You seem to grind better results in tournaments Ethan, looks like your heads in a better space too in tournament settings, less tilt, less trying to make constant speculative moves to get your losses back

The last hand river shove is a 100% Grade-A pure punt. We're basically only ever getting called by hands that beat us after villain's line (has called a check-raise, and then leads into the check-raiser on turn with a "please raise me"-sizing, not really even a blocker bet sizing). When he put that 1/10thpot in, nearly every alarm-bell in my brain went off, and the rest went off when he flats our raise. This feels like another scenario where the guy likely knew you and your image, and played it back at you for max-punishment. KK is basically a bluff-catcher at that point. Check-back river 100%

Wouldn't be a rampage vlog without a senseless punt 😂

Last hand was a massive overplay.

Hi Rampage. You asked for my comment about the KhKd hand. I am not a pro. Back in the day (before 10/2006). I would watch nose bleed cash games on PS non-stop to try to learn something. The one thing I remember was whenever there was a flush board or a paired board, the super pros would proceed with caution. I know it sounds simple, but that was my thought when you asked for my view. GL Sir.

So hard for me to understand not checking back on the KK hand……….🤯

I can’t believe you fell for the time bank tank on the flush floor 💀 😂 You’re a good sport about it though

Stick to these tournaments. Stop playing high stakes cash games against people out of your league.

On the last KKs hand, the opponent leads 40k bet (10%) of the pot on the turn. That should have been alarm bells.

Drinking game: take a shot everytime rampage says sun running

This is one of the best tournaments going down at the aria each year getting better.. it’s like a small WSOP main event type of feel🔥🔥

At least you didn’t go bust that hand. He played your KK with finesse as if he were in an orchestra doing a violin solo. He knew your tendencies for being lulled into calling, and got you to pick up :P

Take a drink every time he says sun run. Just kidding don't do that you'll die

problem with last hand is opponent wont be calling with worse. tough spot since Kings looks good but should be playing the long game and preserving the stack

Gotta understand your image and know people are adjusting accordingly. Was a perfectly laid trap, and the fact you didn't even consider that a trap was being laid, marks a hole in your game that you need to patch. Always rooting for you bro, hope you do great in the main!

Great run!!! One of my favorite videos by you! Brutal last hand but I totally fell for it too haha.

Absolutely love the fold on that 4bet even with AJ. Used to watch you a lot in the early days and I feel like you've finally gone back to your roots a little bit. Much more calm, hopefully this mindset persists

Not sure if this is good poker .. or just luckbox

Let’s go Ethan mad run and I’m only half way through the video. Playing heaps better compared to what you were months back. Keep playing these tournaments!

When you say, "You get him to raise," what exactly did you do? Lol

happy frickin Tuesday ethan! banger!

do the last format of day in the life again i loved it

This is the content I remember just keep this content going. Don’t need to change anything

That's a nice run so far. With the KK hand, my understanding is that once the board pairs you are shoving full houses to target flushes. Two pair is very unlikely to get called by worse, so as others have said shoving is not the play.

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I like that RAMPAGE shows the time lapse in the upper left corner.

Played you like a fiddle, that ending hand. Knew you would behave, true to form. Leading punter in poker world.

Yeah, that small bet says ace of diamonds. Doesn’t mean a flush, but I’d definitely play it smaller and check back and call off his 25-35% river bet

What were you hoping to get called by on the river JAM??? The way the hand played out check is the play

I know this is kinda easy for someone watching but on that hand at the end when he made the small bet of 40k with a potential nuts on the flop I had a feeling he was slow playing, think about it if he really wanted to bluff he would have bet a lot more possibly like 150 but instead he put a small bet that made it easy to call and allow you to see that card, he probably put you on pockets and needed a way for you to catch up with the board paring that was perfect for him, having you get 2 pair, and his check could’ve failed if you checked back but obviously he felt you would try to get him off the hand. What was really chefs kiss was using the time banks I think that really got in your head and made you think you were ahead. I’m not close to a pro and I learn a lot from watching you but for me I always if I think I have the best hand I’ll play that 40k wouldve made me cautious.

I like to watch your videos, I wish you would update on pay jumps each time you make a jump.

After this video, which I enjoyed very much (very fun to watch), I am going to refer to Lex O poker as “player to my left” from now on.

Was your image super Argo going into the last hand? The old "make it look like a 'block' bet" bet on the turn works a lot vs aggressive players.

GL for the rest of the series ethan!

This gonna be a banger and i never even watched yet!!!!! Lets go!!!

9:11 Bink, 10 on the river! 😂

Please last hand shove reminds me Rampage is go all in when the same situation when he facing nuts flush versus Mariano😅😅😅

Pretty surprised by how little the opponents bluffed on the river in some of these hands.

Hi Ethan, glad to see you do good after losing most of your chips. Congrats for being in the money. Good luck in the tournament. Can't wait for the next blog. Peace ✌️

If the time stamp is accurate on the video you have had more playable hands (even the losing ones) in 2.5 hrs than I had all day playing 6 hours in a tournament. Guess some people are just that lucky

Good Afternoon Young Man

I noticed when people make those tiny bets they usually have the nuts

Spoiler alert: Ethan takes seventh place in this event! Well done rampage!!

Wow. Nice sun run. Congrats. I have to day I'm a bit confused by calling a preflop raise with 5-2 of clubs.

i think quote from Rounder movie is good " he trap me"

On that river with the board pairing Ten and you have Aces, I like a small 1BB bet to induce a bluff. It takes away their option to check. And it’s one of the most psychologically difficult things to fold for 1BB on the river. But they can’t call so they almost always raise their bluffs.

What a run! Let’s go lad!

Got greedy at the end. Still good run so far.

The play his opponent made at the end was next level!

Glad to see you running well again! on the 56s hand, you can always just fold pre. It's marginal, and you're deep in a tourney. Still fine the way you played it. I think the fold on the river was good. You're losing to a lot of hands that play that way. Tough spot.

When you Go all In with pocket kings What did you expect him to call with?

This guy is making me want to learn how to play poker

56 vs j10, you weren't drawing dead, you could hit J10 runner runner for a split

Loved all your moves except the All In at the end with KK on a Monotone Board and a paired board? Interesting thought process throughout the hand. He was either an experienced poker pro trying to induce a raise or he had you just read like a book and played you like a fiddle.

The 6d5d hand wasn't that bad, your opponent is just loose for calling that flop bet OOP with KQ no heart. If you're playing AA-TT, A9, 98 etc with no heart the same way then you have plenty of better hands that bet flop, check turn, and can call river, though against a player who floats too wide OOP 65 is probably still a call. The KK hand was the bad one. Your opponent's range after he raised flop and called your turn raise is just flushes, straights, sets, and hands like Ad9o that are planning to bluff you on non-board pairs. All of his 9dXx, 8dXx as bluffs and two-pairs are probably folding turn, so KdKo is meant to just call down turn and river.

Your opponent always calls😂

“I get my opponent to 3 bet me” 😂

OUCH> That Snap call holding the Nutt Flush (Esp after using 2 time banks on the turn as deception. AND> You know, in retrospect, that his small 40k bet was BAIT to get you to do exactly what you did and set him up for the double Time Bank Bluff Call) I FELT THAT ONE IN MY SOUL. Although I personally would not have gone All In. Not with a pretty much "Snap" ReRaise on an All Diamond Flop. Despite everything, I would have checked it down. Still, I gotta feel for ya. That *Was* a Tough Spot and Had to Hurt.

HE GOT EVERY BEST CARDS YOU CAN DREAM OF!!

Played well just to get Hollywooded on the last hand. Unfortunate. But you gotta respect the flush being out there lol.

Riches to rags.. But hey, I'm sun running.. Weeeeee...

I noticed that you Just barely uploaded This One. Are you planning to give us the rest of the story and show us how you did on Day 3 and IF you hopefully make the FT? Good Luck brother. Can't wait to see the results of your hard work.

Good video bro. You are due too win a big one. Be patient. Pick your moments to bet. Don't make unnecessary bets.. Take care. Good luck..❤

Curious your thoughts on the last hand Jam? I know hindsight is 20-20 but other than Ace jack with a diamond and Queens with a diamond what calls a 1.5 x shove that you beat? aj would probably find a fold. love the video keep up the run

Blink a 10 at exactly 10pm 😮

Long time since we've heard this guy say 'sun running'

pocket 10s at 10pm 👀 majestic

You got down to last couple hands and did a BIG A** punt! 🏈 Lol how do you turn a bluff catcher into a bluff???

That 5, 2 hand was amazing

Tournament vlogs are another thing! Amazing

Knowing that you are bagging in 3 hands, I believe the KK @rampage was misplayed because I think you are 2nd in chips on the table and position 1 already folded (who looks like to be the chip/table leader in chips) with that said you needed to size up with KKs because how vulnerable they can be against the short stacked players. The blinds were already huge. chipping up at this stage of the tournament is better than flipping against Ax hands for your tournament life even tho you covered him you could still be out in a few hands after tilting. Now if this was at the Final Table Hand you would of open 3 bet shoved and of course Ax would of insta muck I know I would but he was suited there's a Chance he calls but you open 3 bet shoving you must have minimum AK suited. Just adding ICM pressure before Final Table with or without KINGS. Allowing them to see the flop for cheap is how you get premiums cracked. Sometimes its better to take the blinds and not lose 30% of the stack by overplaying. which is what we generally do when we get delt AAs KKs we get attached and we overplay. thats POKA BABY!!!!

Ethan, you have a talent for tournament play

WHOOO RAMPAGE POST

And day 4 of the main event!! Go rampage!!

Flawless run 🎉🎉🎉

If you only play like this in cash games, that's a good poker Ethan.

Sick run!

$4.5k min-cash for a $3.5k buy-in is absolutely outrageous. Would never ever play a tournament with a structure like that.

How much is the buy-in for these kind of tournaments?

5/2 is called the Ray Lew.......

The villain's bet will either be a bluff or for value. On that 10% pot bet, I immediately thought value. As tricky as he was on the turn though, he is probably capable of putting down a bluff to look like a value bet. Tough spot, bad result. That's poker.

Betting big on the river isn't a good idea. Most won't call unless they have a monster hand.

Don’t forget to say “sun run”

On the third hand with AK, you say you want to get value from worse Aces "which there are a lot of". There are not a lot of worse aces there. Literally only AQ and A10, MAYBE A3 suited but unlikely. When He calls big turn bet, he is not repping just top pair.

14:02 did he really just say that

I am praying HARD daily for your pitfalls!

On the last hand the blind was $30k and you raised it to $65k with the big blind calling you. The big blind in GTO is supposed to defend with any suited cards (although GTO is far less effective if your opponent is a less sophisticated player...ie. you). But he could be playing ANY diamonds, A3 with ace of diamonds, any suited 98, a 77, and possibly slow played 1010 or JJ from out of position. What hands do you think he can call your shove on the river? Maaayybe J10 but not likely. J7 suited or 10-7 suited? No. He check raised you on the flop. Then he called your check raise on the turn...both actions are extremely strong, but if he made those actions on a diamond draw he's never calling your river shove after missing. So what do you think he has???? Either a made flush on the flop, a straight on the flop, a set on the flop, or he missed his monster draw and never folding to you unless he had A3 with ace of diamonds..

bro the all in with kings was bad! i was like wth are you doing bro? hes only calling with the flush or straight

good luck my ethan boy

What losing hand was gonna call your KK all in when river paired 3?😂

8:30 with AQ never check call the turn there wtf At least min click the turn, 3x 4x something

I'm not so sure on the last hand. Seems like very thin value. They way it's played out is opponent chasing flush, flopped straight (less likely with small lead/call) or flush, or set chasing full houses. All in which you don't win anymore money. The only hand you can really target here is j10. Even then your raise on the turn seems over pair with a diamond more than a set as it was a really small raise given pot size. You make it 260k on turn and he either jams or calls then you have a much easier decision as you block kx for combo draws and can realize quickly one pair or even two pair are behind. Saves you a mil in this spot.

He prob hit ace drawing with a flush vs your kj

The sun is strong!

Dont see a problem with the last hand. I thought you had the nuts bedore the hand was flipped over. Than again im just a luck box.

IDK it seems like youre punting a lot in these spots. When you overbet the turn with AK Sb when they defend this call might literally be only calling you with better hands or hands with a ton of equity like ACE high clubs if they are a tight player. Which most tournament players are

That last all in was silly, or else he played fine

7th place is pretty darn good!

do you think he is sun running or sun running like this man said it 50 times

There is nothing wrong with being dominant in tournaments.