9 max. 9 players left. 3 places pay a 250K ticket
Stacks: 2.7K / 7.3K / 21.8K
Blinds 500/1000
UTG (6,750) limps in 
Yeah, I know, I know
Table folds to BB (13K) who checks
Flop: (2500) 
BB checks
UTG checks
Turn: (2,500) 
BB bets 1,000
UTG raises to 3K
BB raises to 5K
UTG (2,750) to act
Shove. No sense in folding, or leaving 750 behind.
Also, wouldnāt have minded shoving facing the turn min-bet, instead of raising to an awkward size. Throwing that kind of pressure on your competitors can make them think twice the next time they try stealing a pot with a min-bet, and help you recognize your equity in future pots.
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I did shove. Unfortunately, V flopped a flush, with the nut. (Ad7d). The river helped neither, and I was never ahead in the hand. How sweet would the Td have been on the river? 8-Q sf vs 7-J sf.
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The more i look at it, the more I realize that as soon as i flopped the straight, with a gs to the sf, my stack was gone.
When I first posted, I was feeling pretty dumb for choosing to ignore the 3 to a flush flop. But, how much credence do you give something that has a less than 1% chance of happening. Also, I had 3rd nut if another diamond fell. That was not the mistake.
I donāt necessarily think playing QTo, was a mistake here, either. Iām 7th of 9 in chips, less than 7BB, and about to hit the blinds.
The mistake was in limping. Not sure if the opening bet should have been 2BB, 3BB, or a shove, but not a limp.
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Iād probably shove it pre, especially if it was the best thing Iāve had in an orbit or so.
- Given your stack size on its own and in relation to everyone elseās, youāre probably not going to be able to float the blinds long enough to make the money.
- You may get everyone to fold with a shove and pick up the blinds+antes to stay afloat longer.
- You may even double up with a lucky board.
- Youāre in UTG, which means you set the tone pre-flop. A shove in this position makes your message pretty clear to everyone else.
Pretty much wasting your time just trying to limp it; shove it or stay out of the hand. Donāt bother with any other āopenā bet at <10BB ā just shove. Yeah, itās a lot of variance, but thatās Replayās turbo tournaments in general. Not a lot of room for post-flop poker, but you can finish a small tournament in about 2 hours or less.
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Youāre definitely right @Fozman. The only argument for 2BB is I seem to get as many folds with a value bet, as i do with a third barrel. Mostly in later streets, tho, and depends a lot on table image.
In hindsight, shoving is the only chance I had. Does he call half his stack with A7s? Who knows.
I have a new respect for having a few chips to continue with. I recently pushed 208 chips on the 12th hand of an MTT, and ended up 5th. Iāve seen examples of people coming back with even less.