5 players left in a tournament with 90 entries. Top 9 paid. $300 buy in.

Bad guy was so bad and kept putting it in bad and coming out winning so many times. I went to his table when we got to final two tables. He only had 30k and shoved 66 v AA. He spikes a 6 and doubles up. Later, he shoves A9 v A10 when the flop came A10/7. Turn is 6 and River is 8 giving him a straight. Later again, he had AA and runs to a set of 8s all in. Turn is an A. Lol.

At the final table with 5 left, he beat me with 3/4 off against AJ after I raised his bb 3x. He calls and wins when 3 hits on River on a crappy board. Then he got set of 77 on me when I had JJ and flop was 9/7/3. I guess I could have slowed down when he called my flop pot sized bet but he was so bad and such a donk I shoved when turn was a 5. Would you have played differently with 5 players left?

Bad guy was chip leader by a small margin and the players left had similar stacks.




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FWIW, these sound absolutely fine if stacks are short enough. Saying this without a context of how many bb deep he was at the time is kinda pointless.

Given villain is a fish then potting the flop would be semi-ok. I would not pot the flop with any of my range unless stack sizes dictate i should be barreling flop and then jamming the turn.

In this spot w/e, if villain is a fish as mentioned then theres not much you can do. He can call off with lots of hands which have fairly good equity against us - ie. lots of pair + straight draw. I would like to know how many bb deep we are, as this would dictate my bet sizings and the way to play the hand. Also, what happened pre flop, who opened and what positions were people?

Blinds were 10k/20k with 3k ante. Villain had 600k and the rest of the table had 400-500k each. I was around 450k and probably in third place at the time. I made it 50k utg. Villain called from the button and SB also called.

My question is whether I need to shut it down once he called my flop bet and wait for a better spot. There was a $500 jump between 5th and 4th place and a 5k jump between 5th and 1st.

He had called a similar bet a couple of orbits earlier. I had QQ and raised 3x. I checked a K high flop and then bet the pot in turn. He called and we both checked the river. He turned over 88 and I think he would have called a bet on the river.

I would have gone 40k pre, 65k flop, 125k turn, jam brick rivers for remaining 220k.

Shutting down on the turn is wrong. We only have 23bb to start the hand. 50k pre and two callers = 185k in middle. Flop is an easy cbet of ~100k. Would mean 385k in the pot ott, easy turn jam. Just unlucky.

I Agree with this. With 22bb you can't get away from it, unless you play it as Foxyy suggested and villain check-shoves turn, in which case alarm bells may go off and I may just puke-fold.

It sucks busting in 5th, it was just unlucky.