(0 votes) November 4, 2013
OfflineGood morning crushers,
This hand is from a $2 rebuy/addon with 8 players remaining, winner taking about $180 and 8th place taking about $20.
I wonder if I should have open raise/folded this giving the circumstances of having the chipleader villain, jaystuntz to my left and there being plenty of better people to steal from (ie. anyone else). jaystuntz (n=150) was playing pretty aggressively, 28/18 with 9.1% 3bet and 6% open limp. 55% steal, only 43% fold to steal and 20% resteal.
Merge Network $300 Gtd – [+R, Turbo] No Limit Hold'em Tournament – t3000.00/t6000.00 Blinds + t600.00 – 8 players – View hand 2527846
TournamentPokerEdge.com Hand History Converter
Hero (SB): BB = 13.0, t78027
jaystuntz (BB): BB = 19.4, t116671
felonybob (UTG): BB = 12.9, t77169
Raemond (UTG+1): BB = 11.9, t71122
Sweetie715 (MP1): BB = 5.1, t30871
Rich1216 (MP2): BB = 4.2, t25042
ramblegamble (CO): BB = 17.6, t105664
Klinic (BTN): BB = 10.1, t60434
Pre Flop: (t13800) Hero is SB with K
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6 folds, Hero raises to t77427 all in, jaystuntz calls t71427
Would it have been reasonable to open raise/fold this or do something different? I am confident that since it's FT, player betting patterns and recent hands could even make this an open fold, like if I had just played many hands, but this wasn't the case.
Thanks for reading.
March 8, 2013
OfflineI certainly wouldn't raise to any amount other than allin. Villain has position and now can choose whether to see a flop or try to push you around now. Villain should be scared of losing a flip to you, and it puts him down pretty seriously. Depending on how often you think he will call, I could see folding for ICM considerations, but I would have to be pretty certain. K8o is not even close to the bottom of a Nash shoving range here, and if anything, I would expect villain to fold more often than the Nash range. Of course, your risk of busting does require some adjustments. However, I think K8o is far enough from the bottom of your range that it should really be a shove every time.
March 26, 2013
OfflineAgree with Mark, 100% shoving this.
In fact, I do not do too much raise/folding from the small blind at all when I have <=15bbs. I tend to raise/call with strong hands and shove the rest dependent upon whether I think the villain is capable of calling correctly or not which guides me to how wide I will shove.
Obviously, if I play against someone really often then I might have to mix in some raise/folds on occasion but in MTTs I doubt anyone has enough hands on me in this specific situation to exploit.
I personally don't like putting in small raises blind v blind as I feel people defend more and playing postflop becomes quite difficult with a shortish stack OOP against a wide preflop calling range.
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