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Poker News Latest: Heinz varieties help win $8,715,638

Pius Heinz must be feeling full of beans (ahem) right now, being the new WSOP Main Event winner and a not too shabby $8,715,638 richer.

Back in the summer Heinz, 22, was one of 6865 players who arrived at the Rio in Las Vegas with their eyes on the prize, the field being gradually thinned down over 12 long days. This left the survivors able to take a long break to eventually reconvene as the November Nine final table in the Penn and Teller Theatre. A good number of poker purists are very much opposed to having the final table battle it out months after they earned the right to play for the title, and they have a good point but, the importance of the media being what it is nowadays, this modern scheduling twist seems like an inevitable ‘development’ in the organisers’ efforts to maximise (and prolong) exposure.

Heinz started seventh in chips but emerged in the lead when only three players remained in contention. He won’t have been too concerned at being demoted to second of two against Martin Staszko of the Czech Republic because this meant he was guaranteed a payout of $5,433,086, although the extra $3 million and the coveted bracelet no doubt provided an incentive to remain focused and overturn the chip counts of 117.3 million to 88.6 million.

The crucial hand saw Staszko limp in from the button and Heinz raise to 7.9 million in the big blind. Staszko called and the flop came Tc7cKs, Heinz bet 8.2 million, Staszko raised to 17.5 million and, after a long think, Heinz announced all-in for roughly 70 million. Staszko called with Qc9c and Heinz revealed AhQh…

Despite cries of ‘He’s ahead!’ from his fans Heinz could easily have found himself in the soup given the hat full of enemy outs he needed to avoid, but when the turn brought the 3h and the river an equally irrelevant 6s he shot to a very healthy chip lead of 161.5 million to Staszko’s 44.4 million. Shortly after Staszko shoved with Tc7c but failed to beat AsKc and it was all over.

Until next summer, that is, when thousands more will once again turn up in Vegas, most with the confidence boost provided by the fact that an unknown player is likely to win the biggest prize.

Good luck at the tables!

Angus Dunnington (AngusD at the tables)
32Red Poker Ambassador

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No Limit: The curse of JJ?

As we have all experienced, even QQ seems to be a trouble hand more often than we might expect, so JJ – which can quite reasonably be categorised as a medium pair in order for us to keep our feet on the ground – should perhaps come with a “warning”.

As always, the best play in this or that scenario tends to boil down to situational factors as well as any knowledge we have picked up and our style, image, strategy and so on. But, generally, with JJ (and TT) we ideally want to be raising enough to deny small(er) pairs correct odds in the search for flopping a set, for example, but not too much of our stack to leave us too committed. Obviously we aren’t absolutely limited to a single type of play, but while we don’t want to overdo it, nor should we get into the habit of raising too little.

Not surprisingly, as well as table dynamics, specific habits of certain players, stack sizes (including our own) and other useful factors, positional consideration remains a constant in determining how we act.

In early position it is prudent to open with a raise (even with tens), and something akin to a sin to merely limp. The former sets out our stall, lets the opposition know that we mean business (assuming we don’t have a loose and wacky image, and that we’re playing on a reasonably ‘normal’ table), forces them to pay for the privilege of seeing the flop and earns respect in anticipiation of our continued aggression. Limping works out wonderfully should a magic card show up on the flop, but otherwise leaves us in the dark and invites someone else to assume the initiative.

While middle position gives us a little more information, we need to take appropriate action based on what has happened thus far. If we are still first to act, then again raising is sensible, and limping deserves to be exploited. Note also that limping helps opponents narrow down our range to ‘good’ but not great hands.

After limpers we might raise to narrow down the field, or sometimes call, perhaps against particularly tight players (with a view to giving them ‘control’ of the hand post-flop should we hit a monster). We can also consider calling a lone, tight pre-flop raiser for the same reason, but reraise loose players to get them heads-up.

In late position we are expected to be playing a much wider range anyway, so open-raising is standard. If a few players have limped, then we can do the same and try to exploit our position in a potentially enormous pot in the event of hitting, or simply put in a hefty raise to force out the weak limpers (with the bonus of their ‘extra’ contribution to the pot) and strip down the field. The raise facilitates taking the pot with consistent aggression on the flop.

Meanwhile, if the pot has been raised already, what we do depends on relative stack sizes, how many players remain in contention and the habits of the players in the blinds. Are we willing to put the short stack raiser all-in? Do we want to get into a war with the big-stack raiser, is it preferable to call? If we/they are short-stacked we can’t justify calling a decent raise and then folding the flop, so it’s a matter of whether or not we’re prepared to commit everything.

Remember we aslo have the option to fold Jacks pre-flop if the action suggests someone holds a big pair. For example if we are in late position and there has been a raise and a reraise, while it is possible that both could be up to funny business, unless they are proven jokers, there’s nothing wrong in interpreting the raises for what they appear to be and keeping our gunpowder dry (and stack intact).

Good luck,

Angus Dunnington (AngusD at the tables)
32Red Poker Ambassador

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No Limit: Two money-saving tips

MONEY-SAVING TIP #1

A common and rather odd mistake that isn’t exclusive to less experienced players is sitting down at a table and posting the Big Blind before it’s actually necessary. This is wrong for a few important reasons.

First, in the long-term it’s simply a waste of money because much of the time we’re just going to end up folding an awful hand. This situation also supports the notion that one mistake leads to another as there is a tendency, having found ourselves paying for the privilege of being dealt J7 suited out of position, to ‘justify’ our investment by calling raises. Much better to avoid trouble and save money by simply waiting for our turn to post.

Finally, in an ideal world it would be nice if we could sit down and be allowed to sit out for an orbit or two to get a feel of the table and learn something about this or that player. Volunteering – and paying! – to dive into the action immediately, when other players are already aware of important table dynamics that could see us come unstuck on our very first hand, makes no sense; it also shows a lack of patience.

Note that – albeit to a lesser extent – we should also apply the same logic and patience when we return to a game after sitting out.

MONEY-SAVING TIP #2

Most players have no problem being aggressive when they have a strong hand and believe they are ahead, but many also tend to put the brakes on when they do have a good hand but run into a raise, for example. This often results in deciding to ‘survive’ the rest of the hand as cheaply as possible by only calling.

Although this is a common way to play with, for instance, JJ on a flop with an overcard, betting the flop, calling a raise and subsequently calling Turn and River, it is not unusual during the hand to both feel uncomfortable and ultimately not too surprised at losing the showdown. Alternatively, we might call the substantial Turn bet and give up in the face of a very big bet on the River.

Having the initiative wrestled away from us is never good (unless we’re deliberately allowing it because we’re trapping with a monster), and a better approach is to use aggression to find out where we stand and save money in the process.

Using this same scenario, if we hold JJ (and perhaps raised pre-flop), bet a Q72 flop and run into a raise, instead of passively calling and following up with two more calls, a sensible, more proactive play is to throw in a modest re-raise. The point is that if our opponent then adds a virtual bucket full of chips to the pot with another, very big raise we at least know not to invest any further, the price for this information – our small reraise – being considerably cheaper than a couple of calls.

Apart from the fact that raising might even induce a bluffer to fold there and then, it also has an affect on an opponent who, taking into consideration how play developed from the beginning of the hand, might hold back and check out, thus giving us an opportunity to catch a winner against a hand like KQ.

Good luck at the tables!

Angus Dunnington (AngusD at the tables)
32Red Poker Ambassador

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Adjusting Play

Yet another comparison between poker and life (no apologies) is that we need to learn how to adjust to changing circumstances. We might have read here and there that it is important to mix up our play a little (note that this article is aimed at No Limit). This should indeed be something we are willing to do, but making deliberate adjustments is more important – and effective – than randomly altering our game.

The latter tactic, for all but the more experienced players, can often confuse the player wielding the weapon more than those it is directed against.

Adjusting play after getting a feel of the dynamics of a table and any habits and weaknesses (not forgetting strengths!) of the opposition, on the other hand, has specific aims and thus more achievable results.

If it becomes evident that there are more players than is usual limping and calling raises pre-flop we should tighten up a little if we have also been loose, instead betting strongly with premium hands as we are likely to be called and thus able to build a pot. Conversely, once we have been able to establish that we are in a tight game we can exploit the situation by widening our range and stepping up a gear or two.

Passive players prone to folding at the first hint of trouble should be mercilessly put under pressure, and usually avoided when they wake up with bold bets. Against players like this who are really tight we should also start playing with suited connectors and small pairs because, when we hit monsters, they are not going to let their big pairs and other strong made hands go. Extra-aggressive players also require us to adjust, ideally with a view to trapping them.

Of course we’re dealing here with adjustments rather than sudden, drastic, inconspicuous 180-degree shifts in how we bet and so on, and clearly these need to be made with our own table image in mind. We are not going to trap these players with an out-of-character play that sets off alarm bells. After a long enough period during which we have set out our stall such that opponents might find aspects of our play predictable, it’s time to craftily make a few changes that will ultimately give them a nasty shock.

If we have gone quiet, then choosing to return to battle by raising with a marginal or speculative hand – rather than a strong one – is a good, tricky play that can reap big rewards on uneventful flops. Noticeable aggression on our part – with a wide hand range – can be gradually stripped down.

The important thing to remember is that a game ebbs and flows, and we must learn how to make appropriate changes that maximise our chances. As we gain experience it becomes possible to anticipate these shifts so that we can engineer adjustments with maximum effect. Blindly continuing with the same approach regardless of what is going on around us is a recipe for disaster!

Good luck at the tables!

Angus Dunnington
32Red Poker Ambassador  

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No Limit Tournaments: Final Table Strategy

Following our feature about cutting a path through freeroll (and general) multi-table tournaments, here are a few reminders about how we might – should we survive that far – handle the final table.

Obviously, as the tournament progresses, what will have started as a patient approach during which we concentrated on good hands and position will have gradually stepped up in pace (along with growing blinds and a decrease in players), so that we were willing to get involved with a wider ranger of hands, and not necessarily limiting our aggression to late position.

Ideally we also made a point of exploiting other players’ fear of missing out on the paid places as the bubble approached, while at the same time avoiding big, unnecessary confrontations against anyone who could knock us out of the tournament.

The problem for inexperienced players (indeed most players) who find themselves sitting at a final table is having to readjust to the dynamics and come up with a new strategy to cope with the changed situation. One mistake – unless we have a stack so tiny that the only option is to take our chance rather than passively give in by being blinded away – is that, guaranteed a decent prize but behind six or seven players on what is left of the leaderboard, we almost immediately throw caution to the wind and gamble in an effort to have one of the bigger stacks. Every final table sees this happen, usually with this player exiting with a far from strong hand when, in fact, it would have been possible to sit tight for a while and wait for genuinely favourable opportunities, only pushing all-in if it becomes absolutely necessary. Moreover, with other players – even those above us – gambling away their survival, it is not unusual to be promoted from 8th/10 to 6th or 7th/9 within an orbit or two of the final table getting under way – patience, even at this stage, remains a key part of the game.

Often such an elimination will be thanks to someone with a huge stack taking it upon themselves to go head-to-head with gambling short(er) stacks, sometimes with random, mediocre hands. It’s important – for now, at least – to forget about runaway chip leaders rather than have a go with, say, KJ after seeing them risk a few thousand of their enormous stack with 89 – unless circumstances dictate it, there’s no point being around a 60-40 favourite (KcJs v 8h9h is roughly a 60:40 match-up) if we’re healthy enough to pick our spots.

Nevertheless, as usual, we need some kind of happy medium, ideal situations being when we get involved with premium hands while someone is trying to steal, a player goes with a lesser hand or someone has reached (what they perceive to be) a critical, desperate stage.

It is imperative to keep in mind our position relative to the other players in terms of where the different size stacks are. This makes certain players safer/riskier than others, which we should factor in to the decision making process.

Throw in the occasional steals against passive players – which are easier to make if we have started the final table patiently and thus earned ourselves a solid, not-to-be-messed-with image – and it becomes much easier to pick our way through the minefield while others self-destruct around us.

By employing a patient, solid (not passive) and ultimately aggressive strategy we should be able to remain in contention until there are a handful of players and, consequently, win a bigger prize than had we initially lacked discipline. If we do manage this and find ourselves lagging so far behind the rest then, far better now to take our chances all-in and finish 5th, for example, than do the same with all ten players still in the game.

Good luck at the tables!

Angus Dunnington (AngusD at the tables)
32Red Poker Ambassador

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Wise Guys Results (24th – 30th October)

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Don’t Min-Raise!

In a recent article about bet sizing we looked at how it is important to make sure we put in bets that are big enough to do the job in order to extract value from our strong hands, force the opposition to pay for draws, get information and so on. As well as feeling uncomfortable when making 3/4 pot bets, for example, many players have the same problem when it comes to raising so, to push the point home that we need to take the bull by the horns, this time we will look at what is wrong with the minimum raise.

First and foremost, if the point of the raise is to build a pot that we believe we have a good chance of winning, then we are missing out on value. Indeed if we are in the habit of doing this at every betting juncture, then the cumulative difference between the small pots we’re winning and the bigger pots we should be building is going to hold us back in our quest to progress. Big hands need big raises.

With a min-raise we are often committing a poker sin in that, instead of being the aggressor and taking the initiative, we are actually doing opponents a favour in many situations by helping them out with favourable pot odds for draws. If by raising too passively we are pricing someone in to overtake us then this is a serious leak in our game, and when it does happen it’s certainly due to poor play rather than bad luck. Moreover, we need to apply pressure with big raises to also take into account implied odds, so only slightly increasing a min-raise isn’t enough. (Note that with each successive call of a min-raise opponents are getting increasingly favourable odds).

Finally, apart from these numerical reasons to avoid the min-raise, it’s also a particular mistake pre-flop with a monster because, nowadays, with so many more experienced, thinking players around, it’s very likely when we believe we are being clever with premium hands (namely AA and KK) that we are in fact doing the opposite and instead ‘showing’ our cards.

The problem is that a min-raise isn’t intended to win the pot there and then, which means that opponents can effectively discount hands such as 10 10, AQ and AJ – holdings which, if we aren’t just calling with, we would prefer to play more aggressively – as well as small pairs, with which we’d like to see flops cheaply. Meanwhile, we are hardly going to be bluffing with a min-raise, either. All things considered, our min-raise essentially indicates aces or kings (this kind of bet doesn’t help QQ), so our logic has backfired. Poker might be a tricky game but often the obvious play is the best play; if we really must be crafty in this pre-flop situation we would be better off just calling to disguise our hand.

Generally, avoid the min-raise.

Good luck at the tables!

Angus Dunnington (AngusD at the tables)
32Red Poker Ambassador

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DAZZID wins 32Red’s Diamond Royale jackpot!

Congratulations to 32Red Poker player DAZZID, the 2nd player to hit 32Red’s Diamond Royale jackpot!

DAZZID landed the big Diamond Royale hand last night and it burst a juicy jackpot of €1,151.00. The lucky hand number was 4,142,839,004 and a total of 6 players shared in the jackpot winnings.

Here’s how the hand played out:

Opening Betting Round

Dealing the Flop

Dealing the Turn

Dealing the River

The Showdown

Jackpot Winners

 

DAZZID	Diamond Royale Winner	€575.50
Farmer323	Participating Winner	€46.04
BASKETAA	Participating Winner	€46.04
Srojitas	Participating Winner	€46.04
InsaneAces	Participating Winner	€46.04
Meerkatx	Participating Winner	€46.04

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