Preflop spot : KQ vs fish - MTT Poker Strategy - Multi Table Tournament Poker Forum

Two Plus Two Forums Poker Strategy No Limit Tournaments

Preflop spot : KQ vs fish

Post Reply Subscribe

...

04-25-2018 , 11:47 AM

miguelin43

adept

Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 820

Hi guys

V is 41/16 over 150 hands. His PFR EP is 27% (41).

Players behind are tag regs but the blinds. Table dinamics was tight.

Do we

1) Call
2) 3Bet
2.1) What do we do with our stack size if V 4 Bets/all in?

[converted_hand][hand_history]Poker Stars, $1.80 Buy-in (500/1,000 blinds, 75 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 9 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite. View Hand #37933684

CO: 47,878 (47.9 bb)
BTN: 54,952 (55 bb)
SB: 34,034 (34 bb)
BB: 37,785 (37.8 bb)
UTG+1: 97,633 (97.6 bb)
Hero (UTG+2): 31,258 (31.3 bb)
MP1: 39,775 (39.8 bb)
MP2: 26,750 (26.8 bb)
MP3: 36,336 (36.3 bb)

Preflop: Hero is UTG+2 with Q

UTG+1 raises to 2,000, Hero ??

Quote

04-25-2018 , 12:35 PM

Darth_Maul

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 4,433

How about fold?

Sure you're ahead of his range but KQo in EP is high risk and with 31bb you should avoid having to 3b/fold.

Calling is bad because you don't want to play KQo multiway and the call invites other callers.

Quote

04-25-2018 , 12:50 PM

miguelin43

adept

Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 820

Quote:

Originally Posted by Darth_Maul

You went to the bone of the problem

Calling is bad also cause i can be squeezed by some of the tag regs behind

3 Bet sucks by the reason you say

So all options are "bad"...is folding the "less bad" option? It´s a real pity that we cant play this fish IP with a nice hand like KQ but logic indicates that probably folding is safer options

At the end i just called and luckily no one called behind/raised but i didn´t feel comfortable with my decision....

Curious to hear another opinions on this

Quote

04-25-2018 , 03:32 PM

Black Aces 518

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 9,457

Agree that our position and stack size make this a somewhat unfortunate fold. Given that we have direct position on this player, we can find better spots to play pots in position with them.

Quote

Post Reply Subscribe

...