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3 bet shoving v v aggro button, mtt. deep.
(deep in only a 60 runner tourny, but deep)
£5.50 buy in.
Top 8 paid.
8th - £15. 1st = £100.
Position - 7th/14 remaining.
History on this guy -
Had opened alot of pots. Was mixing up his raise sizes, between min raises, and 3xbb. Had no real read on what this meant yet - I had seen him show down Ace 5 against a short who called from the big blind, this was just a min raise on the button.
His play down the streets was also loose/aggressive, calling station-ish, but not afraid to bet his draws/marginal hands. In one pot, very first level, he raised the button with ace 5, the flop went check check, and he overbet jammed the turn with the bare ace of hearts.
My image -
Very tight. I had passed up on alot of stealing/3 betting opportunities, and built my stack by showing, aces, AK, and a set of 9's all of which he had seen.
He'd stolen my BB a few times, I wanted to be as patient as possible, and find a spot.
Is this it?
(HH messed up, he has me covered by maybe 2kish)
| Player | Action | Cards | Amount | Pot | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DangerMog | Small blind | 300.00 | 300.00 | 9615.00 | |
| DOHHHHHHH | Big blind | 600.00 | 900.00 | 7990.00 | |
| Your hole cards |
| ||||
| pomfrittes | Fold | ||||
| brisbo9 | Fold | ||||
| Moon_River | Fold | ||||
| HAZZA1 | Raise | 1200.00 | 2100.00 | 13740.00 | |
| DangerMog | Fold | ||||
| DOHHHHHHH | All-in | 7990.00 | 10090.00 | 0.00 | |
| HAZZA1 |
Comments
Scotty i think better spots will come. Or when we can become the opening raiser.
this indicates that the bb short stack called pre and it was checked to showdown tbf.
don't forget that KT isn't that far behind AX.
with our fold equity and 2.1k dead money in the pot, thus increasing our stack by over 25pc, i think that this is a good play.
also villians call aint the worst call in the world. if im sittin on button with a9 with u in the bb i make it 1500, u shove, i call. i think at this stage of a tourney ppls shovin & callin ranges should open up dramatically (ppl play far to tight at this stage of a tourney imo) obv player reads is important, but i think this hand is pretty standard.
if 3bet shovin with k-10 is 'cool' then surely callin with a9 is acceptable?
doh knows the villians button range is huge (especially as he stated the villian had already stole his blinds on several occasions) so surely heros 3bet shovin range now becomes huge too? we cant allow aggro players to keep stealing our blinds. so if the villian is aware of this then a9 is quite easily ahead of heros range? we dont fold a9 blind on blind here do we?
u say worst u call with is A-10 so obv u are prepared to accept a possible race here as we are playin ftw so if Ak-a10 is a snap call then A9 should be a call to imo.
alot comes down to who the players are, if im the villian in this hand against doh its quite an easy call 4 me because i know doh is capable of 3bet shovin light. if i know the villian is an absolute nit who aint got any type of move in him then obv its fold.
It all depends on the players involved. In this particular hand Doh said he had been playing very tight previously and shown down AK and a set, so as the villain I personally would have folded (not based on history with doh just table image in this tournament).
I think A9 is so easily dominated in this spot, flipping sometimes also but if we are actually winning it's mostly against KQ-KT/QJ and even then we have a marginal advantage.
3 bet shoving with a wide range is 'cool' because you can pick up so much dead money most of the time. It's a lot easier to shove than to call off your chips, given the descriptions by Doh in the thread it's not a great call by the villain. Can just wait for a better spot imo.