Some1 Review my noob SnG?

Hey i was wondering if any1 would bother to review my SnG. I am fairly new to poker maybe a few months. This is of a $1 + $0.20 single table tourny. It is 138 hands so its probably really slow. Also i will be recording from now on to save using a converter.

i have a url for the replay but not sure if i can post it here.

thanks.

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I can't get it to trim i copied the hand history into a text file(.txt) and it puts it into input, but all the hands are still there and when i push to trim nothing comes in the output and it says Error: Can't guess input file format. Do i need to use a certain format?

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Sorry i figured it out. This is a different tourny i sat the next day its actually a $3.00 + $0.40 single table SnG. I do place first and am happy with 90% of my plays. If i can get some comments inc the hand number that would be awesome. Also dropped all the hands i didn't play in (104 hands)

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Here are some things I noticed Matt.

Hand 1 - You HAVE to raise this up pre-flop. Hands like AQ play bad enough against 4 people when you are in position and become extremely tough out of position. Raise to 120 pre-flop to get out a couple of the limpers.

Hand 2 - I would make it at least 150. General rule of thumb is 3xBB + 1BB per limper. (If you feel your table is full of limp/fold type people then you can add 1BB per two limpers).

Hand 3 - I would have folded this pre-flop from the SB. Depending on a read of my opponent I MAY call with a hand like this from the button (i.e, in position), but even then it is marginal unless suited. You can see by the action on the turn and river why these types of hands are hard to play out of position as you have no idea where you are in the hand once you get raised. Is villain on a draw? Does he have you beat with a hand like AK, AQ or AJ or is he bluffing. Personally I would have just checked and called a smallish bet. Btw, his shove on the river screams bluff, but I think a fold there is still the best move.

Hand 5 - Your stack is too shallow to bet 200 on the flop. If you are going to bet there (which imo is also a bad move as a good player would definitely call you with about any pp and some Aces) you may as well shove.

Hand 6 - Again your stack is too shallow to just bet the flop. Shove is much better.

Hand 8 - Blinds are too big to limp with anything. Raise pre-flop

Hand 9 - When the blinds get this big you can reduce your raise to 2.5x instead of 3x. It accomplishes the same thing but risks less chips in the situations where you are trying to steal the blinds

JJ - between hands 10 and 11. Not sure what all of the stacks are but this is probably a shove instead of a fold.

Hand 11 - fold pre-flop

Q80 - between 11 and 12 - I probably steal the blinds with this

Hand 12 - Shove pre-flop

Hand 13 - Nice re-steal

Hand 15 - Raise pre-flop. If he folds adding the 200 to your stack is a good thing and if he calls it makes the hand easier to play post flop as you have now represented a bigger hand.

Hand 16 (and onward) - Again, you can probably raise 2.5x here instead of 3x.

Hands 19+ - Stop limping pre-flop. If you play a hand, raise.

I will try to review the rest later.

Really appreciate all your comments, it makes it so much easier to look at the hand with what you have said and realize my mistakes and how i can improve on those hands. Can't wait to see what you have to say about my heads up play. I believe its one of the worst parts of my game in raising calling shoving, but i had a very good read on him just need to improve on the play after that.

Reads are an important part of heads up play. Let me know what reads you had and I can incorporate those thoughts into my comments.

I am not very good with the lingo, but basically i was watching him the entire game (he was easy read and chip leader by a good distance), he would limp in any position, very loose player with wide range and would only check/call while chasing or with an underpair.
He Would raise with only very good hands the better the hand the more he raised. He took out some very easy plays early on with some all in action on the first few hands, so in my eye's the rest of the game he played the same all the way through and only won his chips through 'luck' and not good reading/plays.
I had played a very very tight game with not alot of big hands early/mid game, so with this in mind and having a good chip stack when we came heads up i changed my game alot in this position (being aggresive with nothing to limping in with good hands for setups) and he had no idea what my hands were and couldn't read me at all.

P.S Hand 13 was probably my best play to help win this SnG :P

what you are describing sounds like a loose (Plays a lot of hands)-passive (only bets when they have something) type of player. Gonna look through some more hands now.

OK, let's see what we have here.

Hand 21 - Already discussed not limping pre-flop. Go ahead and bet the flop. You may get a call out of a mid pp or you may get someone with a hand like KQ to call one street trying to chase their hand.

66 - between 24 and 25 - Definitely play this HU

Hand 26 - I like a bet on the flop better than your raise on the turn for the following reasons. First, that flop hits your hand a great deal of the time so you are likely to take the pot right there. Secondly, if you get check/raised you can fold knowing villain had a big hand. With your play you are in a tough spot if villain shoves over your raise on the turn. Does he have a draw there? Did he check the flop with a big hand hoping you would check/raise? When you play a loose passive player the best line to take is where you pound them continuously until they start pushing back. This puts them in a mode of play where they aren't comfortable.

Hand 27 - I actually would have folded pre-flop. Players at every level notice when you are playing every hand so it isn't bad to fold the worst of the worst hands.

Hand 28 - I hope you adjusted your read on him based on this play. Also, notice what happened when he didn't shove the flop. He bet (trying to bluff you off of your hand), you raised, and my guess is that he felt pot committed so called your raise. A better line for him would have been to shove the flop (unless he knew he was going to luckbox the K on the turn).

Hand 29 - One way to mix up your play would be to check the turn here. It makes him think the Ace scared you as well which, in turn, makes it easier for him to bluff at the river

Hand 30 - Did you make a note that he called two bets with Ace high? That means you should value bet him relentlessly, but bluff less often.

Hand 33 - another oppty to fold pre-flop once in a while

Hand 34 - Raise pre-flop and shove over his turn raise. You are ahead here more often than you think. A fold on the river is REALLY bad. At that point the pot is 3,200. He bets another 1,600 (roughly to make the math easier) which means you need to call 1,600 to win 4,800 so you just need to win the hand 1 out of 3 times for a call to be profitable and I am willing to bet you are ahead here more than 33% of the time.

Hand 37 - You are better off open shoving this hand than calling his shove.

All in all you didn't play that bad, but need to keep the following in mind - limp way less than you do (and no limping at all when the blinds get large); learn about "M" and how to play when your "M" drops to around 10; watch the size of the pot in relation to the size of your stack.

Good Luck!!!

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Awesome. Thanks alot for all your help and advice.