolfNutz88 collected 72000 from pot
GolfNutz88: doesn't show hand
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 72000 | Rake 0
Board [Jh 3d 8d]
Seat 1: Seferko (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: GolfNutz88 (big blind) collected (72000)
Seat 3: zzaazz123 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Cykelmyg folded on the Flop
Seat 6: Sculatu folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: OLDGOD--6-- folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: avagom8 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Haha, thanks and good luck. Hope you continue to do well.
As for repetition, not sure. Haven't heard before, maybe it's a combination of habit and emphasis so players can remember it.

Hey, got a small question to stopn go plays. Do you really always call the flop against stopn go players in the blinds? Like if it were preflop 7BBs and you minraised, would you really call everything, also a hand like 98s or Tc9c on a AhKh7h board? I think in this case, you were already to far behind his stopn go range to call or how do you think about it? I think the lowest suited connectors of your range can sometimes be a fold, Ace high for sure never.

On the other side, how do you play against unknown, if you hit like Qc9h5s flop with pocket fives, do you still push or prefere, to slowplay, because most unknowns wouldnt know, that you tried to play a stopn go and cause of this would think, they can push the flop to get you to fold.

What do you think about this thoughts, do you think they can give you a little extra edge out of stopn go plays?

no definitely not, we definitely should be folding when we have little or no equity (or just not enough equity based on ranges/pot odds etc). and if you stop n go but hit the nuts you can definitely just check, that's fine

every time i try to stop n go i flop top pair.
i dont think stop n go is possible.