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KDS63
Rock Star
Silver Level
Haven't posted in a while - the first of the semester is always a bit hectic.
So here's something I've been gnawing on for a while - I know what a few of the poker books say on the subject, but I'd like to get some feedback from players in the online poker community because I suspect not everyone reads poker books and certainly not everyone uses the strategies suggested in the books.
So, you're in a MTT (generally FR or low-buy-in for me) - let's say it's past the all-in with A-crap donkey stage -- sometime after the first break.
Player A is short-stacked and goes all-in, and 2 additional players (B and C) call, but there is no side pot pre-flop.
The flop comes and hits neither player B or C, or at best one of them makes third or 2nd pair or a flush/str8 draw.
At what point in the tourney do you check it down unless you hit a big enough hand that you are fairly certain you can take out Player A?
Generally, if we are more than twice the bubble (say, 27 players get ITM, then if there are more than 54 players left), I might try to push the other non-short out to increase my chances of taking the pot. Inside the double-bubble number, I'll usually check it down unless I hit pretty well. Definitely inside the bubble I will do that to increase the odds of taking out the short player and making everyone else move up - it's simply good strategy.
Over the last few weeks I've folded to a bet by Player C (assuming I'm Player B) after the flop because it's obvious that he hit -- only to find that he has no pair and no draw and Player A then triples up. I want to get a sense of what folks think and how they play this situation because I'm obviously working on a bad assumption, at least a significant portion of the time.
So here's something I've been gnawing on for a while - I know what a few of the poker books say on the subject, but I'd like to get some feedback from players in the online poker community because I suspect not everyone reads poker books and certainly not everyone uses the strategies suggested in the books.
So, you're in a MTT (generally FR or low-buy-in for me) - let's say it's past the all-in with A-crap donkey stage -- sometime after the first break.
Player A is short-stacked and goes all-in, and 2 additional players (B and C) call, but there is no side pot pre-flop.
The flop comes and hits neither player B or C, or at best one of them makes third or 2nd pair or a flush/str8 draw.
At what point in the tourney do you check it down unless you hit a big enough hand that you are fairly certain you can take out Player A?
Generally, if we are more than twice the bubble (say, 27 players get ITM, then if there are more than 54 players left), I might try to push the other non-short out to increase my chances of taking the pot. Inside the double-bubble number, I'll usually check it down unless I hit pretty well. Definitely inside the bubble I will do that to increase the odds of taking out the short player and making everyone else move up - it's simply good strategy.
Over the last few weeks I've folded to a bet by Player C (assuming I'm Player B) after the flop because it's obvious that he hit -- only to find that he has no pair and no draw and Player A then triples up. I want to get a sense of what folks think and how they play this situation because I'm obviously working on a bad assumption, at least a significant portion of the time.