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ICM from hell

by Unam1337

One day, you wake up in hell. You vaguely remember rivering Korn the previous night, so this obviously has to be the retribution. The positive aspect of being in hell is that you're allowed to play SNGs and you're not tantalized with FL. Since you're in hell, your opponents play a perfect game according to Nash, though.

In the following quiz, you will find a couple of ICM situations with varying degrees of difficulty and sometimes just minor variations. But beware, some of these situations don't hide any tricky pitfalls; don't be frightened if you don't succeed in discovering all the small subtleties right away but rather try harder figuring it out instead. If the explanations in the solutions don't suffice, it's best to work through it a little by yourself, even if it's true that these extreme spots hardly ever come up on your tables.

Problem 1

Blinds: 400/800
CO: 2000
BU: 2000
Hero: 8000
BB: 8000

Preflop: Hero is SB with J , 2
CO folds, BU folds, SB ??

What do you do?



Problem 2

Blinds: 400/800
CO: 2000
BU: 2000
SB: 8000
Hero: 8000

Preflop: Hero is BB with A Q
CO folds, BU folds, SB pushes, Hero ??

What do you do?



Problem 3

Blinds 300/600
CO: 2000
BU: 6000
Hero : 2000
BB: 10000

Preflop: Hero is SB with J J
CO pushes, BU pushes, SB?

What do you do?



Problem 4

Blinds 300/600
CO: 2000
BU: 6000
Hero: 2001
BB: 9999

Preflop: Hero is SB with J J
CO pushes, BU pushes, Hero?

What do you do?



Problem 5

Blinds 300/600
Hero: 4700
MP3: 4260
CO: 5020
BU: 820
BB: 4600

Please note that there is no SB in this hand.

Preflop: Hero is UTG with T , Q
Hero?

What do you do?



Problem 6

Blinds 200/400
MP3: 3860
CO: 4700
BU: 3310
Hero: 2350
BB: 5780

Preflop: Hero is SB with A 9
3 folds, BU pushes, Hero?

What do you do?



Problem 7

In this case, we know that the opposing player is on monkey tilt right now and will call with any two cards.

Blinds: 400/800
Hero: 14445
BB: 5555

Preflop: Hero is SB with Q 2
Hero?

What do you do?



Problem 8

Blinds: 100/200
Hero: 1320
MP2: 3940
MP3: 1710
CO: 5500
BU: 1550
SB: 1860
BB: 4020

Preflop: Hero is UTG with 9 7
Hero?

You are in the Big Blind in the next round.

What do you do?



Problem 9

Blinds 300/600
MP3: 3500
CO: 7740
Hero: 2840
SB: 4200
BB: 1720

Preflop: Hero is SB with Q K
1 folds, CO pushes, Hero?

What do you do?