I'm not too sure its a shove 20bb deep vs an UTG raise and 3 callers, but then I don't really play tournaments so not too qualified to answer, what do you think @Allan23 EDIT - Yes it probably is the more I think about it
You only have 12bb. With so much in the middle it looks a perfect spot to get it in.
Hi btw lol, have followed your diary from the off but first time I've posted. I see you are chip leader in the mini, best of luck, take it down.
Yes to be honest in game I didn't even know how many blinds I had. I only thought I had 20 because I read that HH wrong. Hello @waller02 and thanks for popping in mate
Think in the hand above, we should probably be semibluffing. Effective stack is only 21k, we have 77k back, we have 9 outs against a lot of stuff that can call us and they can make some tighter folds than they otherwise would because they're out if they're wrong. (That's even more applicable if we're near the bubble)
We can potentially get mightyaxe to fold some weaker Ax that he defends with by jamming ourselves as well - What's he doing with A5cc here if you shove? Considering he probably 3b shoves a lot of his Ace-Broadway stuff pre-flop, I think we can get him to fold a large chunk of his range that would otherwise continue. If we run into a set/NFD/2pr, so be it.
By jamming we should also get Scotty to fold any PPs that he's decided to cbet with. Also if he has a total airball, getting him to fold out his equity and winning the pot when we have K high can never be a bad thing.
When we do get called, we have somewhere around 30% equity vs all the Ax that Scotty opens. It's pretty meh if Mightyaxe cold calls but I don't think that happens a whole lot unless he has set/NFD/2pr himself, plus maybe the odd big Ax that he might peel pre instead of shoving. He's probs folding his A5cc type stuff that he defends IMO. I think he's folding weaker FDs too but if not, then that's great for us.
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As played, here's (very roughly) the range I think Mightyaxe is likely to shove with IMO. You could make an argument for him shoving PPs pre rather than set mining off this stack, as well as possibly having a different amount of Ax in his range. However as we have ~30-35% vs Ax and 33/66 anyway, the equity difference it makes to add/remove any combos of those hands is negligible.
We have a FD and we're getting marginally above 2/1. Sucks if he has Axhh but a lot of the time he's just jamming an Ace or any heart combos he peels pre because of the SPR involved, and that gives us enough equity that we're pretty much obliged to call IMO.
Fwiw that's for a freezeout. If it's a BH then it goes from being a "Meh call I guess" to instead calling and being very happy about it.
If we're deeper then maybe I like the flop call more. Once we get this shallow, just shove as a semi-bluff IMO.
Bust in 9th for £56.44 then add my head prizes from the other 3 UKOPS I played tonight brings the total to £63.67.
Deduct my £22 entry fee's and £3 add on leaves £38.67 half of that would be £19.34 so round that up to £20 to be donated to Great North Air Ambulance.
Here is the hand that sent me packing lol Not sure if it was the right call but villain lost half his stack less than ten hands ago and had shoved about 3 times since then so felt I would be ahead of his range a lot of the time with A9. Was it the right call, I don't know ?
On the whole really enjoyed tonight even if it was 6 hours of MTT's after already playing 2 during the day.
May do the same thing again tomorrow night and try improve on tonight's performance. Here are my end results for tonight:
UKOPS 9 - 27/225 ( in head prizes)
UKOPS 10 - 32/294 ( in head prizes)
UKOPS 11 - 9/239 (cashed for £56.44)
UKOPS 12 - 85/284 ( in head prizes)
Calculations on the head prizes might be slightly off will check tomorrow but with rounding the money to be donated up to £20 it is more than half the profit so not a problem.
Combine tonight's results with the Bounty Hunter that I won earlier brings todays MTT earning's to around £110 after spending £30 entering them.
I'm not too sure its a shove 20bb deep vs an UTG raise and 3 callers, but then I don't really play tournaments so not too qualified to answer, what do you think @Allan23 EDIT - Yes it probably is the more I think about it
You only have 12bb. With so much in the middle it looks a perfect spot to get it in.
Hi btw lol, have followed your diary from the off but first time I've posted. I see you are chip leader in the mini, best of luck, take it down.
With this hand by default we have ended up in middle ground and called. If we think utg range is very strong then I prefer the argument for folding rather than calling. I think we end up not really knowing where we are by calling and not sure what flops we will love multi way. I think if opener is super tight we should happily fold and if they are opening reasonably wide we can shove. In spots like this, if we get folds its massive for our stack.
I'm not too sure its a shove 20bb deep vs an UTG raise and 3 callers, but then I don't really play tournaments so not too qualified to answer, what do you think @Allan23 EDIT - Yes it probably is the more I think about it
You only have 12bb. With so much in the middle it looks a perfect spot to get it in.
Hi btw lol, have followed your diary from the off but first time I've posted. I see you are chip leader in the mini, best of luck, take it down.
With this hand by default we have ended up in middle ground and called. If we think utg range is very strong then I prefer the argument for folding rather than calling. I think we end up not really knowing where we are by calling and not sure what flops we will love multi way. I think if opener is super tight we should happily fold and if they are opening reasonably wide we can shove. In spots like this, if we get folds its massive for our stack.
If the opener is unknown, or hasn't been on table long etc. do you give them the benefit of the doubt and fold then?
With this hand by default we have ended up in middle ground and called. If we think utg range is very strong then I prefer the argument for folding rather than calling. I think we end up not really knowing where we are by calling and not sure what flops we will love multi way. I think if opener is super tight we should happily fold and if they are opening reasonably wide we can shove. In spots like this, if we get folds its massive for our stack.
If the opener is unknown, or hasn't been on table long etc. do you give them the benefit of the doubt and fold then?
Default is shove but we can happily fold v some players.
The AJ hand is a trivial shove as long as UTG isn't Nitty McNitface. You might even be able to shove much worse profitably here given the callorama that has occurred.
Nice to see you had an enjoyable MTT session last night Alan, gg
Also agree that the AJ is a slam dunk shove off that stack size and the calls behind the opener (most likely too wide/capped ranges/dead money) make it a more attractive shove spot rather than less attractive.
Welcome to micro/small stakes MTT on Sky... enjoy the ride and gl
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We can potentially get mightyaxe to fold some weaker Ax that he defends with by jamming ourselves as well - What's he doing with A5cc here if you shove? Considering he probably 3b shoves a lot of his Ace-Broadway stuff pre-flop, I think we can get him to fold a large chunk of his range that would otherwise continue. If we run into a set/NFD/2pr, so be it.
By jamming we should also get Scotty to fold any PPs that he's decided to cbet with. Also if he has a total airball, getting him to fold out his equity and winning the pot when we have K high can never be a bad thing.
When we do get called, we have somewhere around 30% equity vs all the Ax that Scotty opens. It's pretty meh if Mightyaxe cold calls but I don't think that happens a whole lot unless he has set/NFD/2pr himself, plus maybe the odd big Ax that he might peel pre instead of shoving. He's probs folding his A5cc type stuff that he defends IMO. I think he's folding weaker FDs too but if not, then that's great for us.
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As played, here's (very roughly) the range I think Mightyaxe is likely to shove with IMO. You could make an argument for him shoving PPs pre rather than set mining off this stack, as well as possibly having a different amount of Ax in his range. However as we have ~30-35% vs Ax and 33/66 anyway, the equity difference it makes to add/remove any combos of those hands is negligible.
We have a FD and we're getting marginally above 2/1. Sucks if he has Axhh but a lot of the time he's just jamming an Ace or any heart combos he peels pre because of the SPR involved, and that gives us enough equity that we're pretty much obliged to call IMO.
Fwiw that's for a freezeout. If it's a BH then it goes from being a "Meh call I guess" to instead calling and being very happy about it.
If we're deeper then maybe I like the flop call more. Once we get this shallow, just shove as a semi-bluff IMO.
Deduct my £22 entry fee's and £3 add on leaves £38.67 half of that would be £19.34 so round that up to £20 to be donated to Great North Air Ambulance.
Here is the hand that sent me packing lol Not sure if it was the right call but villain lost half his stack less than ten hands ago and had shoved about 3 times since then so felt I would be ahead of his range a lot of the time with A9. Was it the right call, I don't know ?
May do the same thing again tomorrow night and try improve on tonight's performance. Here are my end results for tonight:
UKOPS 9 - 27/225 ( in head prizes)
UKOPS 10 - 32/294 ( in head prizes)
UKOPS 11 - 9/239 (cashed for £56.44)
UKOPS 12 - 85/284 ( in head prizes)
Calculations on the head prizes might be slightly off will check tomorrow but with rounding the money to be donated up to £20 it is more than half the profit so not a problem.
Combine tonight's results with the Bounty Hunter that I won earlier brings todays MTT earning's to around £110 after spending £30 entering them.
Will donate tomorrow and post proof on here
All of a sudden you are an MTT crusher.
Nice work, well done.
Needless to say, I am still awake, only reason, I am about at this time lol.
Beautiful morning here.
Alan, I am going to match your £20.00 VWP mate!
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The forum had a great day yesterday, everyone was in fine form, fingers crossed for more of the same today.
Great gesture with your donation and really good of Graham to match it.
Do you plan on focussing on mtts a bit more now then?
If the opener is unknown, or hasn't been on table long etc. do you give them the benefit of the doubt and fold then?
Default is shove but we can happily fold v some players.
Shove>>fold>>>>>>>>>>>>>call.
Also agree that the AJ is a slam dunk shove off that stack size and the calls behind the opener (most likely too wide/capped ranges/dead money) make it a more attractive shove spot rather than less attractive.
Welcome to micro/small stakes MTT on Sky... enjoy the ride and gl
First photo is just before I clicked donate so it had not officially been donated then, second photo is showing it out of my bank account (£25 from me and @JordyAA ) and the other £20 @StayOrGo deposited himself and posted details above
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