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I’m no expert on ICM, but I think that it would be a fold if you only think about ICM
If you are in it to win it it’s a clear shuff, with everybody having max 12 blinds
if your question if you should run it once or twice: doen’t matter. run it 6 times if you don’t like variance, run it once if you are a maniac. In the end, it only should make your profit line a bit less of a roller coaster if you run these spots a few times every time they show up
is it a slow structure? If you start off deepstacked and the blind go up slowly, play the early stages like a cash game. Trust your read, respect your ranges, don’t be afraid to make a play. when ( or if) the blinds are high and you have a 15-25 big blind stack, you could prepare yourself by looking up some push/fold charts. Thats some basic advice that should help you with your first tourney
Good luck!
If you really think the ranges are that tight, you can bet like you would do with QJ and QT, and bluffs like JT and T9. AA and AK will call you for sure, if not raise, as well as AQ and maybe even AK.
But I think the range of your opponent is wider, so you can check there as well, waiting for a bluff on the river
First hand I called, sb had Aj off, BB had 88, I spiked a one outer on the turn to hit quads.
second hand I did jam, thinking QQ was too strong to let go. the BTN had KK and I didn’t make the money. If that spot comes up again I think I might fold, the mincash was 6x the buy-in, so did feel bad to miss it by an inch
for starters, I like the free articles on Upswing a lot. Loads of content on all sort of situations/game types for free, can’t go wrong with that.
Otherwise, there are also opening charts on them by position on the table, very usefull I’d say. Another kind of chart I like to review a lot is this one ( given I play turbo’s a lot online )
https://floattheturn.com/wp/pushfold/
you can also google things like ” how and what to 4 bet” and get an overview of the best free content.
that takes around 33% of my study/review time atm, the other 66% I look at my own hands I played, analyze them to see what I did wrong/could do better in the future and how this mistake ( or correct play ) can be prevented ( or perfectionised ) in the future
check raising flop. Certainly when you play many hands. you defend the bb for a cheap price, so your range also has draws like 64, 42, A2, A4… you also have hands like 109 of diamonds, 108 of diamonds, 98 of diamonds… and so on and so on. So this is like your best value combo you will ever have here ( apart from Q5, Q3 and sets.) you should get money in on this street because there are no good turns for you. any diamond might stop the action or beat you, and if lets say a jack or a 10 rolls of you might be beat by 2 pair. the only hand we are actually scared of is QQ, and there are only 3 combo’s of that VS a lot of KQ, QJ,Q10… and of course some flush draws
I think you should not leave yourself about 1/3 pot bet behind on the turn, imo it’s better to go all-in and overbet a little in that situation.
otherwise a fine played hand
u rivered trips, but anyway
preflop I think raising with KQs is a bit strange, certainly against a tight agressive guy. if he opens UTG he usually will have 88+ and A10+, maybe KQ or KJ. we don’t do very well against those hands preflop, while we might be able to flop something nice like a flush draw or straight draw, top 2… If he 4 bets us, we are in an akward position and should fold most of the time with a hand as weak as KQs. I prefer the 3 bet ( bluff) with hands that are a bit weaker and still block nutted top pairs like QQ, JJ, KK… hands like KQ and KJ offsuited fit better imo.
flop: I think flatting here is better then raising. you can raise to charge flush draws and straight draws, but since your opponent opened UTG and c-bets, he very likely has AA, KK, QQ, JJ, AQ… the only hand we are doing well against is AK, so thats little we protect from. I can even see a fold here, since we only beat his weak hands like 88-1010 and AJ. since he didn’t 4-bet us preflop, I think I would just make the call. The jam from the sb has little meaning, the amount changes nothing for us.
turn: 4 of hearts is a bad card for us. We don’t beat the flush draw anymore, so we can’t even beat most of his semi-bluffs that he had on the flop anymore. logical check back.
river: we improve ( a little), we can beat KK ( we block that ) and AA ( no 4-bet pre) now. if I follow correct, he bets the pot to put you all-in. since you think he is a tight agressive player that knows what he is doing, my guess would be he has JJ, rivered the full-house on us and tries to get paid by a Q and a Flush. It also would explain the no 4bet pre and bet/call line on the flop. this is a fold to me. we jus’t don’t beat him in enough hands, and there is also still the sb in play for 1/3 of the pot if we call. + he would have to show his hand to take the pot down vs the sb. so I would fold here.
and after the hand, I would change my mental note of “tight agressive kid that knows what he is doing” to ” loose agressive kid that can be exploited with premiums”
In my humble opinion, I think your preflop play is good enough. with around 30 bigs it’s hard to play back at him without commiting yourself, so in my opinion, a preflop all-in is out of the question ( you risk your whole stack if you are against a premium hand like JJ-AA or AK, AQ and AJ. Even if you are flipping with 66-99 I still don’t like the odds in general. This also depends on how deep you are in the tourney, if you want to win or ladder, ETC….)
on the flop, you can go either way, it looks 50/50. Your Ace high might be good ( he could have hands like QJ, j10, 108… all reasonable opening hands from the button). personally I would also have continued on the flop, But I think the correct ( tournament ) play is to let it go and fight another day, against a worst opponent.
on the turn you pick up the nut flush draw and you have to call I think, given his bet is less then 1/2 pot. when he fires here again i would put him on a king, maybe a QQ-1010 hand that sees that the odds of you having a king are low. on the river you hit your Ace and only loose to a King, and I think you need to call it off there since you have invested a lot of your chips in the pot already. if you would have folded anywhere after the flop ( were we actually had an easy way out), It would have been a hero fold.
imo you can go even bigger pre. but 40-50 seems standard. on the flop I think I would fold, since you can’t be ahead of the All-in and the call with ace high. A better way to play this hand ( or to try to take the pot) is shuffing when you are to act on the flop, or even better, shuffing pre
I think your 3-bet pre should be bigger, the pot is already around 55, you give them the odds to call you and see a flop. Of course, with aces, you would love a call, but you should also 3-bet bluff sometimes and if you only go big when you bluff you will be exploitable.
otherwise, I don’t think you played this badly if you are so sure of your read. when the 10 comes on the turn a lot of hands like Q10s, J10s, k9s… now get there ( and they had the right price to call preflop, so it could be possible).
*instantly joining that website
No, I don’t think you misplayed the hand actually. You can argue, with 3 all-ins in front of you one of them might have the nut flush, but if they show hands like that often, I would call it off any day of the week ( except on mondays, I don’t play on mondays)
since you haven’t mentioned any suits on the community cards, I will assume they are rainbow
J9 is a hand that I don’t open unless i’m in the CO or later, but if you think you have a skill edge, you can make that open. just be sure to not make too many of these loose opens.
you could also have made it 12-15, I would prefer that in these kind of games, but anyway, in theory there’s nothing wrong with making it 7, so far so good
flop: standard play I think, you can use your weak top pairs in your checking range to make sure that if you check you don’t always expose yourself to a turn bet by villain, but cbetting is fine. sizing looks okay I think, around half pot, can go a bit bigger maybe
turn: the most interesting street of this hand. your check on the overcard looks weak, if the opponent had no showdown value ( a straight draw or any kind of other draw), he should bet 99% of the time here ( at least I would). his check makes me believe he either has a Q ( in that case you just ran bad i’m afraid) or a pair, maybe A9 or A7. sometimes you will see him have A high, but rarely ( that hand might also bet since the showdown value is low).
the river is a value bet I think. when he checks back the turn I believe he must have some showdown value, and second pair weak kicker doesn’t beat much. with your line, I would check back an A high, so either he has a Q or a better 9, or he turns a hand like A high or third pair into a bluff. The only hand that can check back the turn and bet the river that we are ahead of is 109, since every other combination now beats us ( even some wacky played 10J or 98 or something). I think I would find a fold here, you will have better hands to call him down with in this spot.
