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Smells like 88, AQ-AK. Given the way the hand played out and price we are getting on the river, I say good call.

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Yeah for a hyper you stack size isn't bad at all. I'd consider folding here and finding a better spot later.

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Several options and considerations IMO. 1st: Villain is probably opening a million hands there given the stack sizes and that we are on semibubble. Problem is, I think he calls your jam often enough to have very little fold equity in this spot.

2nd: When you jam and he calls, odds are you're going to be around 53% favorite to win. Assuming you have some fold equity, you have a slightly better chance of winning.

3rd: Given point number 2, but now adding the fact that we are on the bubble, I think you shouldn't jam. If the min cash means anything to you, don't shove.

4th: Consider defending and seeing a flop. In the unlikely event that you flop a set on a good board, well, happy days for you. 77 can be good on some other flops where you don't flop a set. If it comes 245, or 365. and even some flops like 349, you could definitely be ahead and profitable with a flop jam. If you call and flop is shit, just get out of there.

5th: There's one player left to act behind you. I think folding is also a good play given the bubble considerations.

I probably would have folded as Fedor's equity in the hand is almost never going to be great. Hands that Fedor fist pumps to when they showdown: 22-44, A2-A5, some other crappy hands like K2-K5 etc. Other than that, Fedor is flipping or behind by a lot. 20bb may not be the happiest of stacks, but it's still 20bb. Don't see the urgent need to call this one down and would rather pick better spots.

I understand that he probably ended up calling because he'd rather take a flip and have a better chance of winning the tournament than fold and still have 20bbs.

Then again, I don't have $51k so who know if what I'm saying is right or not.

C-Betting flop is a decent move, but you do have a range disadvantage here. However, with your preflop raise you are representing some decent hands that are still good on this flop. So your bet could be disguised as a bet for value. Fold to a check-raise but C-bet this and adjust on turn if he calls.

I like that. I think once I made the call, my line post flop was standard. I guess I could flat to let him barrel turn, but not necessarily correct. Pre flop I could fold and pick a better spot.

On the bubble it seems like it's a pretty standard fold.

anything you would have done differently?

I would check the turn in the first hand. My reasoning is that if anything the Ace gave you another way to win the pot. I feel like he could definitely be checking to induce, or checking to go over the top. I like your bet as it allows you to perhaps get a free showdown, but it opens you up to a check raise.

Second hand I would probably fold. If it were a tournament, players might jame 77-TT there, but in a cash game when they limp-shove I feel they always have at least QQ+ and sometimes, AK which you are only flipping against. Unless the opponent is a maniac that would do that just to try to pick up the chips in the middle, you have to fold there and pick a better spot.

Yeah seemed very close. I've been playing a lot of 9 plr sngs and 18 man sngs to practice ICM.

Yeah seemed very close. I've been playing a lot of 9 plr sngs and 18 man sngs to practice ICM.

Something went wrong with saving the hands from the tournament. Here is my rough estimation of things as I remember them.
PokerStars sent me the history, but didn't send me all the hands from the tournament. Found it weird. Rough payouts (7th through to 1st): 89, 115, 185, 200, 250, 380, 500. Something like that.

Stacks in BBs. Me on the button moving clockwise: 10bb, 35bb, 8bb, 20bb, 40bb, 50bb, 90bb. (roughly).

Just realized that. Meant to say "one of the shortest stacks." I think it was something like I had 10bb, SB had 8bb. And maybe another guy had like 14bb. We were the three shortest stacks. Something like that.

Great comment! Thanks :) I think the shove with K8 is right on the line right? Perhaps could wait for a better spot given ICM considerations? And QK was a bad punt on my end.

SB has roughly 15bb. If it was folded to him, I would think that he is folding the weaker part of his range, and min raising the stronger part to induce. What do you think? I guess it will also come down to his tendencies. If he min raise-folds a lot, then defo profitable. With 31/23, doesn't seem too leaky I guess.

Gonna state my opinion. I am trying to improve my tournament game and find myself in similar spots a lot. I think with that hand I would rather open fold or min-raise and fold to a 3bet. My thoughts: You are 3 ppl away from the money, shoving 15bb to win 3bb, and you are almost never getting called by hands you dominate. You are only getting called by better hands. The BB who has 52bb might call you with a weaker hand, but even then, it will only be a hand you are slight favorite against. Also the big 22 is a slow structured tournament, 15bb can be used in better spots IMO. I would much rather open fold, or make it 2x or something close to that, and fold to a 3bet. If, from your experience with the players, you are likely to get 3bet, I think you should just fold A9. What do you guys think?

PS. You are obviously unlucky that he woke up with AK. But that is precisely my point, you are only getting called by hands that beat you, and almost never getting called by hands you dominate. AND you're doing all this while risking 15bb to win 3bb.

In addition to this, I think you that if you believe A9 is too strong to fold, you are better off min raising and calling a shove as their 3bet shove range is going to be weaker than their shove-call range. Again though, even in these spots, I doubt you will be a huge favorite against their middle part of their range.