$3.50 NLHE MTT Turbo: KJs final table early position play

[luciusyg]

Hi Guys,
This hand happened at the final table of the 18men MTT. I'm wondering if I should have even played this hand cause I'm at an early position.

Villain has a Vpip 11, PFR 11, Agg 50

Cheers,



poker stars $3.16+$0.34 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t150/t300 Blinds + t25 - 9 players

Hero (UTG+2): t1510 M = 2.24
MP1: t4145 M = 6.14
MP2: t2690 M = 3.99
CO: t2260 M = 3.35
BTN: t2721 M = 4.03
SB: t5231 M = 7.75
BB: t3064 M = 4.54
UTG: t1766 M = 2.62
UTG+1: t3613 M = 5.35

Pre Flop: (t675) Hero is UTG+2 with Ks Qs
2 folds, Hero raises to t700, MP1 raises to t4120 all in, 5 folds, Hero calls t785 all in

Flop: (t3645) 4s 4h 2s (2 players - 2 are all in)

Turn: (t3645) 2c (2 players - 2 are all in)

River: (t3645) Jc (2 players - 2 are all in)

 

[BigThingWithHolesInIt]

Just open-shove, you have 5 BBs. You're wasting lots of fold equity the way you opened, and it wasn't much to begin with.

You can't fold this hand this shortstacked, it's actually way up in the range that people will put you on. Hence your open shove will sometimes get called with worse. It helps your fold equity that no one has a real dominating stack.

I suspect you might have missed a bunch of earlier opportunities to pick up blinds by open-raising in position. In turbo's this becomes very important very quickly.

 

[luciusyg]

Thanks! I will be more aggressive haha

 

[ben_rhyno]

Yep exactly what BigThing said, this is a standard shove from any position with 5BB's and M of 2, unless the UTG player was all in next hand and it was on the bubble