Live $400 MTT Two hands.

[Onitsuka]

Live tournament in local casino, $400 buyin with 55 players. Tournament is a double chance freezeout with 4000+4000 starting stack and 1 hour levels.

Hero takes the full 8k before the tourney starts as do around half of the players, the rest wait until they bust the 4k to rebuy.

In the following hand hero is late middle poistion.
Blinds 200/400
Hero - 9k
SB - 5k
BB - ~17k

I had been playing very tight due to the very shallow starting stack, I had seen one flop and made a resteal once pre.

I have played one pot with SB before where he called my late position rasie from BB (100/200 blinds, raise to 700) and led out on the flop for 1k, he folded to my allin raise to 5k total (I had nothing but felt like he was testing me, I didnt feel I could put in a smaller raise so chose the allin overbet). I felt like he was trying to keep my in line.

BB is a fairly donkish calling station who has a huge stack thanks to catching the nuts in a very big pot early. He isn't playing too out of line but i feel he would overplay hands.

All fold to hero who open raises to 1200.
2 folds and SB flat calls, as does big blind.

Flop KJx two clubs, sb checks and BB leads for 2.5k. I felt his call preflop could be very light and he would lead to see where he is with alot of hands. What does hero need to call here or raise with?

We'll give hero KQo, is this a hand that a call would be reasonable with? An allin from hero would make any hand he beats fold but hands like Kx or QJ may overvalue themselves if he flat calls.

We will say hero calls and SB c/r allin for 1300 more. BB and hero both call.

Turn is an offsuit 2 and BB checks to hero. Should hero push here to knock BB off any possible draw and attempt to get hu vs the allin player?

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Hand 2

Hero - 7.5k
Villian - Covers
Blinds - 300/600

Hero picks up 1010 UTG+1 and makes it 2k. Villian is SB from previous hand and flat calls from C/O, all others fold.

Villian has called 3 of my preflop raises when I have been playing fairly tight, he may just be getting hands vs me or he may have disdain for me since I pushed him off his hand first time.

Flop comes all unders.

Hero.....


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I've played about 2 tournaments all year, focusing all my attention on short handed/HU cash games. I am trying to get back into playing tournaments as I really used to enjoy them.

I am obviously very rusty, but hope to contribute more to the forum as I improve my mtt game.

Thanks for any help/criticism.

[AtlasRaised]

8000 is a shallow starting stack??? what were the initial blinds?

Hand 1: no, check. you only have 4k behind and the pot is huge at 15k. you arent pushing him off anything. Plus you are very likely behind here. Take a free river.

Hand 2: Shove. No question. Pot is 4600 and you have 5k behind.

BTW,

This sounds like an extremely good structure and a nice little prize pool. Is the $400 accounting for both buy-ins? or is it $800 total? Where is this tournament?

[willie]

question 1 is pretty confusing.


question 2-i see nothing wrong with pushing. Any bet less most likely commits you...

7k stack
2k preflop bet

5k left, pot is 4900

cram, run into set, busto, rinse repeat.

[Onitsuka]

The double chance freezeout is fairly popular in UK based events. It is $400 buyin like a regular freezeout but you get half your chips at the start and the option to take the second half at any point in the first few levels.

It's like a $200 with forced one rebuy.

The starting blinds were 100/200 which was really stupid considering they were allowing 1 hour levels. The casino in question often ruins perfectly good comps by changing some part of the structure. Most of the players were playing 20BB from the start, and the rest of us 40.