Originally Posted by Aces

Hand 13 - Might let AJ go to the reraise depending or read

Hand 19 - Gutsy reraise. I'm always worried a hand that shouldn't call but that beats me would call(like A hi or a med PP)

Hand 20 - I could see playing QJ 4-way

Hand 24 - Good fold

Hand 25 - Tempted to bet the river. He would bet w/any pair, and might call w/an A.

27 -Gotta love an AI sitting on KK. Bad luck there.

30 -Nice Reraise

59 - Tough laydown, lots of worse hands make this raise. Not sure what I'd do here.

75 - Can't fault the raise, but raising to 800 or 1000 proababy accomplishes the same thing and you can lay it down to the AI. I always get nervous with limpers late in an SNG since everybody is usually raising at that point.


I'm mostly just nitpicking(but you asked ). I like your solid style early-to-middle - I play similarly. I almost want to say you should look to steal a little more once you're on the bubble.

BTW, how are you doing recently, haven't seen you update your sig? I need to do a total, but I think I'm sitting at about 6.15K or so. Haven't got to play as much lately. How are you finding the 109s? I still end up playing more 55s then anything else when I'm not playing ring for a bonus.

Originally Posted by JeffreyGB

20 - I think that part of why I folded was the previous hand. If it's 4-way I'm basically raising or folding and I didn't want to play for all of freeze's chips on this hand.

Originally Posted by JeffreyGB

Thanks for the nitpicking. It's exactly what I was looking for. I felt like I should have been stealing more on the bubble here too, but I didn't feel like I was running in to very many good spots.

Originally Posted by JeffreyGB

I'm basically treading water recently. Going up a little and then back down. Had two or three sessions where I bubbled out of every game on a bad beat. Currently I'm $5 over my sig. I'm expecting things to pick up any time though.

Originally Posted by gabe

i think you should resteal more from aggressive players (like freezeplay). do it when you are on the BB and everyone will lay off your blind.

Originally Posted by michael1123

21 - I'd have certainly called here. Probably have the best hand, and you're in the BB, so you're getting a discount to call and there's no player left to act behind you. With his stack and his aggressive style, I'm pretty sure he'd have shoved with any two.

Originally Posted by michael1123

24 - Wow ... he'd raised so many times in a row, I'm pretty stunned you laid this down while getting 2 to 1...

Originally Posted by michael1123

25 - I'd minbet the river for value if I didn't bluff earlier.

Originally Posted by michael1123

27 - Sick, but you kind of created this monster by not calling him earlier.

Originally Posted by michael1123

42 - Eek. You've raised one hand in the past like 4 rounds and it was TT. Here's a perfect chance to steal a blind, and its even a decent hand to do it with. Next best would be limping in. Folding here is pretty bad I think.

Originally Posted by michael1123

45 - Bet much less on the turn...

Originally Posted by michael1123

57 - I'd have raised preflop. Certainly check the flop!!!

Originally Posted by michael1123

59 - Eeek. This reminds me of that AJ hand in Ilikeaces hand history. I'd bet any amount of money that you had the best hand here. Its an easy read for me that you have the best hand and he thinks you have overs. He probably has a flopped pair or a draw or maybe even nothing, as he knows you're probably folding. This should be an easy all in.

Originally Posted by michael1123

63 - Raise preflop, or at the very least bet the flop. You have a tight passive image, and he's running over you here. A minbet on the flop would've stolen this easily.

Originally Posted by michael1123

66 - I call it. You really haven't defended your blinds at all, regularly folding your SB when it folds and your BB when anyone raises.

Originally Posted by michael1123

69 - He is destroying you guys. BLIND DEFENSE!!!

Originally Posted by michael1123

70 - HOLY COW!!!! ...Certainly easily reraise with the A here. I'd go all in...

Originally Posted by michael1123

75 - Looking at the flop, you were going to get all in anyway no matter how this played out, but you should've raised less since you should've actually wanted a call here as it was unlikely he had better than you did. With your stack and these size of blinds, A7s was a monster in the BB, worthy of a raise to just 1200.

Originally Posted by michael1123

Sorry if I'm a bit harsh. Some of these hands were really stunning to me though, as its been a while since I've read a hand history of another players SNG play, and this is so different from how I play. It was very interesting though, to see a bit of the insight of how a tight passive player plays, since normally I'm just seeing the other side of it and not seeing what they're folding.

You need to increase your aggressiveness when the blinds get rather big, and you need to adjust your play more to the style of play of your opponents. The tight passive players that keep folding their BB to raises and limping into your BB every hand, you should be raising these players blinds regularly (like freezeplay is doing). Against the aggressive freezeplay, you need to greatly lower your reraise and calling standards. And generally, you need a lot more blind defense, as you were basically giving them away every time you didn't have a big hand.

Good luck.