New to Online, Defending BB
Join Date: Jun 2010
Posts: 55
Hey - new to playing online (or at least first time in 10 years), mostly small stakes tourneys and not having any results so far. Curious how I could have played this better.
$30 buy-in, about 4 hours into MTT
3rd in chips on table with 38bb's
Table leader opens UTG+1 for 2.5bb, folds to me, I defend with Q9off
Pot 6.65bb
Flop Jd 8c 10c
I check call 3.82bb
Pot 14.31 (I have 31 left behind)
Turn 4s
Check, villian bets 7.2bb, I raise to 17.8bb, villian 4-bets me all-in, call
Turns over pocket tens for trips
River is 8s, Full House beats straight
Appreciate any insight. Trying to improve my middle tourney game to run deeper. Thanks!!!
Join Date: Apr 2019
Posts: 3,379
Fold the nuts. Someone might draw out on you.
Join Date: Jun 2010
Posts: 55
Q9off is fine defend 38 bb deep?
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 1,559
Q9o is close against early position open, but generally ok defend against one opponent. Hand history being a bad beat story derails thread. Real questions in these defend spots is when, whether and/or how to go broke with top pairs or draws and whether to fold weaker one pair hands against second bet made by opponent, when to reraise bluff etc.
Join Date: Apr 2019
Posts: 3,379
Assuming antes, it is probably a defend, but close because ep raise and relatively large raise sizing.
Join Date: Feb 2017
Posts: 1,114
If you look at an equity realization heat map for this spot you will get ~64% for Q9o
Q9o vs 66+,A4s+,K9s+,QTs+,J9s+,T9s,AJo+,KQo has 33.8%
33.8% * 64% = 21.6%
pot odds = 1.5bb/6.65 = 22.6%
because pot odds > Equity it's a fold pre
