Poker Video: MTT/SNG by DJ Sensei (Mid Stakes)

Wow first! Want to say that i like this series and format a lot. Keep it up!

on that aq shove in the sunday 500. the big stack who flatted had flatted in about the exact same situation like an orbit b4 and showed 67s (i think it was suited). i think he's almost always folding to your shove, and is the type to reraise ak, qq, kk, aa. if you make those assumptions is it a clear shove then or still marginal? thx

on that aq shove in the sunday 500. the big stack who flatted had flatted in about the exact same situation like an orbit b4 and showed 67s (i think it was suited). i think he's almost always folding to your shove, and is the type to reraise ak, qq, kk, aa. if you make those assumptions is it a clear shove then or still marginal? thx

I think it would still be relatively marginal because I think the original raiser is the one who is calling far more often anyways. That probably swings it to a profitable shove, however. Also, since he had flatted 67s in a similar situation, one adjustment I would make is that his calling range would be much wider than I originally assumed. He is probably willing to gamble a lot more.

With the AA the guy has any two spades and will even turn over 8T,89,78,68, thinking you have a flush draw.

About the AA hand discussed at 46:00

I think {KK+,88,55,AKs,KsQs,KsJs,KsTs,7s6s,AKo} is a relatively conservative range for villain, and you have 46.6% equity vs that range. With the money already in the pot I don't think you can fold.

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is shoving 5bb utg w/ K8o really better here than just taking the bb and calling off atc to a single raise?

on the top left table a short way into this video there was a raise to 450 and you had i believe over 8k in chips. you were on the button with 8d9d and one player had already smooth called the raise. i was wondering why u didnt call considering a suited connecter on the button with a deep stack. you would have ended up flopping the nuts and someone flopped two pair and another hit a queen on the turn with aq. you would have knocked out both player had you stayed in the hand. im curious why u dont call there?

I'm a bit surprised that you didn't discuss reraising the AQ to say 1800 at all.
I think theres really good value for that here, as the big stack seems like the kind of player to get the scenario where shortie folds and he calls - seems to me like a great situation, as you should have a nice edge postflop and theres still some room to manoevre... e.g. hands like 77-99 might call the shove here as the AI imho represents pretty much AK, whereas we can easily get those hands to fold later if we don't outflop them or get some extra value with some tricky play postflop (e.g. check behind on A,K,Q, J or T high, intending to shove his likely turnbet)

I'm a bit surprised that you didn't discuss reraising the AQ to say 1800 at all.
I think theres really good value for that here, as the big stack seems like the kind of player to get the scenario where shortie folds and he calls - seems to me like a great situation, as you should have a nice edge postflop and theres still some room to manoevre... e.g. hands like 77-99 might call the shove here as the AI imho represents pretty much AK, whereas we can easily get those hands to fold later if we don't outflop them or get some extra value with some tricky play postflop (e.g. check behind on A,K,Q, J or T high, intending to shove his likely turnbet)

I actually really like your idea and reasoning here. I think this is much closer to "optimal" than shoving 34bbs given our reads.

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Regarding the AA hand,
Preflop: What other hands are you flatting with? I feel this concept was touched on somewhat by the fact the DJ brought up how in certain positions with certain stack sizes you can pretty much put a player on AA when they flat vs shove, correct?

Flop: You're putting in the raise against the original raiser b/c you think it looks like a semi-bluff correct? So you're hoping he has a legit hand that is worse and will call your raise like AK right? But really, other than AK what hand is he going to call a raise with on this board? Do you really think the player is going to commit his stack with QQ or JJ? I know you were saying the hand hinges on the fact whether or not you think this player will put it in with KQ or KJ but you're in a multiway pot and putting in a smallish raise...I don't know but from my perspective that screams that you want action...particularly given your stack size. In a heads-up pot maybe the villian may interpret that as an "info raise" or a cheap semi-bluff trying to take the play away to get a fold on a later street but I think the betting line you took is much more transparent given the fact that there is a third player in the hand. I agree that you were very fortunate to run into the only likely hand he could have here that is not beating you on the flop when the blind reraises as this does generally scream strength. The only way I could see it otherwise is if there was some weird metagame history going on with you and the blind that the original raiser would not be aware of...feedback plz? thanks for a great series!

In certain positions, yes you can definitely put people on a really narrow range. I don't think this is one of those situations.

An example would be something like UTG opens, I flat UTG+1 with 13BBs in a mid stakes tournament where people may not know me.

Even if the original raiser is Ivey or something, flatting may still be the most correct play considering we're allowing 7 more people to make giant mistakes (OMG MONEY IN THE POT!!!).

The way you talk about the flop makes it seem really imbalanced. I am definitely pure bluffing this flop sometimes which is important and changes the hand a bit.

If they thought I was never bluffing, they'd basically never shove draws correct? If he were literally folding every hand that wasn't a favorite over my value range, he'd just fold or flat every draw.

Thanks for the comments everyone!

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This is the kinda stuff I believe alot of people struggle with in shortstack spots with no antes. In that A8o hand ur pretty much (2 guys with slightly less effective) shoving 13.5M here. Compare this to a more standard spot with antes. Its like shoving over 10k into 3 people at 200-400. While it is possible you would do that, Im pretty damn sure you wouldnt go ahead and open shove that. Obviously its a small stakes shit tourney that no one cares about. Still think its a pretty massive mistake.

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bottom left table I just noticed daaaang is there