$1 45 man final 3. Checkraise air on 922 exerting ICM pressure?

Two Plus Two Forums Archived Forums Strategy MTTSNG

...

01-25-2015 , 02:38 PM

LektorAJ

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 7,826

Poker Stars, $0.91 Buy-in (300/600 blinds, 50 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 3 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

Hero (SB): 34,615 (57.7 bb)
BB: 22,708 (37.8 bb)
BTN: 10,177 (17 bb)

Preflop: Hero is SB with 4

BTN folds, Hero raises to 1,800, BB raises to 4,200, Hero calls 2,400

Flop: (8,550) 9

(2 players)
Hero checks, BB bets 3,000, Hero raises to 7,500

Reads: Villain actually had about 20K when there were 16 left and has been exerting ICM pressure all through FT2 and FT - including open jamming 30 BB effective a ton when 8 handed (I tried some of those jams in Nash Calculator and it said he could do 78 percent from 3 off the button because nobody could call him) and seems really good - he should understand that he is now under ICM pressure. We just took the chip lead a few hands ago.

01-25-2015 , 11:11 PM

oldskool87

adept

Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 843

i think its okay.. so long as he isn't hyper aggressive, also it depends a little bit on our image. if you've been going crazy and are raising a lot then he may get suspicious but if you have a tighter image he may let it go. he should also know that you won't raise a 2 here so your range can't be that strong but it is hard for him to make a play back at you so yeah i think its okay

01-26-2015 , 05:52 PM

LektorAJ

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 7,826

Thanks (and also for the 779K7 one). Yeah I'd been playing reasonably tight while we were all under ICM pressure (at one point it was like 30K vs 6 times 6K but I caught cards and also bullied the others pre-flop the few times he did fold) so I think my image is not too spewy. He certainly hasn't seen me check-raise flops light or actually at all yet.

It's so rare that you can sensibly call a 3-bet and check-raise with total air at this level that I wanted to run it by the forum.

01-28-2015 , 04:51 PM

mktpppr

grinder

Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 446

with your reads I just open-fold pre, shoving 30bb eff many times doesn't sound like a good player, sounds like a loose player

risk premium works both ways, BB can hurt us, so we must be careful if he's loose

preflop: open-fold, as played easy fold vs 3b, don't r/c vs 3b OOP

flop: as played, c/f, what are we repping on that flop? after r/c pre?

...