That black and white walk away from the table is a very familiar experience. Walking away from a table that you just got busted from always feel like everything else loses it's color for a few minutes after leaving.

Yea AQ suited out of the small blind is always a raise. By not raising you allow the big blind to call with pretty much any 2 cards. We raise big out of the small bling because we’re out of position so a huge raise would have most likely got him to fold ace 6 suited.

Me personally, I’d prefer to 3b AQss out of the SB or fold it. It seems criminal to fold a hand that strong to a single raise, so I’m normally always going to lean 3b at around a 4x sizing plus xtra depending on callers in front of me. Love the video!

Betting the pocket 77s full house was not the way to play that hand. You had the absolute nuts. Leave them an opportunity to bluff off to you. The odds of them bluffing into you is way better than them actually having a piece of 722 flop.

anyone notice utube has doubled, even tripled the forced ads?.... wasnt your neighbor the 2022 champ

I might take the 99 hand. These late position formations have a lot of bluffs. Not sure btns stack size but we see a lot of non all in sizing from his most nutted hands AA KK. He’s def jamming AK and AQ here but may also be doing this with non nutted Ax hands and even some smaller pocket pairs. Sometimes we run into JJ and TT. Not saying it’s best spot and passing isn’t terrible.

Its crazy to think one of the players I have been following my whole life..Artur Martirosyan is at the Final Table out of almost 4,000 players. One of the greatest MTT players of our generation. Hope he takes it down tonight! GG Lex & thank you for playing in such a prestigious event!

If you 3 bet with aq suited he would’ve folded the A 6 of hearts

Been watching for over a year now & it’s crazy how far you’ve come to now playing a $10,000 tourney. My bankroll can manage 2 bullets 🤣 Hope I can get to this level one day, inspiring!

As a tournament player I love this content! I’d like to actually see you rip some online stuff as well dude!

Love the tourney vids... You played good..I know the variance is crazy in tournys but its the only way to hit it big in poker..

Man that sucks. If I had $10k I would take a shot a going pro.

I hate it when they get it in behind and then get what ever they need to beat you. It happened to me with pocket Aces three times in the WPT Prime event. You are learning how to play tournaments Lex, Keep up the good work.

What a day! Really think you will come out ahead with all the action that tournament draws to Vegas! Cash games are your wheelhouse. Hope you have fun and capitalize on using that table selection button that cash games offer. 👍♠️♦️♣️♥️

Hahaha 😂 lex I love you and the content is amazing but you played the tournament like a scardy cat lmao 😂. Against whoever you play I think especially in a big tournament where everyone is a little more nervous and nitty you should be mixing it up just like you do in cash. It makes you way way way harder to play against and is the style you are use to playing. You know that AQ hand is a reraise pre. Don't give these pros too much credit, they can get felted too.

love to see it! i started 12 months ago and ran my roll from $100 - $20k so far!! hoping to be playing one of these next year!

I watch since episode 1 and I like you much more in cash games. Anyway where you are really good in except for being a great poker player and poker grinder is rising the tention when it comes to an exciting river card 😄

LAST HAND THOUGHT 😂😂😂 POKER IS SAVAGE

The A6 was brutal. I do like your production and delivery.

A few coolers for sure, but that full house over your trip aces hand made me actually wince. Keep on keeping on, Lex. I appreciate the videos.

Love this video. If you’d 3bet AQ in cash, why not at 80bb in the 10k. It’s a great hand to 4-5x 3-bet fold if you run into a monster

Tourneys are indeed tough! Deep breath and head to the cash games.. Love the content.

You didn't want to 3 bet with suited AQ but next hand you did want to 3 bet with off suit AK which is only slightly better If you 3 bet with AQ, could have folded out the A6 which outflopped you. It's not about the results but If you're willing to 3 bet off suit AK the you should be willing to 3 bet with suited AQ at which point your stack was larger It's like your not willing to 3 bet with QQ but you are with KK It seems you just were more passive with very similar hands They're both good candidates for 3 bet What hands are you concerned about with suited AQ that you are not with off suit AK

Good will and cheers to you Lex!

Hey man, gonna need you to start rating your meals in pre flop poker hands. Like instead of 5/10, it’s 7s8s in the cutoff.

How do you determine the table's full of pros and one amateur ? Do you recognize the players, or their play speaks for itself? Thaks Lex O

Brilliant Absolutely Brilliant play mate only so much you can do in a Turney

8:14 very interesting thinking.

Dan Wineman looks a lot like Espen 😂😂

21:30 I agree, I could never grind tournaments for live. Would be so tilting most the time

u play pretty bad in tournament

1:55 you getting your 2’s and 3’s mixed up a lot man.

Absolutely NO JUSTICE in tournament poker man! Thought you know heh

Just feels like you play tournaments to passively especially when you were a bigger stack. Three betting AQ hand on any street gives you more information and probably saves you from that huge river call. Either way great video!

The WPT overestimated the amount of interest they would get for this event, and are paying ~ $2.5 million out of their pocket. I wonder how much they'll bring in entry fees from the side events, and what % of that is accounted for by this 2.5 million.

I believe you will get good results in a big tournament someday and thank you for always great videos

I'd have saved the money and played a few smaller tournaments and the rest in cash games. Playing that big tournament is like trying to win the lottery. It'd be different if the revenue from this vlog covered the entry fee.

Always Always why do they get to call with A3. , I get it suited, the ace is shaped like a dagger, but why do they always flop it... I just will NEVER understand, great video, I love seeing the tournament vlogs, I think because of how it is to just run good to min cash, the prize is always a FT but dam its so tuff

In tournaments, people fight for blinds a lot more. So checking monster hands is the way to go.

You're now part of WSOP history. The flow will come back to you.Good health, short memory. Thanks for posting.

AQs hand, I think had you raised preflop A6s will get out of there, unlucky the board didn't pair dude ggs

I always 3b out of SB. You're oop the whole hand. This is one time I want to play a larger pot even against pros

Nice video. With the AQs hand you didn't say what the opening raise was, that you called. I think a re-raise is certainly warranted and he may have folded the A6...?

Nice vid! I just found your channel. Are you using your iPhone for hold camera footage? LOL... I played this event too

Cash games are better but I'll watch all poker vlogs, good job 👍.

If you would've reraised him with your A-Q suited preflop, he probably would have folded. Tough one right there

love ur content but as a 4-5 days a week grinder you get more hands in 1 tourney then i do in a month

As a player who disgustingly hate losing I fail to entertain the thought of trading my usual 70%+ win rate with cash game for a less than 10% win rate in tourney. Of course the potential upside is always there for a big score with tourney but that’s almost like buying a lottery.

Enjoy your vlogs. Thanks for doing them. Question. I see a lot of vlogs which are shot from nearly felt level. Any kind of tilt while the dealer is pitching cards can and sometimes does expose other players' cards to the camera. Don't think I'm being a nit to ask that vloggers set up from a raised camera position. Again, great vlogs. Cheers.

You played just fine with one important exception. When you had AQ suited, you’ve got to raise that big preflop. You can’t allow hands like A6 to see the flop. Ace little especially off suit can’t call pre (unless he’s just an idiot that doesn’t know what he’s doing). But as played, a Q river would have been sweet justice.

Honestly lex, you need to play just like cash you playing scared is killing you. Play your normal 3 bets etc. I know you playing against good players but I promise they would 3 bet with AQ suited

yeah that AQs hand was tilting smh but even if u did 3bet, he was gonna call in position and it would have played out the same way, GG, hopefully u will win a tourney in 2024!!!

great vid … you’ll get it next time

HOW did you lose only the minimum at the 14:00 hand? Omg, Lex, your tournament skills are TOP KNOTCH!!!🏆💯👍

That last hand. Damn. Been there.

You NEED to 3 bet that AQ ss from the small blind flating is a mistake there if you 3 bet you could have potentially got him to fold that A6 since your range is way stronger than his 3 betting from out of position. I think flating in that spot is a mistake and it costed you chips

Aww man, those 7’s are drawing dead vs A3 soooted in that spot preflop 😭

Nice try Lex, tournaments are high variance. Good luck next time 👍

nice video! none of the Americans made to the final table 😭

GG lex, super unlucky

Maybe if you dont feel so confidence with your tournanent play, dont pay 10k ones....and go for small ones and get experience....aq suites is always a big raise....good luck eney way, great videos, i watch all of them, thanks

14:00 90% of poker players would bust out in that situation.

The trip ace flop round was sooooo unlucky 😭

I was rooting for you. I love tournaments. Sometimes you're lucky to cash 2 out of 12...

The A6 hand vs your AQ hand is the reason that guy is a former WPT Champ. Can't win tourneys unless you run like a God and cooler people.

Cash is wat i wanna see anyways. You just gotta play more tournaments to win. Least that’s wat rampage says haha

Go🎉

You really shouldn't be bummed about that AQs hand, if you had played it "properly " you should have been broke.

I feel you should've played like you do in a regular cash game. You had pros at the table who will most likely put you on certain situations and you know that, why not abuse it!

Man you gotta 3 bet that AQss. You’d have never been in that spot!

Damn I wish I had 10K to try a big poker Tourney!

Let’s go Lex!!

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I've only played in smaller tournaments. The biggest one I've played was a 50k. I still remember the hand that sent me to the rail. It felt exactly like that black and white walk of despair. I opened 2.5x from EP with AQo. Get 2 calls. F:Q9X. I bet 3bb and get 1 call. I know the guy who called and he is calling with any pair no matter what. So I'm thinking I want to keep him in the hand until river. T:X it put in a straight draw so I'm not going light now. I bet around 10bb with about 30bb behind. R:9 I'm not feeling comfortable because I know my opponent would have called me down with 9x here. But I can't check and have him check back if he's holding KQ, QJ, QT. So I bet 10bb again and he tanks for a bit then puts me all in. I'm in the blender. He 100% could have called down with 9x because he's just that bad of a player. But this is also a spot he loves to bluff. I've seen him do it multiple times in the past. I feel like there is a 50% chance he's bluffing. So I flip in the call and he shows J9o.

Ouch 😮

That’s the downside of playing tight passive, AQ was a 3 bet and that could change the entire flow of the game

14:00 three bet and lose more? Probably…

So very frustrating when you're card dead. It's like "Guess I'll go broke..."

10:00 hand play like a Chash game hand 😂

KZfaq with the ads really trying for you to put the money down for the premium subscription 😢

to me this level of game is all about luck, since everyone are skilled to play so if you get called when you have the absolute nuts but very unlikely that they would. your last opponent calls because he got you covered and he has a decent hand. I played for ticket FOR THIS EVENT last december but I only made it to the second final table I was no.18 out 212 players only 7 got the ticket.

go Lex O

Its tough to go from cash to tourney's. It take sooo much more patience than what I have. Good luck!

My guess is your aren’t playing enough hands because the only hands you showed us in this video were strong hands. You have to open your range up and play way more hands in tournaments. Winning a lot of small to mid size pots is how you build a stack. You’re probably really easy to play against because the only time you put money in the pot is when you have a strong hand. That’s why they fold when you have bigs hands and you don’t get paid. You gotta win a pot showing 89 off or some middling hands. If I’m playing that tournament vs you and the only time you show down it’s a big pair your AQ plus it would be easy to play against you. You gotta play 57 suite from the HJ or CO, shit like that. You went early to play a lot of hands but you didn’t even lay a lot of hands you only played your string hands.

You have to have a zen mindset to do well at large tournaments. Patience is the key. It's very different from live action poker. And grammar, please, "I wish I could have run", not ran, better!

Espen is 2022 main event champ, daniel weinmen won 2023

In tourneys you can't limp AQ suited. You most likely get A6 to fold if you do raise..this isn't cash lex!

Having a betting image show they can call you light Y I think AA doesn't when nitish

Sorry Lex I was rooting for you 😊

😂

Cha'alt!

Remember to hit the gym and clear your head. Don't let Vegas get to you.

Level 2 had kings how many time flopped sets flopped straights had queens I mean u get more hands in a 4 handed game only playing a single blind level then I have in years sh it is crazy

Bro couple of points - ( not saying it in a bad way -really like your style of play) but why are you playing aq super passive - check check check when you think you're up against a better player! Plus isn't pocket 99's a shove at 25 bb ??! Also super sus 1bb bet with a boat ;) but yeah apart from that liked the show !

0:44 100k buy in?

Money management. Your 10k can produce better results in $ games, especially if tournaments are full of pros. ( less pros in $ games… 😎) what do I know..

A6 hand was brutal. Ugh

You pay the price for always checking ,being passive. You got a great hand but you always checked.nice.

... The A/6 VS A/QS wasn't a cooler..!

I would have felt I made money in the AQ A6 hand