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When I teach live seminars, we spend the first three hours doing a lecture, take a lunch break, and then spend the afternoon doing live hand labs. In these, I deal to the students, who try to play their best game. At the end of the hand, they show their cards, and I provide feedback and critique.
In 2019, I published FossilMan’s Winning Tournament Strategies , a 42-chapter book covering all of the basic concepts behind being a winning tournament player, as well as many of the more advanced strategies. This book could be compared to the lecture portion of my seminars. I have been working on a second book, however, and thought it should more resemble the live hand labs.
For this book, I will go through several dozen hands I have played, and break down each decision along the way. Although not yet finished, I thought it would be fun to provide excerpts of some of those hands here.
Our first hand occurred at the 2019 World Series of Poker . I was playing early on in event no. 53, the eight-handed deepstack no-limit hold’em tournament. I was in the 400 big blind with a 25,000 stack.
The main villain for this hand was the cutoff, who had me covered with a 33,000 stack. I had seen him make several very large overbets in previous hands, sometimes when bluffing, sometimes when he was strong. His stack size had been on a roller coaster.
UTG opened for 1,100, our main villain called, and I raised to 3,600 with A K. UTG folded, and the villain called. I checked the flop of A 10 2, hoping to induce a […]
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