$330 bounty hand

hiphopopotamus

$330 bounty tournament at Deerfoot today. Bounties are $100.

$10k starting and blinds are 100/200. My starting table seems strangely strong. We've played together for an hour but haven't seen many hands because our dealer is terrible.

Button: A middle aged guy who flew in from Vancouver. Seems like he plays for a living. Just got sucked out on for a big pot the hand before and he's down to 1700 or so. Seems like a solid TAG.

SB: Young-ish guy. Plays somewhat LAG-ish and seems solid too. He's up to 13-14k or so.

BB: Me. Probably have a fairly tight image at this point. More or less blinded down to 7.5k.

It folds around to button who ships. SB thinks for a second and re-ships. What should my calling range be against two decent players? I'm assuming button is pretty wide and SB's is wider than in a normal tournament because of the fairly large bounty. Not sure what I should be calling off with. Someone better than me please tell me.

djgolfcan

TT+ AJs+ would be my calling range.

Your analysis of the button and small blind is exactly what I would be thinking.

GTA Poker

How's the cash action at Deerfoot? I may be heading down tomorrow.

hiphopopotamus

GTA Poker;358207 wroteHow's the cash action at Deerfoot? I may be heading down tomorrow.

Wasn't the greatest. 3 1/2, 1 2/5 and 1 5/10.

Not sure if that's better than usual. This was my first time playing here in like 5 or 6 years.

hiphopopotamus

I was thinking 99+ and AT+ but I'm not sure if that's too loose. Out of curiosity, you say AJs+. Does that mean you're folding AJo?

BlondeFish

LAG wants to isolate short stack for his $100 bounty and I would put his bounty jamming range to be at least as wide as [44+ A4s+ A8o+ KTs+ KQo QJs]. I would call with ~[77+ AJs+ AJo+].

hiphopopotamus;358212 wroteI was thinking 99+ and AT+ but I'm not sure if that's too loose. Out of curiosity, you say AJs+. Does that mean you're folding AJo?

djgolfcan

hiphopopotamus;358212 wroteI was thinking 99+ and AT+ but I'm not sure if that's too loose. Out of curiosity, you say AJs+. Does that mean you're folding AJo?

After I typed it, I I realized that I am not folding AJos.

hiphopopotamus

BlondeFish;358221 wroteLAG wants to isolate short stack for his $100 bounty and I would put his bounty jamming range to be at least as wide as [44+ A4s+ A8o+ KTs+ KQo QJs]. I would call with ~[77+ AJs+ AJo+].

If you're the SB, is anyone iso-ing wider than this? I was initially thinking I would do it with as weak as 67 suited for a chance at the $100 bounty since dipping to 12k from 14k isn't that big of a deal.

GTA Poker

hiphopopotamus;358496 wroteIf you're the SB, is anyone iso-ing wider than this? I was initially thinking I would do it with as weak as 67 suited for a chance at the $100 bounty since dipping to 12k from 14k isn't that big of a deal.

Depends on what I think of the BB and what my image is at the time, but in some cases I think a much wider isolation is correct.

hiphopopotamus

My image was probably fairly tight. In addition to registering late, our dealer was terrible so even though it was early third level (about 1 hour and 10 minutes into the tournament), we'd played maybe twenty hands. I'd played the couple of hands that I did pretty passive as they were small pairs and I was just set-mining.

So yeah, AT was probably the very bottom of my range and I ended up calling off with it. I did not win the hand.

BlondeFish

Some "bounty hunters" widen their range too much even though the total prize pool is much bigger than one bounty. What did the puck & SB have?

hiphopopotamus;358510 wroteSo yeah, AT was probably the very bottom of my range and I ended up calling off with it.

hiphopopotamus

SB had AJ. Can't remember what the button had but he was drawing pretty much dead on the JTx flop.

Wetts1012

General thought, but isn't a click back/fold here better than an iso shove if you're the sb? I think BF range is around what I would iso with in this spot (maybe a bit tighter)

T8urmoney

BlondeFish;358221 wrote I would call with ~[77+ AJs+ AJo+].

This was my exactly my range, but add ATo

hiphopopotamus

Wetts1012;358538 wroteGeneral thought, but isn't a click back/fold here better than an iso shove if you're the sb? I think BF range is around what I would iso with in this spot (maybe a bit tighter)

Button ships for 1700. BB min-raises to 3200. I ship for 7500.

You'd be calling 4500 for a pot of 8100, a chance to pick up two bounties and still have like 30bb if you lost. I don't think you could ever fold there, could you?

BlondeFish

With AJ in the SB, I would have 3-bet all-in too. With AT in the BB needing ~44% pot odds/equity & my $100 bounty on the line, I would fold AT & take note of SB's all-in range.

hiphopopotamus;358552 wroteYou'd be calling 4500 for a pot of 8100, a chance to pick up two bounties and still have like 30bb if you lost. I don't think you could ever fold there, could you?

GTA Poker

hiphopopotamus;358552 wroteButton ships for 1700. BB min-raises to 3200. I ship for 7500.

You'd be calling 4500 for a pot of 8100, a chance to pick up two bounties and still have like 30bb if you lost. I don't think you could ever fold there, could you?

BlondeFish

This bounty strategy thread has me itching for my first live bounty tourney in years. Anybody else going to Tuesday's Brantford Bounty tourney with 12.5% rake? The last time I played live, I ended up with ten bounty chips!

I love bounty tourneys, but Party is the only room in the world that I know of that a short stack can win the bounty of a bigger stack. :bs: For example, if 3 players are all-in, you with a million chips have a better hand than the mid stack so you bust him & win the side pot, micro stack with one chip has the best hand so he wins 3 chips, but instead of giving the bounty to you since you have mid-stack covered, Party gives the bounty to Mr. One Chip even though it is impossible for him to bust anybody. :rolleyes:

EdtheTed

AA, KK, QQ, JJ, AK is about it when I am third into an 'all in' so early in the tournament. Against "decent" players? With 37.5 BB why do you need to commit your stack? You are only getting 2.2 to 1 on your money.