$100^3 Turbo FT
Villain is Eisenhower, who has had no problem open ripping this same stack OTB, and he also folded 8BBs OTB once last level when SB was disconnected.

Seems cray to fold in a vacuum but given that he seems more polarized here (and would he really be that light given my stack) can we make an argument for it?

Maybe just a matter of me learning some math/SNGwiz stuff, so if any experts in those areas come across this and are looking for a new student, please PM me.

How'd he x/call IP? Assume you mean he called your cbet. I think I call and expect to be shown a better hand a lot of the time, I guess. He could take this line with TT or JJ, but he could also have AX and just want to be sure you don't hero fold, so I can't really hate on folding either. Bottom line is I don't think he's bluffing you here, and there are fewer hands he's betting for value that we beat than beat us, just a matter of if the odds compensate.

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How the F*** does someone fold there?!? I can't even fold TPTK and/or overpairs when over half my stack is already invested by the flop

Screw the math, follow your read...end of story?

Definitely fold, flipping here is a disaster

Agree. We have 0 FE, and are basically flipping against his range, and maybe worse since he is obv not opening ATC if he is folding 8BB from BTN with SB sitting out.


As to the set of tens fold by Balmigere, never folding to a rube who could easily have KQ or KT and think it is the dead solid nuts. There could have been a physical or sizing tell I suppose, but too many players like Moon will think they have the nuts with KQ (see also the HSP hand where Doyle folded the Q hi flush because Jamie Gold thought his J hi flush was the nuts).

h1 I would definitely squeeze but would study villain 1's reaction to the flat. Would probably make it 9900 ish but not sure what sizings you had been using ip/oop.

Not sure if v2 is super laggy vs 3-bets as well but your 3b would look super strong so I can't really see him being too thrilled about calling with his suited connectors or w/e. Think you can take down most dry boards as well very very frequently.

h2 seems like a really close spot with your reasonably strong read. This is live so is a range of TT/AQ intending to get it in vs the 70k too wide? Too tight? Not really sure. I might fold TT and go with JJ/AK but can't really fault a shove here especially since your read could be off.

final 3 of 55T vs two top HS regs. 10k, 7k, 5k payouts.

raising isn't really an option here due to aggro dynamics. i'm probably jamming k8s+ in this spot and KTo. Does that sound about right?

Poker Stars No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t40000.00/t80000.00 Blinds - 3 players -
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BB: t862664.00 10.78 BBs - VPIP: 15, PFR: 13, 3B: 7, AF: 5.5, Hands: 639
Hero (BTN): t979616.00 12.25 BBs - VPIP: 20, PFR: 16, 3B: 6, AF: 3.8, Hands: 375549
SB: t1586720.00 19.83 BBs - VPIP: 19, PFR: 15, 3B: 7, AF: 7.5, Hands: 330

Pre Flop: (t120000) Hero is BTN with K 9
Hero raises to t969616

def shove this, i think the K5 call was where you went wrong.

mmk so worst pair we get it in with is? for that matter, our getting it in range is?

2-3 tables left in Sunday 109c turbo. Villain is a really good HS regular. Am I being results oriented that he was crushing me or do you think the situation tightens his range enough?


Poker Stars $100+$9 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t8500/t17000 Blinds + t2125 - 9 players -
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MP1: t188638 M = 4.23
MP2: t171980 M = 3.85
CO: t275274 M = 6.17
BTN: t531501 M = 11.91
SB: t324172 M = 7.26
Hero (BB): t361588 M = 8.10
UTG: t697279 M = 15.63
UTG+1: t87660 M = 1.96
UTG+2: t74957 M = 1.68

Pre Flop: (t44625) Hero is BB with Q K
3 folds, MP1 raises to t186513 all in, 4 folds, Hero calls t169513

Fold KK Preflop?


Mp3 = Tyren0

Utg+1 = reg who may or may not be winning player

I have a note on BB that he's a "possible super fish" so I don't really pay too much mind to either of the OOP weird flats.

It's the Big 162

I'd probably call now Shane, I'm not convinced his range is {AA} and with the it's pretty unlikely the super-fish or UTG+1 have it given the action. But flat the 3-bet.

FT of a $109. I have been somewhat tight at this table, but am generally pretty active.

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SB ($459,465)
BB ($131,105)
CO ($151,631)
Hero ($122,799)

Dealt to Hero 4 4

fold, Hero ?

Debating between a jam and a raise/fold. Thoughts?

Depends on what you've been doing/intend to do with the rest of your range. I don't think one strategy is clearly better than the other, and I think discussing the spot in a vacuum is stupid.

I was very short and had been tight, had recently doubled up, then minraised a few times to take down 2 or 3 pots preflop. I do all four things (raise/call, raise/fold, jam, openfold) in this spot with various ranges. I guess I lead toward a jam with my small pp a some suited aces, but I am wondering if the icm implications would push me away from risking my whole stack with the small pp. Sorry for starting a stupid discussion

Opener is someone I don't recognize, he's from the UK. I 3-bet him in similar positions last orbit and 3b/folded a flop.

4-bettor is Pas Lefrancois, who I know is good. He's been on the snug side so far.

Flat, jam, or fold?

Opener is a Swedish supernova. Bet or check turn?

shaniac - I'd call for sure, tyren0 will have QQ/AK often enough

nicholasJ - I think this is a clear jam, because of stacks ad ICM. You cant raise/call

nsb QQ - I'd call in position and not fold on low flops, peel once on like JT4 flops and giveup turn prob

nsb KQo - I'd bet half pot

sunday 6max, around 130left, 114 pay, villain is JIZOINT, chipleading the tournament and playing very aggresive and active, running at 32/30 over ~100hands.

I'd fold river and feel fine about it. Hard for him to get there with hands that want to/need to bluff

Bigger162, villain is a russian mediocre reg, 100k+up, but all of it from one score

Plan on turn and river?

[converted_hand][hand_history]Poker Stars, $150 Buy-in (50/100 blinds, 10 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 9 Players
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BB: 1,638 (16.4 bb)
UTG+1: 5,007 (50.1 bb)
Hero (UTG+2): 3,010 (30.1 bb)
MP1: 5,777 (57.8 bb)
MP2: 7,202 (72 bb)
MP3: 3,000 (30 bb)
CO: 3,258 (32.6 bb)
BTN: 3,802 (38 bb)
SB: 3,560 (35.6 bb)

Preflop: Hero is UTG+2 with Q Q
UTG+1 folds, Hero raises to 200, MP1 folds, MP2 calls 200, MP3 calls 200, 2 folds, SB calls 150, BB folds

Flop: (990) 6 2 3 (4 players)
SB checks, Hero bets 440, MP2 folds, MP3 calls 440, SB folds

Turn: (1,870) 2 (2 players)
Hero 2300 behind

With nsbs image shove qq pre

Absolutely bet turn with kq

Fold river with at we have lots of straights and flushes in our range

Shove or bet call qq and hope villain cant fold 99

x/jam and jam every river if he checks turn.

Re: the small pair, 20BBs, final table scenarios. Everyone talks about the ICM effect of not being able to raise call, but ICM effects the profitability of open jamming too. A lot of the time I'll look to raise fold, unless the specific tendencies of the villains make that a no go.

Is shoving 20.5BBs in nicholas's spot there definitely showing a profit? My gut says I'd openfold it if I couldn't profitably raise/fold, but I'd sure like to see the math. 18-19BBs and I'd probably find a shove.

It's definitely showing a profit, by minraising youre very vulnerable to get exploited by both blinds, whereas by shoving neither of them can call you light, bigstack wants to maintain stacksize statusquo, shortstack calling and losing is a huge icm problem