The cardroom is on the 2nd floor, accessed by a tiny lift. It's a Schindler Lift, incidentally, or that's what my records have it List-ed as.

There are also stairs.

Whoosh

/phail whoosh; the pun is obvious (especially when it's explained in a subclause for the very slow)

Leaving aside the bad puns I thought I'd provide some useful info to aid those soon to be stuck in a queue for a cramped lift

The cardroom is on the 2nd floor, accessed by a tiny lift. It's a Schindler Lift, incidentally, or that's what my records have it List-ed as.

There are also stairs.

Defo heavier

Its to do with the energy associated with entropy

this isnt my field, but i believe this is a design choice and you could theoretically design this to work in reverse with the kindle getting lighter as it fills up?

In the absence of more illuminating information and assuming you haven't seen a river shove from him before, i agree with alex that your line is fine. 

screw that.  Just double checked your stack and the river shove is only for $15 effective not $36.  in the absence of information i'd call now

perfect imo. wp

Should I not make a decision on the turn and stick with it? As I have to act first OTR.

I can't fold to the min raise to the turn can I? Or can I?

it depends.  this could easily be a marginal hand looking to showdown cheap, intending to check the river back and have you fold equity sometimes.  If he habitually bombs the river after raising turn then your line is setting money on fire.

VPIP/PFR dont tell us much here other than that he could have a 4 here.  Look at aggression frequencies on turn and river, what he usually does to a turn cbet etc.

In the absence of more illuminating information and assuming you haven't seen a river shove from him before, i agree with alex that your line is fine. 

villian has hero comfortably covered on the bubble.

His range is AUs wider than people are giving him credit for imo

check/call is awesome because it keeps all his floats and low equity hands in.  I fistpump check/call the shove expecting to make bank.

Against a smaller turn bet you can check/call two streets or check/shove turn depending on opponent and exact sizing.  A 35k turn bet par example puts 122k in the pot and 54k effective behind.  Against a lot of live players who habitually check back the river we might be better off just jamming here and hoping they spazz call.  If you think he can double barrel and his manner and/or sizing seems to be setting up a river shove then look uncomfortable and dwell call the turn then snap call the river shove and cackle as you rake in the pot.

otf i like to bet 925ish, def less than 1000 to induce light calls and some spewy raises.

+1 for keeping cbet under 1k. b/c obv

we're getting a horrendous price and against his value range we are not good  and all his semi bluffs we have blockers for

what value range? he's shoving 2.5x pot on turn into an opponent showing either weakness or extreme strength.  I don't see how we can ever give villian sets or AK.  If he shows up any stronger than KJ I'd be shocked.  Pair+draw or flush draws that picked up a straight out on turn seem way more likely.

And this is completely ignoring the fact that hero is only interested in the top pay spots.

fold.

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we're given the assumption he wants to win/top 3 with zero interest in limping into a min cash, he has SD value and lots of nizzle rivers, having shown weakness to induce on turn - how can we do anything other than call?

Play it any differently up to this point?

I would likely cbet flop for a little less and play turn and pre the same way

No interest in min cashing

call?

tbh i'd expect him to have a combo most of the time and we probably have best hand best draw

He will know I'm never 3 betting too light here, he will also know that I know he knows that.

Why are you never 3bing a LAG light here?
If you're having trouble pulling the trigger on attacking his opens for fear of him shoving over the top, then this should be a double fist pump call as you crush a loose 4b range. 
If you think his 4b range is nutted and he's folding the vast majority of his open range here then you're turning QQ into a bluff by 3bing and should be flatting pre - or much more preferably hop into a time machine, go back a few orbits and start attacking his opens fairly wide so when he shoves on your 3b and you're holding QQ you can celebrate appropriately.

You set tarp and underrep your aces.  Guy ships on a damp but not horrible flop.  Money goes in.

It doesn't approach a decision point unless both villians have shoved in front of you and are now spinning on their chairs singing to themselves.

Pre is shrug - straddles don't love folding, but I see why you want to keep V2 in hand.  V2 ships on you - Gratz, mission accomplished.  Your money should be in the middle.

I jam without too much thought, buddy.

The other options seem... dubious.

While I can imagine a theoretical villian for call/fold, I'm not entirely sure they exist in reality.

Spence, our equity on the flop isn't huge here and getting c/raised makes us hate life. The most important thing imo about PLO8 is being prepared to check back flops a lot of the time when we don't have ridic strong hands. We don't want people folding their worse low draws on the flop if they don't have anything else.

I don't disagree with any of this, but here we've 3b pre and got a flop that should fit our 3b range pretty well, while stacks are awkward for him to checkraise.  I just don't think we get checkraised here very often at all, esp in a tournament and esp in a low-buyin tourney.  And betting means lots of good things can happen.  We're happy if he just folds, we can take free card or barrel turn depending, and the pot bloat in position with plenty of money behind favours us.

Had we flatted pre and been led into then i would just flat this flop.

maybe in a $3 tournament betting the river is ok because people will be bad and call with worse/no-hands etc.

betting this river against anyone competent without a very good reason to is a huge mistake and where I get a lot of my edge in split pot games.

given the action you're getting 3 quartered by one hand, A288 (maybe A258 as well)  and there's a ton of hands that will bet for value and call the raise.  I see your general point about it being really bad when they do have you 3/4 and come back over the top, but a) with this action and board its incredibly unlikely for him to have you beat, and b) this is less of a problem in tournaments generally as tournament stacks will restrict the 3b to being less than full pot.