FT Daily Big $20
Hello, what would be the best play in this spot? The villain is reg.
My thinking on this play is to shove to maximize fold equity, especially with two other players with short stacks.
Is this thinking correct?
What would my shoving range be? (AQ+, QJs+, 77+)
Would my NAI 3-bet range be like AA, KK, A4s, A5s, K4s, K5s?
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AKo is about the easiest jam ever here.
I'm not sure what your rejamming range should be exactly or if it should be that linear; I'll think about it.
I would shove, but a NAI 3-bet call would surely also be OK. It would no doubt be possible to have just a shoving, or just a NAI raising range and not divide them up.
Would you not also throw some bluffs into your shove range if you are splitting it up like this? Or are you including that in the range you give? If so which of those hands would you fold to a shove?
I guess there are various ways you could construct your ranges. I'd like to say I would figure out my 3 bet and 3 bet all in ranges and then figure out the appropriate number of bluffs for each. Alas, at the table, I'm not at that level.
I would shove, but 3!/call is OK too. Would 3!/gii QQ+, but OK to do it with AK/TT/JJ. If he flat calls a 3!, I would shove most flops I missed.
Part of the reason I like shove better than 3-bet to induce is the stakes and the hand - we have the best blockers with the worst postflop playability, and in a $20 I think we're more likely to get random floats with a lot of range to a 3-bet than we are to force villain into a jam-or-fold situation.
My standard raise sizing would be 20,000 here OOP but it is close to 40% effective stack. So it is a jam for me.
How many participants were there, like 100? It’s like a sng then. Good to know
Cant go wrong with a shove there. Going for non-ai 3bet is probably fine too, given that table avg is pretty high so there isnt as much ICM pressure against us. Here 4 screenshots of different 8max final tables with similar stack on SB facing an open from larger stack on CO. Just to get a better idea about the ranges being used.
I would just shove my entire range to keep things simple. Keep in mind if we have small 3B range, we have to remember what the ranges are depending on the stack sizes/other factors, then we have to be prepared to play well on the flop too with a shallow SPR. There's better ways to use our brain power imo.
