PokerStars Tournament #85674092, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $2.00/$0.20
1301 players
Total Prize Pool: $2602.00
Tournament started - 2008/04/23 - 00:00:00 (ET)

Dear sk8freak_21,

You finished the tournament in 2nd place.
A $295.85 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 344.87 tournament leader points in this tournament.
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So I decided to convert the complete hand history into PXF replayer. If your struggling in middle/late stages of MTTs, you should really check this out. I think this is the best I've ever played. I make some pretty sick plays at times.

If you have any questions about a hand, just post the hand # and what you dont understand. I will explain it the best I can. Just so you now, there were 401 hands played in this tourney.


Obv, I dont mind if better players watch and analyze some of my plays
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congrats TA

ill watch this over the weekend and comment/ask questions on it once i do

i got a few videos to watch now so im obv gonna pwn mtts next week imo

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its not working for me for some reason

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ok i think i fixed it, if you dont have a subscription, you may have to watch the viewer only version

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congrats TA

i may do more if anyone shows interest in this

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congrats TA

ill watch them anyway altho im not sure when ill get round to watching them

an actual video with ur sexy accent analysing would also be nice since i can only watch the viewer only version on pxf

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Dude you were on such a crazy rush at the beginning of this tournament. AA KK QQ, and then every other hand you folded you flopped 2 pair or trips LOL.


Anyway, comments:

Hand 7: Open-limp with TT UTG+1
Hand 15: Open-limp with 22, then call raise from OOP with no setmine odds
Hand 24: bad reraise amount preflop (given stack sizes). Questionable call on flop. :/ suckout on turn...
Hand 25: Opening with A7s UTG?
Hand 27: Um, WTF? Call flop with backdoor 8-high flush draw, back door straight draw, and 1 overcard?
Hand 45: So fucking lucky LOL. Flop top 2 when the other bigstack flops top & bottom pair. (you didnt do anything wrong, but this type of thing is NOT normal)
Hand 52: Questionable call preflop (you were getting good odds, but shitty hand OOP). Leading out on the flop with middle pair is fine to see where you're at, but how the fuck do you justify calling that shove? 2:1 isn't that attractive and you have middle pair with no fucking kicker and no club.
Hand 66: I'd raise preflop
Hand 74: I'd raise preflop
Hand 75: LOL. Not my style but justifiable (if you don't want to be unsure of your hand postflop, attempt steals with shitty cards?). I would still raise more then 2.5bb preflop, and I would have tried a c-bet on the flop.
Hand 80: Now you fold A8s UTG. It is the right play, but why is your justification different here than on 25?
Hand 85: I raise preflop
Hand 93: I don't like it, although it isn't terrible. If UTG+1 hadn't limped, then I'd like it a bit more. I don't think you're desperate enough to start pushing with tiny pocket pairs just yet.
Hand 99: I slowplay it until the river -- I think he fires again if you dont show strength...
Hand 101: I definitely c-bet flop


That's as far as I've gotten. You definitely start playing better deeper in the tournament, but your early play was pretty marginal.

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133: Ballsy. I don't think that third barrel is going to work too often...
142: I probably call. Villian can push there with ATC with his stack size UTG...
143: WHAT? raise/steal
149: Limp UTG with 66?
151: Again I probably call. Villian can push ATC with 5bb UTG
152: Bad play for micros IMO. Probably +EV on tournaments where such plays get more respect, but I don't like it here
167: I prob don't raise quite as much hoping to get some action.
179: Not sure what that raise was supposed to accomplish, I think you value small pocket pairs too much (although that was the 2nd set you flopped with 55 this tournament)
194: Same as 152 (seems to be working on that particular villain though)
217: I don't like it. I'd prefer to stay away from the other monster stack at this stage of the game, especially with marginal hands like KQ
231: Lol another perfect setup hand for you: KK vs AK on one of the 3 big stacks (nothing wrong about the play, just abnormally lucky)
269: The raise was fine, the call was bad (push/fold better), flopping yet another set LOL so lucky
280: I bet on the flop
290: Standard play -- why didn't you do this on 143?
291: good laydown
293: I might try a steal here, but folding is fine.
329: good laydown
338: Again I don't like how much you're valuing small pocket pairs, but as played you did well.
363: nitty fold
373: nitty fold
374: nitty fold
378: passive
379: passive
380: personally I don't like giving walks with high antes, although folding isn't a bad play.
389: nitty fold
392: weak preflop defense, another lucky set-flop
394: While I understand it because of his aggression on the A2 hand, you really should fold here and be a bit more patient. He bet 10x as much as the pot and you called with middle pair?
395: nitty fold
396: Jesus man, what's your hurry. You're definitely not in push/fold mode yet and any caller has you crushed. Bad bad play
397: nitty fold
398/399: You should slowplay monsters more often HU
401: Dude seriously, bad bad call. Again you're both deepstacked here, there is no rush. A10s is normally a great hand HU, but so far everytime Villain has massively overbet all-in, he's had a good hand. As it turns out, you had him beat and got unlucky, but I still think you seem way too anxious to go allin HU...



In general, I don't think you played well at all the first 100 hands. You didn't play terrible, but there were too many mistakes. Your next 200 hands were decent -- above average. Your last 100 hands were generally pretty good -- definitely well above average (and not unusually lucky cards like the first 300 hands). Aside from some minor edges you gave up, your only real problem was your rush job when headsup...

ok

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congrats TA