25bb effective. Final table. aggro utg+1 opens. sort of fishy but tries to be reggy player flats mp. He can be trapping, but it's more likely he has a hand like KJs or ATo based on his play. I'm in the bb with TT. I almost instashoved. I was very close to it. Then Doug and I talked about lines instead. I didn't want to 3b/call because then I'm flipping or crushed a ton of the time, as solid player probably doesn't 4b jam 33-99 and I hadn't seen him 4b jam anything like an Ace blocker. If I had, I'd be more confident with a 3b/c. I certainly don't want to 3b/f…at least I don't think so anyway. I never like 3b/folding value hands, but that's more I don't really see it happening too often/I don't doo too often. I'm open to talk about it. I have been using my time bank effectively for every important decision I'm in as each decision is worth several hundred dollars. I chose to flat with the plan to bet/fold flops. I would be ahead of AK/AQ that shoves over me and behind JJ+ and chop with TT etc. Doug really helped me talk this one out. I feel like I lower variance by taking it postflop. so there's about 7bb in the pot, we have 23 behind. I could be wrong on stack sizes here but they should be pretty close. I lead halfish, villain's muck. I'm told later that original opener had AK by a friend of mine who was sweating him. I don't think he'd lie to me straight up, but still gonna check that HH 😉 Given his hand, I'm glad I chose not to 3b/c lol. Flipping at a final table just seems so silly if you don't have to…clearly accepting a 50/50 spot is not ideal, at least that's how it looks to me based on math. Like we know chips gained =/= the opposite of chips lost. chips lost hurt more than chips gained help. we all know that. that's more true at a final table than anywhere else.

i just copy/pasted this as I need to get back to work and wanted to get it posted. Sorry for the spoilers dudes! line-check I suppose haha