advice on late stage of MTTs

craigcu12

As a cash table player I find the later stages of MTTs very difficult. The chip stacks are becoming small and i'm putting myself into very difficult situatios. One minute I'm playing very tight the next minute i'm playing very loose. going all in preflop feels like the only way i can try and build my chip stack. 

What I find really difficult is knowing how and when to cbet and consider making a possible bluff.

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
c	Small blind		150.00	150.00	2824.00
X	Big blind		300.00	450.00	5275.00
	Your hole cards	J K
a	Fold
d	Fold
b	Fold
craigcu12	Raise		600.00	1050.00	9765.00
c	Fold
X	Call		300.00	1350.00	4975.00
Flop
		7 10 Q
X	Check
craigcu12	Bet		1012.50	2362.50	8752.50
X	All-in		4975.00	7337.50	0.00
craigcu12	Fold
X	Muck
X	Win		3375.00		3375.00
X	Return		3962.50	0.00	7337.5

a	Small blind		150.00	150.00	3505.00
X	Big blind		300.00	450.00	6120.00
	Your hole cards	10 10
c	Fold
d	Fold
craigcu12	Raise		600.00	1050.00	6810.00
a	Fold
X	Call		300.00	1350.00	5820.00
Flop
		Q Q 8
x	Check
craigcu12	Bet		600.00	1950.00	6210.00
x	Call		600.00	2550.00	5220.00
Turn
		5
x	Check
craigcu12	Bet		900.00	3450.00	5310.00
x	Call		900.00	4350.00	4320.00
River
		A
x	All-in		4320.00	8670.00	0.00
craigcu12	Fold
x	Muck
x	Win		4350.00		4350.00
x	Return		4320.00	0.00	8670.00

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Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
a	Small blind		200.00	200.00	6737.50
X	Big blind		400.00	600.00	11640.00
	Your hole cards	A 5
b	Fold
c	Fold
craigcu12	Raise		800.00	1400.00	7302.50
a	Fold
X	Call		400.00	1800.00	11240.00
Flop
		10 8 7
X	Check
craigcu12	Bet		900.00	2700.00	6402.50
X	Call		900.00	3600.00	10340.00
Turn
		6
X	Check
craigcu12	Check
River
		5
X	Bet		1800.00

raggy94

First hand seems like a call to me with your equity and the price you're getting. Might be wrong but if the idea is to take a lower variance route checking back flop seems better than bet/ folding such a strong hand?

Lambert180

Hand 1 - Cbet smaller, and prob fold to the jam, maybe you have to call now cos of how big you've gone with the cbet. There's an argument to check-back this flop.

Hand 2 - wp imo

Hand 3 - Not a great flop, can potentially checkback and assess on later streets. As played, giving up on future streets is definitely best, just like you did, wp.

Hand 4 - Iso pre needs to be bigger. Folding the flop probably aint bad, he's lead pretty big 3 way and pretty much always has us either in terrible shape, drawing to 2 outs or has really good equity against us with overs/FD/straight draw. Unlikely he has a bare 8x or 7x imo. No reason to bet the turn, were you bluffing or trying to get value? I don't think you can do either here. Again on river, what are you doing? I assume you're bluffing cos there's no way you can get called by worse, but it's realllllly optimistic to think better can fold... maybe JJ/QQ folds but they won't l/c pre that often.

Hand 5 - Happy to open this hand UTG usually but you are a bit shallow to be doing it imo. Zero point in jamming flop, you'll get snapped off by almost every hand better than ours and fld out everything we beat.

craigcu12

My intention in most hands was to bluff. The only one played as value was 1010 on board QQ85A

Having got the time to think about things I can see some mistakes myself

H1. I look to have rushed my play here without any thought of his hand range. it has now become clear that his calling and shoving range will out weigh his folding range massively and an all in on the turn is not likely to make him fold. If i were in a cash game I would have called this hand but was too concerned about losing chips to call it now.

H2 my main aim was to get value from weaker hands, the ace has made it a simple fold, the action he did on the river i'm assuming a queen is what he'll have had and was intent on getting maximum value from an Ace. How he'd of played the river blank i won't know

H3 I am thinking now i was far too thoughtful of the hope  to bluff using  scary river card putting no thought into the possible turn card at all

H4 My decision here was to play the hand as a bluff. My thought on the flop was he's either got strength or is attempting to get fold, if he bet i would have folded but his choice to ch made me think he's cautious of the flush so i played as a bluff.

H5 The desperation for chips gets the better of me.

grantorino

H1: B/c or c/f flop (former imo)

H2: fine imo

H3:c/f flop

H4: check back turn , prob check back river or bet small

H5:openshove pre, b/f flop