BackgroundSaturday played a 2 day comp and this hand came up right at the very end, but first some stuff about the comp and also a few hands of note in lead up to this one.
So the comp is in Rainbow Bristol (used to be Gala) and known as Bristol Masters, a £220 comp with 25k gtd, but hit £46 k prizepool. The field is mainly made up of local regs and satelliters (from a very low buy in/freeroll format programme run over several months). There are a few decent online players in the field too, but not many at all. Its not as high profile as alot of other comps.
I've been at the same table all day and the standard has been pretty low. That said it was the sort of table where you get a stack, or something really bizarre happens and you stack off. I've probably been one of the nitiest players on my table, but have grown my stack to 65k from 25k at its peak.
About 45 minutes before I get in a bit of an interesting hand, where I raise pre...get a few callers..have to check flop, but pick up draw on turn and bet out - only to get shoved on for 70% of my stack by a very nitty player I know. I make the lay down, but a couple of personable chaps ask what it is I was thinking about for so long - kinda prompted to me stoving the hand afters. Little foolish, but they're kinda matey and we've been chatting all day, so I chat through a few bits about ranges etc with a couple of others joining in. Not the kind of thing I normally do but I thought it wouldn't harm my image (as I think some think I'm mindlessly laggy having just seen me on FT's). I'm happy enough that the hand in question was marginal fold...
I then get another hand where raise pre utg with ako, utg+1 (know in hh as BB, very abc but leaky) flats...we see jjx flop i cb he calls...and (perhaps regrettably) I check down turn/river to lose to 77.
All in all I should say my image for the day is solid, using aggression in the right spots and folds in others. That said, villain in next hand has seen me be lairy as hell on last couple of tables, so a little uncertain as to how I'm seen. I was kinda hoping my quick range chat had bestowed a little nitiness back into my image!
The HandSo now my stack has shrivelled to 41k with the blinds at 600/1200 a100.
Villains:
CO: Been getting active towards end of the day...has had bursts of aggression throughout the day, but generally passive to my 3betting when I come out to play.
Btn: Another beginning to get a little wide, kind of a poor ABC player - but not relevant to hand tbh.
SB: Me, as above. TAG?
BB: Poor abc, maybe passive but known to do leaky stuff.
CO (45000): Raises to 3000
Btn (75000): Calls 3000
Me (42000):
(was gonna 3bet CO) calls 3000
BB (39000): Calls 3000.
Flop (Pot 13000):
I check
BB donks 4000
CO raises to 14000
Btn folds
Me?
QuestionI am happy that this is a great +ev jamming spot. I'll pick up a lot of folds a good % of time and obv be in great shape for huge pot if I hit when called. Have had vvvvg online player confirm this and happy with his thoughts on hand. Not undermining that with this HH. Just thoughts of optimal versus live players...
However, it is a draw. If you feel that you have a sufficient skill edge over the rest of the table and the vast majority of the field - do you pass this opportunity up? ie. take lots of small ball pots later, make good equity plays and rely on others burning their equity? Or is this just way too good a spot to pass up?