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ninoverm
Rock Star
Silver Level
Two tables left in a 180 man S&G, pretty decent chip stack at this point. Couple of interesting decisions this hand, especially the river spot.
To touch on the pre-flop action: I was in a pretty good spot at this stage of the tournament and saw no reason to get out of line against a UTG open from a bigger stack. AQo is a somewhat okay hand to get to a flop with multi-way and my hand is pretty under-repped, also considering the insane pot odds I was getting in the big blind.
SB was a pretty weird and fishy player, as proven by his minbet on the turn. Hitting two pair I thought raising was definitely the fine play here. If his bet was a bit larger I might have considered calling. Not sure.
River is the pretty annoying 8s. BTN has 7.1K left behind at this point, with the pot being 13.8K. I naturally clicked check, but basically regretted it almost instantly. The thing is: I was gonna check-call (maybe you can put up an argument for check-folding, but yeah) and I'm pretty sure ALL better hands will value shove this river after being checked to. In this case, KJ and flushes are the only better hands in his range. Both should be shoving.
Meanwhile, all worse hands will check back. BUT I think some of those worse hands will also call the river. AT, A8s, maybe if he flatted AK pre. So I'm missing value against those hands - and against better hands I'm basically losing the same, because I was gonna check-call shoves.
Do you think my thinking is correct here? Is shoving a better play in the long run over checking? Or maybe someone can come up with a creative small blocking bet? Would be interested in what you think.
poker stars $0.91+$0.09 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t300/t600 Blinds + t50 - 8 players
UTG+1: t40132 M = 30.87
MP1: t15427 M = 11.87
MP2: t4426 M = 3.40
CO: t21258 M = 16.35
BTN: t12314 M = 9.47
SB: t12370 M = 9.52
Hero (BB): t22685 M = 17.45
UTG: t36887 M = 28.37
Pre Flop: (t1300) Hero is BB with Q :club: A :diamond:
UTG raises to t1320, 4 folds, BTN calls t1320, SB calls t1020, Hero calls t720
Flop: (t5680) 3 :club: T :heart: Q :spade: (4 players)
SB checks, Hero checks, UTG checks, BTN checks
Turn: (t5680) A :spade: (4 players)
SB bets t600, Hero raises to t3765, UTG folds, BTN calls t3765, SB folds
River: (t13810) 8 :spade: (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN checks
To touch on the pre-flop action: I was in a pretty good spot at this stage of the tournament and saw no reason to get out of line against a UTG open from a bigger stack. AQo is a somewhat okay hand to get to a flop with multi-way and my hand is pretty under-repped, also considering the insane pot odds I was getting in the big blind.
SB was a pretty weird and fishy player, as proven by his minbet on the turn. Hitting two pair I thought raising was definitely the fine play here. If his bet was a bit larger I might have considered calling. Not sure.
River is the pretty annoying 8s. BTN has 7.1K left behind at this point, with the pot being 13.8K. I naturally clicked check, but basically regretted it almost instantly. The thing is: I was gonna check-call (maybe you can put up an argument for check-folding, but yeah) and I'm pretty sure ALL better hands will value shove this river after being checked to. In this case, KJ and flushes are the only better hands in his range. Both should be shoving.
Meanwhile, all worse hands will check back. BUT I think some of those worse hands will also call the river. AT, A8s, maybe if he flatted AK pre. So I'm missing value against those hands - and against better hands I'm basically losing the same, because I was gonna check-call shoves.
Do you think my thinking is correct here? Is shoving a better play in the long run over checking? Or maybe someone can come up with a creative small blocking bet? Would be interested in what you think.
poker stars $0.91+$0.09 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t300/t600 Blinds + t50 - 8 players
UTG+1: t40132 M = 30.87
MP1: t15427 M = 11.87
MP2: t4426 M = 3.40
CO: t21258 M = 16.35
BTN: t12314 M = 9.47
SB: t12370 M = 9.52
Hero (BB): t22685 M = 17.45
UTG: t36887 M = 28.37
Pre Flop: (t1300) Hero is BB with Q :club: A :diamond:
UTG raises to t1320, 4 folds, BTN calls t1320, SB calls t1020, Hero calls t720
Flop: (t5680) 3 :club: T :heart: Q :spade: (4 players)
SB checks, Hero checks, UTG checks, BTN checks
Turn: (t5680) A :spade: (4 players)
SB bets t600, Hero raises to t3765, UTG folds, BTN calls t3765, SB folds
River: (t13810) 8 :spade: (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN checks