Thanks a lot! Hope you enjoy the rest of the series.

Hey Suk, definitely it's a spot where I think I'm inducing him with a wider range than QQ+. The pacing of the table and our play seems to dictate him getting it in lighter potentially

no 4b bluff can fold vs the button anyway and dylan can fold to gambler with his size still.

pretty lol you say that gambler knows hero is nutted here but shows up jamming AQo. he didnt jam cause dylan 'always has 99-JJ here' (what about AK?)

Hey, thanks for the question. I think that in the video I somewhat explain my reasoning as to the sizing here. There are many situations in MTTs where you will be cold 4b, 3b or 4b vs a squeeze somewhat light where you still have to call off a short stack, this does not occlude you from having weaker end hands/bluffs. Specifically situations like this arise when you are 3b bluffing with hands that still do ok vs strong value hands (Axs) that a short stack behind might have. This hand begins from a standpoint that both gambler and I can pretty much discount the buttons range to mostly medium strength hands and the rarely slowplayed extreme monster (AA mainly). We can do this because there hasn't been that much of a squeeze dynamic and I have been opening a good amount, so we can deduce that he is probably going to be 3b most of his value hands from the button.

As to our sizing vs gambler I believe that making it slightly larger is somewhat of a mind trick. Most people tend to make their sizings a little larger when they are afraid to see a flop. I could be wrong vs a good player like gambler but we did get a good amount of action from the situation.

Thanks for the great questions David.

1. I do not believe that this player would be folding TT+ to my 3b or subsequent 5b jam. He might certainly be light more than I give him credit for and thus it could definitely be a good position for me to 5b jam. I do not that that it is a spot where we should always be 3 to 5b w/ AJo and in this situation at this table I thought that I would probably be better served playing it in the fashion I did.

2. Yes I agree with you here. I think that I wouldn't necessarily 3b the entirety of the bottom portion of my range. Having a few board coverage hands is just a healthy way to build a 3b strategy and certainly I would be occasionally mixing in some lower end suited gappers for just the reason you pointed out. Certainly a lot depends on effect stack sizes and how often his 4b is just a big shove. When I believe that to be the case then I will tend towards having less board coverage hands and more polar hands in my 3b vs the sb min.

3. I think folding TT wasnt the best option here. I doubt if I could rewind the tournament that I would do the same. I had just been moved to the table and really had no perception of the players other than knowing Killerroooooo to be a good regular who has played a lot of cash. We can see a good example here of me just kind of trying to hard to protect my stack and letting how deep we are in the tournament change my play somewhat.

in regards to the AJ hand, I was referring to a flat, not a 5b shove. Curious if you think a flat here has merit

Ohh ok, sorry for the confusion. I think that I would consider peeling with AJs. The problem with our specific hand here is vs his bluffs we hit boards that are in our perceived range (monsters KK+, AQs, AKs etc) and if he starts putting pressure on those boards we still aren't too comfortable. The price is good, but we are in a nightmare spot with such a low spr.