[Hand of the Week by donkbee] Week 1 - AJ in MP with 20 BBs (Part 3 Released!)

[Sykedupp]

Why can't you just create two balanced ranges?

You can, but aside from flipping a coin (50% of the time ill just minraise AA/KK/AJo/etc and 50% of the time ill just cram), the maths involved seem too complex in a situation like this.
The overall equity difference between shoving and minraising is very small, but its just so much more work when you have a bunch of tables up to squeeze out the extra .3 bbs in this particular spot IMO (what with postflop play, when to bluff-shove QTx flops, when to call off check/raises on QJ4 flops, how to play AKT when you get check/jammed, etc etc etc). The possible scenarios that arise make the hand infinitely more difficult to play, for basically no cEV gain.


Put this tourney a little deeper and then all those things play a bigger factor.


ib4imabuttonpusher ... sometimes early on thats the way to go :P

[donkbee]

The overall equity difference between shoving and minraising is very small

I have no idea how to quantify it, but I strongly disagree w this statement.

[Sykedupp]

I have no idea how to quantify it, but I strongly disagree w this statement.

it'll be pretty easy to figure out exactly how +cEV open jamming is, assuming we can agree on a range to put on anyone who would call... But yeah, to find out how +cEV r/f is (I assume we're almost never r/c except vs retarded 60/50 type villians), we'd have to do a bunch of postflop stuff that is well beyond my maths knowledge.