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advice on late stage of MTTs

edited March 2017 in The Poker Clinic
As a cash table player I find the later stages of MTTs very difficult. The chip stacks are becoming small and i'm putting myself into very difficult situatios. One minute I'm playing very tight the next minute i'm playing very loose. going all in preflop feels like the only way i can try and build my chip stack. 

What I find really difficult is knowing how and when to cbet and consider making a possible bluff.

PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalance
cSmall blind 150.00150.002824.00
XBig blind 300.00450.005275.00
 Your hole cards
  • J
  • K
   
aFold    
dFold    
bFold    
craigcu12Raise 600.001050.009765.00
cFold    
XCall 300.001350.004975.00
Flop
  
  • 7
  • 10
  • Q
   
XCheck    
craigcu12Bet 1012.502362.508752.50
XAll-in 4975.007337.500.00
craigcu12Fold    
XMuck    
XWin 3375.00 3375.00
XReturn 3962.500.007337.5




aSmall blind 150.00150.003505.00
XBig blind 300.00450.006120.00
 Your hole cards
  • 10
  • 10
   
cFold    
dFold    
craigcu12Raise 600.001050.006810.00
aFold    
XCall 300.001350.005820.00
Flop
  
  • Q
  • Q
  • 8
   
xCheck    
craigcu12Bet 600.001950.006210.00
xCall 600.002550.005220.00
Turn
  
  • 5
   
xCheck    
craigcu12Bet 900.003450.005310.00
xCall 900.004350.004320.00
River
  
  • A
   
xAll-in 4320.008670.000.00
craigcu12Fold    
xMuck    
xWin 4350.00 4350.00
xReturn 4320.000.008670.00



<td class="hhamt" style="margin:0px;padding:7px 5px;vertical-align:middle;
PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalance
aSmall blind 200.00200.006737.50
XBig blind 400.00600.0011640.00
 Your hole cards
  • A
  • 5
   
bFold    
cFold    
craigcu12Raise 800.001400.007302.50
aFold    
XCall 400.001800.0011240.00
Flop
  
  • 10
  • 8
  • 7
   
XCheck    
craigcu12Bet 900.002700.006402.50
XCall 900.003600.0010340.00
Turn
  
  • 6
   
XCheck    
craigcu12Check    
River
  
  • 5
   
XBet 1800.00

Comments

  • edited March 2017
    First hand seems like a call to me with your equity and the price you're getting. Might be wrong but if the idea is to take a lower variance route checking back flop seems better than bet/ folding such a strong hand?
  • edited March 2017
    Hand 1 - Cbet smaller, and prob fold to the jam, maybe you have to call now cos of how big you've gone with the cbet. There's an argument to check-back this flop.

    Hand 2 - wp imo

    Hand 3 - Not a great flop, can potentially checkback and assess on later streets. As played, giving up on future streets is definitely best, just like you did, wp.

    Hand 4 - Iso pre needs to be bigger. Folding the flop probably aint bad, he's lead pretty big 3 way and pretty much always has us either in terrible shape, drawing to 2 outs or has really good equity against us with overs/FD/straight draw. Unlikely he has a bare 8x or 7x imo. No reason to bet the turn, were you bluffing or trying to get value? I don't think you can do either here. Again on river, what are you doing? I assume you're bluffing cos there's no way you can get called by worse, but it's realllllly optimistic to think better can fold... maybe JJ/QQ folds but they won't l/c pre that often.

    Hand 5 - Happy to open this hand UTG usually but you are a bit shallow to be doing it imo. Zero point in jamming flop, you'll get snapped off by almost every hand better than ours and fld out everything we beat.
  • edited March 2017
    My intention in most hands was to bluff. The only one played as value was 1010 on board QQ85A
    Having got the time to think about things I can see some mistakes myself

    H1. I look to have rushed my play here without any thought of his hand range. it has now become clear that his calling and shoving range will out weigh his folding range massively and an all in on the turn is not likely to make him fold. If i were in a cash game I would have called this hand but was too concerned about losing chips to call it now.

    H2 my main aim was to get value from weaker hands, the ace has made it a simple fold, the action he did on the river i'm assuming a queen is what he'll have had and was intent on getting maximum value from an Ace. How he'd of played the river blank i won't know

    H3 I am thinking now i was far too thoughtful of the hope  to bluff using  scary river card putting no thought into the possible turn card at all

    H4 My decision here was to play the hand as a bluff. My thought on the flop was he's either got strength or is attempting to get fold, if he bet i would have folded but his choice to ch made me think he's cautious of the flush so i played as a bluff.

    H5 The desperation for chips gets the better of me.
  • edited March 2017
    H1: B/c or c/f flop (former imo)
    H2: fine imo
    H3:c/f flop
    H4: check back turn , prob check back river or bet small
    H5:openshove pre, b/f flop
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