Hey all have 2 hands I have questions about from a $200 daily today at the Wynn in a turbo daily with 20 min levels.

H1- I have under starting stack at 1k bb level. I have 16k. Ok I’m sb. Ep limps, a very snug tight omc makes it 3.8k. I’m in sb with JQdd. Do we ever call here? I folded bc I felt the omc range is going to be so tight and strong bc he’s limping normally most even strong hands. I folded and flop was all diamonds lol. I feel it’s a fold bc in reality, we toss 3.8k away almost all flops and when we get it in with tp decent kicker- he has us crushed with better J or Q normally. You fine with fold? It might be nitty but I feel my rationale is fine. Just think it’s spewy to flat from sb out of position and have to fold to most cbets on bad boards for us.

H2- I’m card dead late. I have 4 bb and haven’t been able to find a spot to jam. 12k stack at 3k bb level and I have 74ss on button. I rip and lose when sb and bb call. Is this a bad jam? I would say it’s prolly terrible be we have no FE against even just bb. Do you just fold. 8 paid and 20left. We are 19/20 or 20/20 most likely. I just thought maybe once in while we get a walk and i feel 74ss doesn’t play super bad even against 2 overs if heads-up. Thoughts? I think prolly fold and find better pair hand or two big cards to jam with 4bb. It was rough bc I folded from 10 to 4 bc I was just card dead late- you know I’m jamming you j-10, kj type hands- just kept getting j6o lol- welcome to tourny poker.

H1: I fold here, it's close to a flat without the limp against a normal open size/range.

H2: 74s is a fold on the button at 4bb with or without an ante. It becomes a shove somewhere between 2bb and 3bb with an ante and you only "shove" it with sub 1bb when there's no ante.

Any thoughts on when hand 1 becomes a call? I think I said I folded jqdd the and dealer rolled his eyes at me. It’s like ugh calling like 1/4 to 1/5th of stack to a super tight omc there is horrible bc you are just pitching so often post and when you have top pair you run into better Q and J.

Like is h1- a call at 30-40bb? If both have that? I feel I def call if deep but feel it’s punting chips we want to save when under 25bb

I’ll throw one my hand from start of day. We all had 20k at 100-100 and levels are 20min so super quick tourny.

I open 76ss from semi ep, one flat. Bb is a woman that seems tighter than tight (30s maybe) and she makes it 1100 and I fold. The other player calls and flop is 458 lol. She ended up having aa. She cbet 1.5k on flop. I was kinda like ughh annoying bc I’m pretty sure I find her stack if I see flop. I assume I x raise to 4.5 or 5k and then bet turn and go all in on river and she prolly calls. Maybe not but I think she calls flop raise and turn no question. I would prolly exploit bet small on turn in comparison to flop and just rip river.


Btw to all- the $200 nightly at Wynn is solid. Maybe a few good players but my first table/ yikes. I saw a lady calling raises out of blind with 69o, I see a guy not 3bet AQo on button with big stack mid stages to a hj open- he just flats which makes me lol inside. 3 betting is almost non existent in early stages and only very strong hands. Even the open sizes are funny- I kinda lol when folks bet more with say small pp or Ak/ AA pre. I’m always of the mindset- open the same amount with your whole open range. Folks also open too big late. I saw a guy with maybe 50-60bb when avg was 20-30 opening to 2.5x. I will never understand why folks don’t min open. It effectively does the same thing. You might get peeled by bb slightly more but we always want to play against bb HU when they are oop and have random cards.

I find it crazy when people open 2.5x or 3x late bc it’s just so bad. When you have an open hand that can’t defend to a 3!, you lose less when you open for a min. Maybe it’s just me but I’m super comfortable playing postflop. I think when stacks are 40bb or less- it’s super easy to play ok post flop. I know most folks live game don’t have experience but I find 100-200bb poker much more intumidating bc punts can happen. At 40bb punts happen sure but I feel more justication is there if you run into a better hand and you have tptk etc strong hands.

The problem with 30-40bb effective here is that the original limper may backjam so you'd just be providing dead money a decent percentage, alongside all the times you can't continue post. If you have reads that the limper is weak passive with a near 0 backjam probability then sure flick in a call. You're in a pretty good spot to jam yourself here at this stack depth, blocking lots of calls and decent equity when called. It looks like a slamdunk call 50+ effective and you can mix in 3bets as you get deeper.

You don't mention your open size but it seems like you can peel here with such massive implied odds and a hand that can realise equity well. The other flatter will almost certainly overcall, a backraise isn't part of many strategies there.