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.

River rats!

Six tables in one hour and the river crushed me six times... Enjoy!

Sigh, misread!

I'm very satisfied with my poker for the moment, I've done plenty of interesting reads lately. Most of them correctly, often based on details like betting patterns and unexpected betting amounts. I got pretty confused a few times though.


The reason why I read jullum so weirdly is because I know him well, he's a experienced grinder and I didn't expect him to make such big mistakes. When he min-raised me postflop I were pretty sure that he just tried to steal the pot. My C-bet was very expected, and I knew that he knew that. Why would he just min-raise the pot if he had top pair? The only hands that made real sense was a flopped straight or air. Any pair, two pair or trips should be raised much more according to the scary board. I really don't know if he played it bad or totally brilliant! Anyway, he took my chips.


Even though jullum is a good player, I respect IsanI even more.
When he bet so small at every street, i couldn't see anything else than him holding nuts trying to make me raise him. The situation was so weird, and I couldn't put him on a queen. It didn't made any sense, so i choose to just call him afraid to face a deuce. I were totally wrong and later I've thought through the hand a plenty of times, and I starting to understand why he bet such small amounts.

First into the pot, raise!

To often you see players open limp. It's a bad play, since you can't get the blinds without a flop. Playing a sit and go it's always good to take the blinds down without a fight. Of course, you would like some more action on your premium hands, but the blinds at least let you increase your stack some, and you can never lose a pot when everybody folds.

Making cash couldn't be more fun

Today it has felt like I was playing in my own little bubble, just taking chips from people like they wanted to get rid of them. I'm really satisfied with my play, not many mistakes, thinking every decision over. Playing poker is really fun when you're outplaying people and it feels like you can see their hole cards. It's a wonderful feeling of being unbeatable.

Donk of the day: Gecko1957

The selection of Gecko1957 as our donk of the day might be a big failure, since he actually had the best hand with ace high and a backdoor flush draw. Anyway, I doubt he called the major check-raise on the flop and the pot bet on the turn hoping to be ahead with the best hand.
Gecko, if I'm wrong I'll apologize and immediately move this post to the educational category.

Obvious hyper-aggressive opponents

At a table earlier today "welcometohell85" sat on my right.
He was terribly over aggressive. Besides, those are my favorite opponents, especially when they slowplay their hits. I recommend you to keep an eye at them, aim for the dead money on the tables.
Here is an example of how he revealed his holecards.


His check-call on the flop strongly indicated on a king, because he would almost for sure bet that flop if he had missed. I saw hardly any chance that he could be empty at that stage, he probably could have a flush draw or a seven.
The turn gave me a full house, and his bet was extremely weak so i decided to raise it to verify that he had a king. Well, he min- reraised. Everything he did showed me that he was slowplaying, even though i couldn't resist 8 to 1 for a call. He pushed the river less surprising, without hesitation I could lay down my full house.
Later I asked in the chat if the had kings full, and he said "yepp".

My bible

A year ago I actually was a loosing poker player, even though it was slightly. During the time I blamed the lack of luck, but eventually it became clearer, me and vierika understood that luck just give temporary differences. We simply had a lot to learn.
He bought two copies of Collin Moshman's Sit 'n Go Strategy book, as birthday gift I got one of them and we read 'em to the last page.
Everything from basic strategy to advanced psychological and mathematical problems became much clearer. The step between loosing and winning for me was for sure this book.

Bet for value

This far traanquilize has posted every clip in our poker school, but I will try to begin doing my part as well. Even though my clip is somewhat extreme, one thing most poker players do is they bet either to small for value or does not bet or raise at all with their good hands, trying to squeeze value from their opponents. You cant always count on your opponents to bet, sometimes you have to do it on your own. That lesson have not got all the way to this guy, who might think you should play small ball even with the nuts.

4th and 5th dont make cash

Today, the majority of my finishing places have been 4th and 5th. Play tight all the way to the bubble, then bust out in an all in. The weird thing is that my best improvement after the holidays, reading some books, is according to me my bubble play. Really looking forward to play more to see if my new strategy is going to win any cash in the long run. The bubble boy title does not fit me.

Back in town

Long time since the last time I posted something, so I guess it's about time. Been away a little lately, also a little lazy around christmas, but now I'm going to grind like never before. Time to start work now, I'll write soon again.