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In position you you should aim to 3bet around 3x the opening. By virtually min3betting you give villain over 3:1 on his call, so he can probably profitably call with his whole range, which is not necessarily something we want to happen. You also invite cold calls when you would prefer a HU flop. I think both 3betting and calling are fine here, though it has merits to get that hand HU.

I also prefer a check on the flop I think. I'm kind of one the fence here, because for one we could use some protection against overcard combos, but on the other hand a cbet in a 3way pot always looks strong. Also there are not necessarily that many overcard combos (AJ, KJ, as AK might get 4bet pre). So I am not sure about this one. If I were to cbet, I would bet a bit less. I have no intention to play for stacks and there not a lof of snignificant draws. While writing this, I come to the conclusion that cbetting something around the 1/3 pot mark is probably the wy to got here. Given how strong it looks, we might get folds from overcards and we keep a pot, in which we do not have a ton of interest once called, small.

Can't fold preflop given the pot odds. I agree that you will often see fun players do this with big pairs, but they also can show up with other hands from time to time.

I don't think raising is an option given the ICM considerations. Two somewhat smaller stacks essentially means the big stacks can easily put pressure on us and force us to fold. So it is either shove or fold in this spot I think. QJs is slightly profitable as a cEV shove, so it is likely not +$EV. Since we do not have the payout structure, a clear $EV answer is not possible. All analysis I ran through HRC with a random structure though point to it being a clear fold.

If your opponents are especially tight, you might get away with a r/f. Can't see that raise/calling is a good idea ever though. You will have to fold too often on the flop losing those chips hurts us much more than the potential chips we could.

Also, there are apparently no antes. Is that correct?

Also, to further expand one what tbettingen, if CO is ICM aware he will tighten up somewhat further than in cEV spots due to the fact that BB covers him and can put him in a bad spot.

Yep, JTo if just not good enough a hand to raise with seven player's behind in general. With your stacksize it is even worse. With 20bb you should be even more careful in picking your spots. Calling the 3bet oop than is pure spew. Just look how JTo fares against villain's 3betting range, it is not good.

If you think he is 3betting light, you could shove preflop, but you would need some chunk of FE (which is hard given stacksizes). Even more reason too only open with a tight range in this spot.

Great video! Love the content, a lot of valuable info on how to study. Will definitely rewatch an implement things of it into my routine (already copied the hand categories). Also picked up "Mindset" from Carol Dweck from the shelf to re-read on the fixed vs, growth mindset issue.

Looking forward to your future videos, the teased structure (with implementation of the discussed theory) sounds awesome.The syllabus also looks very interesting.

One question regarding module #9: Will this focus mostly on preflop (as in r/f vs openshove or shoving ranges respectively) or also include postflop adjustments? I would assume covering both would be a bit daunting for one video, but given how prevalent cold calls are in lower stake MTTs, some content on how postflop play changes with decreased stacks would be awesome.
Same also goes for module #10. Obviously preflop implications of ICM are prevalent, but some content on how ICM changes postflop would also be tremendously valuable.

If you could shed some light on these topics, that would be terrific and I would appreciate it greatly.