OK, I'm new to Blonde (obv) so please be gentle with me. I'm a rec player, but take it seriously and have been playing for 10+ years now. I can only play about one (max 2) games per week due to work/family commitments, and I rarely sit at the cash tables. I know I'm waaaayyyy behind the skill level of a lot of the ppl who post on here, so please don't shred me. Like I said, please be gentle.
Type of Game:
£75 + £10 NLH MTT @ Genting Luton
Number of Runners: Second Flight of 3 x Day 1's
Number of Runners remaining: 18 of 48 (+ 33 RE's!)
Payout information if relevant: £15,000 GTE + 10 x £165 seats. £12k in the pot after 2nd flight.
Blind levels/Clock length: Clock is 40m throughout, and we are in the final level of the day (Level 10), so the blinds are 800/1600/200a.
- going to be 1k/2k/200a in L11
Your stack size: c.210k
Stack Sizes of relevant opposition: chunks - prob 460k
In the hand concerned your position at the table and that of relevant opposition: I'm OTB, villain is BB
What is your image? I've got a pretty tight image, but shown a bluff for balance. He may not have been at the table to see it.
What is the image of the opponents concerned? Is there any history? Any reads? He's a young aggro player, not shy to play any two IP or OOP with his stack. Tendency to be verbally aggressive even after winning a big pot, keen to demonstrate that "he knew all along" or that he knows your hand even when no showdown.
What is the situation? Describe as fully as you can? Playing 8-handed in the last level, the play has been fairly cautious by most players. I've only been involved in 2 hands up to this point with the villain. First, I defended my BB with KTdd to his min raise from utg+2, then c/f the flop. Second, I raise in ep with AJcc, he plus 1 other call behind; I c-bet a AT6r flop, both call: Turn is
bringing NFD, I bet half pot & both fold. He says "You got too greedy with your AK".
OK, so hand in question:
Vietnamese last limps from shortstack (30k-ish) MP, I have
OTB & raise to 5500. SB folds, villain takes a 25k chip and fiddles with a few of the others before flicking in a bet of 32k. The lady folds. After pausing to reflect on the size of this bet, I say "Why so big? Don't want to see a flop with a small pair?". He says that the sizing was an error, but I don't believe it was. I decide to peel. Flop
& I'm insta-regretting opening my big gob; I don't often do speech play, and now there's a note to self. He leads for 55k into a 67k pot. Since I've already been chatty, I say "That's a rather large bet for a set" but he's gone statue-like. I cut out the 55k from my stack, and decide to call one more to evaluate after the Turn, which is
. He leads for 75k, and I have 130k behind (ish).
What questions do you want answered? Should I be getting the rest of my stack in here, or should I fold & go through to Day 2 with a 65BB stack and find a better spot? I know I got myself into a tricky spot with my chat about small pair. However, after the turn there's just so many hands that are beating me, including JJ & QQ that he may have played this way - although I'd kind of ruled out QQ+ due to the size of his 3b pf.
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