Supahnit Diary: 2013 Edition (1 Viewer)

[Supahnit]

Oxford English Dictionary

Nit: Applied to persons in contempt or jest. Now esp., a stupid or incompetent person. Colloq. Influenced by nitwit.

As a new member, I have been reading through the hand analysis posts and have been very impressed with the responses. I tend to play live once a quarter and try to take good notes during my sessions. I have a trip planned for this weekend and plan to post several hands for your thoughts.

To kick things off, I wanted to get your advice from a little tournament I played back in 2013. I have provided just a bit of detail to help with the analysis.

I entered a Mega-Satellite for $200 into a $1,125 main event buy-in tournament. I made it through the killing fields and won a seat. The main event was a two day affair with levels beginning at 30 minutes, raising to 40 minutes and then 50 minutes in later levels. Chip stacks were $15k with beginning blinds at 25/50. Total runners were 492 for a prize pool of about $490k.

Somehow, despite my nittiness and marginal ability, I made it to day 2 with a $139k stack versus the average $115k. 65 players remained after day 1 and the tournament paid 54 places.

Through a combination of well-timed bluffs, good folds, and of course nittiness, I find myself at the final table with $630k versus average stack of $738k. There is one chip leader that blows himself up and ends up in 8th.

Final Table Payout Structure: 1- $156k, 2- $65k, 3- $48k, 4- $35k, 5- $26k, 6- $20k, 7- $16k, 8- $12k

With 7 players left I am around $440k in chips, third lowest at the table at blind level of $15k/$30k with $5k ante for about 15 big blinds. Nobody is very low on chips; I am within $50k of the lowest stack. Average raises at this level were around 2.5x the big blind with few confrontations.

Key Hand: I am on the button. UTG raises to 2x the big blind. Folds around the table to me. I decide to call with K10 offsuit. Small and big blind fold. Villain seems to be a good player that has not been too aggressive. I did not play against him until the final table so I did not have much time to observe his play. He is one of the shorter stacks but just has me covered. Flop is QJ3 rainbow. Villain checks. What is my play??

 

[Chippy McChiperson]

Jam

 

[Mr Tree]

I'll be shocked if you get a response that doesn't involve all your chips finding the pot immediately.

 

[DrStrange]

So the pot is 35K (ante) + 45K (blinds) + 120K ( raise and call) = 200K Hero has 380K left.

Prior to the start of the hand hero's "M" was 440/80 or 5.5. Villain faces a similar situation. Villain's UTG range should be wide - it is seven handed and his stack is short. I have doubts about such tiny preflop raises given the post starts out with 80K . . . but what do I know? My tournament skills aren't formidable.

Hero should jam here. Hero seems to have great fold equity since villain's range is polarized by his raise preflop, check the flop line. Villain either missed or is slow playing a big hand.

DrStrange

 

[Mr Tree]

Curious what people think about the preflop call? At an M of 5.5 if we are playing should we shove? Should we fold to the curious bet from UTG with a whole table left behind?

 

[BGinGA]

Jamming pre-flop, never calling with those stack sizes. As played, jamming the flop, regardless if villain bets or not. Dunno what UTG villain is playing, don't care. Gotta get out of the danger zone.

 

[Mr Tree]

Jamming pre-flop, never calling with those stack sizes. As played, jamming the flop, regardless if villain bets or not. Dunno what UTG villain is playing, don't care. Gotta get out of the danger zone.

I dunno I might be able to find a fold here (preflop). If playing I agree I would jam. I prefer to be first in when I have a marginal hand in a position like this. When someone min raises that early in position this late in a tournament it smells really fishy to me. I'd rather have something with a bit more showdown value than K10 in this position.

I would never call preflop though.

By the way shove on that flop all day every day and never blink. It doesn't get much better for K 10 than that.

 

[kirchhausen]

What Mr. Tree said. With that kind of hand you want to be first in. I would probably shove on the button if no action to me, but with the UTG raise I fold. As played however ship that flop

 

[Ben]

Fold pre (you called with KTo? That's not very nitty sir. [emoji15])

Bet 80k on flop. If called, take free card on turn. If he check-jams, you have to make a decision between continuing as the shortstack, or gambling against a very strong range. I imagine a number of factors unrelated to the hand itself would play into that decision.

 

[Supahnit]

So I called the small raise to see if I could hit on the flop. I felt I could get away from the hand if I missed. I placed the villain on a small or mid ace or small pair. His check showed weakness and I went all in to maximize fold equity. I pushed here because I thought had 7-8 outs to make a straight (7 if he had an ace in his hand).

He immediately called my all in with AA and won the hand on a blank turn and river.

Looking back, the somewhat smaller sized raise should have given me some concern since it was different from the standard raises at that time. I should have tightened his range due to him raising under the gun. He played a monster hand exactly as I would have played it: small raise pre-flop to get one or two callers, check on the flop to encourage additional action. I think I made the right call but wanted to get everyone's opinion.

Thanks Much!

 

[Mr Tree]

So I called the small raise to see if I could hit on the flop. I felt I could get away from the hand if I missed. I placed the villain on a small or mid ace or small pair. His check showed weakness and I went all in to maximize fold equity. I pushed here because I thought had 7-8 outs to make a straight (7 if he had an ace in his hand).

He immediately called my all in with AA and won the hand on a blank turn and river.

Looking back, the somewhat smaller sized raise should have given me some concern since it was different from the standard raises at that time. I should have tightened his range due to him raising under the gun. He played a monster hand exactly as I would have played it: small raise pre-flop to get one or two callers, check on the flop to encourage additional action. I think I made the right call but wanted to get everyone's opinion.

Thanks Much!

We've talked about this one before so I know you know my opinion. I have no problem getting it in on that flop with this hand. Just rough luck that your opponent had a hand you were only pulling 6 outs to beat.

I think a preflop fold was in order here though. If it folded to you I think a shove is in order. I don't want to take the risk of fit or folding a flop though by calling with 15% of my stack. I would have shipped or folded personally.

IMO preflop
Fold>Shove>>>Call

 

[Chippy McChiperson]

No problem with the call preflop actually. You are getting 4-1 to call and can get away easily on a bad flop. Just an unfortunate flop for us unfortunately. I do think though you should have taken the unusual bet size under consideration however.

 

[Mr Tree]

No problem with the call preflop actually. You are getting 4-1 to call and can get away easily on a bad flop. Just an unfortunate flop for us unfortunately. I do think though you should have taken the unusual bet size under consideration however.

He was the button not the blind. The call was 60K to win 140K so it was only 2.3 to 1

 

[Chippy McChiperson]

My bad thougt he was bb. Yeah fold pre here probably.

 

[Mr Tree]

Fold pre (you called with KTo? That's not very nitty sir. [emoji15])

Bet 80k on flop. If called, take free card on turn. If he check-jams, you have to make a decision between continuing as the shortstack, or gambling against a very strong range. I imagine a number of factors unrelated to the hand itself would play into that decision.

My instinct is to jam on the flop but thinking about it this is probably a better line. A check jam on the flop indicates a really strong holding which we already have to have well within his range. If we set it down then we still have 300K. We are hurting but a double up keeps us right in the thick of it and every ladder matters this late in the tournament.