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Cool hand. Effectively we're 40 deep as SB vs slightly looser HJ with 1.5bb antes.

I think as an MTT v a cash reg you might have more experience playing flat pre (vs cash beast who will have played the threebet node a ton). Plus his sizing is small pre. Although there might be an incentive to threebet with him and straddle being deeper (?).

I don't know the preflop but I'd assume folding is not a thing.

What happens FGS 2 ? Do we take in on the chin, min-rebuy as SB and full reload for button ?

Zachary Neugut's avatar

Why not just pure fold a low frequency mix preflop that is hard to play postflop, when you're playing against a substantially better cash-game player (when your edge is in tournaments) and are probably -EV in the game overall until the whale comes back? Seems like you're setting yourself up to get owned by him postflop (when he checks back turn with a pure bet to exploit you), rather than just fold preflop and lose 0.00bb of EV in theory.

Sam Greenwood's avatar

I wasn't playing with my case money. If I bluffed off my stack, I could rebuy. So I think I should play in a way that maximizes my EV. I think three-betting is 0EV compared to calling, but folding would be a rather large mistake.