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Final Table - 3way + short stacked.
Hi,
This isn't a question about any particular hand, but more about a certain situation.
If you've been in a tourney and you get down to 3 on the final table and all 3 of you are around the 10-15BB mark, am I wrong to think at this stage there is a very large amount of luck involved?
People at this stage are in shove/fold mode and so often blinds just rotate round the table because when one person has a decent hand, usually no one else does. Then it comes inevitably comes down to someone shoving with say 5-5 and being called by KJ, then it's virtually 50/50.
Is there any ways or techniques I can try and introduce a bit more skill to the situation? To be honest, it might just be that I've made it down to the final 3 four times in the last day or two and I've came 3rd every time so I'm just a bit annoyed about it, I guess my luck just wasn't going my way. I'm making sure I do the shoving and not the calling and I think my shoving range is ok 3 handed.
Should I possibly sit back and try to get to HU then try to outplay him, although at that stage, there's probably just as much luck because we will both be so short stacked and with wide heads up ranges
This isn't a question about any particular hand, but more about a certain situation.
If you've been in a tourney and you get down to 3 on the final table and all 3 of you are around the 10-15BB mark, am I wrong to think at this stage there is a very large amount of luck involved?
People at this stage are in shove/fold mode and so often blinds just rotate round the table because when one person has a decent hand, usually no one else does. Then it comes inevitably comes down to someone shoving with say 5-5 and being called by KJ, then it's virtually 50/50.
Is there any ways or techniques I can try and introduce a bit more skill to the situation? To be honest, it might just be that I've made it down to the final 3 four times in the last day or two and I've came 3rd every time so I'm just a bit annoyed about it, I guess my luck just wasn't going my way. I'm making sure I do the shoving and not the calling and I think my shoving range is ok 3 handed.
Should I possibly sit back and try to get to HU then try to outplay him, although at that stage, there's probably just as much luck because we will both be so short stacked and with wide heads up ranges
Comments
Irrespective of what you have, just shove the first four or five hands. If you run into aces or kings, then big deal - you're not as far behind as you think you are!
These will probably get through (because both the other guys will want to ladder up) at which point you have now got about 20 bigs to the others' 12 (assuming you all started with about 15). This is a massive difference and puts you in pole position to win it.
Hands like T7 are now good hands and worth coming over the top of a player. Punish any limpers mercilessly. Let them know that you will defend your big blind every single time.
And a run of big pairs won't do you any harm!
Your pretty much jamming any mid strength hand on button, or low to mid from un op SB at 15 bigs
3 handed avg. 15bb per player you are basically flipping for the win im shoving tonnes of hands with 15bb in a tourney WITH antes any pocket pair, any ace, KT KJ KQ, QT QJ, TJ etc. in a tourney WITHOUT antes theres an excuse that you can tighten that range up abit knowing that you are only going to be losing 1.5bbs every 6-9 hands there you could probably shove 5s,6s+ A9 AT AJ AQ AK