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Originally Posted by Warrior24
This is the final table of a SCOOP, in a tournament where there is almost NO 3 betting after watching an hour of the final table. AAxx is a 3b with the expectation that you are almost never seeing the flop, let alone GII in that spot.
There was some 3-betting and I don't recall any folds to 3-bets. There was a hand where bloodflood opened CO 9542ds and called the 3-bet. I haven't played with him, but certainly a nick I've seen at the top of big tournaments. Goes to show how big part variance plays...
If you can expect villains to fold to 3-bets, sure, just start 3-betting and print chips.
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Originally Posted by Warrior24
In the 50 minutes I've watched, everyone else was playing reasonably, except GravityPilot who was just playing LAG but not stupid. He was opening wide but tightening up considerably on unfavorable flops.
GP was definitely playing plain stupid. Smashing every other flop with a nonsensical hand helps quite a bit.
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Originally Posted by Warrior24
The min-raises PF were killing me though, or more so the lack of blind defenses to them. After all PLO8, more than PLO, equities run even closer.
ICM, equity realization. If people fold to min-raises, there is no reason to raise bigger. This is the final table of SCOOP, not your kindergarten game.
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Originally Posted by Warrior24
Amok, that last hand, I'm not sure I wouldn't do exactly as he did. At an SPR of just slightly greater than 1, in a tourney, you sometimes take the chips that are there. His problem is ironically tied back to his tightness: because he is too tight he's never getting called in that spot.
I know that some +90% of the players would play the turn like he did and think there wasn't a real alternative even. If he is never getting called there, raising must be superbad though. And yes, somehow villain folds 2nd nuts, so there must be some truth in what you say.
I have been playing with plplaya since year 2006 I think, so maybe I have some extra information on this alleged tightness though.