PokerStars Hand #186820813575: Tournament #2313933667, $0.91+$0.09 USD Hold’em No Limit – Level XV (1000/2000) – 2018/05/25 0:02:49 EET [2018/05/24 17:02:49 ET]
Table ‘2313933667 3’ 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 2: rustyrst01(Hero) (81518 in chips)
Seat 5: FINTOR666(Villain) (117121 in chips)
Seat 8: REKIT BLR(fish) (71361 in chips)
rustyrst01: posts the ante 200
FINTOR666: posts the ante 200
REKIT BLR: posts the ante 200
FINTOR666: posts small blind 1000
REKIT BLR: posts big blind 2000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to rustyrst01 [Ad Qh]
rustyrst01: raises 2180 to 4180
FINTOR666: raises 6270 to 10450
REKIT BLR: folds
rustyrst01: calls 6270
*** FLOP *** [Qc Ts Qs]
FINTOR666: checks
rustyrst01: bets 10888
FINTOR666: raises 95583 to 106471 and is all-in
rustyrst01: calls 59980 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (35603) returned to FINTOR666
*** TURN *** [Qc Ts Qs] [5s]
*** RIVER *** [Qc Ts Qs 5s] [Th]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
FINTOR666: shows [As Ks] (a flush, Ace high)
rustyrst01: shows [Ad Qh] (a full house, Queens full of Tens)
rustyrst01 collected 165236 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 165236 | Rake 0
Board [Qc Ts Qs 5s Th]
Seat 2: rustyrst01 (button) showed [Ad Qh] and won (165236) with a full house, Queens full of Tens
Seat 5: FINTOR666 (small blind) showed [As Ks] and lost with a flush, Ace high
Seat 8: REKIT BLR (big blind) folded before Flop

My thoughts on the hand:

V is pretty straight forward player, with stats (for 256 hands) : VPIP: 21 PFR: 17, 3b: 8.9, F to 3b: 38, 4b 20.0, Postflop Agg Factor 1.9

When V 3bets me preflop I putted him on a range of 88+, ATo+, A9s+, KQo, KJs+, maybe sometimes with QJs. A few hands ago, when we where 4-handed, i wanted to 4b him as a bluff. Me being on the button, and he called my raise. On an A high flop he check-shoved. If then I was chipleader, now I’m the second stack and I don’t want to be called for my life in the tourney. Keep in mind that the BB is a pretty much a fish. If I 4b shove him preflop I think that he would have called me only with AQ+, TT+(maybe JJ+) and folded anything else. I think that my hand is a little to strong to fold preflop, so i decide to only call to keep his weak range in play. I have pot odds of 2.75:1 and I can definitely outplay him on the flop.

I got pretty lucky on the flop, flopping trips. V decided to check, which looks a little strange to me. But I really wanted to put my money in ASAP, latest on the turn. I don’t want him to fold his weak range either, so i decided to bet something like 42% of pot. V instant shove on me. I’m happy to see that, but I’m also worried about him having pocket tens there, but that is the only hand that could have me beat. In my opinion he could have played that hand in this manner with KQ, QJ, KK, AA, but also AK, AJ, AT and KJ of spades. As I was pretty active and aggresive when I was chipleader, maybe he thinks I’m bluffing there, so sometimes he has there pocket eights to pocket jacks, but very very rarely. Based on the fact that he snap-shoved, I putted him on lower Qs, kings and aces and monster draws. So I called and V showed AK of spades. 

I really didn’t wanted to be eliminated on 3rd place and let the fish to go on second place. If I have missed the flop by any means, I could still live in the tourney and wait for other spots. When I reached the final table I was taking a look for the players on sharkscope. V was opted out, so he knows how to use sharkscope. Based on that, I could assume that somehow he’s know what he’s doing, right? The other player, the fish, well… he has fish stats  . A few hands later I eliminated villain and I went HU with the fish, where I destroyed him with raises pre almost every hand. He simply didn’t had no clue about HU play. 

What are your thoughts on this hand? My thought process was OK? Or should I have simply shoved pre? Please leave me your thoughts. 

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