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Tricky hand in 6max tourney, 18 players remaining...

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  1. BscHons BscHons is offline

    Milton
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    May 6th, 2012 (5/6/2012 11:43pm)

    Villain has been v. active and aggressive, and had been 3betting a lot (VPIP 30 PFR 26 3BET 13% from 192 hands).

    I considered 4b/c, but I felt 99s would play well in position here, and I didn't like the idea of shoving 99s for nearly 40bbs so late in the tourney (I chickened out!).

    First, what are everyone's thoughts on 4bet/c here? This late on, should I be factoring in ICM and if so, how (I have very little understanding of how ICM should effect our decision making process)?

    The main reason I have posted this hand is to get some feedback on the turn play...what would you guys do on the turn here?


    pokerstars Hand #79559437368: Tournament #549572188, $8.00+$0.80 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XV (300/600) - 2012/04/28 5:28:39 WET [2012/04/28 0:28:39 ET]
    Table '549572188 34' 6-max Seat #2 is the button
    Seat 1: subtest (45803 in chips)
    Seat 2: Mércurial (22732 in chips)
    Seat 3: sergrom (30994 in chips)
    Seat 4: fixmer (17165 in chips)
    Seat 5: Vitaly Wolf (43011 in chips)
    Seat 6: goldenpkrgrl (20292 in chips)
    subtest: posts the ante 70
    Mércurial: posts the ante 70
    sergrom: posts the ante 70
    fixmer: posts the ante 70
    Vitaly Wolf: posts the ante 70
    goldenpkrgrl: posts the ante 70
    sergrom: posts small blind 300
    fixmer: posts big blind 600
    *** HOLE CARDS ***
    Dealt to Mércurial [9c 9d]
    Vitaly Wolf: folds
    goldenpkrgrl: folds
    subtest: folds
    Mércurial: raises 630 to 1230
    sergrom: raises 1770 to 3000
    fixmer: folds
    Mércurial: calls 1770
    *** FLOP *** [7h Ts Td]
    sergrom: bets 2700
    Mércurial: calls 2700
    *** TURN *** [7h Ts Td] [7c]
    sergrom: bets 4200
    Mércurial.....
  2. SteveSteelz SteveSteelz is offline

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    May 7th, 2012 (5/7/2012 12:59am) in reply to BscHons

    Against a very loose player I'd prefer to 4b. You most likely have the best hand and he is going to drive you nuts oop dealing with any overs on the board as happened in the hand. A small 4b will prob not accomplish our goal to punish him and take away his position. I'd go big to around 10k or shove on him. ICM shouldn't be much of a factor here at 18 left unless there are good pay jumps in the next few positions. There usually aren't from 18-11 so don't worry about that. That becomes more important on the final table when pay jumps are larger. You can maybe think about that in a much larger trny if pay jumps are significant from level to level.
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