Last week, Team partypoker pro Patrick Leonard asked players to send in some of their hands from the current Monster Series that they wanted some advice on, and he would choose some to analyze. Below are the hands he has chosen and the winners will be credited a $33 Monster Series ticket to use during the final week of the series. "Good luck to all and hope this helps", says Patrick Leonard.
Hand 1 - @Lammie87399562
The hand:
My thoughts:
Very interesting hand, I think pre flop, we should likely be 3betting here, we will be making villain fold hands with good equity vs us, we build a pot for when we make a big hand that won't be too transparent, by 3betting in this position we make the button/cut off fold hands like KQ, AT, even TT/JJ are in a terrible spot. We can expect the opener to play quite passively vs our 3bet too, likely they will just see a flop with AK for example. On the flop, I think that we likely want to start with a slightly smaller raise, we're multi way so we dont want to put too much money in with our range, we are also aiming to fold out hands with 25% equity, we aren't trying to bluff here and vs the range of hands that continue we don't do so well, so we want to risk as little as possible. On the turn, I think betting or checking are both reasonable, I think that we can bet/fold though, because our hand is weak vs the hands that will go all in, I just expect villain to x/c a hand like A5 for example, because we will have a bet/fold range here, I would bet smaller, so that our bet is more efficient.
Hand 2 - @cortadolover
The hand:
My thoughts:
Pre flop flat call is a little loose, but I like it, vs the squeeze, again, loose, but I don't mind it. On the flop vs the cbet, I think shoving won't do too great, he likely won't fold AK or 2 over cards and if he has a value hand he will never fold. By calling, we allow ourselves to manoeuvre on the turn or river and take a line that can look like a slow played monster, or a hand going for thin value.
Hand 3 - @Holdsaradamn
The hand:
My thoughts:
I think pre flop, vs a guy min raising, 3bet isolating as wide as KTo for value is a good exploit, well done. Otf, I would start with a very small bet of around 20% pot, he will never fold a better hand than K high on Q44 and we don't really want to bluff much later, the point of our bet on the flop, is to just fold our some hands like 98s that have low equity, so our sizing here can be really small, on the turn we can start using different sizings. On this turn, I think again, we have no fold equity, so would play passively. On the river it seems ambitious to try and make villain fold our better. I would choose a hand like 65s to just go crazy with, blocking some full houses, unblocking K/A highs and unblocking flush draws. KT is a little too strong and you don't block any of the pocket pair full houses (TT/KK will play more aggressive pre flop).
Hand 4 - @rye_ez
The hand:
My thoughts:
No, sometimes we just die! It's good you at least consider it though. An actual effective strategy when 250+bbs deep is to open jam AA, people often struggle to fold TT/AK and it's very profitable! Especially in reentries/rebuys.
Hand 5 - @rasmusFrie
The hand:
My thoughts:
Yes I would shove. If you were in the sb and the button shoved I would fold. You want to be the aggressor always in bubble icm spots.
About Patrick Leonard:
To date, Patrick Leonard has accumulated more than $2.5 million, almost half of which he won during a five-day Las Vegas heater in July 2017. The English poker pro outlasted very tough fields and took down three separate high-stakes tournaments, taking home over $350,000 in each event! Despite this success, he spends most of his time playing online and has over $1 million worth of cashes in partypoker's flagship POWERFEST tournaments. He signed up as a partypoker ambassador back in April 2016.
Source: https://problog.partypoker.com/2020/11/patrick-leonard-analysing-your-monster-series-hands.html
