21 players left of a $10 MTT - a double up would put me in a good position to make the FT and a shot at serious ROI.

I've been experimenting with taming my aggression for pot control and avoiding needless heavy losses. Previously I would jam all in preflop to villain's raise but I min-raised to convey strength and avoid giving my opponent 5 chances to spike an ace.

Was this the right play? Should I have jammed? Should I have called (pot control) and bail if i get heat on an A flop? Or does optimum play mean I was always destined to lose all my chips regardless?


GGPoker, Hold'em No Limit - 6,000/12,000 (1,500 ante) - 7 players
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da531490 (UTG): 141,868 (12 bb)
e5c3232c (MP): 745,646 (62 bb)
a0ff0854 (MP+1): 128,892 (11 bb)
8d19997c (CO): 311,701 (26 bb)
5d97e586 (BU): 234,870 (20 bb)
Hero (SB): 119,800 (10 bb)
a1a0e64e (BB): 192,804 (16 bb)

Pre-Flop: (28,500) Hero (Hero) is SB with K♠ K♦
3 players fold, 8d19997c (CO) raises to 24,000, 1 fold, Hero (SB) 3-bets to 59,250, 1 fold, 8d19997c (CO) 4-bets to 150,900, Hero (SB) calls 59,050 (all-in)

Flop: (259,100) J♦ A♥ 9♥ (2 players, 1 all-in)

Turn: (259,100) T♥ (2 players, 1 all-in)

River: (259,100) T♠ (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: 259,100

Showdown:
8d19997c (CO) shows J♣ A♦ (two pair, Aces and Jacks)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 29%, Flop: 90%, Turn: 86%, River: 100%)

Hero (SB) shows K♠ K♦ (two pair, Kings and Tens)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 71%, Flop: 10%, Turn: 14%, River: 0%)

8d19997c (CO) wins 259,100

Nah- you are way over thinking this - you absolutely want to get it in - just shove - all the small 3 bet does is telegraph that you have a monster and may allow V to hero fold some hands that would call a shove

can't do anything about bad beats

Shove looks way more light than 3b, just shove and gg. About agression it seems that you have made some blunders but that's standard just run your hands in solvers and keep going

Yeah you have 10bb, just shove

Anything under 18bb here I'm shoving. Fine in the end but shove pre

Flatting if you want to slowplay isnt terrible. You should be flatting with a lot of marginal hands vs a minr so having overpairs in your range is pretty good. You should probably flat AA a decent % (bout 50/50 for me) and flat KK less often but still sometimes. Pure shoving worse pairs and big cards because they are more vulnerable to getting out flopped by a wide range.

But raising small off a 10bb stack doesn't accomplish anything. People arent going to level themselves into folding TT or AJ because your small 3bet "looks so strong".

Flatting is terrible. The raiser should usually be calling a push, and it isn't that bad if he folds and you pick up 4.5xBB without show down. You shouldn't be flatting much if any out of the SB with 10xBB.

oh my bad I misread thought we were big blind....


yea we arent flatting anything in the sb with 10bb, or doing anything other than shove/fold