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02-06-2018 , 10:30 AM
Hi all,

I hope you guys can help me out with the reasoning for jamming or not jamming this spot. The following hand was played at a 15$ 27-180 Player on Stars. 9 places are paid so we are ITM already.

After adjusting the calling ranges of players left to act it shows that K3s would be a profitable jam in this particular spot. Assuming I adjusted the ranges correctly, we gain 0.04% of the price pool or an amount of 0.32$ on this particular jam.

Many other hands are marginally profitable jams (from +0.01 to 0.04%) as well in this particular spot, including: A3o, 54s,65s,76s,98s,T8s,T7s, J8s, J7s, Q7s-Q4s, K4s-K2s.

I am wondering if we always should take these spots and if not, what are the right reasons not for taking them?

What I can come up with myself is (1) we give up this spot to find more profitable spots later on, under the assumption we have a skill edge over the other players, and (2), to lower variance.


    Poker Stars, $13.77 Buy-in (400/800 blinds, 75 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 8 Players
    Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite. View Hand #37931003

    BB: 14,684 (18.4 bb)
    UTG+2: 9,798 (12.2 bb)
    MP1: 8,506 (10.6 bb)
    Hero (MP2): 30,065 (37.6 bb)
    MP3: 3,488 (4.4 bb)
    CO: 14,673 (18.3 bb)
    BTN: 4,588 (5.7 bb)
    SB: 10,198 (12.7 bb)

    Preflop: Hero is MP2 with K 3
    7 folds

    Spoiler:
    Results: 1,400 pot
    BB mucked and won 1,400 (925 net)



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    Common marginally profitable ICM spots Quote
    02-08-2018 , 01:21 PM
    the HU/spin sub forum is probably not the right place to ask.
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    02-26-2018 , 01:13 PM
    This is not a jam. You're committing ICM suicide. Just fold and let smaller stacks killer each other. Maybe from later positions you can jam this and get away with it some amount of time.
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