u/A-MUSICAL

Hi all,

I’m an okay, relatively new cash player.

I’m in a city where only tournaments are allowed, and I entered a satellite and won, so now I have until Friday to prepare for the tournament.

I’m reading Modern Poker Theory’s tournament section (which I admittedly skipped every time I read it beforehand whoops) and I’m having trouble understanding why MP has a preflop calling range after a single raise. 

I get that in cash games, you want your range to be decisively stronger than the person who raised before you, and you don’t want to have a capped range and risk having to fold versus an IP 3-bet, so you 3-bet or fold usually.

Why wouldn’t this apply in MTTs? What am I missing? 

Hi all,

I’m an okay, relatively new cash player.

I’m in a city where only tournaments are allowed, and I entered a satellite and won, so now I have until Friday to prepare for the tournament.

I’m reading Modern Poker Theory’s tournament section (which I admittedly skipped every time I read it beforehand whoops) and I’m having trouble understanding why MP has a preflop calling range after a single raise. 

I get that in cash games, you want your range to be decisively stronger than the person who raised before you, and you don’t want to have a capped range and risk having to fold versus an IP 3-bet, so you 3-bet or fold usually.

Why wouldn’t this apply in MTTs? What am I missing? 

EDIT: I see everyone mentioning antes. Just to provide more context, in this tournament there is only an ante from the BB. Not sure if that changes anything or how it is when everyone posts an ante. When everyone does it, is it also 1bb each? Or 1/8 each and it adds up to 1bb per orbit.

Live 1/2, 200 effective

Hero has JTo on the big blind

7 limps, hero isolates to 20, button calls, everyone else folds

Flop AK2 rainbow

H cbets 20, btn calls

Turn Q, completes rainbow. Hero checks. Btn bets 55, hero calls.

River Q, hero checks, btn goes all in for 120 effective.

Hero?