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Jeff Madsen making a bad move?

Got dealt Kings UTG, and since there was a bunch of LAG guys on the table I chose to limp in hoping for a opportunity to reraise. To my surprise Jeff raised to 5 BB after me and another limper.
In this spot, I put him on a strong hand like AK, QQ, or AA.
A push here might be a preferred move, but since the second limper was a terrible player I chose to make a weak raise, hoping him to call and Jeff to push for more value.
Unfortunately he folded, but Jeff pushed showing me T♣T♦!!! Well, he sucked me out...
In my opinion he made a huge misstake, I showed a lot of strength limp-reraising UTG, and his tens is at best flipping against AK at this point.
When I discussed the hand with Vierika, he told me that Jeff was appointed as player of the year at WSOP 06. I laughed and thought he was joking, but after some investigation I found out that he wasn't one of those bad FT pros who has won a tournament by luck and get sponsored. He's a respected PRO, I can't really give him too much cred though... I've played a lot against him and he's done a several big mistakes. I'm waiting for my next chance to kick his ass.

What's your opinion about Jeff's move?

Unable to watch videos!

Does anyone knows what the problem is?
We got a bunch of videos to post but it's worthless since no one can watch it, hope it's solved soon!

Nice call.. Maybe

In this hand I get busted trying to run a bluff. This might look like a good call since he got me dominated, but I think it's horrible, he does not have any connection with the board and are not pot-commited. I was pretty pleased with my bluff since I thought he was empty and I have to overs in case of a call. Well, I didnt work out that good.

Tiny bet, huge bluff!

When you're up against more experienced players it takes much more to achieve what you want, but sometimes you can use their knowledge to your advantage.


I showed much strength preflop since I re-raised my big blind. When the flop came with two aces and a seven, I wondered how I could show as much strength as possible. Making a standard bet of approximately 750 would be very suspiciously, a certain bluff in his eyes. A check-raise might be a good option, but I chose to make a minimum bet of 120. It can't mean anything but pure strength to an experienced player. And furthermore, it's cheaper if he plays back. Risking 120 in a pot of 1100 doesn't need a high success-frequency to be profitable.

Busted!

Donk of the day: vidude

Pushing short stacks doesn't seems to be a good idea this eve. Got call by all sort of hands, in all sort of positions. The worst play was made by vidude after pushing 15.5 BB's with K♥T♦, still five players left to act. GG vidude.

Aim for the dead money

When you play a lot of sng, you recognize the other grinders who also play much, cause you have played many tables with them. Your goal should be to not play so many pots against them, instead find the players who dont have a clue what they are doing and take their chips. Here is an example how I managed to do so.

Running pretty bad lately.

Of some reason it would feel much better to lost if he'd just simply hit his kicker than hit runner-runner. Anyway, it feels like runner-runner mirrors my last few days pretty well.