$5.50 NLHE MTT: $5.50 MTT Big Fish few time before the bubble

[whiskers77]

888 Poker - 800/1600 Ante 200 NL - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (CO): 17.86 BB
BTN: 24.95 BB (VPIP: 31.25, PFR: 25.00, 3Bet Preflop: 33.33, hands: 16)
SB: 15.68 BB (VPIP: 12.82, PFR: 7.69, 3Bet Preflop: 7.14, Hands: 39)
BB: 18.16 BB (VPIP: 20.51, PFR: 18.42, 3Bet Preflop: 18.18, Hands: 39)
UTG: 18.19 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: -, Hands: 5)
UTG+1: 21.26 BB (VPIP: 15.38, PFR: 7.69, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 13)
MP: 69.91 BB (VPIP: 60.53, PFR: 15.79, 3Bet Preflop: 10.00, Hands: 39)
MP+1: 21.31 BB (VPIP: 2.56, PFR: 2.56, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 39)
MP+2: 4.09 BB (VPIP: 20.00, PFR: 10.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 10)

9 players post ante of 0.13 BB, SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2.62 BB) Hero has 9♥ 9♠

fold, fold, fold, fold, MP+2 raises to 3.96 BB and is all-in, Hero raises to 17.73 BB and is all-in, fold, SB calls 15.05 BB and is all-in, fold

Flop: (37.19 BB, 3 players) 6♦ K♦ J♠

Turn: (37.19 BB, 3 players) 2♠


River: (37.19 BB, 3 players) 8♦


How would you have played this hand in this situation?

 

[trent32la]

This hand was only posted because you lost the hand, 99 is a very easy reshove here vs a 4bb shove and you should be reshoving hands worse than 99 as well.

 

[whiskers77]

This hand was only posted because you lost the hand, 99 is a very easy reshove here vs a 4bb shove and you should be reshoving hands worse than 99 as well.

Yes, I was reshoving it. But I am not sure, if it was the correct move short before the money,
because there were players behind me, who had nearly same stack like me or even more and it was not so far till the money.

 

[jrx1908]

I would play the same way

 

[BnaD]

Flatting the shove and folding to a jam. These stats are saying the SB is playing super tight right? Easy fold.

 

[formertroll]

i'd flat call if i was playing it, but i'd assume that the next guy will call with most anything so he can take the risk for me if i want to fold instead. if we both called i'd be check/folding to the high cards

 

[toots babos]

nice hand, well played

 

[kratos]

Well ,pocket's nines ;difficult situation here.I think that you had the right decision.I'd do the same;maybe shove pre flop too.

 

[alienat3d]

Well in theory of tournament poker and mathematically seen it was totally right move. Which i probably wouldn't make and this is because of the Bubble Time. I mean if we fold this and wait few hands more, we are safe in the money. You could say to me, "you are damn nit, the proper way is playing for the FT and 1st place, where the most money are!". I agree with you partly it's a good strategy, when you are grinding MTTs a lot, playing huge amount of them and can beat variance by this. However if you are up to building up your bankroll, playing on more casual basis and maybe even won a ticket for this Tournament from a Satellite, i would first cash at least min. payout and then play my normal game ITM. Yes maybe i'm loosing by this some of good opportunities on bubble, but that way i'm safe to keep growing my BR further.
And here is a screenshot from ICMzer, btw it says you can shove with a small +EV starting with 88+ in this situation. Of course it's a little rough calculations, as i didn't considered amount of players left in a tournament, stacks difference, payout structure and such stuff. As i have no access to a screenshot, from lobby of those tournament.

 

[whiskers77]

Thanks a lot guys for your opinions. So to sum it up, it was not worst move by math. My thought was also to isolate this guy before me. But it also could have been played different to reach the money.

 

[Ambur]

I mean if we fold this and wait few hands more, we are safe in the money.

Are you basically saying that we should fold pocket 9s in this situation ?

 

[Nathan Smith]

Flatting the shove and folding to a jam. These stats are saying the SB is playing super tight right? Easy fold.

If the SB is super tight that is more reason to re-jam.

 

[Nathan Smith]

Well played. You have to do this to win tournaments.

 

[Viper ChipIt]

Unless the opening raiser was a rock I'd be shoving there aswell, if someone wakes up with a better pair its just a cooler.