[UNREGULAR] A hand in student MTT hosted by a Quant Firm
（Notice: the rule for this MTT is slightly different from regular one like WSOP）
After struggled in the previous round, I ranked middle among all (100 people). There is only one round ahead, and **only the 8 people **with best score (not chips) will advance to FT. In each round (TURBO, ~40 hands. 2 round in total before FT), players who lost will be given a ranking score. In 9-max, the score is: 25, 20, 16, 13, 10, 7, 4, 2, 0. If at the end of the round, more than 1 person alive, they will divide the rest score with ICM (approximately).
TLDR: You need to be the only one person alive among this table. Otherwise, you have no chance to go to FT.
Now it is 20/40/40 (SB, BB, BB ante). You are HJ in the 7-person table. Each person has 2000 chips = 50BB. You have no advance knowledge about opponents.
Hero have AcAs.
All fold. Hero raise 2.5BB. BTN call, BB raise to 5.7BB.
Hero min raise to 10.5BB, just wish to play postflop and double up. BB call.
Flop Ks7c4d. BB donk 8BB. Hero call for slow play.
Turn 2h. BB check. Hero raise 12BB, BB call.
River Kd. BB check. What should Hero do?
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What are these student MTTs? Do you pay for some course?
4! size too small. Flop call maybe OK. Turn size too small. Too afraid he will fold when you have AA.
This is a MTT hosted by a Quant Firm (QRT). **Many students who love poker is invited**. No entrance fee is needed. However, there may be some potential offers (maybe?) or opportunities for skipping written examination (maybe?). Also, the overall winner will be posted and be given some big prize (like Ipad).
After all, the goal for this hand is bolded. **You need to maximize the chance of being the only one person alive among this table. **
Effective stack on the river is about 20 bb's and the pot size is 60 bb's so we can't bet fold which would normally be an option. Either we jam or we check back. I probably check back since Villain donked the flop. If we are ahead I don't see how Villain calls a river bet.
If flop bet was larger like 2.5x or 14.2 bb's we get into a much better position to jam the turn. Or check it back on the turn as there are no flush draws and we can always jam the river which would make it look like we could be bluffing and that we don't have AA/KK/AK). In this case though with the K on the river Villain may lead out and it would be a tough decision especially if it is a jam.
Now if Villain has AK we may lose the hand when Villain calls the turn jam, but at least we get it in good.
I’m not sure that the rules and the fact that you must win the tourney matter much here otr. When betting the river you do so for one of two reasons - to get a better hand to fold or to get a lesser hand to call. The king pairing kind of destroyed both of those reasons. If villain took this line with Kx, most likely AK, but maybe KQ or even KJ, he certainly isn’t folding. If he had something like QQ or JJ it’s hard to see him calling a river bet. Not sure what else calls the 4 bet pre, donks the flop and then continues on the turn.
I am just finding it tough to find any lesser hands that call here and you certainly aren’t getting any folds from better. I don’t care what rules are in place — this just is not a good spot to bet the river.
