re: Poker & $12 NLHE MTT Bounty: What's the right play in this spot?
Im going to disagree with Collin Moshman here which means I am probably wrong, lol, but wanted to give my opinion on the hand. I don't like 3 betting pre on either occasion we have the chance to. In a normal tournament I get 3 betting the first time around as long as you are going against opponents you think will fold. Also, your 3 bet would have to bigger than you think for that to happen. Now put us in a bounty tournament where the raiser and the caller have us covered and we have a decent bounty on our head and I just think we are not getting enough folds here to put in a raise. Also considering what I just mentioned we are not getting away with raising to 12BB here and getting folds, we would really have to go large and if we get called, a big chunk of our stack is in and we would be out of position. We would have to play the hand being non flop dependent and basically firing away no matter what comes down. I really dont like playing like that. I want the BB in this hand since that is the only bounty I can win so I like set mining here and just calling first time around and also second time around. Both villains will call us light if we raise and by light I dont mean A8 and A7 which I would want to have call but I mean A10 and broadway hands that are flipping with us. I dont want to be flipping with this size stack. Just call here, hope big blind is in the hand and go from there. Even if we lose the total 9.3 BB we still have a very good stack where bounties can be had later on. I know that is a passive way of playing but imo you have to invite players in the pot that you can win their bounties and also know others will be calling you more than you think to win your bounty.
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