Wow this hand is so ugly, and usually I'm a very opinionated person as some of you may already know :P I don't mean the play was ugly, just a really shitty spot to be in, the very reason I hate tournies :P I dunno if its possible to just shove preflop, I'm only a cash player so this sort of 30BB deep situation doesnt come up often, but we have the sort of hand where there is gonna be overs on the flop about half the time. This means we either have to just call preflop if we want to get away, or make a commiting (maybe allin?) reraise preflop. The more I look at it, the more I want to shove preflop - there was a caller in front, so we can look like we're squeezing when in reality we're not. Additionally there are a number of flops we're just gonna flat out hate, we're never gonna know how to act on an Axx or Kxx board if we reraise to 9k preflop say, we're gonna only have about a pot size bet left which sucks. I think I'd just shove preflop to try and get heads up with some guy that might call you with 99-TT, AJ+ maybe, with the dead money in the pot it can't be wrong IMO  |