Home game tournament, final table
Ironluke60
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Good evening Red Chippers,
I am seeking advice on how I played a hand at a final table of a small home game tournament.
Please bear with me, I haven't posted a hand in quite a while.
The tournament started with about 30 players with 10K chips each, this hand takes place at the final table, 7 players remaining.
Hero's stack: $40K, Villain in the hand has about $50K
Blinds: $750, $1500 with $150 Ante
Hero in the SB with
Action folds around, hero raises to $4000, BB calls (I don't have a ton of information about Villain as he played most of the tournament at a different table than I).
The table was pretty tight and I had not seen this particular player play too many hands. I put him on something like 4,4+, J,10o+, Most Ax suited, and maybe some of the bigger suited connectors. QQ+ and AQ, AK would have been 3-Bet.
Pot $9,050
Flop:
Hero bets $6000, Villain calls.
After the call I thought maybe a 10x hand like J,10, Q,10 or K,10 It's also possible he's trapping with A,8 or 8,9s
Pot: $21,050
Turn:
No change in my thoughts.
Hero bets $16,000, Villain tanks through the entire time bank and eventually calls.
River:
Hero jams for his remaining 14,000 and gets snapped called and shown
The hand is what it is, but I think I made some mistakes in my bet sizing, specifically post flop. I think a jam on the turn would have been optimal (It would have been about $30,000 into a pot of $21,050).
Your opinion on how I played the hand and suggestions on improvements would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers!
I am seeking advice on how I played a hand at a final table of a small home game tournament.
Please bear with me, I haven't posted a hand in quite a while.
The tournament started with about 30 players with 10K chips each, this hand takes place at the final table, 7 players remaining.
Hero's stack: $40K, Villain in the hand has about $50K
Blinds: $750, $1500 with $150 Ante
Hero in the SB with
Action folds around, hero raises to $4000, BB calls (I don't have a ton of information about Villain as he played most of the tournament at a different table than I).
The table was pretty tight and I had not seen this particular player play too many hands. I put him on something like 4,4+, J,10o+, Most Ax suited, and maybe some of the bigger suited connectors. QQ+ and AQ, AK would have been 3-Bet.
Pot $9,050
Flop:
Hero bets $6000, Villain calls.
After the call I thought maybe a 10x hand like J,10, Q,10 or K,10 It's also possible he's trapping with A,8 or 8,9s
Pot: $21,050
Turn:
No change in my thoughts.
Hero bets $16,000, Villain tanks through the entire time bank and eventually calls.
River:
Hero jams for his remaining 14,000 and gets snapped called and shown
The hand is what it is, but I think I made some mistakes in my bet sizing, specifically post flop. I think a jam on the turn would have been optimal (It would have been about $30,000 into a pot of $21,050).
Your opinion on how I played the hand and suggestions on improvements would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers!
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Regardless of the payout structure, I agree on bet sizing. The turn decision is between checking and jamming (highly dependent on the payout structure), but you don't have the stack to do anything in between. However, you might have made your continuation bet a bit larger; $9000 would have set up a more natural pot-sized jam on the turn.
Top 4 got paid.
Thanks for your feedback.
I agree with your post-flop read that he could've been slowplaying trips, but in a way-ahead/way-behind spot, a jam on the turn allows him to play perfectly...he'll just fold out hands that you beat and call you with his trips.