final table of 22$ deepstack on 888

v seems very straight forward playing 29/17/2.9 over 200 hands


[converted_hand][hand_history]Pacific, $20 Buy-in (4,000/8,000 blinds, 1,000 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 4 Players
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BB: 227,687 (28.5 bb)
CO: 381,114 (47.6 bb)
Hero (BTN): 249,068 (31.1 bb)
SB: 152,131 (19 bb)

Preflop: Hero is BTN with A A :: ::
CO folds, Hero raises to 16,000, SB folds, BB calls 8,000

Flop: (40,000) 3 9 T (2 players)
Hero bets 19,255, BB raises to 43,999, Hero calls 24,744

Turn: (127,998) Q (2 players)
BB bets 44,155, Hero calls 44,155

River: (216,308) 9 (2 players)
BB bets 122,533 and is all-in, Hero ???

I think flop call is fine. Turn is fine given odds, and Ac, but I'm struggling to understand how we're ever good here on the river, unless it's a 3-street bluff - I guess QxJx could have done that and are now bluffing the river, but people tend to just call those rather than raise flop.

just pile flop to protect our hand and deny equity imo, on T93 he doesn't flop many made hands but he'll gii with broadway oesds, gutshots+backdoors, tp+backdoors.

depending on how merged he continues turn jamming turn can also be viable as some will b/c QJc KcQ Q8c. but flat is more standard vs. randoms I think.

riv I think to call we should prefer to have better blockers, think this is actually one of the worser bluffcatchers as it doesn't block any straights and the Ac is not that great a blocker as a lot of ppl would choose to put their nfds in x/c range otf.

it's tough to find bluffs for this runout, 87 is often giving up turn for him due to poor equity and drawing to the low end of the straight. 87cx would be the only reasonable candidate, maybe the occasional Kc8x.

Yeah, villain is going to have to paly for it on the flop if he x/r vs me here.

Id GII otf here.

as played fold turn for sure. merits for limping button, too.

^^^ Why fold turn when we gain equity with the nfd?

Against villains check raising range we are now only drawing to a club.


Shove flop, as played sigh call turn and snapfold river.

if he leads flop in to me here I'm shoving. Classic "I've it a piece of it let me see where I'm at..." Show him.

Personally at these stages given most defends/calls of BB with m/r I'm sizing bet a little bigger on button with big hands.

Ya after you click some buttons and get raped there are def merits to limping pre...