EPT Monte Carlo Trip Report (3rd and Final Part)

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My quick thoughts on the hand,hopefully my browser doesn't crash this time.

1. I don't think people understand how big an advantage Adam being unknown to PA is, espeically in position. Adam is no PA, but he's a strong enough aggressive player that he definitely has a big edge on PA in their first few encounters until PA figures out a bit about him.

2. I think there is a lot of value in just calling preflop and using your position to control pot size. You know a big move is coming soon but you are still in a very uncomfortable spot when he 4-bets.

3. The flop call may be marginally correct, I'm too lazy to stove it and obviously there are a lot of unknown frequencies involved. It may not be unreasonable to weight his range very very heavily towards a draw on the flop, but pair+flush draw has you killed. Having the Ac seems to help a lot though. However, Justin's point about him thinking you have AA/KK is a good one that there has to be some non-trivial chance he plays a big hand this way.

4. Most importantly, everyone, especially Adam, needs to stop making such a big deal about one hand, or even one day of one tournament. You said it yourself that there'll be lots of other hands and tournaments. In the big scheme of things one hand doesn't mean anything. You made a marginal call and happened to be right. Making a big call and being right is probably the best feeling in poker, so i understand your excitement, but everyone is blowing this way out of proprtion. Analyze the hand in some meaningful way like Justin was trying to earlier and learn what you can from it. The flaming and ego bs going on in this thread needs to stop though.

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You were a lot cooler when you were banned