BB was total maniac. He pushed all-in four time in a row with almost any two cards. I was sure that I'm far ahead against his range and I knew that he will push again. I decided to limp and then call his all-in. He did exactly what I expect.
I perceived CO as quite aggressive even if I had only a small sample of his hands - 14. When he raise my first thought was that he want to isolate the agro BB and I did not give much respect to his move, but I was confused when he 4-bet all-in.
If it was regular tournament I would probably fold, but It was bounty builder and CO had already collected 3 bounties while BB had only one.
I wonder, if taking into consideration our stack sizes and the fact that there were four bounties to gain my call was profitable in a long run?

Im always confused about pushing and calling ranges in those bounty tournaments.

Appreciate your comments.



PokerStars - $0.50+$0.50+$0.10|45/90 Ante 14 NL - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: 15.64 BB (VPIP: 100.00, PFR: 100.00, 3Bet Preflop: 100.00, Hands: 4)
UTG: 103.57 BB (VPIP: 100.00, PFR: -, 3Bet Preflop: -, Hands: 1)
UTG+1: 79.29 BB (VPIP: 11.11, PFR: 5.56, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 18)
MP: 92.21 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 14)
MP+1: 51.47 BB (VPIP: 14.29, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 7)
Hero (MP+2): 227.32 BB
CO: 79.96 BB (VPIP: 14.29, PFR: 16.67, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 14)
BTN: 176.96 BB (VPIP: 21.43, PFR: 7.69, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 14)
SB: 55.77 BB (VPIP: 7.14, PFR: 7.69, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 14)

9 players post ante of 0.16 BB, SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2.9 BB) Hero has K Q

fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero calls 1 BB, CO raises to 5.9 BB, fold, fold, BB raises to 15.49 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 14.49 BB, CO raises to 79.8 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 64.31 BB

Flop: (176.99 BB, 3 players) 4 2 A

Turn: (176.99 BB, 3 players) 5

River: (176.99 BB, 3 players) 9

Not having looked at the outcome yet, I'd grudgingly fold this. As you call, you had better pushed yourself imo. Mind you, your limp showed a weak hand, so V either:
-has a hand that is ahead of BB's - the maniac - range and a push probably gets you out, or
-has a hand that is ahead of both your ranges, for an even juicer pot.

I think you are perfectly right here.
If I pushed after BB maniac I would put CO on a very tough spot - he would be risked his tournament life. Yeah it was definitely better line.
Thank you.

Don't limp, please.

Open pre.

Fold or reshove to BB shove

Fold to CO shove.

If you are going to go with the hand raise preflop it helps to define your opponent's ranges better than limping and being isolated, now you are in a situation where you don't know if you are being isolated light or not, a 3x raise would have made the hand easier to play preflop.

The 6x iso with the BB being short looks like a good hand but we cant be sure how strong only the sizing gives me the impression its strong, it could also be a attempt as you say to get the bb's bounty.

the bb shove is irrelevant as you say he is a manic, the only two options here are shove or fold IMO and I think that Given the chance to pick up 4 bounty's KQs is a good enough hand to go with you have both players covered if you didn't I might be inclined to fold.

The limp preflop is what makes the hand more tricky to play. Raising the hand would have made it alot easier, limping with KQs at this stage of the tournament is not a ideal and really a leak in your game you should watch out for, do you limp alot?

Also in future try not to post the results of the hand I haven't looked but if people do and it can make them give a bias opinion on how you played the hand all the information that you need to give is info you had at the time the final result is not import in almost all cases

Not at all. Maybe sometimes I call to much but I'm definitely not a limper.
In this particular hand I limped counting that BB will go al-in again, with intention to call. The only reason I took this line was that he lost previous hand and I didint want him to fold to my raise knowing how well my KQs is working against his super loose range.
Unfortunately CO raise maid this situation more complicated.

Thanks for your comments.

I can understand your thinking but with a maniac it isn't going to make difference if you limp or raise any hand he is going with he will shove