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Bounty Hunter, ITM spot. What is your calling range?
£5.75 Bounty Hunter, 11 paid. After a period of tight bubble play the short stacks are ready to double or bust now they've made the money.
With 9 players remaining you find yourself on the big blind facing a button shove and a small blind re-shove. You have both covered comfortably. Each has a bounty of around £4.50 on their head. You have a fairly aggressive image after abusing the bubble. You've also been seen to call (correctly, but lose) one all-in pre-flop shove post-flop since the bubble burst.
You recognise player A as a regular in these games, a fairly decent player. Player B is not known to you. What is your calling range here?
With 9 players remaining you find yourself on the big blind facing a button shove and a small blind re-shove. You have both covered comfortably. Each has a bounty of around £4.50 on their head. You have a fairly aggressive image after abusing the bubble. You've also been seen to call (correctly, but lose) one all-in pre-flop shove post-flop since the bubble burst.
You recognise player A as a regular in these games, a fairly decent player. Player B is not known to you. What is your calling range here?
| Player | Action | Cards | Amount | Pot | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B | Small blind | 400.00 | 400.00 | 4065.00 | |
| GaryQQQ | Big blind | 800.00 | 1200.00 | 19743.75 | |
| Your hole cards | |||||
| Fold | |||||
| Fold | |||||
| A | All-in | 4840.00 | 6040.00 | 0.00 | |
| B | All-in | 4065.00 | 10105.00 | 0.00 | |
| GaryQQQ |
| 1st | £60.56 | |
| 2nd | £38.89 | |
| 3rd | £24.23 | |
| 4th | £19.66 | |
| 5th | £16.04 | |
| 6th | £13.39 | |
| 7th | £11.26 | |
| 8th | £9.14 | |
| 9th | £7.01 | |
| 10th | £7.01 | |
| 11th | £5.31 |
Comments
As Matt, except on Kings-K J/K 9s plus
Think I'd much rather call with a J9s than A4o.
I actually made the call with 52s, losing to player A's AQo. Player B was eliminated with ATo.
At first glance it might look terrible calling two shoves that wide, but after reviewing the hand history I'm satisfied it was the correct decision. Before posting the hand here I'd already estimated their ranges and run through the maths, coming to very similar conclusions to DOHHHHHHH.
As it was against their exact hands I had 33% equity, more than I expected, and a snap call if their cards were turned face-up.
1) Click call
2) Look at my hand.
This MTT plays pretty shallow at the deep end and I feel our stack is just about big enough to spin this. I'm considering the top end money from the non bounty prizepool is really what we want but the drop if we lose both pots is, imo, worth the risk from this stack when compared to reward on offer at these odds. If we were on 10bb-15bb then I am a lot more twitchy about calling off as losing hurts our chances of winning the thing much more.
Also I love the fact the second guy has less than the first guy, the SBs range should be much more pair orientated so this gives us a much better chance to bink the side pot and scoop the bounty with a wider range.
Good call imo.