PKO - 7 players at the table. About 60 players left in the tournament.
Seat 1: Villain (243244 in chips)
Seat 2: Hero (981055 in chips)
Antes poste. Everyone folded to the Villain in the small blind...
Villain: posts small blind 6000
Hero: posts big blind 12000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [Kh Qd]
Villain: calls 6000
Hero: raises 24000 to 36000
Villain: raises 205684 to 241684 and is all-in
What should I have done? Call? Fold? Was my raise enough?
Thank You for Posting.
Here on Cardschat is Dara O'kearney the author of a PKO strategy book. Look up his thread and ask him a question about PKO's. Better yet make sure you buy his book- it is less than the cost of the entry to this tournament.
So the number 1 PKO strategy is to get a shorter stack all-in so we can get their bounty.
It is what we should be looking to do right up until the Final Table.
So we are very happy when the SB limps. Has this happened before has this player been playing a wider range weakly?
The SB has 20BB why no open raise? The SB knows their bounty is in jeopardy yet they do not raise fold from SB they limp shove. Why?
Should they be expecting us to fold? (NO)
Why? This is a bounty tournament small stacks should anticipate us calling. Even more our raise was not trying to get them to fold we are trying to build the pot to get stacks in so unless the V is really weak they should have a very premium range here.
However, for some players 22+AT+ is strong enough to shove.
Do you have Equilab? It is free, use it to work out the math on making this call.
So you ask if your raise was enough? That question suggests that you wanted your V to play to call and lose or fold. But we do not want folds here and at 20BB V can limp shove easily. We need to know that before we raise and have some idea about their range before they act so we can play our KQ correctly.
Hope this Helps