I played a hand yesterday that left me feeling bad. 10% of the field was already in the money. A Brazilian in the cutoff raised, and I defended with 9To the big blind with 25 big blinds. The flop came 55Tss, so the cutoff bet 18k to 53k. I raised to 63k, he called, and then came a 4h. At that point, the turn spr was 1, which is 18 big blinds. I went all-in, and he called with AA, and I lost. I think I confused playing fast here; the flop spr is 4.5. My question is, in ICM situations, what's the flop spr limit for playing fast or slow in these kinds of situations? Do you think it's a big mistake to play it like that?
I think your flop raise size is too large. You tend to play very linear on flops like this and raise most of your continues. With 25bbs to start half pot is too large a raise size when you're raising linearly. I also think the turn is not the best size. If you shove he probably folds a hand like 66. You'd rather bet third pot or half pot so you can maybe get double floated by AK high type hands. This also lets you bluff some no equity hands, which is nice because you can bluff the turn and still be left with 8-10bbs after the hand when you're bluffing, which means you'd still be alive in the tourney.
However my general note is you could not have "gotten away" from T9 here, facing a CO raise your hand is too strong and needs to stack off on this board.
Sam, I have a question. What does it mean to play very linearly on the flop with continuations? I understand that I only continue with 5x, Tx, and flush draws—hands with high equity—and bad hands, like 9Jo, fold there? Would that be considered a linear continuation?
What I mean is you check raise most of your contuining range and the hands you raise are almost always your highest EV hands. If the board were say AK5 flush draw. You checkraise a more polar range where you might checkraise hands like 54 or 32, but would never checkraise a hand like KJ which is a higher EV hand.
I played a hand yesterday that left me feeling bad. 10% of the field was already in the money. A Brazilian in the cutoff raised, and I defended with 9To the big blind with 25 big blinds. The flop came 55Tss, so the cutoff bet 18k to 53k. I raised to 63k, he called, and then came a 4h. At that point, the turn spr was 1, which is 18 big blinds. I went all-in, and he called with AA, and I lost. I think I confused playing fast here; the flop spr is 4.5. My question is, in ICM situations, what's the flop spr limit for playing fast or slow in these kinds of situations? Do you think it's a big mistake to play it like that?
I think your flop raise size is too large. You tend to play very linear on flops like this and raise most of your continues. With 25bbs to start half pot is too large a raise size when you're raising linearly. I also think the turn is not the best size. If you shove he probably folds a hand like 66. You'd rather bet third pot or half pot so you can maybe get double floated by AK high type hands. This also lets you bluff some no equity hands, which is nice because you can bluff the turn and still be left with 8-10bbs after the hand when you're bluffing, which means you'd still be alive in the tourney.
However my general note is you could not have "gotten away" from T9 here, facing a CO raise your hand is too strong and needs to stack off on this board.
Sam, I have a question. What does it mean to play very linearly on the flop with continuations? I understand that I only continue with 5x, Tx, and flush draws—hands with high equity—and bad hands, like 9Jo, fold there? Would that be considered a linear continuation?
What I mean is you check raise most of your contuining range and the hands you raise are almost always your highest EV hands. If the board were say AK5 flush draw. You checkraise a more polar range where you might checkraise hands like 54 or 32, but would never checkraise a hand like KJ which is a higher EV hand.
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