We started this hand with my 40BB effective stack, midway through an online tournament during a series.

I don't remember the villain really 3betting that much, if at all, since we have been at the same table for the past 2 hours. I have been card dead a bit, so have been playing quite tight as of recent, so my raise should have a strong range.

Hero - UTG+1 - AsKh - 40BB
Villain - UTG+2 - 65BB

Hero raises to 2.1BB

Villain 3bets to 6.2BB

Rest of table folds

Hero calls 6.2BB

FLOP - Qh7d9c

Hero checks
Villain bets 5BB in the 15BB pot.

Hero??

PREFLOP - My thinking here is that I am too deep to jam 38BB over his 3bet and i'm too short to 4bet to 14BB. If he calls the 4bet, there will be roughly 30BB in the pot with 26BB in my stack. Is calling an ok play here given the stack depth?

POSTFLOP - Villain is repping a pretty narrow value range of QQ and AA-KK, which I block a good portion of. I don't think he is cbetting TT-JJ. i would be calling his cbet with my suited AK's with backdoor flushes. Is folding AKo an ok play here or super nitty?

He sounds super nutted based on your description of him and the fact that he 3b you in EP. I think you definitely flat here pre and hope to hit a naked A flop and otherwise it sounds like it's time to fold. If you had a backdoor flush draw it would be a marginal call but still not necessarily a float either.

If this is an online MTT I think we have to 4b/call or 4b shove here, but live vs your average villain I don't mind a flat. Live 3bets, especially in these positions, tend to be JJ+/AK at a minimum.

On the flop I guess we just x/f.

I think AKo should be in our 4b jam range here. JJ- is probably folding as we threaten a large % of his stack and we're only really in bad shape vs AA witch we block.
Ap c/f

Kinda close, I don't mind flatting sometimes but most often we should be ok with getting AKo in with a 40BB stack unless we have reads to the contrary - especially if we're going to 4-bet with nut hands.

As played I think the reasoning that we have better hands that can float flop is sound.

Pretty easy 4b/gii pre

As played, I would x/f given that you have a reasonable stack, V is tight, and you do not have good equity against his range.

Pre-flop, I am open to 4b/GII. While V is tight, he can easily have hands in his range here that he would fold to a 4b, and your stack is enough to threaten him significantly.


Whether you play it slow or fast is really about how much variance you want to take. I like the line you took, but others may advocate the high variance line as it can build you a bigger stack and give you a better shot at a deep run.