Poker Stars $4.00+$0.40 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t400/t800 Blinds + t100 - 9 players
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CO: t39240 M = 18.69
BTN: t15860 M = 7.55
SB: t11787 M = 5.61
BB: t4105 M = 1.95
UTG: t32725 M = 15.58
Hero (UTG+1): t18723 M = 8.92
UTG+2: t17406 M = 8.29
MP1: t34676 M = 16.51
MP2: t9142 M = 4.35

Pre Flop: (t2100) Hero is UTG+1 with T T
1 fold, Hero raises to t2800, 1 fold, MP1 calls t2800, 5 folds

Flop: (t7700) 9 4 K (2 players)
Hero bets t4000, MP1 calls t4000

Turn: (t15700) 7 (2 players)

Hero?

I c-bet here for value since I think I still have the best hand most of the time here. After he calls c-bet though, it gets a little tougher. I'm fairly confident that what I ended up doing is not too bad, but I'd like to hear some thoughts on what line is best ott, and for the whole hand for that matter.

It's hard to tell without info on villain.

could be any one of bet, c/c or c/f

Any stats on him? Is he any good?

~1.7k pre, smaller otf ~ 3.3k.

As played, you can c/f turn vs someone good and probably jam vs fishes, since they mostly raise Kx+ otf.

No stats on villain. I'm just looking for opinions of what others would do here in a vacuum (I'm trying to improve my theory skills etc). I'm also now interested to know why I should open to ~1.7 pre though? I feel like larger opens from EP and vice versa are typically better. In theory it should narrow the preflop calling ranges of those behind you thus making it a little less difficult to play well postflop OOP. I suppose you prefer the "open smaller in EP, larger in LP" camp?

Also, I liked my c-bet sizing cause I'm gonna have the best hand most of the time, and most of villain's hands that continue here will be draws. I am pretty much pot committing myself though with a larger bet size, but I don't think that's terrible. still the stack sizes in this hand made it pretty awkward.

It`s not stacksizes, it`s SPR.
This hand shows why opening for smaller amount is better -- bc it creates better SPR for post-flop scenarios and allows you to open wider range pre.

ha i can't believe i'm gonna say this but...

shove pre

meh, i jam turn.

I don't go by (M) for stack size implications I use (BB) and I think 23Bb is a bit too deep to jam here pre-flop UTG+1. If it were around 17/18bb or less, yea I wouldn't mind the shove with a balanced range.

Yeah, it's super deep for sure but there are enough people with smaller stack to mitigate that concern. I guess it just depends on your table image and how comfortable you are post flop versus the players at the table. I think shoving is generally not too bad. Playing postflop is tricky with this stack size.

In theory, some sort of non allin betting sequence is optimal. So I basically agree with what you are saying. But in practice, jamming minimizes error and gets decent value. If everyone had us outstacked, I don't think i'm jamming anymore.

Yes

Yes

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sorry what's SPR? .....small preflop raise? haha i feel like that would be a good guess by me except it doesn't make sense in the context of ur sentence then.

I assume this thread is about how to play against a random so I'll say shove. I mean yeah it's pretty straightforward with reads.

stack-pot-ratio. How much your stack is effectively to the size of the pot. On the turn we have 16k to 8k in the pot so the SPR is 2.

Should read some books.

"small preflop raise"

lol

I'm never ever c/cing here. either shoving or c/fing depending on the villain.

also, I would bet slightly bigger PF and smaller OTF.