Critical Hands in the Middle of the Sng/Mtt with PimpinDonks
Video Description
We are going to go over how to play your big and medium strength hands in the middle stages sng/mtt. I am going to discuss different lines that can be taken and why some are more effective than others. This is the second of a three part series on critical hands that come up while you are playing poker. The other two videos will cover early and late stage play. This video covers crucial spots only and my thought process behind the play I made. If you can play your big pots well you will have a significant advantage over the majority of your competitors!
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Hey, have a question on the hand that u raised with ah9h in pos and got called pre. you were min raised and folded after flop. Can you please tell me how you would of handled hand if you the board would of had 2 hearts instead, and he still min raised you. Im guessing you just call the min raise, or would you have shoved, with the k on the board, i would think a call of the min raise would best.
Can you also then explain what you would of done the flush didnt hit on river, Again im guessing you check and fold to any bet.
Thanks
Question:
On the hand when you had AKs in early pos and QTs called pf, after the hand was over you mentioned one of his mistakes was not shoving with the Q. Earlier in this vid or the first one you talked about betting money in the pot and letting the opp make the mistake by calling.
How is this different for him? why would he shove here and not try to get more chips in the pot? You said yourself you would have folded if he shoved...
Seems a fine line here and I can't see it... 
thanks
Dave
Dave, I think the player with Q10 made 2 mistakes on this hand. First, he called me preflop when I raised from early position. This would be ok if we were deep stacked but we weren't so he doesn't have the implied odds to call there. Second, on the flop he should have jammed over my c-bet when he hit his queen. He gave me a free card by calling there and it cost him his whole stack. I would not put anymore money in that pot if I did not hit my ace or king, so he is not gaining anything by calling there and he is giving free cards to lose if I hit.
36:45 pocket 9s raise then villain 3bet shove 16BBs. I would consider this a tough spot as you said. You made the call and mentioned that sometimes you would fold on this spot depending on the stats of the villain.
Can you elaborate in more DETAIL what stats you are looking for to analyze the situation. Not just the name of the stats but what numbers in the stats that would make you decide to fold or call the shove ?
Also, on your next video using PT3 replayer. Is there a way to show the HUD on all players while running the game over the replayer. Because there will be some decisions in a vacuum might go the other way based on the HUD stats and dynamics of the particular game.
Regards....
P.S. I re-watch the video and you did mention a 3Bet percentage of 1% or 2% that you would fold the hand. would you have called if it was 3% ? What would be the upper limit for a fold ? Also, what other stats are you looking for if any on this spot ?
In this spot I am looking at 3bet %. If he has a 3bet% of 5% or less it means he is mostly three betting for value all of his monster hands. When players have a three bet % over 5% there are some bluffs mixed in. So if his 3bet% is over 7% I would have called here. He must have been a tight player so I folded.
I can have the HUD on my pt3 replayer and I do sometimes. I think for some videos it would be good to have on. So thanks for your input on that.
Hey Mark
Great video
I have a questions regarding one of the problems that I face very often.
When I in the middle stage of the tournament, with good hands, trying to enter the pot with the raise of 2.5 size of the big blind, and I don’t know what to do with this Russians, they over raised and over bad me and everyone else at the table.
Every time when I have a good hand I will call and some how they out flop me, or someone else at the table.
Is that because they over betting or aggressive and software rewords aggression, or rewords players which have a bigger stack?
I don’t know what to make of this situation.
But, it is so frustrating. I wait for a good hand knowing that if I raise they will put me all in, and when I do, 8/9 times out of 10 they have a junk hand and they some how have the best on the flop, turn or river. I don’t get it.
Do you have any light that you can shine on this crazy poker? What is the secret, if there is one? What is your take on this?
Thank you.
Alexander
Alexander, there is no secret to poker. It takes alot of hard work to be successful just like anything else worth doing in life. Everyone remembers the times they get bad beats, but most people quickly forget the times when your AA and KK hold up.
In my opinion it has nothing to do with the software or that your opponent is Russian or how big their stack is. It all has to do with the math of poker. If AA goes allin vs 22, the 22 is still going to win roughly 20% of the time. It may not seem fair but that is poker.
why is the video only 10 minutes long??