$.50 ACR Manic Monday - $1,000 GTD -- First Out At Final Table. How Would You Play AJs Here?
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$.50 ACR Manic Monday - $1,000 GTD -- First Out At Final Table. How Would You Play AJs Here?
This is on Americas Card Room. The tournament was their Manic Monday - $1,000 GTD, with 778 runners.
I'm not a tournament player and I haven't really studied tounraments that much. I seam to do well in the earlier stages, and struggle in the later stages. This hand is probably a perfect example. I think it stems from being a cash player and not being used to short stacked poker, which later stages and finals tables are.
Winning Poker Network (Yatahay) -
Blinds: t20,000/t40,000 (9 players)
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4: http://www.pokertracker.com
UTG: 12.87 BB (VPIP: 21.43, PFR: 21.43, 3Bet Preflop: 20.00, Hands: 14)
UTG+1: 26.19 BB (VPIP: 31.46, PFR: 25.84, 3Bet Preflop: 10.00, Hands: 91)
MP: 26.4 BB (VPIP: 21.43, PFR: 23.08, 3Bet Preflop: 14.29, Hands: 14)
MP+1: 51.14 BB (VPIP: 7.14, PFR: 7.14, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 14)
Hero (MP+2): 22.68 BB
CO: 26.73 BB (VPIP: 40.00, PFR: 25.56, 3Bet Preflop: 6.67, Hands: 91)
BTN: 29.44 BB (VPIP: 37.84, PFR: 16.22, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 38)
SB: 19.04 BB (VPIP: 27.27, PFR: 16.44, 3Bet Preflop: 6.90, Hands: 78)
BB: 14.9 BB (VPIP: 7.14, PFR: 7.69, 3Bet Preflop: 16.67, Hands: 14)
Pre Flop: (pot: 2.4 BB) Hero has Jc Ac
fold, fold, MP raises to 2.2 BB, fold, Hero calls 2.2 BB, fold, BTN calls 2.2 BB, fold, fold
Flop : (9 BB, 3 players) 9s Ad 4s
MP bets 4.5 BB, Hero calls 4.5 BB, BTN calls 4.5 BB
Turn : (22.5 BB, 3 players) Qh
MP bets 11.25 BB, Hero raises to 15.88 BB and is all-in, fold, MP calls 4.63 BB
River : (54.25 BB, 2 players) Kd
MP shows Qd Qc (Three of a Kind, Queens)
(Pre 68%, Flop 9%, Turn 100%)
Hero shows Jc Ac (One Pair, Aces)
(Pre 32%, Flop 91%, Turn 0%)
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I also do not see a why to format my post the way other people are. I copied the hand from Pokertracker. Other people seam to have each street highlighted as different sections. How is this done? thx
Sorry, not sure about the formatting.
I probably am not flatting preflop here with only 20BB behind. Preflop I think fold > shove > call. I might call if I was on the button here. I don't think you're calling someone who shoves behind you, and then you're dropping 10% of your stack. Also you have to think an early raiser has a strong range, so giving up on AJs in middle position is OK.
As played on flop I think AJ is pretty good because opponents will often have shoved AQ or AK pre, and his leading range probably isn't likely to be a monster. I would just shove the flop to make sure they don't have good odds to hit the turn.
Hope this helps. Congrats at just making the final table.
I agree with your analysis. I've given it some thought and I agree it's fold first, shove second, call third. I knew I had too many chips to shove since there were so many people to act after me. I also knew it wasn't that strong of a hand. If it was unsuited I would have folded the hand without a thought. Sometimes I let suited vs unsuited sway my decision when it's clearly not as relevant as it is in other spots.
As played, I didn't shove the flop because my thinking at the time was I was too deep and I wanted to see what happened with the player to act after to me. It also crossed my mind that I might have the best hand and I would like to see more chips go into the pot if my hand was in the lead.
I never thought about AK or AQ would likely shove in this spot with two players in the hand. I gave him too much credit and thought there was a chance he might be slow playing those hands. If I had KK or QQ in this spot with two people in the hand I would probably check the flop. I made the mistake of thinking my opponent thinks like I do. I do that a lot. I have to work on that.
I did only get beat by a 2 outer, so I was pretty unlucky in this spot actually.
Thank you!
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