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May 20, 2014
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A little background…this is a live $270 buy-in monthly tournament that will run for 6 tourneys. The #1 point earner at the end of the six tournaments gets a 10K seat to the 2015 Main event. Additionally, the top 10 point earners play a one table tourney for a seat.
There are typically about 20 to 27 people per tourney and this is the 2nd tourney of six. I got 2nd last month. Points are awarded for the top 20 places inversely to finish position, so I got 19 last month (20th got 1 point). The guy that won last month is already out so I'm set to be the points leader regardless of how I finish in this tourney.
1st place pays $360, 2nd $270 and I can't remember what the rest of the places pay since the money is negligible and not really what we're shooting for. There was also a last longer that had $480.00 up for grabs and I was one of 5 left in that.
We are 6 handed and I'm the shortest stack with T35,100 (22BBs—other stacks range from 25 to 50 BBs)
Blinds: 800/1600/100a
I have A
10
on button, all fold to me, I raise to 4K (raises have varied from 3500 to 5400 PF)
SB (45 BBs) and BB (25.7 BBs) both call
(SB has been on a rush and calling a lot of raises and limping, the BB strikes me as pretty straight forward and tight. I am perceived as tight and have consistently been showing strong hands at showdown)
Flop: A
73
SB checks, BB goes all-in for 37k into a 12,600 pot, I have 31,100 remaining.
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August 4, 2014
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I would say fold. First, the board is not the best to call this much. His most possible holding looks like 88-JJ, or Axs.
You may already got him in jail with your kicker, but you still have a good shot for a better chance.
Plus, small blind maybe laying low although Im not too much worried about it. I just think this is not a good spot to move on. If you had AK, AQ without a spade, I would call and pray. If the ten was of spades, I would call.
May 20, 2013
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Most of my thoughts would revolve around what the BB would shove. Would he shove Ks? Would he shove a set on a flush board? how about 2 pair or Ax? I think the most common holding here would be Ax where the x is a spade. Perhaps he had a hand like Ad9s or Ad8s and it was worth defending when when SB completed… (and the SB is still in the hand.) Also consider 54 or 56 with 1 or 2 spades could also shove here. A flopped small flush would not want to lose to a single broadway spade.
I would typically fold here because I have “the bottom of my calling range facing a shove” and I have learned from the wise sages here that this is never a good thing.
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December 6, 2012
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Folding to a shove is definitely not exploitable, but BB's jamming range is almost certainly unbalanced towards non-nut hands, so the question is how confident you are that you are ahead and by how much. It's really easy for Villain to have a high-equity combo draw, so you'd have to be pretty sure he'd jam a bare Ks or dominated Ax. Given the really flat payout structure, I imagine folding is correct.
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