No you did not insult me, your post came across as a bit condescending I am guessing now it was not your intention. I have not seen anyone breakdown a comment here like that and also there were other posts in this thread saying similar things to what I said and you only singled mine out. Anyways no biggie.
Was certainly not my intention. I felt your post was detailed enough to break down and only did so to help you and others. Will break down your post here and give my opinion of what I think.
Explanation for why I disagree comes down to the answer to a simple question:
Would you call a 50 bb shove preflop of a person that shoved into 5 players? If yes then you should shove if no then you cannot shove.
Very, very rarely would I do so. However in poker it's not about how you view the lines you take, it's about how your opponent's will. The majority of your opponents in a $0.55 KO tournament are not going to be thinking like that.
This is level 7 into a tournament which is about more than 40 minutes into the tournament so a lot of the loose gamblers are already out. Need to make full use of AA you only get them ever so often. We don't cover anyone so we can gain no bounties right now so our goal should be to chip up.
I still think plenty of loose gamblers are still in the field. Assuming the starting stack was 5k in this, a starting stack is still worth 50-60bbs, that's on the larger side for MTTs in general. This is also a $0.55 MTT, so there will be a lot more punters in this field compared to a $22 MTT, for example. The fact that we don't cover anyone makes me more likely to rip AA in here. If players can win a bounty by calling off, they are more likely to call off wider than if they did not cover us.
Position will not matter post flop we already have the betting lead and first to act on all streets with the intention of barrelling on all. We want to take the flop multi ways top pair isn't folding, middle pair isn't folding draws are not folding. Yes our chances of winning the pot may decrease sometimes but we will give our self a chance to win more chips this way. AA is not the hardest hand to play post flop.
This I certainly agree with, we can't be worried about 3+ people limp calling and a terrible flop coming, especially when players in these games are sticky with a made hand.
Preflop by not shoving we give a medium strength hand the opportunity to shove to isolate or call. Hands like 88 and A10 may not call a shove but they might shove a small raise to isolate for our bounty.
This is where I completely disagree. You need to think at the level of the average player in this tourney. If they have a medium strength hand like 88/AT, they aren't going to limp/shove on us if we make a standard iso raise here, they are going to limp call and want to see a flop. If we jam AA in here, some may put us on AK or a random spaz and call it off knowing they can win a bounty right there. There's also the chance one of the limpers makes a light call.
With regards to the light squeeze play it is something I would do and I am sure there are others that will as well. I only referenced it to show that other players at the table might view it as a light squeeze and may come over the top.
You are clearly thinking on a higher level than the average player in this tournament. In the later stages, a light squeeze here will be much more effective than in the early stages with rather deep stacks. From my experience, rarely ever will players read an SB squeeze as light and limp/shove. They don't want to let go of their hand, however they don't want to put their stack at risk, so they will limp/call.
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