$65 live buy. 3k guar. 87 entries. Final 6. 1st ~1400 and downward from there.

Hero is 3 of 6 and leader is far and away big stack and has been blind raising every pot and has played very loose/aggressive entire tourney I sat with him. (probably had 70% chips, no lie).

Blinds 10k/20k/1k ante

Hero is in SB with ~140k-150k and 10h9h.

UTG folds(80k), MP folds(100k), cutoff (huge stack) flats, button (~125k) folds, SB (me) flats, BB who is overall just not very good player and doesn't understand advanced comcepts (~30k) checks.


Pot is 66k.


Flop: 10s8h3h

Hero first to act ???????

Just to add onto it, I have played this same tournament at the same casino seven times in the last 3 weeks and finished in the top 5 or better 5 of them. So it is very soft and easy to do well for the most part.

With your stack size, pre should be shove or fold. As played, if you think your opponents will stab at the pot, I like a check raise all in. Otherwise just lead.

Yeah I like the lead here! With such shallow stacks, you're pretty happy to take that pot down right now. If laggy villain goes aggro on you and raises it, you're fine with that. But risking to check it through to see a bad card come will make decisions very difficult later on. You could also shove it right now, but that seems a little subpar value-wise in the lobg run.
As "laggy villain" seems to be on the aggressive side, the limp might be a slow-played monster in this spot. But so be it, you're flipping now in that scenario.

Other than that, I would also be tempted to shove here pre. But depending on my read of villain's limp (ultra-wide, or trappy), I would decide differently.

villian had been playing rags all day against me/others on showdowns or all in calls so his range was very wide. he called me on my whole stack on board of 10h3h10c8s a few hours earlier with 8c6c and showed Q8 and 3d4d on all in calls as well (both sucked out opponents)


tough to tell what his simple call in the cutoff meant but after raising probably 75% of the last half hour of hands I should have had my wits about me when he flatted now that I dig deeper...

Ended up hero led out 21k into 66k pot. Extremely short stack BB folded and villian in cutoff with monster stack tanked (acted) for 30 seconds or so before shoving and showing QQ with Q of hearts. Turn and river blanked on H or 10,9 and villian took pot

IMO the complete isn't that bad, depending on reads on how strong limper's hand is and whether he ever folds to a shove. I don't think you can fold pre, unless you think the limper is trapping most of the time. I know the rule is not to play postflop shallow, but folding is pre is gross.

I would lead bigger on the flop. The 30% sizing is OK if you had a big made hand or a bluff, but here you don't mind looking committed and want to set up a push on the turn.

You were 46% of the flop against his hand. Nothing you can do at that point.