Hi people! I want to share this hand I played in a $3.30 tournament, this is the final table.
I would like to know if I did the right moves, I think it was a ''cooler'' hand.
https://www.cardschat.com/replayer/724G5Ws9Z
Yea, it's a bit of a tough break, you kind of get caught in no man's land by playing this hand as if it was during the normal stages of play rather than a FT...
Your only two real chances of getting away are preflop and on the flop.
Fundiver made some good points as to the main things you've missed while playing this hand..
ICM and stack sizes at the FT...
When we have middling stack we ideally want to avoid going up against opponents who have us covered if possible, and when we
do go up against a covering stack, we're loathe to go all-in with less than the nuts..
Generally speaking, personally, when I defend wide like this- I'm looking to make two pair or better
on the flop, or at the very least an inside straight/flush draw.
Continuing when we've defended wide preflop with bottom or middle pair on a wet flop is a risky play, considering we can
already be dead to runner-runner and catching the turn can doom us, as demonstrated in this example.
If once you make the 2p you switch to check-call rather than check-shove, there's a chance he worries you'll fold to the river all-in and puts out a smaller value river bet instead of shoving. If you call instead of raise that river bet then, whilst your stack is crippled, you're still
alive.
The threat of the set is a tricky nuance to factor.
The other part of my brain thinks with how wide people are defending the BB these days and suited, connected cards facing what (if I remember correctly) was barely a min raise- It's a bit of a cooler. You even have a blocker to 88, LOL.
To conclude:
Usually I would argue this is a cooler/setup hand and and there was little to be done, but in a FT environment I think we have to play with added caution when heads up against bigger stacks, especially when there's a good few smaller stacks left.
When we make a hand that we can't fold in situations like this, look to get to showdown rather than getting it all-in asap.
Nice one for posting the hand, it was a brutal spot for you, but very interesting one with important considerations- thank you.
#BLNT!