Yo yo TPE, this hand is from last night's $33 on bovada. i think it's the 7k that starts at 8pm. it ended up with just over 10k in the pool. we're like 4th or 5th out of 11 players when this hand took place. here are a few hands prior to help set up the dynamic i went through.

when we had maybe 15 people, villains two to my right and one to my right went back and forth a bit. btn btn shoved 10bb. sb iso'd with K7s when he was sitting on maybe 50bb. he lost to btn's ATo. btn was playing pretty tight and def not shoving appropriately, so btn's iso was way too loose in my eyes. he has the middle of Kx, so yah lol. i'm all for calling light to snap off people who shove correctly, but this guy wasn't and K7s isn't a call against a btn who is shoving correctly anyway lol.

the following hand:

co (previously btn) has 21bb and opens 2.4-2.5x. btn 3bets to 7x. I think btn is willing to go against co, potentially with a bad hand, but i don't think he'll just snap hand over his chip stack to a cold raise from the blinds. i haven't been particularly active at this point. i 4b shoved Q8s from small blind and he tank/folded.

several orbits later i ATo utg 6 handed after 3 orbits of opening utg with AA, AT, JJ tho no hands showed down). we're 12 handed. bb defends (guy with K7s and the 3b). board is 942ss and I have the As. I cbet and he calls. He donk leads 1/3 on a Qx. I float with intention of raising lots of river types including flushes, T/J/K/ cards, etc. river is 4s. He bets something like 9994 into 40k. it was a weird 1/4 number though. i time down into the green, raise to 29999. he tank folds. gg.

another hand against a diff villain.

i open with 40bb from co with AJ. villain in bb is cl. he defends. ck ck KJTss board. he leads out turn for like 49% on second flush draw coming in. he cks river, shows 74cc for no flush draw on board, ust a single stab on turn.

okay here's real hand lol.

I have been varying my raise sizes randomly, nothing related to my strength, slightly affected by position and remaining stack sizes, but usually slightly more than a minraise because i got defended a ton where i wanted more steals. i minraised the button with AKo and 135k at 2k/4k. i'm 2nd out of 11. chip leader has like 150k and hasn't been active. i do'nt have his hud numbers, and i likely was the only person in the tournament with a hud, though kb was at the final table i learned haha. i was really afraid this was him and i had asked him about it without thinking to check to see if he was playing in it the same tournament. anyway.

8k, sb 3bets (first 3bet but only about 50 hands) to 17xxx. I 4b to 35k to incude a shove. I thought I'd get more of his range shoving over a 4b than I would calling an all in. I also didn't want to play this as a marginal spot post flop by having to decide if I call down if i just call the 3b. most people have like 10-19bb and this is a 12 minute level tourney so really dont wanna bust or flip here. i'm ready to snap off his 5b jam because if he's merged and has too wide of a value range, i have ak and i'm in good shape. if he has a polarized range, i have ak and i'm not in good shape. he 5bs to 55xxx though! i have 135k to start the hand. his range looks so nutted and i think a rando in a bovada $33 isn't going to 5b bluff small, so it's like…idk. a nutted range or a wider range than it should be. i'm still not sure, but if anything i saved myself a potentially very costly cooler in-game. i folded, leaving myself with 20bb when levels went up and i scored 2nd place. you guess who i lost to in the end lol. it's okay. felt good. learning a ton. etc. woo tpe. i hear carlos won a contender, as did kb. congrats everyone.

thoughts?