Complete Hand Histories available from some recent tournaments.
 

As I'm sure most of you know, I ran into some success this weekend in a few various MTTs.

What I have done is put each of the complete hand histories for a few tournaments into their own file and I would like to send this to anyone who would like to view it.

I have a file for the 50k 110 rebuy tournament from empire that I won, a 300 player 109 on party where I took 2nd, and a PPM Satellite (270 buyin, 47 player) tournament that I won.

I think that each of these tournaments has something unique to offer both you and me. The empire tournament is extraordinary because I was early chipleader, but between about 60 players left and 10 players left, I hardly won a showdown. The party tournament is just a standard party multi where I was shortstacked for most of the final two tables but was still able to pull out second. In the PPM satellite I was a little lucky to get a big stack early, but it REALLY shows how to dominate a bubble. When we were 6 handed with 5th getting 1100 and 6th getting 0, I went from about 15000 chips up to 30000 chips without very many large hands at all.

I would really like to send these to as many people as possible, and have you post hands and questions and critiques. I really think alot of benefit could come from this.

I will warn you however, these files are rather bulky and may take some time to go through. The empire and 109 are both ~260 pages.

Please respond here with your email address, or PM me to recieve the files.

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Please send me the Hand Histories, sir. Email is my AIM name @aol.com

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Okay, I've had more interest in these than I thought. Luckily, Durron597 has offered to host these on a website, and I have sent them to him and he will be putting them up soon.

He (or I) will post the link when it becomes available and it will save alot of trouble for everyone.

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Alright, it's up.

http://www.stwing.org/~martinja/poker/

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From the Empire 50K,

#Game No : 2419859504
***** Hand History for Game 2419859504 *****
NL Texas Hold'em Trny:14229573 Level:14 Blinds (1000/2000) - Monday, July 25, 00:38:39 EDT 2005
Table $50,000 Guaranteed Sunday Night Poker(383423) Table #3 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 1: tnakas ( $26526 )
Seat 2: FERGYHD2001 ( $19694 )
Seat 3: IMsoLucky0 ( $22200 )
Seat 4: neutron999 ( $26452 )
Seat 5: LILTIGGER737 ( $7664 )
Seat 6: percy6 ( $21517 )
Seat 7: tbop121971 ( $12310 )
Seat 8: BeeTown ( $3960 )
Seat 9: seahope ( $9832 )
Trny:14229573 Level:14
Blinds (1000/2000)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to IMsoLucky0 [ Qd Qc ]
percy6 folds.
tbop121971 folds.
BeeTown folds.
seahope folds.
tnakas folds.
FERGYHD2001 folds.
IMsoLucky0 raises [4000].
neutron999 folds.
LILTIGGER737 folds.
IMsoLucky0 shows [ Qd, Qc ] a pair of queens.
IMsoLucky0 wins 7000 chips from the main pot with a pair of queens.
heh

You show your QQ but you don't steal the blinds. The next time you open raise, I believe, is here:

#Game No : 2419934454
***** Hand History for Game 2419934454 *****
NL Texas Hold'em Trny:14229573 Level:15 Blinds (1500/3000) - Monday, July 25, 00:53:02 EDT 2005
Table $50,000 Guaranteed Sunday Night Poker(383423) Table #3 (Real Money)
Seat 8 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 1: tnakas ( $31026 )
Seat 2: FERGYHD2001 ( $24194 )
Seat 3: IMsoLucky0 ( $21240 )
Seat 4: neutron999 ( $29452 )
Seat 6: percy6 ( $17017 )
Seat 7: tbop121971 ( $12784 )
Seat 9: seahope ( $6832 )
Seat 8: Dumpel ( $36544 )
Seat 10: Dave1584 ( $18870 )
Trny:14229573 Level:15
Blinds (1500/3000)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to IMsoLucky0 [ Qs Kc ]
tnakas folds.
FERGYHD2001 folds.
IMsoLucky0 is all-In [21240]
neutron999 folds.
percy6 folds.
tbop121971 folds.
Dumpel folds.
seahope is all-In [5332]
Dave1584 folds.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8s, 8c, Tc ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ad ]
** Dealing River ** [ Ts ]
Dumpel: my 5's had no chance
seahope shows [ As, 5c ] two pairs, aces and tens.
IMsoLucky0 shows [ Qs, Kc ] two pairs, tens and eights.
IMsoLucky0 wins 14408 chips from side pot #1 with two pairs, tens and eights.
seahope wins 16664 chips from the main pot with two pairs, aces and tens.
Game #2419936581 starts.

There were a few hands in between maybe where you just called raises with moderate holdings, but the difference between these two are remarkable. You make a callable raise with QQ and push with KQo. You're giving naked A's and K's a cheap shot at the flop in the first one and making so that only someone who has you beat can call the second.

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Well, there is quite a bit different between the two hands. In the first hand, I am on the button, and the blinds are at 1000 2000. I make this raise from the button so that it looks like a steal and I may get someone to move in on me. I also have enough chips that we can play postflop some.

The second hand, the blinds have moved to 1500 3000, and I am in middle position. I can't really make a standard or even a minimum raise here. I really don't want to raise and have someone move in on me. However, my hand is strong enough to raise, and with less than 10 big blinsd, I think moving in is the best option.

I like the way I playled both of these. Maybe someone else will disagree?

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Thank you for giving these out.
And thank you Durron597 for hosting them.

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Awesome, man.

And congrats on your recent success and keep it up.

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I'm no tourney expert, but I don't think minraising with QQ is a smart idea. Someone with Ax in the blind won't move in on you preflop but will have a hard time laying it down if he hits top pair or trips up his x. It just makes your QQ harder to play postflop because it opens up villain's range quite a bit.

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Right...so why show the QQ in hand one? I think you're giving away free information which you don't use later that I've seen.