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Played this for the first time on Friday and bagged 140k chips at the end of the day. Is that a good amount for Day 2 or? I ask cause the chip leader into Day 2 has 1.2 million.

EDIT: I see a lot of people attacking me for asking this. Well, I’m a cancer patient and playing the main was a bucket list for me. So yea, not much tournament experience.
P.S. Most of those negative people deleted their comments.

He must have just gotten stubborn on the river. But, dang, that jam is almost never getting through given how the hand played out.

I am playing a $300 50k gtd at my local casino.. There were 106 entries, and 13 made it to day 2. The blinds were currently 3000/6000, and were due to go up in 13 minutes. There is currently 15 people left, and low-jack opens to 20k (competent reg who plays tourneys often). I am basically the smallest stack at my table, and it folds to me on the small blind and I have JJ with 96k (good for 15bb), and I decide to go all in.

The lowjack calls and has TT and there’s a T on the flop and I do not suck out.

I mostly play cash, so I am not really well versed with ICM and was wondering if anyone had any advice as to if this is simply just a cooler, or if I should be doing things differently knowing we are 2 away from day 2.

Any replies would be great, thanks!

Are you playing purely because you enjoy the game?
Or is it really just an addictive form of gambling dressed up as a game to you?
Be honest.

I realized I’m going to be in Vegas on a trip during Day 8 of the Main. How accessible is it to spectate the featured table(s)? Is it free? Is it busy? How’s the experience? Etc.

Rookie question but if I’m opening to 15 in 1/3 NLHE and get multiple callers each time, is the answer go start increasing until I see more folds? I started doing it and opening to 25 but got some angry looks from people in the casino just trying to see flops since I’m not ever limping.

Relatedly, why do some people open to 12 or 18 or 22, why not even numbers like 10, 15, 20?

Wasn’t me, but for the sake of discussion I’ll use hero & villain. 2/5 cash game.

Hero: QcQs
Villain: XX

Hero raises UTG+1 to 25
SB calls
Villain calls from BB

Flop Ad As Jc

Checks around

Turn 10d

Check, Villain bets 35, Hero calls, SB calls

River Qd

SB bets 40, Villain raises to 125, Hero Re-raises to 300, SB folds, Villain goes all in for 830

>!Villain had AJ!<

I am retiring my Tom Dwan cosplay - OMC era officially begins.

Turns out the average 10NL player does not care about my beautifully balanced triple-barrel bluff. He has top pair. He is calling.

I'm becoming the biggest nit this player pool has ever seen.

Do not resist. The nitfest will get you too.

See you at the tables.

https://preview.redd.it/n9ouq4v2hfbh1.png?width=2704&format=png&auto=webp&s=445fc20051e79109bb8edc91d4dcf78ac7b53b9e

1/2 NL, ~$700 effective

I’m viewed as fairly tight by V, he’s constantly joking about how I only play QJs and better.

I open 33 to $10 from UTG+2. Four callers including V, a loose-passive friendly fish in the BB.

Flop ($50): JT3r
V donks $15. I raise to $50. Folds back to V, who calls.

Turn ($150): 4x
V checks. I bet $100. He calls.

River ($350): 8x
V now leads $300.

Some reads on him:

* Loose-passive home-game player.
* I’ve never seen him bluff in hours.
* Just 2 mins ago he slowplayed the nuts in another hand: opens $20 with AKo, CO & BTN call.

Flop ($60): JTx
He checks, CO checks, BTN bets $45, he calls, CO calls

Turn ($195): Qx
Checks around

River ($195): 8x
He checks, CO bets $100, BTN folds, he check raises to $225, BTN calls with T9o and he tables AKo

* Another hand, he called my PFR, check-called three half-pot bets with J7o on a JT832 board versus my KK.

The sizing in this hand was what really got me. In 5+ hours I don’t think I’d seen him make a bet anywhere near this large, especially into me, whom he views as fairly tight.

At the table I thought:

* Q9 gets there, but would he really donk the flop with an OESD?
* Would he pot the river with JT/J8/T8 for value?
* Or is this population just massively underbluffing this node?
* He also didn’t raise big with AK when he made the nuts, so does he really blast PSB with Q9 here?

Given the live reads and sizing, are you calling or folding here? Is this an exploitative fold versus this profile, or is bottom set simply too high up in my range to let go?

So it's an online MTT with ~300 entrants. Top 10 get a ticket, nothing to play for after that. We're down to 11 players, I'm 5 handed with 0 short stacks. There are 3 short stacks on the other 6 handed table, which I'm watching obviously.

One player has ~3-4 BBs and two have < 1 BB. The player with the shortest stack has 0.3 BBs and is sitting to the left of the second shortest stack at 0.4 BBs.

The blinds move round so the 2nd shortest stack is now BB and obviously all-in. The short stack is UTG and uses his entire time bank. I'm thinking, "is he just time wasting here? Just fold and hope the forced all-in guy loses." He eventually calls and turns over AA.

Given he's the shortest stack, if he calls here with AA and doesn't beat everyone in the pot, he misses out on a ticket. They're going to be at least 3 ways too because the SB will be forced in (since UTG and BB have <0.5 BBs). I think mathematically it makes sense to call because AA vs 2 random hands is ~75% to win, whereas if he folds it'll be 50% for the BB to win/lose vs the SB.

However, this ignores the fact that all of the other stacks at the table should be limping here. Everyone is incentivised to call preflop just to increase the chance of knocking someone out, especially given having a bigger stack is useless after the next elimination, so the risk is near-zero. Winning with AA against 6 random hands is only ~25% likely. If they fold and everyone else calls, the BB only has a 20% chance to win (5 random hands).

Obviously we don't know if all the other players are smart enough to know to limp with any 2 cards in this spot though.

What would you do?