Whygrid // MTT review

/ Example review

One hand. Question to verdict.

Not a mockup and not a form illustration - a real hand from a real tournament, run through the same machinery a paying player sees. The numbers are computed by the algorithm right on this page.

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/ 01 - The hand

The coach's question, the player's answer, the verdict

Table · Flop
L8 · 250/500 (ante 75)
674
Pot 44BB
UTG+1
игрок 1
17 bb
LJ
игрок 2
37 bb
fold
HJ
игрок 3
16 bb
fold
CO
игрок 4
62 bb
fold
D
BTN
игрок 5
50 bb
fold
22BB
AK
SB
Hero
39 bb
bet 22BB
BB
игрок 7
46 bb
fold
UTG
игрок 8
28 bb
fold

Flop 6-7-4 rainbow: Hero (ace-king) bets 11,100 with no pair and no draw - the decision point the coach's question is about.

Question 1

What did you want out of that flop bet?

I was counting on getting paid by AK, AQ, AJ, KQ, KJ - especially suited ones, since I either dominate them or at worst flip against them. Plus I was counting on getting paid by flush draws. And since the bet put him in a fold-or-jam spot either way, that also answered where I stood in the hand.

Verdict

I'll push back here: the range you sized this bet for was reasoned out correctly - against AK, AQ, AJ, KQ, KJ you really are either dominating or flipping, and that's a fair reason to want them to pay you. But that list - and the flush draws behind it - is entirely big cards, and you never included the third, most ordinary continuing group at all: any pair, even the bottom one. That's exactly what stuck around - the villain showed 5♠6♠, a pair of sixes, about the most ordinary call there is at this size. You had no pair and no draw - your equity against that exact hand on the flop was 18.5%, and even though the sizing really did put him in a fold-or-jam spot, that doesn't change the fact that your "who pays me" list never accounted for a bare pair. The river (a king) won this pot, not the decision - the +14,398 (28.8bb) result doesn't change that you were risking chips on the flop with almost no chance. Next time, when you're counting the range that pays you off, add the bare pair too - it calls sizes like this more often than it looks.

/ 02 - Numbers from the algorithm

Not an estimate - an exact enumeration

Equity at the moment of the bet

18.5%

against the hand that called

Hand result

+14 398

28.8 bb

View the raw hand-history file
Poker Hand #TM6064956218: Tournament #289598162, Bounty Hunters Deepstack Turbo $5.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level8(250/500(75)) - 2026/06/11 19:19:55
Table '83' 8-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: d343e857 (13,448 in chips)
Seat 2: 235f10e6 (18,501 in chips)
Seat 3: 39a4990c (8,146 in chips)
Seat 4: 7681630e (31,092 in chips)
Seat 5: d136e5bc (25,072 in chips)
Seat 6: Hero (35,487 in chips)
Seat 7: 50f36c91 (23,364 in chips)
Seat 8: 523381ef (14,127 in chips)
Hero: posts the ante 75
d343e857: posts the ante 75
523381ef: posts the ante 75
d136e5bc: posts the ante 75
39a4990c: posts the ante 75
50f36c91: posts the ante 75
235f10e6: posts the ante 75
7681630e: posts the ante 75
Hero: posts small blind 250
50f36c91: posts big blind 500
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to d343e857
Dealt to 235f10e6
Dealt to 39a4990c
Dealt to 7681630e
Dealt to d136e5bc
Dealt to Hero [Ac Ks]
Dealt to 50f36c91
Dealt to 523381ef
523381ef: folds
d343e857: raises 750 to 1,250
235f10e6: folds
39a4990c: folds
7681630e: folds
d136e5bc: folds
Hero: raises 3,750 to 5,000
50f36c91: folds
d343e857: calls 3,750
*** FLOP *** [6h 7d 4h]
Hero: bets 11,100
d343e857: calls 8,373 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (2,727) returned to Hero
Hero: shows [Ac Ks] (Ace high)
d343e857: shows [5s 6s] (a pair of Sixes)
*** TURN *** [6h 7d 4h] [2h]
*** RIVER *** [6h 7d 4h 2h] [Kh]
*** SHOWDOWN ***
Hero collected 27,846 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 27,846 | Rake 0 | Jackpot 0 | Bingo 0 | Fortune 0 | Tax 0
Board [6h 7d 4h 2h Kh]
Seat 1: d343e857 showed [5s 6s] and lost with a pair of Sixes
Seat 2: 235f10e6 folded before Flop
Seat 3: 39a4990c folded before Flop
Seat 4: 7681630e folded before Flop
Seat 5: d136e5bc (button) folded before Flop
Seat 6: Hero (small blind) showed [Ac Ks] and won (27,846) with a pair of Kings
Seat 7: 50f36c91 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 8: 523381ef folded before Flop

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