I was in a 7+.50 tournament earlier today and came across a hand I need some clarity on.

Limp pot - blinds 500/1000 with antes around 200.

Starting stacks:
MP - 3700
VILLAIN Btn- 7500
HERO Sb - 4500
BB - 8100

(starting stack sizes and blinds are accurate to the best I could recall)

MP limps, Villain Limps, hero completes and BB checks. Pot on the flop was just over my starting stack size around 4800.

Flop : 4 2 3
Hero hand: 5 2

I elected to shove to protect my hand thinking everybody would put those low cards in my range and fold with anything less than the nuts. Worst case I had a pair with a strong draw.

Villain called with: A 5

I didn't improve and was knocked out. I just can't see how I check there or worse give up on the hand with so many outs to any overpair or even 4x3x.

Thoughts?

You shouldn't have a completing range in SB for 4.5 bb there. Either shove or fold. Probably a fold when MP and CO limp, but need some more info on the payout structure.

I finished just under 20th. Payout was final table.

500 to see around 4000 seems like a good price though.

fold pre

Fold pre flop! As played shove is fine.


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why on earth would we only shove or fold pre? you guys never call getting an insane price for only 1/9th of our stack against wide/weak ranges? at a $7.50 tournament their ranges will be even wider & this advice seems even more questionable to me. 10-1 guys, jesus.

i don't know if completing with THIS hand is good. most of the time you'll have to just decide whether or not you want to jam a bare bottom pair or a ****ty fd into 3 other players who probably don't like to fold given it's a $7.50 tourney (no offense), so i could see folding pre but, man, your odds are so good and unless you think the limpers have strong ranges i don't think you can fold pre. flop jam is certainly the best play.

We have 4.5bb and the other two players who limped with <10bb are going to have pretty strong ranges (usually)

Calling of over 10% of our stack to play a disconnected 5 high out of position seems like a poor decision...

Depending on the limpers limp-fold stats and tendencies you can shove any two or shove x% that will retain equity when called.

There's absolutely no room for manoeuvre post flop when playing less than 10bb. Which is why you play push/fold poker.


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