#01 - The first mini session

Ladies and gentlemen! We are off! To a bit of a rocky start I must admit. I just played 4 Turbo 45 man sng's and would like to run through a couple of the deciding hands.

JJ reshove from SB

This hand was the one that really decided my fate in "Game 1". The blinds were at 100/50 and I was sitting on 14BB, by no means a dire situation but I was still looking for a spot to get it in. In retrospect I do not think this was the one.

Agressive player shoves for 12BB UTG2 and I pick up JJ in the SB. He had been fairly active, and though this was his first open shove that I had seen (warning bells) I decided to go with the boyscouts and reshoved for 14BB.

According to Poker Tracker I was 54% fav preflop so technically a flip. With hindsight I feel the reshove with JJ in that position with 14BB behind was perhaps a bit on the loose side and maybe I should have waited for a better spot. What do you guys think?

Calling off 10BBs with 55 in SB

Well... this one... Now I would like to justify it by saying he was incredibly loose from what I had seen and had been fairly active last orbit in late position, but I just can't really bring myself to say that calling off with 55 against a fairly equal stack is good. At the very best I was looking at a flip and I will try to be more conservative with my calls in the future.

Please share any thoughts, though I do think it will often have to do with personal preference. ICM wise though this is a massive -EV spot to call so slapping myself a bit for that. 

10BB deep steal attempt in SB goes bad

This last one for the day is not very interesting. Everyone folds to my SB and I look down at A4s. Antes have just entered the fray, I'm getting short with 10BB's and my neighbor in the BB barely has me covered. 

No brainer to push and I will do it again in a heartbeat. He unfortunately had AKo and though some people might argue that AKo is a fold in this spot (hmm...) he obviously was not one of them. Bad timing and no 4 on the board led to my farewell from "Game 3"

4 down, many to go.

Well, thats it for the first update. Not much of interest I'm afraid. 4 games played, 4 final tables missed. Granted I do feel that I ran rather badly, only winning about 1 flip out of the set of 4 games, but that's variance for you. And indeed Pokertracker agrees and says my All in Equity was mostly good. 

Looking forward to playing more games. Till then, Good night!