Old cash grinder trying to remember how to play an mtt
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 1,662
So I'm a long time live cash grinder and have been for years now, I used to play alot of mtt online, but not for years.
So I was bored today whilst the kids were asleep and I fired up the old pokerstars account and bought into a 180sng...... Min cash woohoo..
There were a couple of spots that came up, that I wasn't sure on, it's probably bread and butter for you guys, but I'm just catching up....
About 60 players left
Hero is Co with 22bb, utg+2 shoves for 2bb, hero has 44...should I be fold, calling or shoving here?
Button had about 6bb, sb had similar to hero, bb had me well covered....
Hero elected to flat and binked a set and proceeded to stack the sb, but is not convinced pre-flop flat is optimal.
30players left
Hero has 12bb effective folda to hero's button with ktss.... Hero shoves......standard?
Cheers
Join Date: Feb 2015
Posts: 1,971
#2 is super standard
#1 is a whatever kind of spot - none of the 3 options is terrible - Id call on a passive table - fold if more aggro.
Join Date: Feb 2017
Posts: 129
With the 44 I'd be looking to isolate for the most part, so would want to raise but not shove 22bb with two significant stacks in the blinds. I probably make a small raise, to a level that means if the button shoves and either of the blinds call - his shove is not counted as an underraise, which means I have all options available to me to close the action (if the blinds reraise then I'm probably letting it go / effectively closing the action anyway)
When I end up just against the shortstack(s) then great. When I'm playing a flop versus the blinds, if they look like they are just wanting to check it down then I am probably firing a bet on most flops - and am one and done unless I make my hand.
Hand 2 fine as played without ICM implications, but you're so close to the bubble that considering the state of mind of your opponents might make a small difference. It might still be right to shove but not for sure without all the info