Hi Everyone,

I’m not one to question online credibility but this one hand had me wondering.

5 dollar bounty turbo - N8 Poker

Preflop

MP: all in for 4.5bb
HJ: call
Cutoff: call
Button (hero): shove AQ spade 26.5 bb

HJ: tank and call - 35 bb total
Cutoff: fold

MP: KJ off
Cutoff: 87 diamond

Flop: 965 rainbow

Just found this a little sketch that they call all in with 87 suited and flop the straight. Also saw this player has 300k plus in tournament winnings.

Is this odd or am I just seeing something that isn’t there?

calling a 5bb jam with a caller in front with suited connectors in a bounty tournament seems pretty trivial?

He called 21.5bb. Calling the initial 4.5 all in from other player I can understand. But when I over shove 21.5 bb and he calls seems a little odd to me.

So when you wrote the following:

HJ: tank and call - 35 bb total
Cutoff: fold

That wasn't what happened and the cutoff actually called?

Sorry I must have not posted it correctly. First time doing this.

Middle position went all in for 4.5 bb then HJ called the 4.5 and cut off called the 4.5. I then shove 26.5 bb overtop and the HJ tanks and calls with 87 - then cut off folds. HJ flops the straight

Hi sorry in the original post I put the mistake of saying cutoff had 87. It was HJ that called with 87

Hi sorry in the original post I put the mistake of saying cutoff had 87. It was HJ that called with 87

brutal. heh


doing calculations...... beep beep boop.

yes it says here that in 5 dollar tournaments this is a standard call

He is calling 22 bb to win 41.5 (your 26.5 plus 13.5 from the short stack shove and two callers plus 1.5 from the blinds). Even without bounties factored in he needs 34.6% equity to make that call. 87s vs AQs has 38.8% equity. Obviously he doesnÂ’t know your iso shove range here, but with a short stack all in and a lot of dead money, AQs is probably near the top of it. He certainly had plenty of equity vs a reasonable iso shove range to call, even without the opportunity to pick up two bounties.

There certainly is no evidence of anything sketchy going on here, even if this were a bad call. You are being results oriented; do you not want people calling your shoves with lesser hands? Of course you do, but sometimes they will bust you when they do. That’s poker.