$140 NLHE MTT: MTT late game shove consideration

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Late stage live MTT
No. of players remaining: 52
Average stack: 20BB

Payout Structure is similar to 600-801 players scale in below linkhttp://www.pokerworld.com/poker-tournaments/tournaments-payout.asp

Rank: payout
31-40: 0.35%
41-50: 0.3%
51-60: 0.25%
61-70: 0.2%

Villain is SB with 29 BB, TAG
Hero is MP with 31 BB, TAG

Everyone folds to me and I raised with AKo to 2.5BB
SB re-raised to 7.5BB

I did consider fold here given his image but he was showing some weaknesses after 3-bet so I shoved pre-flop, hoping he would snug fold there but to my surprise he called without much hesitation.

Now looking back I think flat-calling is probably more flexible
as I have the position and does not need to (almost) risk my tourney life.
Appreciate if you have any advice based on the payout structure, would 4bet 15BB make sense here?
 
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Hi quant, I never played live poker so far, and I am still far away from such BI's, but what I think from my point of view with the circumstances described - both actions - 4 bet and flat call are workable depending of what you are chasing in this particular hand.
So, you chased him to fold preflop - and you acted in a correct way upon me :top:
Flat calling will give you an opportunity to see if you match a connection to the flop with your whole cards - so there would be a chance for post flop aggression and in some situations also double barelling :)
 
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b/c preflop makes sense to me. Imo
 
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You can go both ways here. If he is passive and you can realize your equity, you can call. You are in the money, that's why he snapped you off. You are supposed to try to make it to final table or loose. You have AK, shove it all in and don't worry about it. You will have a nice equity against his calling range if he calls
 
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Thanks all. Villain showed 55 at the end.
 
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I am more of a cash game player and in a cash game I call and see the flop in position. What kind of range 3-bets in this situation? Pairs? AKs, AQs? lower suited connectors? Hero is way behind AA, KK and flipping QQ and below, and 70/30 to the rest. Given you hold the AK there are only 3 combos of AA and KK, There are many more combos of Hero is ahead of and some flips that will fold. I shove.

I wasn't surprised to see Villain call with 55. I would have put Hero's shove range at big pairs, AKs and AQs. With 6 combos of the pairs and 4 combos of AKs and AQs. Villain knows she is behind but is calling 21.5BB to win 58BB.
 
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I think a shove here is the right play considering the amount of combinations villain is calling a shove with, plus hero blocks AA/KK and is flipping/dominating rest of the range. Keeping in mind villain may think you're just making a standard button raise, there is also quite some times villain will fold to a shove making this move even more +EV.
 
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I am more of a cash game player and in a cash game I call and see the flop in position. What kind of range 3-bets in this situation? Pairs? AKs, AQs? lower suited connectors? Hero is way behind AA, KK and flipping QQ and below, and 70/30 to the rest. Given you hold the AK there are only 3 combos of AA and KK, There are many more combos of Hero is ahead of and some flips that will fold. I shove.

I wasn't surprised to see Villain call with 55. I would have put Hero's shove range at big pairs, AKs and AQs. With 6 combos of the pairs and 4 combos of AKs and AQs. Villain knows she is behind but is calling 21.5BB to win 58BB.
Can see your point, 55 vs QQ+,AQs+ ~ 29% vs 71% equity,
negative EV call but not very terrible
 
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