Bart’s TOUGHEST Hands at the $10,000 Main Event

Come on Bart if a caller called in with AA hand you be all over him for not playing right, especially in a tournament you have AA and with a beautiful flop you are trying to make bare minimum or looking forward to fold it on the river which you did and if you did push on the river why would he call you on the river, sorry that's crazy. In a tournament with AA it's double up or nothing. But I like your analysis of caller's hands. Main event is a donkeyrama anyway.

I think the utg open was most likely AK, possibly 10-10–going to disagree that this isn’t a possibility. You are for the most part 50-50 with an asterix giving you a slight edge so given what’s in the pot it is a call. The aces was a fold imo. Ugly flop that warrants a check and try to keep pot as small as possible. Had some heart outs which didn’t come in but likely villain had a 10 and a pair—most likely J-10 but many other possibilities or could have even flopped a straight or flush

thanks for the main event hand reviews !!! wish you success in the next main !!

Probably the worst i've seen AA play post flop…already 33k in there. 11min to describe scared money.

There’s been a lot of talk I’ve come across in comments about JJ in cash games and I think it holds true in tournaments. When you 3-bet with JJ, you run the risk of getting blown off your equity before you see the flop. I think in tournaments, if you have your opponent covered, 3 bet away with the intention of calling a shove. But if not, gotta be careful when your tournament life is at stake.

I'd flat JJ from those positions. I get that people who play cash 3bet JJ and AKo too much over 40bb eff

My thoughts are some of you pros out think yourselves and get yourself into trouble by giving free cards.
I saw many times during final table telecast were the leader was good pre and on the flop and it checked through only to be behind on turn or river.
I saw a lot of check ahead on flop or chet flop with nothing.
Just my thoughts

hand 2 you give away on the flop

its not even worth analyzing the pot odds when you arent even sure he jams tt + your risk premium and tournament life is so valuable, especially in the main. additionally the fact some people are gonna get over excited with AA and KK and just jam those too as opposed to flat or 4b nai

Hand 2 He had AA 😅

Chips are so important I can’t believe trying to be tricky on that first flop. Just bet then jam turn.

This is why I call more than raise. I always think about what I'll do if I get raised/shoved on. If I'm not confident that I'll call, I don't raise. I've found that it seems to save me more money in the long run (at 1/3; 2/5) than I would make by raising those same hands.

Given your reasoning of the pre-flop raise size and reasoning, I think you should just bomb flop and jam turn, honestly. Hope he calls with some combo draw or pair.

Hand 1 folding r all day. Hand 2 results oriented that was a good fold.

I don't know. Folding is probably the right answer since you're a better player than I am, but I would have called this bet from an aggressive Euro player. The board is way too scary for that size. You're just folding all of your overpairs and your range has a ton. If he was betting for value he would have probably bet pot or less so you can call with those overpairs. No?

In mp1 facing an utg open of 2x and u had jj and made a standard 3!? I would of just called and got to see the flop. No 3! in this spot pre imo.

After watching Daniel Weinman beating QQ and KK with JJ I’m not folding JJ ever again lol

With the Aces hand I think not betting flop is a big mistake. You have the Ace of hearts for backdoor equity making it highly unlikely anything but a nut hand (like a made straight) would ever raise you. By betting small on the flop you get a lot of information. Most hands like KQ of diamonds or even K hearts queen of diamonds or one pair straight draw hands, one pair heart draw hands, over pairs, etc. are at best just going to call you and try to see a cheap showdown and maybe hope to improve. But if you check this board on the flop ALL of the speculative hands which probably would either call or just get out of the way of this very scary board are now going to be inspired to bluff making your situation super tough. I would snap fold to a raise because of ICM considerations.