I had A10 on the cutoff. Blinds were $100/$50 tourney 6max. I raised preflop to $400. TAG calls from late position and REC player calls from the button. Flops comes out 510Ace (Rainbow). I bet about half the pot. TAG folds and REC calls. Turn comes 6 . At this point I bet 3/4 of the pot and REC shoves. With about a little less than $900 left I called. I was ahead. The villain had 79suited. River comes out with 8. The villain won with a straight. Should I have checked the turn or continued to be the aggressor? The REC player had been making some loose plays throughout the tourney...
Your betting turn was fine-your call off fine as well-A rec player got lucky that is all
However your bet sizing on all streets could be more refined- Your stack size was-400pre +600 flop +1800 turn+900= 3700 ish? so sub 40bb
Preflop in tournaments in late position 4x sizing is not standard- 2.5x is standard 3x is large for our stack size- Why no 4x ? We are condensing our V's ranges when they call and building a larger pot that we have to put more of our stack in jeopardy in order to
bluff post flop and our V can put more all-in pressure on us post flop if we make a marginal hand
Stack protecting is part of tournament strategy we try not to build big pots until we have strong hands
we 4x exploit sizing when expecting to be called but we use top of range which AT is not part of
Flop- This is a very good flop for us vs even 2 Villains- There are so few draws and our bet sizing preflop has condensed V float ranges so we can expect lots of folds so we can bet smaller here to get more calls -standard would be 33% of pot- 50% of pot is mostly targeting other Ax hands- which is too narrow a range- In multiway pots the smaller size is showing strength as we are betting into two players
Turn pot is now 2400 we have a stack of - 2700- When we bet 1800 we leave behind 900 and the pot is 4200 -1800 is an all-in bet as we are never folding- so just bet 2700
our flop bet was targeting mostly AX hands- of which AJ AQ are in the BB call range -we want to be thinking about what would call 1800 but fold to 2700- if it is the same hands that call both bets and fold to both bets then we bet all-in-
If we think 99 called flop or KJ or QJ JT QT etc they all fold to 1800 (vs a standard player) so again 2700 becomes the bet vs 1800
If you want those calls then you would bet 50% pot not 75% to get more calls
We want to be thinking about what range of hands are our bets targeting-not just we are strong we bet strong and we want to be aware of our stack size in relation to the pot size-SPR is Stack to Pot Ratio- you can study it for free just google it
Using a standard sizing strategy -you bet 3x preflop 33% flop 50% turn trying to get max value from worse hands- The EV of this line vs yours is higher overall
This strategy does not change for this REC player as the result of this hand would be the same but we get more value in other spots- the difference is you would be calling a larger turn shove by the REC player because we would not fold turn to the shove vs this player type and they will be shoving because my guess is they had a combo draw on the turn the 6 most likely two flushed the board and it may have given them some kind of gutty straight flush draw. If the 5 or T was the same suit as the six and the 8 of that suit is a straight flush-which is why the REC shoved ---or not they just might be that bad
Getting all in was fine and posting this hand to refine your strategies is how we all get better
Thank you for sharing I hope you win more of these spots then lose them💰🤑
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