POTD #11 GG $5k Blade Prime vs Artur Martirosyan

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Online poker during the beginning of COVID had more MTT action than I’d ever seen. PartyPoker, PokerStars and GGPoker were running high stakes re-entry tournaments daily and the swings were enormous. This hand is from June 28th 2020 a day that is not particularly notable to me, but apparently it is a day where I played 17 tournaments with buy-ins totalling $131,700, only cashing in one of them for $22,536.51. I haven’t lost $100k playing online poker too many days, but apparently it happened enough times in 2020 that I can’t even remember them all. Today’s hand looks pretty uneventful, but the mistakes I made are as costly as mistakes I’ve made in much bigger pots. When reviewing your play it’s always important to look at “standard” hands, you will play a lot more standard hands than weird ones, if you consistently play standard hands well your poker game will have a rock solid foundation.

Sunday June 28th 2020 GG High Rollers Blade Prime $5k

500/1k/150 (SB/BB/Ante) 10k Starting Stack. Registration just closed

The Hand:

Hand History: GGPoker HH
Hand History: My Poker Coaching Replayer

7 handed, it folds me to in the hijack with K♣️Q♦️ with 40k, I raise to 2k, it folds to Artur Martirosyan who defends the BB off 32k.

Flop (5,550) T♠️4♣️3♦️ Artur checks, I bet 1,332, Artur calls

Turn (8,214) 9♣️ Artur checks, I check

River (8,214) 7♦️ Artur checks, I check and lose to Q♥️3♥️