If we didn't cover villain things would be little different, but we do with ok margin so he really can't call without the toppest of his range. Villain was playing 23/21/7.3 3b in 79 hands and has 59% steal from sb. Very limited sample, but what I had seen so far he was playing quite good and used the same sizing from every pos.
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I wouldn't play it differently. I actually love this spot because as the big stack we should be perceived to be putting a toooon of pressure on this 2nd-place stack given his ICM considerations. I think he can call off with AQ and we can double here, which puts us in a position to just destroy the table and all but ensure finishing either 1 or 2.
I don't know much about ICM, so take my advice with a grain of salt.
idk, 3b/c looks pretty good to me. seems like a good spot to 3b insanely wide if hes not gonna be jamming wide. even if you are "wrong" you are at the top of your range
idk, 3b/c looks pretty good to me. seems like a good spot to 3b insanely wide if hes not gonna be jamming wide. even if you are "wrong" you are at the top of your range
I thought about that too, but I actually think a 3bet looks just as strong here if not stronger than jamming. cuz I mean the lowest we can go with a 3bet is like 600k which basically commits us given V's stack.
3b/c is also worth considering, but taking the pot down pre is pretty huge considering all the stacksizes, and you can force him to fold a lot of hands that have decent equity against you.