How NOT to play pocket sixes

88MickyC

early doors in the £2.20 @ 2.20 deep stack.

where do i start with this shambles of a hand!! haha

whatever i could do wrong, i did do wrong!

I still don't know why i played this hand like i did... shockingly bad play!

daphne56	Small blind		15.00	15.00	5470.00
DBWHU	Big blind		30.00	45.00	5003.75
	Your hole cards	6 6
88MickyC	Raise		75.00	120.00	4950.00
Sph74	Fold
Dixie_D	Fold
kidpoker1	Call		75.00	195.00	4781.25
daphne56	Fold
DBWHU	Call		45.00	240.00	4958.75
Flop
		K 9 K
DBWHU	Bet		30.00	270.00	4928.75
88MickyC	Call		30.00	300.00	4920.00
kidpoker1	Call		30.00	330.00	4751.25
Turn
		8
DBWHU	Bet		270.00	600.00	4658.75
88MickyC	Call		270.00	870.00	4650.00
kidpoker1	Fold
River
		6
DBWHU	Bet		1050.00	1920.00	3608.75
88MickyC	Raise		2500.00	4420.00	2150.00
DBWHU	All-in		3608.75	8028.75	0.00
88MickyC	All-in		2150.00	10178.75	0.00
DBWHU	Unmatched bet		8.75	10170.00	8.75
DBWHU	Show	9 9
88MickyC	Show	6 6
DBWHU	Win	Full House, 9s and Kings	10170.00		10178.75

BorinLoner

I like that you're thinking about your pre-flop raise sizings and making them smaller in MTT's but at this stage you're 167BB deep, which is deeper than you'd normally be at a cash table. The reasoning behind making smaller pre-flop raises in MTT's is to conserve chips, making our bluffs and blind steals cheaper. At this stage, we need to balance that with our desire to be able to get stacks in by the river and that's alot easier when we just make our opening raise 3x. Later in the tournament we can of course still play for stacks just by making a min-raise because everyone is shorter anyway.

Sounds like nit-picking over 15 chips but your raise size here seems to show that you're making the adjustment to smaller raises a little bit too early and not in relation to stack sizes. 

So I think at this stage, your pre-flop raise should be 90.

The flop call is fine, I think. Obviously if the player behind us raises we have to fold but 1BB is nothing in relation to our stack. Getting 9:1 on our call we're getting great odds to turn our set and the implied odds are huge if we think there's a reasonable chance that our opponent is donking with a strong hand (Hopefully a King and not 99). If we hit a six on the turn it will look like the most innocuous card in the deck to an opponent holding a King.

Facing the turn bet, we just have to fold. The chances of our hand being the best of three after this bet are very slim and we're no longer being given good odds to hit our set on the river. I'm sure you don't need anyone to tell you that this is the big mistake in the hand.

The river coolers you. Unlucky.

So the pre-flop play is alright but the raise should be a tad bigger to make playing for stacks easier. The flop's fine, the turn is the problem and the river is... well, what can you do by then? "How not to play sixes on the turn" would be a better thread title.