Wow, you guys (and/or girls) are very supportive.
I played another tourney and tried to take your advice at heart:
Situation: Mid to late stage of the tourney. I am 11th in chips. The villain has recently arrived at the table and was tournament chipleader for quite some time. I noticed he is very active (playing around 60% of hands), often entering pots with raises or reraises. I also noticed, he really doesn't like to fold and people started to avoid playing pots with him. He just lost a quarter of his stack in a big pot, where he called a 3 way all-in from a bunch of shortstacks with an 236X double suited hand. This tends me to believe, he know's what he is doing, even though he seems to be a maniac at first glance.
As far as my image goes. He only saw me play one hand, where I check/folded to the first small bet (I was the BB in a limped pot and completly wiffed).
Poker Stars $2.00+$0.20 No Limit Omaha Hi/Lo Tournament - t500/t1000 Blinds + t125 - 5 players -
View hand 3078834
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Hero (BB): t45127 M = 21.24
UTG: t44119 M = 20.76
CO: t56797 M = 26.73
BTN: t78591 M = 36.98
SB: t12614 M = 5.94
Pre Flop: (t2125) Hero is BB with 7
2
6
5
2 folds,
BTN raises to t3000,
1 fold, Hero calls t2000
Given the situation, my thought process is:
1) I need to defend my blind against this player and start doing it rather sooner than later.
2) This is a decent hand that will be rather easy to play postflop, compared to a lot of other reasonable hands. So I feel a little more comfortable to play oop.
3) Finally, I would really like to 3bet him, just to see how he reacts to it. But then I am not so sure, if this a good idea. After all, usually I would like to see a cheap flop with this hand in late position, so why I should I build a big pot preflop with a hand, that's going to miss a lot. On the other hand, he's raising and reraising so many hands, I have to assume that I am ahead of that range ?!
** Is 3betting here an alternative/better play? I haven't really considered that I have to look a lot like Aces to him, if I do that, especially in this environment, where people pretty much never 3bet.
Flop: (t7125) 3
J
4
(2 players)
Hero checks,
BTN bets t3000,
Hero raises to t42002 all in, BTN calls t39002
Okay. First glance: My eyes go wide and I only see, weeeeh straightflushdraw!. Then I slow down and realize, I'm blocking the 2d. So, what am I really sitting on? I flopped a small flush, a big wrap and a pretty good Lo draw.
Before this thread: I would probably check/called, because a higher flush or better Lo-draw is likely, when somebody bets into this kind of board.
But then I remember: Out of all the possible hands, only Ad 7d 2 X has me dead and buried. I'm blocking 3 diamonds, I'm blocking one deuce (Blockers, thx Amok!), so it's not very likely. Even against higher flushes with A2, I can still hit a straightflush or they get counterfitted and I make a better Lo.
On the other hand, there is tons and tons of hands that I pretty much have crushed here, because I'm winning the high half with my flush and there isn't many hands that can make a better lo then me. ... So in all actuality, I'm sitting on a monster and you guys made me realize it.
I'm now only worried, how to get action. If I bet out, he's probably going to simply call with pretty much anything that has a J, an overpair, a straightdraw and/or the Nut-Lo draw and reevaluate on the turn. On the other hand, I have never seen him check behind a flop or fold to a shove. So, I decide to check/shove and it happens.
Turn: (t91129) T
(2 players - 1 is all in)
River: (t91129) A
(2 players - 1 is all in)
He turns over 3h 2h Ad 6c and I scoop a nice pot.
****
After this hand, he somewhat slows down with attacking my blind, but still keeps accumulating chips and does so way faster then me.
So, some hands later, UTG limps and the whole table limps behind. I am sitting in the BigBlind (once again) with (A7)A5
My feeling is, if I can take out this particular player, the field will be a lot weaker and I have a much better shot at winning the tournament.
So, I really want to get my hand headsup against him, but then 3-betting will only turn it face up and I will be oop. Also, I don't know if somebody decides to reshove or call. To make things short, I shove and my villain is the only caller with A2(25). Unfortunately he scoops me, but I'm still pretty happy about my decision.
Cheers
Last edited by Caterina; 06-14-2017 at 08:04 PM.