$22 NLHE MTT: Cold called by BB late in 7K GTD

Winning Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tournament, 3,000/6,000 Blinds (8 handed) - Winning Poker Converter Tool from http://www.flopturnriver.com

UTG (t103,843)
UTG+1 (t78,816)
MP1 (t415,500)
MP2 (t49,172)
CO (t332,838)
Hero (Button) (t155,328)
SB (t90,219)
BB (t217,041)

Hero's M: 17.26

Preflop: Hero is Button with J♠, J♦
4 folds, CO calls t6,000, Hero raises t17,555, 1 fold, BB calls t11,555, 1 fold

Flop: (t44,110) 6♠, 6♦, 5♦ (2 players)
BB bets t22,360, Hero ...

I satellited into the 7K GTD tournament on ACR for 2$ and I am 8th of 16 players left. Guaranteed 66$ so far. Not too many reads on the table so far, except that CO is limping somewhat often and BB is playing 25/11.

I didn't really want to just ship 25BB, maybe if I had a little under 20BB I could. I could raise bigger, but I don't think it makes too big of a difference. When BB calls, I'm putting them on some medium suited connectors, 22-TT, and some suited aces. Just wondering what I should be doing with my hand here after they donk this flop. Raise/fold? Shove?

I ran Equilab and I have 38% equity against all hands with a 6 or connected diamonds (didn't include flopped FH or quads). Haven't been this deep in this big of a tournament, I think I'm just over thinking it. Thanks a lot.

With this hand we dont can fold in this flop to me Call could be fine in order to maintain his range wide, or shove to protect our hand of overcards and draws.

Villain never has 55 or 6x here, flat call.

trent32la said:

Villain never has 55 or 6x here, flat call.

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I always have a hard time deciding on flatting to maintain V's bluffs and raising for protection. I feel like flatting is best if you're deep enough to be able to fold if he hits a flush/straight/Overcard. Do you think the value you lose by raising his flop bet is too high here? Would you shove if we were shorter?

If I were any shorter (~15BB) I would have probably just shoved preflop since some players will limp call with smaller pairs. Depending on the player, I think raising the donk bet can make you lose value from worse pairs but I think they call to see a turn with flush draws. Maybe a player will call the raise and then shove the turn as a bluff if they have a flush. But I think this thinking is just too fancy. I think Shove looks somewhat drawy, and maybe villain will call with some pairs or draws. Raise/fold is probably bad because we are ahead of flush draws which the player may reraise with and we have the Jd.

I think what I should have considered is what a player would do with a flush draw in this situation, and I think they would probably check raise. So I think I like shoving here.

Result: I minraised, villain (pretty quickly) shoved, I called. Villain had 69o. Turn Diamond for a J high flush draw, river bricked.

Calling pre like that with 69o?! You sure you didn't mean $0.22 buy in?

I would of also put stack into consideration as well as his play preflop.

His stack shows he is CL at the table, his play indicates he had middle ranged cards probably pair 7s, 8s or 9s.... otherwise he wouldve 3-betted more than likely.


When he raises this, after taking all things into consideration, you could range his cards to an A5 or whatnot as well, but Id of said it was a bully raise to try and consolidate his CL at the table.


Maybe my analysis of it is wrong to others, but I am fairly new when it comes to analyzing.

BB call 11k raise with 69o and he have one limper to act after him?? $22 bayin tour? This is a joke wright?

Shove all day and twice on Sunday.

You should clearly shove this flop. I completely understand where you are coming from because you were in a bigger tourney then your used to and also very deep so the anxiety of busting becomes higher. You should definitely come over the top of the donk bet most times this is weak holdings trying to buy the pot. Is it possible to run into a bigger hand or get called and sucked out on absolutely but if he had a boat, or 3 of a kind here he would want check it to the opener hoping for you to Cbet and go for max value, what hands can he expect you to call with when he has a monster like that and donks the flop. Its good your thinking about your opponents range but dont overthink and level yourself. Good Luck and congrats on the rungood

Easy call. Turn call normal size too.