$0.50 PokerStars 45-Man Turbo | FT, ITM|2nd in chips vs chipleader| TT

You dont really want to induce with TT here and also to avoid these sort of stuff go for preflop shove. Its pretty questionable to have any minraise range this shallow in final table as second stack. But if we want to minraise as trap with something I would probably only do it with QQ+ or so. But that would likely be totally unbalanced minraise range without any weaker holdings.

As played checking flop and going from there but nasty spot. Once you make that big cbet you just have to go with it and hope for best.

Hey Man,

I d probably Check-Call in this Spot and analyze on the Turn.
This is a classic tricky spot , even in Cash Games, and the fact that You also get a Gutshot just makes me wanna check even more cause i dont wanna get pushed out of this hand, and the villain could be doing that with any Straight/Flush Draw + is Stronger Holdings...As played I d probably let it go since your stack would still be around the average 9k but hey I am no pro

shove pre. realize you ev. Induce QQ+ seems nive. No cbet an reeval turn seems legit. Its like ghale mentioned before.

greets

maniac

thanks everyone

Even induce with QQ is tricky in a 45 man SNG with a lot of ICM in it and I would most likely shove with my entire shoving range here. As played you can't do much else than folding the flop. If you call you investing so much chips that you are committed on the turn.

Cheers,
SDK1987

After that cbet hero has around 8.3k behind. So if he shoves flop he is investing that for pot around 31k. So in cEV he needs 27% equity and because of ICM we want somewhat more even with our short stack.

If villain only has like AQ, KQ and nothing else we have 25.6% but if we add e.g. AcTc, AcJc, A9s, 99, 88 we get into 30% equity. So yeah I would not cbet and if I did I would use more like 2.5k size but once we have cbet 3.8k we must be very sure that villain is never having like A9s or draw type hands to fold anymore.

Also if folding blinds will hit our stack really heavily so personally I would go with this spot and see if we get into huge chip leader position and possibility to dominate final table after that.

I would def Shove pre, but as played I would not bet that Flop, Check-Call would be my line here and analyze the Turn , but all in all in this Spot you should have Just Shoved

Thanks all

Inducing @ micros is really not a good idea. Usually i would more go for a shove pre-flop unless specific table dynamic.
But in that situation postflop i would try to play a very small pot or even fold against lot of action.
Also my goal is to reach atleast the 3 first places so against a stack able to hurt me badly i would be more cautious but there it depends of your inner style and goals you want to achieve.

Best of Skills & Luck @ Tables,
OldSchoolPapa.