My months online has not really started, having gone a few days with friends. Even if I had a wonderful weekend with lots of live games, not much to say for the moment in terms of progression of this challenge, with just 3000 hands and 13 CG MTT ... Also, I would like to take this opportunity to return to a Final Table (poorly) played last week. And while reviewing this TF to draw something, as much as I do with all of you ... The TF is of course the most important moment of the tournament, one where we should concentrate fully. Many inexperienced players relax instead, happy to have arrived there and enjoying their joy. Yet this is where it all begins, so far nothing had not really matter ...
You just play for 4 hours, nearly 300 players have jumped, it's beautiful. The passage of the bubble, you have recovered 1.5 times your buy-in, big deal ... Since the bubble, you have played at least an hour, often more, to achieve this TF where prices are beginning to be worthwhile. If you lose now, in 9th place, you collect 5 to 6 times your buy-in, 3 to 4 times what you would have taken the bull ... Not bad, it was worth it to apply a bit to go that far. This will fund your tournaments of the evening, maybe even some of those tomorrow. Plenty to be satisfied, no?
but guess what: If you earn 4 extra squares and finish fifth, you will collect 3-4 times more, something around 18 to 20 buy-in. Reach the 3rd place and you will double the gain, it is 32 to 35 buy-in that you tend your arms! ... As for the victory, it is usually more than double the 3rd place, you can expect to earn the right to replay the tournament a little over 70 times, enough to see it coming ...
Nothing very interesting, everyone knows to do in the first 3 MTT to hang a lot! I just wanted to remind that a ratio of at least 12 / 1 sanctioned lack of ambition and the fact consider TF as an objective in itself ...
Even when it was fully aware of that and we are determined to give everything now in this final stretch is so important, it is still necessary to adapt to achieve entirely new context begins. Many factors make the task complicated
- We just play short-handed, sometimes for long enough, and it returns to full-ring.
- The position relative to players with whom we played in the semi-finals has changed completely, either because other players have come intercalate.
- We have played with half of the table, the other players we are perfectly unknown.
- We do not know the objectives of each other, even those with whom we played in the semi-final: This very LAG player in the semi-final he will continue playing only victory, or Will it settle down on the contrary, very sensitive to significant levels offered by each site won? This shortstack who left to die there reached his goal and he will now try everything to get back into the game, or will he instead go to sleep, hoping to win one or two places?
A council is to systematically clear look at the other table while playing his semi-final, to begin to take notes and analyze future opponents. Another important aspect is how to shift gears from the semi-final, especially if you were very active, to take the time to calibrate the opponents and understand each other's goals. Not so easy when you have the habit of attacking 2-3 of 5 hands. Yet unless a very large stack, it is essential otherwise the wall almost guaranteed ... The last point which I think is important is to take the time to define what will be our goal and our strategy in the TF, according to our stack and our position at the table ...
And now, back then on that last-TF, where I have not been able to make all that ... Well, I have extenuating circumstances: It was the day after my victory in a € 10 rebuy who had seen me go to bed around 5:30 am, to turn and look back, unable to sleep as after every win this game (before the mischief-makers do not tell my place I know, this happened to me fortunately not too often ;-). I was flat that night, and I also had the insight to play no big buy-in, not throwing that about 20 € in the early evening, persuaded him not to go too far and going to bed soon ...
But now, the famous variance is still there: Often we play well and we jump in the first part of all tournaments, so it is not unusual to go away sometimes playing poorly ...
is indeed what happens in this 20 € HS (6 max) 270 players. After mounting a huge stack at the start of the tournament (I take the chip lead after less than an hour of play or nearly tripling with KK against JJ and A10), I play in "I'm exhausted and I have chips, "which translates roughly by: I raise a hand on both, and I 2 or 3barrel almost every time, preferably when the BB is a calling station to station calling ... I come anyway to save a piece of stack to get to 3 tables, and decided to time to stop the bullshit. When we reach 12 players, all players on my table have a similar carpet in the 200k, and I will be able to arrive in TF with 800k, is the largest carpet in my penultimate table. Of course, this came at the price of a sustained pace assault extremely ... The TF
opens, and I have no idea who are the 2 players from the other table. That nerd, but tired and still not convinced of my ability to perfer tonight, I have not even thought about opening another table ....
The first of the 51 hands (only) that will last my TF has no interest but I will book to define the forces at work:
Here is a stack that does not go unnoticed ... And I take it just to the left, not good, that ... Hopefully it is not too painful anyway.
I let you discover the hand 3, which is played terribly wrong in more ways than one. I raise first mechanically button, after all I just do not stop for half an hour ... And yes, forgot the second great principle: Know how to shift gears at the beginning of TF ... Nothing makes me go test the chip leader and his 2.6 million chips with a hand like 89o. Turn bet when I should let go easily my 3rd pair, right? Yes but now I was in a head table dynamics that does not let go, and I have no insight to realize that everything has changed with such a stack of a completely unknown player to my left. When he bets river, I say (of course, what else?) He uses his big stack, it is therefore necessarily biased bluff and my third pair kicker foam is super good about its tiles .. . I will still not let me pull a guy who has more than 3 times my stack at the beginning of time!
hand 4 has at least the merit of making me realize that the chip leader will never leave me alone, I have already greatly jeopardize my chances of a podium with these two shots and that I must calm down and think about how I approach the TF ...
But of course, there is a little late. Dropped to 10 blinds and smaller stack, a misery for our friend the chip leader, against which we have very little FE, I'll have to rely on luck to double ... For now, indeed need more strategic thinking: I'm going to push when I have a legitimate hand with the right amount of equity in the position where I am, waiting for the blow that I will double or out.
If the chip leader is very active and pays nearly all the reminders of my opponents, making everyone very cautious, it is however very patient with the idea of paying my skinny belt, and I manage myself and maintain or even grow for a few orbits with push respected:
- Main 109s 9 with the button
- Main 99 to 14 with SB
- Main 20 with the button
109s - Main 23 with QA high-jack
Hand 25 is as favorable as I enjoy a walk with 63. And here I am and managed to hand 26 with a stack of 425k (we are now 20k/40k blinds) or the third stack at the table, as you can see on the replay of the hand. However nothing has changed, there is always a simple strategy to push as soon as the situation seems favorable. Q8 to SB is borderline, but it is nevertheless sufficient to push a hand once again ... and enjoy this time it a nice stroke of luck, to the detriment of other players who would have liked to see one out ...
So here we are with this stroke of luck back to the starting position ... Phew! However, I feel absolutely no good ... If I know there is no question to reproduce the error start and I'll avoid reminders too marginal to be systematically punished by the chip leader, how should I approach this second chance offered to me ?
Should I play ultra-tight in resteal only, leave the cards to decide, and probably gain a few seats because other players will emerge in all probability before me? Where should I keep playing to try to attain at least the HU at the risk of leaving too early in a final where I now have a better stack than 4 players?
I can not decide ... And I play in between, without a strategy, not wanting to stop playing with 20 armored HS at a table but trying to take little risk to not be the first to go out ... It's never a good calculation of course, and it gives this example, by hand 32:
... or that, by hand 38:
Fine examples of play weak passive permitted! Or I play and I agree to take risks by playing aggressively, or I fold both hands, no shame in SB facing the huge chip leader if they decided they'd play for super-lock ...
I can not decide what to do ... And meanwhile, our stack decreases visibly, and nobody comes out ... If I restart, the other will call me, I'll be OOP, and if I spend all my hands, I'll be the last stack ...
Go, carpets that avoids thinking! Yet is it really reasonable when you look at our carpet over that of others, and knowing that not even the excuse to play to win in view of the mat CL? Main
48:
And the hand 51 (a player is released between the two) ...
And now, 5th, and a huge sense of mess ... Even after writing this article, I'm not sure what I should have done: Should I wait for one or two more players out of which slowed to about 10BB to move, or play all hands drinking thoroughly to try to catch the 2nd place (and even from time to time victory HU anything can happen)?
What I do know however is that my next TF:
- I will have seen the other table for the semifinal
- I take a big breath and forces me to completely break the rhythm bustle of the 1 / 2 final by stopping the raises marginal (for a while)
- I forced myself to take a decision on what to do. Better a bad decision than no decision at all! ...
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