Hey everyone, I need some help with this spot.....34 yr old recreational player from moneymaker boom. Havent been able to play as much over the past 5 years, so my game is super rusty. Im basically stuck in a 2011 TAG strategy. I'm aware of GTO/charts and all that stuff, I just havent taken the time to study,deep dive yet. Anyways.
Level 2 - 200/300 (300bba)
Everyone is basically around 30k effective starting stacks except for CL of table around 50k but he doesnt get involved in the hand.
Im in UTG+1 and I look down at TsTc
I open to 800
(my first open of the tourney, I've played only 2 hands in the tourney so far)
MP1, HJ and BB call
(I am only worried about MP1 based off reads so far, BB and HJ are rec noobs like me)
FLOP 2h3h4d
BB checks, I lead for 2400,
MP calls,
HJ reraises to 7000
BB folds
I go into tank.........
I am trying not to hollywood but I start overthinking the spot and i've been thinking for about a minute here. I just start overthinking HJ s range
I end up jamming for about 24kish.
I need help with my leaks, is this too punty? Too risky this early on in the tournament? Flatting is way worse than jamming here correct? Best options are fold/jam/then call?
Obviously not the best spot to pick in hindsight so is it okay to just fold here and take the hit early on in the tourney?
I think a big leak in my decision to jam was the fact that it was the sunday of my work week. I wanted to make taking the shot worth it versus being too nitty and folding for 4 hours only to jam A7 with 13 bbs and go home with the same result. I figured if I won this pot, I'd have a good shot at making day 2 based off my TAG strategy.....I just didn't want to fold for 7 hrs, drive an hr back home only to go back into work 6 hrs later.....is this an okay thing to factor in or is that -ev?
Anyways just some basic brainstorming around these kinds of spots/hands early in an MTT