My Sunday Million

[Al Smooth 0]

First off, I wanted to thank all of you for railing yesterday. It was really a lot of fun to see all those names on the rail cheering for me, as usually I'm one of the people cheering. It was kind of surreal to be on the other side of it for a change. I don't know why my play got so erratic once we got down to two tables, I guess I just tried to gamble too much to try and win it all after playing pretty solid for nine hours to survive and advance. I picked two very bad spots with the A5 and the 66 I guess, but if you watch the HH you'll see how much I was pushing the envelope in certain spots. Anyway, thanks again guys!>>> Link to the PxF HH <<<Edit - Please feel free to leave comments on any hand and how you feel I could have played it better, I'm REALLY working hard on my game to get better and I need the constructive criticism...I'm a coach and I can take it as long as you're giving help and offering advice and not just being an a$$

[Canary3 1]

i didnt get a chance to rail yesterday al but great tourney! congrats on the nice run

[profxavier9 0]

sorry for my ignorance but how did you finish?

[Canuckickstan 2]

sorry for my ignorance but how did you finish?

10th for a little over 6K. It was a fun time railing and having Al post hands on here. Thanks for that Al.

[suicideking 0]

Going through it and I'll post a bit at a time.Hand 35, why min raise with 78ss? Hoping to see a cheap flop? The table had been playing passively, what was your thoughts at this point?

[RyanPriceDotCA 0]

I watched the last 1/3rd or so of the tourney.Man did you ever hit flops! I hope I can run that well in a big tourny sometime!Looked pretty good to me, but I had two hands towards the end that I would've done differently:Hand 534:Why push with AK suited? You're a monster here against almost everything. I'd want to get some people in on this, let someone play an A-10 or A-9 type of hand for cheap.Final Hand:I can see pushing with 6-6, but why call an all-in with it? Your best case scenario is you were in a 50/50 race (which you were). Worse case you're dominated. I think you could've picked a better spot. Once again, good idea to lead all in with 6-6 here, but a bad idea to call with it IMO.Congrats on the cash man, must feel great!

[Al Smooth 0]

Going through it and I'll post a bit at a time.Hand 35, why min raise with 78ss? Hoping to see a cheap flop? The table had been playing passively, what was your thoughts at this point?

Lindgren Early position theory. The min raise with the suited connector looks sketchy (some will read it as a monster trying to get action) and will only be re-raised by QQ or better...you get to see a lot of cheap flops, or you can call the single raise from what will have to be QQ> and try to flop huge and stack them. Obv, you have to have a deep enough stack to be able to call a raise from what you KNOW has to be a big hand from out of position, but the implied odds become pretty large in a HU pot with a suited connector.

[Al Smooth 0]

Hand 534:Why push with AK suited? You're a monster here against almost everything. I'd want to get some people in on this, let someone play an A-10 or A-9 type of hand for cheap.

I wanted to see all five cards and the open shove makes it look MUCH weaker than it is. If I 3x raise, get one caller (best case) and the flop comes J98 no hearts, the C-bet would commit my stack to the pot. I was happy taking the blinds and antes there, but would have also been happy with a call. No need to let someone hit a flop on me there imho.

[suicideking 0]

Hand 51 with the QJ where you flop trips.Why call the all in? You have 300 invested and its 3600 to call.Hand 64 you call him down with A6 and hit the A on the river. Do you think A high was the best hand there?

[Al Smooth 0]

Hand 51 with the QJ where you flop trips.Why call the all in? You have 300 invested and its 3600 to call.

Felt he was weak, I was live, had chips, and was trying to gamble early to build a big stack.

[suicideking 0]

#127 you raise EP with AJ and hit two pair on the flop. You check it down after hitting a boat on the turn. Were you hoping he would bet, why did you check the flop is my real question. He called a PF raise, and I think leading out might be the best play here. The turn almost forces you to check, and the river is ok, but why check the flop? Was he particularly aggressive in your view?

[suicideking 0]

And why did you shove A6 suited for 14K? Hand 151.

[profxavier9 0]

nice cash man.

[armen13 0]

534 I like. You need to iso there.555 you have too many chips for this call. Not trying to be results oriented here (you would have had the same result with QQ), but you don't have much of an edge with 66 even though his range is wide, and there is a good enough chance you are crushed. Compare this with alternate play of not calling and continuing to put pressure during the final table bubble.Anyway lots of hands here to look at...

[suicideking 0]

LMAO at hand 381 with the Krablar. WTF were you thinking lol.

[RDog 0]

I wanted to see all five cards and the open shove makes it look MUCH weaker than it is. If I 3x raise, get one caller (best case) and the flop comes J98 no hearts, the C-bet would commit my stack to the pot. I was happy taking the blinds and antes there, but would have also been happy with a call. No need to let someone hit a flop on me there imho.

I disagree here. Late in tourneys very rarely do people flat call raises. I think your hand became very obvious that you had AK and you are only getting called by hands that dominate you and they are folding hands you dominate but might have reraised you if given the chance. You had been very active and by shoving instead of making a normal raise you eliminate the chance of someone making a mistake by shoveling over the top. I have started looking through some of the hands (just remembered this one from watching it when it happened).

[suicideking 0]

I see your suited connector theory cracking AA at 456, brutal flop.

[NoSup4U 0]

Congrats Al!Mark

[Al Smooth 0]

I see your suited connector theory cracking AA at 456, brutal flop.

lol, that one was partially his fault...I made a 3x raise from early position, and he min raised from the BB with AA. OF COURSE I'm going to see that flop. if he makes a standard re-raise, I most likely muck pre as he had a stack that could do some serious harm to me and I could only call a lead out bet on the flop if I hit Gin...which I did.

[Al Smooth 0]

I disagree here. Late in tourneys very rarely do people flat call raises. I think your hand became very obvious that you had AK and you are only getting called by hands that dominate you and they are folding hands you dominate but might have reraised you if given the chance. You had been very active and by shoving instead of making a normal raise you eliminate the chance of someone making a mistake by shoveling over the top. I have started looking through some of the hands (just remembered this one from watching it when it happened).

You're very likely correct. I was indeed being pretty active, and should have let someone shove over the top of me. I acted too quickly.

[Al Smooth 0]

I think hands 200 and 201 are my favorites. Welcome to Value Town! Population, you.

[armen13 0]

hand 50 Is this too big a reraise to call? Not sure with 99. hand 64 is calling the turn spew (works out here but in general)? calling flop and his weak lead give you some floating opportunity in later streets but turn is realy ugly and his bet is strong. hand 78 I like the idea of min raising 78 here but this hand soon grows out of control. His reraiseis large and the same logic as 456 applies here. anyway I think fold pre, definitely fold flop.

[RDog 0]

I think my main advice is to reraise in position much more often, especially late in tourneys. In hands 187, 279 and 322 you flat AK twice and AJ once on the button to a hijack raiser. I also don't like the flat in hand 372 with AK to a button raise.My basic advice, raise more, flat less.

[Bonzium 0]

very well done sir....and i love everyone tearing you apart at your 10th place finish lmao! But i guess the only way to get to that ft is learning from mistakes. But in my opinion it is poker and take the results when they come, well done sir.

[Wandigo 1]

Thanks for the vid al, definitely looking forward to checking it out tonight when I get home. I have to agree with RDog though on the AK hand. I was 90%+ sure that you had AK that hand, it seemed pretty obvious. It was rare that we saw someone flat call a pf raise and see a flop, it was moreso a lot of reshoving and I think your spot there was likely to make someone reshove with a hand like 10Js.