Hey all, I fired 2 bullets this weekend at parx for the 550 and have some spots I would like to go over:

Hand 1- I have 60k at 400-800 800bba. So far I have a taggy image where I’ve shown aggression with air slightly but have never shown down bad hands really. Just have folded to 3bets when opening light and playing semi cautious post flop when I don’t have it and check folding (prolly opening much lighter than most of table). Young tag player opens to 1600 from utg+3 and I 3bet 7h9h to 4k and he flats (all else fold). So far in past 30 min I have solid image and haven’t been playing many hands. Player is slightly new to table and late reggd and seems pretty tight agg but hasn’t shown any prepensity to open light/ hasn’t opened many pots so far for 30!min he’s been at table. Flip is 9c-2-c-5x and he checks. I Cbet 40% of pot roughly and he calls. Turn is a 7c (not exactly sure if I have flop texture 100% correct but the suits and basic pattern is right- all low cards). He checks and I Cbet 60% pot or similar and he jams. I insta call. Simple snap call correct and is this hand find to be 3bet? I will state hand he had and results after discussion. I think the call is ez and I didn’t think much about making it. Is 7-9h ok to bet in spot like this or should we be more snug. Villian was super snug preflop and not someone I thought was opening light but I thought 3betting this hand in position was fine and I’m never really flatting a hand like this at this stage of tourny. Please write what you think villian had.

Hand #2

I have 120k maybe (again not sure of exact stack size but I’m guessing this was it). At 1.5k-3k 3k and same villian from before opens to 6k on a 20bb stack from ep. I 3 bet to 15k with AQo and folds to him and he ships. We never fold here right? I thought for 15 seconds and called. Meh idk if this is a fold but I can’t find it with 40bbs and at this stage of mtt. I think he’s jamming worse broadway and pocket pairs to resteal possibly especially when I’ve shown ability to 3bet light. I’ll post hand later and result.

Hand 3- 160k at 2-4K 4K. This hand is a massive mistake I feel and leak in my live game but wanna check. I open ks4s to 8k on button in an unopened pot. Small blind calls and big blind who is a parx pro and I assume solid mtter based on results . Bb has been at table 10 min and has maybe 80-100k. Flop is k-q-2c (rainbow). Sb and bb check and I get odd and check back to pot control. This is like an auto Cbet for me online but I’m trying to work on Cbet freq I guess. Turn is a 7!and sb checks, bb leads 10k, I flat, sb folds. River is a j with no flush potential on board. Bb leads 24k? Maybe (sizing was solid and I don’t remember specifics again). I think for 20 seconds and fold. Meh this is a simple call correct? Looking back I felt I really goofed here. I feel the check on flop really underreps my hand and folding this river is really weak. Not sure why I didn’t just call with such a semi strong hand. I felt in moment Villian thought I would Cbet flop and could be setting up a x-raise on flop.... also looking back I feel villian is good enough to prolly rip pre with stronger broadway hands and things such as a-10 that would get there on river. As played I feel this has to be a call and is probably a terrible fold on my part.

Hand 3- I maybe have 120k at 2-4 4K and a well known boss live player is on my right after late regging super late or on a new bullet. He has 40k in small blind and jams on my bb in an unopened pot. I have qd7d. I fold but looking back again this is most likely a call. I see on poker app I have, this is 0.5+ bb call if he’s shoving perfect Nash. I assume he’s 100% shoving light enough to make this a call. He looked disinterest in mtt and was playing plo on his phone for money I think the 5 min he was at the table. Is this an easy call? I folded in game but again I feel it’s a call and spot to not pass on. Did math and we need 42-43% against his range. I def think he’s jamming jx and as weak as 45,67, etc hands. This guy plays much bigger mtts so again I assume
He could care less about being knocked out. (Player was Aaron mermelstein btw)

I’ll throw one more in.

Final hand- I start day 2 with 103.5k at 2.5-5k 5k. I go down to 91k and an older asian male limps a 120-140k stack from utg+1. I’m 2 to his left and look down at AhJh. What do you like to do in this spot on 18bbs? I just ripped but Wanna make sure this is ok. I feel we either rip here or fold. I feel iso raise/fold is terrible. Any chance we just muck this and wait for better spot.

Don’t know much about villian. Saw one hand where a shorty ripped 10bbs over his min raise. The big blind flats the 40k and asian male flats on a starting stack of 200k. He eventually check calls a 40k bet by bb on a low flop of something like 2-3-7 with 2clubs. Turn is an 8 of clubs and he checks and tanks for 3 min on a 60k bet by bb and eventually folds. Not many ideas on how he plays as aj hand I’ve played.... is 1.5 orbits in to day. Would prolly put him on tighter side
As he is older and he has only
Played 1 hand so far in short hand sample.

Hand 1: I never 3-bet 97s but thats just me. I guess its fine. If you get 4-bet its an easy fold. And you have a lot of outs that you don't have in your hand like an A, K, or Q. But I'm guessing he had like JJ/TT and you lucked out on the turn.

Hand 2:You are getting 2:1 so you cannot fold AQo. He can have any PP > 66 and if you are in BB you should be 3-bet shipping. If you are SB then it depends on BB's stack.

Hand 3: Don't check back on flop. Get one guy to fold, possibly a gutter. You can always check back the turn and snap off a river bluff. Or lose. As played you have to call the river. Your hand is very under repped.

Hand 3b: I probably fold this. Too many Ax/Kx will ship. Also Qx will likely be better than us too. Still, if villain is good and we know he will ship >50% then we will be ahead some of the time. If we are pretty sure he mostly ships then its a call.

Final hand: If I think villain can have AA/KK here I now sometimes just limp behind then see what happens. Some decent % of the time nobody raises because of AA/KK possibility. Sometimes it gets out of control and I fold for 1 BB. And sometimes I miss and fold the flop. But I am tired of getting sucked into shoves that get called where I am way behind.

Would have responded sooner but am still a little bummed about bouncing twice. Both times I was ahead on my first all-in. I made some mistakes so its not like I didn't contribute.

How many chips does the player have in hand #1?

[QUOTE=numberonedonk;54863715]How many chips does the player have in hand

Hand #1, villian has starting stack. I would guess he started hand with 40-45k. He ended up having JJ as played and obv rivered a 4 to pair board and beat me in hand which was kinda gross. Again, I’m never flatting pre here to really be able to throw a bluff in here if need be. I know this is kinda meh, but I feel 3 betting a hand like 7-9 here allows us to fire 2 bullets on most K/A xx flops and he prolly folds if he is standard live player here. Stacks probably aren’t deep enough though honestly to 3 bet 7-9 here.

Hand 2- villain had AKo and we somehow bink a queen on flop which is something I don’t experience in live mtts enough.

Hand 3- I looked at shove chart and villain should be shoving 71.9% to be unexploitable based on jenneifear shove charts. This guy was a live boss who has 6 fig scores. It wouldn’t surprise me if he’s jamming 75-80% there bc he’s going to be firing bullets late on last day 1 I feel in a tourny that probably is peanuts to him. I know q-7 isn’t a great hand but I feel against that type of range, we gotta take the +ev spot. I saw it’s a +0.5 bb call vs implied shove range if he’s jamming perfect. This guy was in late 20s/early 30s and I feel is 100% shoving correct or too loose in a spot like this.

Hand 3B- the guy was knocked out of mtt 1 orbit later which made me question my river fold. The guy probably was firing many bullets I assume so folding river is probably bad in spot.

Hand 4- villian had AA and we lost lol. Meh I feel limping behind probably is better but I find it odd to do on 20bbs. Maybe I have to be more careful with the limp reshove late in mtts. Call me crazy, but I so rarely see people limp AA late in mtts. Me personally, I’m always min opening with hopes for a spot to 4bet pre even though sometimes it’s hard to get someone to 3 bet you in a live mtt (atleast that’s how I feel when I have big hands).


Finally I’ll throw in one more spot against some guy I’ve played against before and we’ve gotten into argument in past mtt (not sure if he knows me) but this is someone I really dislike. Not sure he recognizes me but I would say he is a solid mtt player based on his live results.

I have maybe 140-160k at 1.5/3k 3k and he might have like 160-180k to start. He opens from ep (guessing utg+2) to 6500. I have AKo in mp prolly 2 off button and 3bet to 19500. Folds around and he folds. Should we ever be 3betting smaller in position/ maybe consider jam to really punish and make deciisong harder for Villian? He’s a good player and I really didn’t want to see flop against him as I respect his game a lot and think he will make my life miserable post flop when we don’t flop a king or ace. I feel 3betting to like 14.5k-16.5k is prolly more ideal in spot like this to get calls from worse possibly? I mean I’m sure size here isn’t too bad but we probably want to play in position with such a strong hand. Just wondering if full 3x might be too big here or maybe consider ripping in 40bbs in spot like this to maybe get a spazzy call against villian we have history with.

OP with all due respect that's a huge wall of text and a struggle to read. But here goes:

1. Bigger pre, we want him to fold AJo, T9s, etc. and IDK if he ever does vs 2.5x sizing getting 10:1 IO.

AP Xb turn.

Or just flat pre. Not sure why you're no reluctant to flat with this hand. I understand you want to uncap your range, for when Axx or Kxx board peel but you don't necessarily need to have AA, KK AK in your range to make him uncomfortable on those textures, you should still have plenty of Ax in your flatting range. The beauty of this exact hand is the ability to lay down bluffs postflop with equity. You need the SPR to be big so as to not commit V with his big PPs. His x/r OTT seems pretty awful BTW, and makes me ex post wanna flat even more. I mean, if he never folds an overpair postflop, I don't think 3betting with 97s is gonna work. Did he even have Jc lol?

But I can be totally off base here. Splitting my preflop ranges is a problem I've been paying particular attention to recently because even after all this time playing cards I'm still personally often confused how to properly do it.

2. Flat pre vs EP open who's got a 4! or fold stack. We shouldn't have a 3bet/fold range here. Obv if you have a read he's shipping AJ-, KQ, etc then 3b/c becomes attractive, but that's entirely a read thing. Most V's are not doing that IMO.

3. Cbet 25% pot/barrel 50%-100% pot turn/xb river. This flop is a 25% pot cbet w/ essentially your entire range. Our range is way, way ahead of V's, who should be squeezing extremely wide here.

4. Call. You have a ~50th percentile hand against a range that's much wider than 50%, a good chunk of dead money in the pot, and 2/3rds of your stack remaining if you lose.

5. Limp behind or go 4bb/decide based on live reads. Old Asian dudes limp w/ AA all the time and it's part pathetic, part annoying, and part hilarious. But think you'll see him l/rr with something like 88+, ATs+, AQo+. 18bb is just slightly too deep to open shove with this particular hand.

Where ru sitting in relation to vill from hands 1 and 2 and is 60k the eff stack in hand 1?

Hand 1 effective stack size is 40k-45k.

Hand 1- he was ep prolly like utg +1 or 2 and I’m in mp prolly like 2 off button so I’m in position post flop against villian. I know stacks are prolly a little shallow to 3bet here but I feel flatting opens others to flat pre and make post flop much more difficult. I feel I do best against 1 villian post flop especially with hands i consider worth bluffing.
As played, I didn’t know much about villian but he was young and after hand.... degermined he was a tighter tag.

Hand 2- same situation, he opens ep, I’m no and 3 bet. After thinking of hand, I’m sure he can shove slightly wide here against my perceived image. Maybe not a good 3 bet but idk. Qq on shallow stacks seems like a good 3B to me against non omc and super tight Villians.

1. Hand 1 it's a bit tough to pull this apart in any precise way, but we beat too much to fold. as for the 3!, sure get into it, just be really clear about V calling range and how range advantage affects post-flop play. this is a nice example of really screwing with ranges and inducing some brain explosion.

2. Well, you showed him 97hh before in which case it has to be a call. i think you're flipping against stuff like 99 very often but you'll have to wear a bit of variance here.

3. math is math, but i still dislike calling 10BB shoves this light with only 30BB behind and think our edge is higher in other spots than to call here

4. raise to 3.5BB and fold to the old guy if he shoves. i think most people are aware of the OMC limp-jam playbook, which should provide some protection against speculative 3! behind. and old guys are really easy to push off stuff post flop if he calls the 3.5BB