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02-21-2017 , 12:56 PM

Marecki

grinder

Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 419

Poker Stars, $5 Buy-in (600/1,200 blinds, 150 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 9 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

SB: 23,700 (19.8 bb)
Hero (BB): 1,393 (1.2 bb)
UTG+1: 39,262 (32.7 bb)
UTG+2: 15,370 (12.8 bb)
MP1: 30,610 (25.5 bb)
MP2: 7,131 (5.9 bb)
MP3: 14,165 (11.8 bb)
CO: 30,449 (25.4 bb)
BTN: 6,931 (5.8 bb)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 9

6 folds, BTN raises to 6,781 and is all-in, SB folds, Hero calls 43 and is all-in

Flop: (4,436) A

(2 players, 2 are all-in)
Turn: (4,436) 6

(2 players, 2 are all-in)
River: (4,436) 9

(2 players, 2 are all-in)

Spoiler:

bubble, hand for hand.
option 1: fold and guarantee myself a payout of ~1 BI (since this was a KO tourney) but leave less than 50 chips in my stack
option 2: call and not make it to the money if I'll lose (got smallest stack in the tourney)

Your decision?

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02-21-2017 , 01:20 PM

DutchCourage

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Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 831

My decision would be not to get down to 1.2 bb in the first place. This would only happen if lost a huge pot in the previous hand - otherwise I'd have "shoved" utg in the previous hand, get 6 calls and then own the BB reshoving K8o.

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02-21-2017 , 02:16 PM

SomeInternetKid

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Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 740

it's v rare but I've gotten into this spot before.

fold and take the break even

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02-22-2017 , 12:21 AM

nonsimplesimon

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Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 10,007

I don't think there's a software in the world that would say to fold here. You've got two or three hands before you're blinded out completely. You're confident that you're in in that amount of time?

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02-22-2017 , 12:38 AM

SomeInternetKid

adept

Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 740

you have to look at the lobby, if it says the smallest stack is 0 someone busted, you can fold and take the min cash.

That's how it is on stars anyway

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02-22-2017 , 05:12 AM

DutchCourage

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Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 831

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Originally Posted by SomeInternetKid

you have to look at the lobby, if it says the smallest stack is 0 someone busted, you can fold and take the min cash.

That's how it is on stars anyway

I don't think this is correct. If it says smallest stack is 0 it means someone is all-in. They could still win...

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02-22-2017 , 05:27 AM

spand42

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Join Date: Dec 2013 Posts: 758

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Originally Posted by DutchCourage

I don't think this is correct. If it says smallest stack is 0 it means someone is all-in. They could still win...

No it only shows them at 0 if they've lost the all-in. Chip stacks aren't updated based on players stacks mid-hand

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02-22-2017 , 05:28 AM

DutchCourage

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Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 831

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Originally Posted by spand42

No it only shows them at 0 if they've lost the all-in. Chip stacks aren't updated based on players stacks mid-hand

Mmm...maybe in the info tab only then

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02-22-2017 , 12:48 PM

Afteryastack

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Join Date: Feb 2017 Posts: 421

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Originally Posted by DutchCourage

Mmm...maybe in the info tab only then

If it shows 0 it means someone has lost all of their chips but they may have had more than you at the start of the hand, as we are playing hand for hand here, meaning if you then lose your remaining chips and you indeed started the hand with less than them, they finish ahead of you.

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02-22-2017 , 12:52 PM

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Afteryastack

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Join Date: Feb 2017 Posts: 421

Anyway, I'd also be calling my remaining 43 chips but as others have said ideally I would never be in this situation in the 1st place unless I'd lost a big all in the hand prior to this one.

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02-22-2017 , 02:01 PM

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PissedOffLoser

centurion

Join Date: Dec 2013 Posts: 104

Jam it in there bud you probably lost. Plus you shouldnt be looking for spots to mincash you should be looking for spots to win the tourny. Which means there might have been a hand or two that was a jam that you didnt know was a jam because you dont look at the math here and there. I say play around with the PushBot and look at what you can/cannot shove in certain spots

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02-22-2017 , 03:34 PM

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WHO_RUNIT

grinder

Join Date: Mar 2016 Posts: 422

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Originally Posted by DutchCourage

+1

Not to say that things like this don't ever happen but you should have pushed the precious orbit with literally any two when action folded to you.

As played, not folding.

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