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10-29-2020 , 09:05 AM

weirdmonkey

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Join Date: Jun 2018 Posts: 639

Been playing cash for a few years. New to MTTs.

Just made it in the money. What range do we jam here with 8bb? Not sure how to play with the short stack.

Yatahay Network - 4000/8000 NL - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG: 20.37 BB
UTG+1: 20.75 BB
MP: 6.46 BB
Hero (MP+1): 7.9 BB
MP+2: 14.75 BB
CO: 10.27 BB
BTN: 12.97 BB
SB: 5.95 BB
BB: 27.91 BB

9 players post ante of 0.1 BB, SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2.4 BB) Hero has Q

UTG raises to 2 BB, fold, fold

Hero?

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10-29-2020 , 09:35 AM

Captain-Hindsight

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Join Date: Feb 2017 Posts: 1,114

Without doing any kind of analysis I would think the range here looks something like
66+, AJo+, ATs+, KQo+ KJs+, QJs

Basically slightly looser than UTG perceived range and we rely on blinds+anties to make the move +EV

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10-29-2020 , 03:28 PM

insomnia666

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44, ATo, A8s, KJs

The reason...He will use all Axs and pocket pairs at this table, no FE, 5 guys behind us.

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10-29-2020 , 05:45 PM

killer_kill

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10-30-2020 , 06:29 PM

deuceblocker

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Easy shove with AQ, but not shoving all that versus an UTG raise with no FE and 5 players to act. You need to have better than the bottom of UTG's range.

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10-30-2020 , 07:40 PM

insomnia666

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Show some range then...For shove. What is the UTG bottom range? The iscmizer will show some unreal things. I don't think UTG will fold 22 and will open with 66. Or fold A2s and open with A8o...Or raise-fold with any hand. Vs 8bb...Also Hero must think for shove already. An ante, the blinds will come, also the higher blind level...He is ITM. What to waiting for!?

This is the range from the soft. AJo, ATs, KQs, 77...I do not believe it. Use that, if you do...

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10-31-2020 , 08:25 AM

JoeryR

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Join Date: Oct 2020 Posts: 29

I don't think UTG will be opening wide. He is the 3rd biggest stack at the table but this is a turbo MTT, right? Blind levels increase fast. And I assume this is a 5$ MTT or lower.

The GTO RFI with 20bb UTG on pairrd from BenCB shows: 66+, A3s+, ATo+, K8s+, KJo+, Q9s+, J9s+, T8s+, 89s

At these lower stakes people RFI tendencies are not that wide. What I mostly see from UTG RFI ranges are: 99+, ATs+, ATo+, KTs+, KJo+, QTs+, JTs+
The other hands that are in the GTO range which I haven't mentioned in the tendencies are mostly a limp by weak(er) players.

The range I would have jammed in this spot would have been: 77+, AJs+, AJo+, KQs

It all depends on how UTG played previous PF hands so you can act accordingly.

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