In this post, we are going to look at a guide for reviewing tournament spots in a few easy steps, if we do this with different tournament situations we are going to be able to learn to play similar spots well in future tournaments.
To do this we will need a few things, we need the tournament hand history firstly
To get this we need to just request it with the Poker Client, so for instance from PokerStars we need to go to the Tools part of the software
Get Tournament History
Click on Get Tournament History and then just choose how many tournament histories you would like emailed to you, so if you played around 20 games in a session just type in 20 and click request and PokerStars will send you all the tournament numbers and results of the games you have played.
There is the option to save hand histories to your computer, I would recommend doing this as it speeds up the whole process a little.
Get the Hand History
Once you have been emailed the tournament number where you want to look at your hands to review, just paste it in this box…
Make a Free Account at ICMizer.com
This is a great tool for reviewing hands, you can simply add the hand into the review tool and it will tell us what the ranges for playing the hands are, we get one hand calculation per day for free, but pricing is from $17.99 a month or from a one-off cost of $99 for unlimited use.
Paste Hand History
Click this button in ICMizer and the hand will be loaded into the software…
Review your close spots and improve your game
So in this spot we had a pretty close ICM decision with our hand, we have pocket fives in the Big Blind facing an All in push from a player that has us covered in chips… we have around 11BBs at the beginning of the hand, so the question is should we press call here?
The answer for us in this spot is Yes! it’s a +0.79% EV push, which means it’s a winning play, the only pair we wouldn’t want to call off with this stack is pocket deuces… even calling off with A7o and A2s+
I personally folded in this spot, but knew it was a close one, the opponent was a solid player and I felt there was going to be some hands in their range that have me dominated too often like 66–AA.
I think it is fine to deviate from the charts if we have a read that a player is tight and we can call wider when our opponent is too loose.
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