2 hands- $400 live mtt- big field
Hey all, have two hands I want to ask about. I feel both are simple.
H1- bullet 1 of a multi flight big gun $400 circuit event. I’ve had a bad day- take 30k stack down to 6k and run it up to 80k luckily. We are mid stages with maybe 50% of field left? I have say 20bb- cut off is an older southern wsop circuit regular (I’m guessing) so I put him as tighter and prolly a meh poker player. He opens to 2.5x and sb flats who is another older guy that is kinda splashy but prolly on tighter side. I have K5ss and elect to jam. Feel it’s a nice spot to pick up 5 bb uncontested as we only
Need to get through cu to work most of the time.
Cu folds and sb balls with AJo and we lose haha. We flip a 5 but he turns an ace. Do you like the play? It’s high variance and prolly can be passed on but I think it’s a good spot to increase our stack by 25%-30% when it works + our hand does ok against some calling hands so can’t be too bad. Would much K5o here and never going to flat this vs 2.5x and against 2 villains.
H2- we fire a 2nd bullet the next day. Again we have had start to day 30k goes to 20k and then we run hot mid to late stages and have 635k with 80ish left and 70 making day 2. Blind 25k level. Ep Asian aggro (I’m guessing who is 20s) opens to 50k on 1mill +, cu is a splashy meh player who can be solid aggro flats. I have. AKo on button and elect to make it 225k and run as a stop and go or call off to make my hand look stronger. I know this is prolly a jam but I feel the hand is face up as a jam.
Ep jams, cu folds, I snap and lose to 10-10. Do we just jam here? Was a bummer bc it was for like 1.3 mill prolly and chip
Leader for day 2 was 1.5-2mill with like $120k up top (300 buyins). Felt I have solid chance to make a run with a big stack on day 2 but such is poker. I think hand goes same was if I jam but just wondering what I do?
As played, flop was like J52. If he flats, I prolly cbet small and jam turn. Sometimes I will jam flop in this spot with AK as it’s a psb, or just go bet bet with an A or K on flop.
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H1 -- Did you have K5s or K5o -- a bit confused between second and third paragraphs. I think you had K5ss. If so, I flat against CU and SB. If it's K5o: fold>jam>call. But need to know V's stacks to know if jam is viable. If we have similar stacks, then it is viable (although I still mostly fold).
H2 -- gg. I think it's fine as a 3-bet/call or a jam. But very similar happened to me at $1100 two day over the weekend. I was table chip leader (about 90 bbs) and running super well at a soft table so I regret it, even though it was probably a solver approved play. UTG splashy player raised 2.5 bbs, LJ calls, CO calls, and I look down at AKo from BU. I make it 16 bbs (probably too big, or I should have jammed), and UTG mucks, LJ jams with around 85 bbs. I snap and lose to 99. As I said, my play was probably theoretically correct. But the table was so soft, I should not have taken such a high-variance spot. (This was offset some by the fact each day one chip leader received $5000k).
H1 was K5s. I just feel it plays well as a jam bc we pick up dead money when cu folds often. I don’t like flat vs 2 villian bc we rarely
Get chips in on Kxx where we are good. Basically when we bet and they fold, they have no Kx and when we bet or they bet and we have to call, it’s blah.
I’m more a fan of calling K5ss if cutoff opened and we defend in bb against only 1 villian. I feel sb flatting makes realizing our equity very difficult.
Wanna say sb and cu had 40-50ish bbs. I was def effective stack in the hand.
H2- I just wonder if I should just stick it in pre bc it’s odd if we somehow get post. Like I’m going with a pure bluff on flop if we don’t see a K or A. My hand is repped super hard and plays well as a cbet then jam on turn but sticky players aren’t folding- their range is strong also flatting a 3! There. Villian jammed though which I thought was iffy- I feel my range is AQ+ JJ+ there with maybe 1 or 2 combos or spewy 3! Folds. Maybe more knowing me bc squeeze spot was so good.
Idk if I like jamming 10-10 there to a 3! Bc my 3! Range is like JJ+ a lot. I think I eliminate a lot of 3! Folds also bc my stack is 25bbs so it crushes my stack when I have to fold to a 4! Or see streets.
Btw wow on hand you stated. Getting in 80bb with 99 seems terrible. Best case is a flip. Hmm 16bb seems too much (all personal preference though- going too big is much better than going too small in this case like say to 7.5-8 bb). I feel 11-15bb is better there and gives room to maneuver post with some bluffs when it comes Qxx or Jxx.
H1 - I think K5s is a little light for this move. Solver does it with low suited aces but never with suited kings, I think because we want to block AA. Even tight players can wake up with hands. I wouldn't do it.
H2 - totally standard I think, no way to avoid losing it all with under 30 BBs.
H1: We have the right amount of chips to jam pre-flop but not a hand I like doing it with. K5s is not in my 3-bet range especially in the BB. I would call here (because its not that much more) and see what happens on the flop. We can c/r jam the flop with a flush draw, two pair, or even the one pair we ended up with if there are no A/Q/J/T on the flop. Though the CO can have a wide range including SC's. We also get to see if the SB c/r the flop so we can get out cheaply. Aside from AJ+/99+ strong hands I do like 3-betting with some AXs hands (like A4s/A5s/A6s and ATs) especially because as LifeNitFL said, we block strong Ax hands.
H2: We have about 26 bb's and normally with 2 callers when I'm on the BTN I would make it 12.5 bb's, after the opening raise of 2.5 bb's, or 310k which would be close to 50% effective stack so its a jam for me. Whatever hand I'm 3-betting with here. If you do it this way your hand won't be face up. Your 3-bet for 225k was over 35% effective stack so its basically pot committing anyway.
The way you describe Villain here means he is unlikely to open EP and then fold to a jam anyway. Maybe he would fold AJ/KQ. But definitely not AQ. And yes he will call with most PP as well but given the 2 callers its a break even EV spot if he has a pair (except for AA/KK).
I'm assuming Day 2 is not in the money in a circuit event so I like the jam.
