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Originally Posted by YCATKYBNM
You're way over doing it in EP 15b purely min raises. Postflop can be awkward but it shouldn't be that adamantly avoided. Most players at micro-low stakes will overfold and not check raise enough vs cbets. It's worth going over some 15b ICM ranges for a brief overview in GTOw or Preflop Academy if you have either of those.
I'm happy to be overdoing it.
The tournament I just won I survived by basically never being called all in (and it happened earlier this year as well and at the Borgota years ago in a $230 bounty tourney with $100 bounties where they should have called one of my roughly dozen all ins- in fact one of the players at the final table yelled at the other players for never calling me). This time with 14 blinds I went all in UTG with A8s when we were 7 players. I did it about 5 times with a variety of hands (AQ/AJ/KQ/97s/QJs) and was not called until the chip leader (CL) called me when we were 3 way and I jammed about 15-16 blinds in the SB with JJ. He had TT and that made me the CL.
Of course I should have been knocked out with 9 blinds much earlier with Ax when I jammed pre-flop. I didn't know what the "x" was until I had to turn over my hand vs AQo. I had A6o and survived.
It has a little to do with my image which is OMC tight and not over aggro. The image does not reflect reality, but when I am short stacked I try to take advantage of it.
Part of the reason I do it is because when I have >15 blinds I min raise and for the most part am not happy with the results. I am getting jammed on by players who look GTO/Solveresque and may have worse hands but I can't call with hands like ATs/77/etc. I would much rather be all in with 55 and have the GTO guys fold A6s-A9s. So I prefer not to have little Fold Equity. I get that solvers are clear about the advantages but it hasn't worked for me (and for the record I don't trust solvers to be exploitative). I am also being called by BB's and when I miss 2/3 of the time when I have no PP it rarely works out well. I cbet virtually all the time heads up and that's where the disasters start. Even when I choose to not cbet the BB leads out the turn 100% and I fold mostly.
Edit: I should note that I don't play online or Low cost tournaments in general.
Last edited by Mr Rick; 12-30-2023 at 10:16 AM.