Yet another ugh spot in this tournament. Not enough hands on villain for any meaningful stats.

[converted_hand][hand_history]Poker Stars, $0.50 Buy-in (900/1,800 blinds, 225 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 8 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite. View Hand #37778548

MP2: 41,923 (23.3 bb)
MP3: 109,009 (60.6 bb)
Hero (CO): 39,594 (22 bb)
BTN: 75,663 (42 bb)
SB: 21,786 (12.1 bb)
BB: 69,569 (38.6 bb)
UTG+2: 53,803 (29.9 bb)
MP1: 81,975 (45.5 bb)

Preflop: Hero is CO with 7 A
4 folds, Hero raises to 3,855, BTN calls 3,855, 2 folds

Flop: (12,210) 9 A 5 (2 players)
Hero bets 5,255, BTN raises to 10,800, Hero ???

I have zero reads on villain so I have no idea if this is a pot-building minraise with a big hand or if he's trying the old cheap bluff-raise here. I obviously can't fold so the question is whether to just shove or call and keep in any worse hands.

Zomg what a tourney! Hope you cashed it after all these tough spots!
Im still nitty, but I call here and check call the rest on the turn, and maybe find a less frustrating activity for the rest of the evening.


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Your stack kept growing, so looks like you were spot on with however you played these hands.



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This was ITM already, about 350 left.

But yeah, I can't recall ever having so many tough spots in one mtt before.

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After some good responses on your hands that you posted, let us know how each panned out, or just PM me, i'm really curious!


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I don't think I'm folding here. I'd hate to have to fold a pair of A's after raising with 22 bb's, kinda defeats the purpose of raising it in the first place.
I'm probably calling the raise, check calling off.

Yeah im not finding a fold here. Calling down

definitely playing this flop as c/c

Thats true actually i wouldve done the same. But as played im calling down.

check call all day brah

Yeah you guys are probably right about the x/c on that flop.

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Check call bruh


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c/c flop

c/c turn

c/?? river

To close this out, I shoved over the raise. Villain called and tabled AJ and I was out for a min-cash.

I think x/c flop is the right play, though it wouldn't have mattered in the end. I can't fold TP with only 22bb to start so he would have stacked me anyway.

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I haven't done the work on this one this time. Just going with my gut.

In theory, with your stack size, I'd hope I would check-called flop, check-jammed turn. This allows him to bluff flop, double barrel a 9x hand, pick up a draw on turn. Think you'd be hard pressed to get him to bet 3 streets with a worse hand but he will call worse to a turn check-shove. See a lot of A2 type hands just check back river.

If he checks back flop I think you can assume he doesn't have anything and bet turn according to how well it fits a standard range - bigger on K Q T, maybe even check a 2nd time on low cards.

In reality, I think I bet flop majority of time and probably tank-find a fold to that raise vs an unknown as I hate gambling in the dark lol. I'd rather take 17.5bb and find a profitable preflop jam than call there and see A9, A5, 99, 55 or those fish who call AQ AJ AT pre there when they should be 3betting.

The other thing that bothers me is that it's 2.x raise, not a min raise. He didn't just click it back "because..."

Yeah that was a bit strange, it's basically a 2.1x raise.

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