Hi, thanks for the question. This hand certainly was an interesting one:

My intention for shoving the river is to make him fold any 3x that he decided to continue betting on the turn, random pocket pairs, and potentially some Ax as well given just how strong the range I'm representing is when shoving the river on this board texture. Having the Ks is relevant as I would play a lot of Kxss in the same manner, and it does block some of his combinations of flush draws that he could have chosen to play with such an unorthodox line. I also don't believe our hand has much showdown value by the river when he checks, as I believe he would continue to try to bluff his nothing hands. When he checks the river it appears he wants to try to show down a marginal hand, as I would also expect him to keep betting w his nutted hands as well since this is a board that I am pretty unlikely to try to bluff given the action if he checks to me. All these reasons led me to believe that bluff shoving this river was our best chance of winning the pot, and we would get a fold often enough to make this the most profitable play.

Agreed, though to be honest I never thought it would last as long as it did. I'm just glad to see that poker has grown enough for US facing sites that they were able to run a tournament like this on such a consistent basis. Granted, ACR has a lot of bugs to work through, but if they were to hire a consultant with extensive online MTT experience to help them with their schedule, guarantees, structures, user interface etc. ( hint hint) then maybe they could really take off in the coming years.

Hi niceface, you're correct with most of this assessment. I believe his range is mostly weak, though he does have the possibility of having some very nutted hands as well which will make up a small part of his range . The A blocker in my hand does remove quite a few nutted combos from his limping range, plus I have a hand that favors to be ahead but doesn't play particularly well post flop, and if we are behind we will still win close to 30% of the time regardless against his limp/calling hands. When we combine this with the fact that I am short stacked and picking up the blinds antes without having to see a flop is a huge boost to my stack, our best strategy with this particular hand is to shove all in preflop.