Spenda's "what's my calling range?" MTT thread

[bigspenda73]

Opponent is 20/8, we just made the money in the $10k gtd:

10615 to win like 15100

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $10+$1 Tournament, 625/1250 Blinds 150 Ante (9 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

MP3 (t16853)
CO (t12015)
Button (t39345)
SB (t41915)
Hero (BB) (t13628)
UTG (t23174)
UTG+1 (t65540)
MP1 (t34954)
MP2 (t29530)

Hero's M: 4.23

Preflop: Hero is BB with sumthin sumthin real proper

5 folds, CO raises to t11865 (All-In), 2 folds, Hero calls t10615

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Reads on CO?

[bigspenda73]

20/9 over at least 25 hands

[baudib]

Top 20%

[chardrian]

you can make a good argument for top 50%.

I am interested to hear Mcat's range.

I am calling any A, any K, Q9+, any pair.

[mcatdog]

Something like any pair, any A, K5s, K9o, QT+, Q9s, J9s+. I'm happy to go for the double up or bust here, because once you have a stack that can afford to raise-fold, stealing the blinds is like taking candy from a baby.

chardrian your range is pretty solid but you can't call with K2o and then fold JTs, I don't have Stove on this computer but I'm certain JTs is a way better calling hand.

[baudib]

vs. top 25% of hands

JTs = 41% (This is about the equity we need to call, right?)
K2o = 35.5%

[SeaKeR]

Hey,

I would say QQ+, AQs+, AK; I know it is very tight, but do you want to risk a bust on more marginal hands is what you should ask yourself. And that varies a lot for different people I think.

Later...

[bigspenda73]

K now I felt like I slowrolled with 33, but I had to load up pokerstove and run my equity.

[sk8r_daniel]

I'm quite shocked by your calling ranges mcatdog... but alas...you win tournaments and I do not. This is likely why I get a stack<10m and then double up only to find that the blinds went up and I'm at it again.

I would like to add that it depends on whether or not the other player understands M and how he has been pushing. Sometimes this information isn't available if you are multitabling. But I find that when antes are in play alot of players are still going by the 10xbb rule for shoving and they are in fact shoving a very tight range. If opponent is shoving a tight range with his stack that is well over 10xbb do you really want to call with Q9o?? If you had this type of read on a player what type of range are you calling with? I'm thinking AJs+ AQo+ 77+

[celtic123]

is it practical to have pokerstove setup with the villains range already typed in as you are playing live, and input the cards as they drop?

cos i have a villian to my right who raises preflop 100% 4BB as a standard. live now.

[bigspenda73]

$10 $10k gtd on Stars. Villain seems solid, like 14/13 over 50 hands. He lost like 2/3 of his stack two orbits ago re-stealing with K5s from the BB vs a BTN 4x raise.

215 Left, 198 paid, average stack is like 12k

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $10+$1 Tournament, 375/750 Blinds 90 Ante (8 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

CO (t12414)
Button (t21368)
SB (t7478)
Hero (BB) (t11005)
UTG (t24042)
UTG+1 (t11246)
MP1 (t3954)
MP2 (t33993)

Hero's M: 5.96

Preflop: Hero is BB with something like a phenomenom

6 folds, SB raises to t7388 (All-In), Hero calls t6638

Flop: (t15496) 8, 3, K (2 players, 1 all-in)

Turn: (t15496) 9 (2 players, 1 all-in)

River: (t15496) 5 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: t15496

Thoughts on SB should be shoving is helpful too.

[baudib]

I guess it depends a lot on what his image of you is. I suppose he's in a mood to gamble anyway, but if he thinks you're tight, conservative I'd call really wide. Actually, I think the added benefit of getting rid of a solid, positionally aware player on your right is not insignificant, so I'm gambling, too.

[bigspenda73]

Villain is aware, he just outran my KK with KTo bvb last orbit shoving 25k with 2k/4k blinds I think. 8 men left in $12 180man SNG:

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $11+$1 Tournament, 2500/5000 Blinds 500 Ante (8 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

CO (t43285)
Button (t66538)
SB (t22071)
Hero (BB) (t24240)
UTG (t47840)
UTG+1 (t30330)
MP1 (t27165)
MP2 (t8531)

Hero's M: 2.11

Preflop: Hero is BB with a little bit of this, a little bit of that

6 folds, SB raises to t21571 (All-In), Hero????

[bigspenda73]

bump, come on peeeeps Mcat is in the Bahamas

[fjuanl]

you should be more confident that villain is shoving wide in the first one bc of your read on that resteal. with 22+ A2+ K9+ i think you would have a big enough edge (0.5+) to call despite being near the bubble (this is if villain is shoving 50%, which might be conservative)

plugging in the second one into sngwiz its saying to call with top 28% if villain is shoving 40%, which again could be way off

[gingerwizard]

this ain't the bubble it's ITM.

Can't remember what the step up in equity is like here if you call and win. He should be shoving 100% with M so low. So, and it's very dependent on the payout structure which I can't remember but my guess is 40%, maybe 30.

[dev]

ATC.

or close to that, we have to call with like 90%