An interesting spot came up early on day 2 of the IPO. Villain in the hand has been fairly active in the two rounds of the button I've seen, limping often, calling bets, and has just lost a few chips when his decent sized river bet got called by top pair and he showed an underpair to the board.
Blinds 1500-3000.
Tournament average is about 110,000
Mid position. Villain playing 90,000
Button. I'm playing 200,000
Early position calls 3,000, villain calls, I call with 24 . BB calls too. Pot 15,000 with antes.
Q1: Is this too passive, should I be raising on the button, narrowing the field,, or happy to play multi-way with a hand I can let go of easily if I miss?
Flop Q35
BB checks, early position checks, villain checks, I bet 9,000.
Q2: I think this bet here is standard enough, any other ideas here?
BB folds, EP folds, villain bets 40,000...
Q3: This is the fun one. I've been check raised for 50% of villain's stack. From a strategy point of view what are the merits of mucking and limiting exposure, playing small pots with small hands vs, shipping over the top, with perhaps some fold equity and presumably some outs. What are the merits of hitting a 300k stack this early, still 200+ players from the money. Or do we take the risk as we have the stack to do it? My flush outs could be crushed, I may only have 6 clean outs for the straight. What do we do?
Blinds 1500-3000.
Tournament average is about 110,000
Mid position. Villain playing 90,000
Button. I'm playing 200,000
Early position calls 3,000, villain calls, I call with 24 . BB calls too. Pot 15,000 with antes.
Q1: Is this too passive, should I be raising on the button, narrowing the field,, or happy to play multi-way with a hand I can let go of easily if I miss?
Flop Q35
BB checks, early position checks, villain checks, I bet 9,000.
Q2: I think this bet here is standard enough, any other ideas here?
BB folds, EP folds, villain bets 40,000...
Q3: This is the fun one. I've been check raised for 50% of villain's stack. From a strategy point of view what are the merits of mucking and limiting exposure, playing small pots with small hands vs, shipping over the top, with perhaps some fold equity and presumably some outs. What are the merits of hitting a 300k stack this early, still 200+ players from the money. Or do we take the risk as we have the stack to do it? My flush outs could be crushed, I may only have 6 clean outs for the straight. What do we do?
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