365 LO8 MTT at Foxwoods

10k starting chips

Hero bought into MTT, but was blinded off starting at level 4.

After commotion with finding hero's seat, hero was skipped for SB with stack of 8725.

Blinds 150/300, Limits 300/600 and 6 minutes left in level.

Hero saw 2 hands before break.

Chip color up and hero was down to 8600.

1     short stack, wanting to get all in and gamble to bust

2     male player of India descent with star tatoos

3     hero

4     middle aged male

5     senior citizen aged male

6     senior citizen aged male

7     older Asian woman

8     older player?

9     senior citizen aged male with VDS cap from ~5-7 years ago

10    middle-aged Caucasian, after 5th hand, saw he had Lock Poker hoodie on

Blinds: 200/400

Limits: 400/800

Seat 1 had 700 chips

Hero dealt in CO: AJ32 (A3 suited)

7: raises AI

1 fold

3: hero calls

(folds)

10: calls

(3 players, 1 all in - 2300 in pot)

Flop: A83 rainbow

10: checks

hero: checks

Turn: A838 quad-tone (rainbow)

10: thinks for 15 sec, then bet

hero: calls

Turn: A838J

10: thinks for 5 sec, then bet

hero: calls

Villain: shows AAT2

hero: shows a couple pairs, then folds

7: shows a bad low to get half

Analysis:

River bet by villain after turn bet into dry side pot indicates super strong hand.

Some players will fall under the "eliminate player philosophy" and will check it down, but this really seemed like for value.

Hero probably made bad river call b/c it's (800) to win (2850). The turn bet could just be a quick attempt to pick up pot...

Hero's stack: 6500

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A couple hands later:

Hero dealt: AT92 (A2) (T9) double suited in UTG+3

2 folds

Hero: raises

(6 folds)

(9) SB: calls

(10) BB: calls

(3 players - 2400 in pot)

Flop: Kh Qh 6c (hero has no flush draw)

3 checks

(3 players - 2400 in pot)

Turn: Kh Qh 6c 4d (hero has no flush draw)

9: checks

10: bets

hero: folds

9: folds

Analysis:

Preflop: Standard.

Flop: Flop cbet can work sometimes especially against 3 players, but hero looked to keep pot smaller.

Turn: This could be a call, even though high draw is to non-nuts. Hero played risk averse and wasn't really thinking/looking to make move...

This was bad considering hero was IP and can bluff a bunch of rivers (flushing by raising, some broadways, some lows (578)

Hero's stack: 5700

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Blinds: 300/500

Limits: 500/1000

Hero: dealt A532 (A2) in UTG+2

(2 folds)

2: raises

3 (hero): 3 bets

(7 folds)

2: calls

(2 players - 2800 in pot)

Flop: 53Q rainbow (hero has back door nut flush draw)

2: checks

hero: bets

2: calls

(2 players - 3600 in pot)

Turn: 53QQ (2 flush, hero does not have flush)

2: checks

hero: bets

2: calls

(2 players - 5200 in pot)

River: 53QQJ (3 flush, hero does not have flush and hero did not realize flush completed via backdoor)

2: checks

hero: bets

2: calls

Analysis:

Preflop: Some merit to isolating versus letting other players in with strong MW hand. Player 2 had been kind of active (limping 3 of 6 hands in ~20 hands around table)

Flop: Completely normal for value.

Turn: Hero is strongly "pseudo over-representing" Q here as larger part of range + GS potential, although naked nut lows may bet as well for fold equity.

River: Hero did not see BDFD complete on the river!

No reason to bet here. There's not many hands (except naked low draws) that would fold to river bet.

Villain had also led a couple times with NFD + NLD draw on A95 with K832 (K8 suited).

Hero's stack: 1700

Short stack in seat 1 eventually busts and new player comes in from broken table.

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Hero folded: AKJ7 (AKJ suited) UTG with 1700 @ 500/1000 limits.

Analysis: This may have been a raise UTG due to high card strength.

Hero's BB hand was trash (J727 rainbow)

Hero's SB hand was KKQ9 (K9) suited and completed for 200 with 4 other players already in pot

      Hero did not get a favorable flop and folded.

Hero folded junk on Button (with raise from seat 2 in CO)

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Hero's stack: 700

Hero dealt in CO: A965 (A5) (96) double suited

(6 folds)

Hero: raises all in

button: folds

SB: folds

BB: sees hero's stack, then calls with QQT3 (no suit)

Board: JT89A (no flush draw)

Analysis: completely standard, but hero could have been results oriented and waited for a stronger high value hand with 6 hands to go...

Hero: busted around 108 of 137 runners.

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Overall Analysis:

Mentally, hero played very poorly, TBH. Hero did not think about ranges too much at all.
Also, some of the leaks (specifically trying to go for very thin river value) in earlier online LO8 cash game sessions likely expedited departure.

Finally, there are definitely LO8 strategy items that need to be addressed in general. Specifically, this regarding river betting (but also flop cbets and when to double barrel with little equity in various situations (player types/board textures, etc...)