Potentially Pointless Tournament Theory Thread

brianmc

To avoid cluttering up another thread that I was posting in I am posting this separately.

Blinds are 50-100.

You are in the BB. The cut-off has just been tilted by a bad play/bad beat/phonecall/whatever and raises to 500. You estimate his range to include all pocket pairs from 77 upwards, K9+ and A9+ (and you're REALLY good at estimating these things).

You are in the BB with 99 (as it happens you are a maths savant and realise that this gives you equity of 51.6%). Just as the SB folds, the cut-off announces that he will go all in if you raise (including calling if you go all-in). This does not change your estimation of his range.


If you both have 200,000 in chips, what do you do?

If you both have 100,000 in chips, what do you do?

What about 50,000? 10,000? 5,000? 2,000?



With 2,000 in chips it looks like a push to me. With 200,000 it looks like a flat call.

Where at a rough estimate, do you feel is the pivot point?

5starpool

I'd love to play a tournament where I had 2000 BB's. My pivot point if far closer to 2,000 than even 10,000 never mind 200,000.

ArmaniJeanss

brianmc wrote:

Where at a rough estimate, do you feel is the pivot point?

With stacks somewhere around the 6000 mark for me. Anything more and I'm calling for set value in the hope of stacking Mr Tilty - but content to get away from it if overcards come.
<6000 and I'm mildly happy to go to war with with my 51.6%. (Obviously far happier if it was 2000 instead of 6000).
But yeah, 6000ish.

RoundTower

Do you have 100,000 and everyone else has 1,000,000? Or do they all have 5,000? I can understand not getting involved with the best hand in the second case.

brianmc

RoundTower wrote:

Do you have 100,000 and everyone else has 1,000,000? Or do they all have 5,000? I can understand not getting involved with the best hand in the second case.

Your stack is average.