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  1. Insider Insider is offline

    Canada

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    Mar 17th, 2009 (3/17/2009 11:38pm)

    I've posted a few HHs in my Bad Beats thread and welcome critiques to try to help me improve, I know I'm still a microdonk, but try to keep the flames to a minimum.

    Thanks in advance to those helpful souls who give me a hand.
  2. srooney3 srooney3 is offline

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    Mar 18th, 2009 (3/18/2009 12:44am) in reply to Insider

    Just read the first set of them and honestly I feel you play a bit too passive for my style. I prefer to be aggressive and make people guess what you have rather than letting them do the betting for you, unless you have a read on certain people and in that case letting them do the betting can help you much more than being the bettor. Some of your preflop limps (QJ or Q10 i think from UTG or something like that if I remember right) were just putting you in there to lose your money. Fold that junk from that early of a position. It makes no sense to try and outplay someone from out of position with poopy cards unless you truly know you have them dominated when it comes to post flop play. Overall, I would look to taking better advantage of position and working on becoming more aggressive. You honestly don't have to change your style too much, but mixing it up and changing from being you're normal passive looking style to a more aggressive one throughout a tournament can be a great way to keep your opponents guessing, which is exactly what you want. Your hand where you flopped a boat and actually bet out at it for once put a giant green light on you saying "That flop hit me and I have a really good hand! Get out!" You can't change your style like you did that quickly and expect someone not to notice it. If you had been playing around with limping, raising, reraising, etc. throughout your life at each table, then maybe you would have gotten some action. From that first set of HH, I'd try reading up on the importance of position and how to use and abuse players who are willing to play against you while you have position on them.

    Just took a look at a few of your HH from the second set and it seems to be nearly the same thing in my opinion. I would choose you hands a bit more carefully and realize how much you're risking in each situation. For example, I'm not a fan of the AQ all in call after you rose 5xBB and it was rerisen to you for another 1 or 2k on top. Yeah it's a 2 buck tourny, but unless you know you're risking to bust in that situation a lot, I find that to be an easy fold. Yeah you MIGHT get put up against that one idiot who decides to "make a move" with his K3o. So what? Let him take your 100 chips and when the blinds are 25/50 or 50/100 and you play your position, take those chips right back. AQ is not as dominate as many people think preflop when you are playing with ~100 or whatever BB. It's getting worked by AK, AA, KK, and QQ. It's a coin flip with any pocket pair. It's got an edge over two random cards. But honestly is it worth risking your tournament life when there is so much more left to play? Just my thoughts.

    And this is really long now :/ and probably not completely correct, but I like to keep myself in a tourny and figure out how people at my table play and wait till the blinds get bigger so I'm not trying to guess what my donk villian has when he reraises my 5xBB raise and makes it a 15 bet on top of me. I don't want to guess, I want to be the one putting the pressure on and this happens when the blinds get bigger and antes come into play. Tighten it up and don't try to guess what they have, make them guess what you have. Take what you want and hopefully I get a critique on how I like to play from this. Flame away!
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