Playing in a monthly league tournament, $40 buy-in ($5 bounty, $5 to final game). 25 players started and Hero and Villain have been heads-up for about 10 hands now, both going into this hand with exactly 127k in chips and blinds at 4k/8k. About 5 minutes left in this level, then blinds go to 6k/12k. 1st place pays $200, 2nd is $160.
Hero feels he has an edge over Villain, who tends to play a wide range pre-flop but is pretty passive post-flop unless he has an actual hand, when he overbets the hell of it. Villain has also been uncharacteristically giving walks from button/SB and folding to smallish (2.25ish) Hero raises from button. Probably catching a lot of rags cause I would expect him to be playing any suited connectors and hands like Kx, Q8, etc. He has open shoved twice from the button/SB, which I'm thinking could be any pair, broadways, Aces, all the way up to AA... he would probably play them all the same.
Regardless, Hero has been gradually chipping away at the monster stack Villain had going into the final table and feels like he plays straightforward enough that he can out-maneuver him in good spots. At the same time, we are not particularly deep and there's not a lot of room for fancy poker to be played. You can probably see where this is going by now, so here we go...
Blinds 4k/8k, Villain and Hero both have 127k on the dot.
Hero is in SB/button with 88. Hero raises to 18k (feel free to critique this)
Villain snap shoves
Hero...???
Hero feels he has an edge over Villain, who tends to play a wide range pre-flop but is pretty passive post-flop unless he has an actual hand, when he overbets the hell of it. Villain has also been uncharacteristically giving walks from button/SB and folding to smallish (2.25ish) Hero raises from button. Probably catching a lot of rags cause I would expect him to be playing any suited connectors and hands like Kx, Q8, etc. He has open shoved twice from the button/SB, which I'm thinking could be any pair, broadways, Aces, all the way up to AA... he would probably play them all the same.
Regardless, Hero has been gradually chipping away at the monster stack Villain had going into the final table and feels like he plays straightforward enough that he can out-maneuver him in good spots. At the same time, we are not particularly deep and there's not a lot of room for fancy poker to be played. You can probably see where this is going by now, so here we go...
Blinds 4k/8k, Villain and Hero both have 127k on the dot.
Hero is in SB/button with 88. Hero raises to 18k (feel free to critique this)
Villain snap shoves
Hero...???