$11 NL HE MTT: $11 Sunday Storm yesterday - I was 13rd of 400 left when this happened...

I managed to win about $80. I was 13rd and the Villain was about 10 or 11th. My chips made him 1st of a massive tournament.
I know that I've played badly, but wanna know HOW badly it was.

I will apreciate your opinion a lot

PokerStars Hand #260106553530: Tournament #3980937535, $4.90+$4.90+$1.20 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XXXI (5000/10000) - 2026/03/15 21:39:04 BRT [2026/03/15 20:39:04 ET]
Table '3980937535 165' 8-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: VeganMan420 (644559 in chips, $40.41 bounty)
Seat 2: epsiliion195 (206443 in chips, $51.74 bounty)
Seat 3: danadono96 (528896 in chips, $40.71 bounty)
Seat 4: GungFuBanda (573980 in chips, $55.86 bounty)
Seat 5: BIGTIMUK (457812 in chips, $29.39 bounty)
Seat 6: HoradeJogar (638237 in chips, $58.17 bounty)
Seat 7: EFRA21212 (1241530 in chips, $90.71 bounty)
Seat 8: kobd7 (325897 in chips, $13.47 bounty)
VeganMan420: posts the ante 1200
epsiliion195: posts the ante 1200
danadono96: posts the ante 1200
GungFuBanda: posts the ante 1200
BIGTIMUK: posts the ante 1200
HoradeJogar: posts the ante 1200
EFRA21212: posts the ante 1200
kobd7: posts the ante 1200
BIGTIMUK: posts small blind 5000
HoradeJogar: posts big blind 10000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to HoradeJogar [Qh Qs]
EFRA21212: folds
kobd7: folds
VeganMan420: folds
epsiliion195: folds
danadono96: folds
GungFuBanda: raises 10000 to 20000
BIGTIMUK: folds
HoradeJogar: raises 44600 to 64600
GungFuBanda: raises 65400 to 130000
HoradeJogar: raises 507037 to 637037 and is all-in
GungFuBanda: calls 442780 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (64257) returned to HoradeJogar
*** FLOP *** [5d 2h 3c]
*** TURN *** [5d 2h 3c] [Td]
*** RIVER *** [5d 2h 3c Td] [8d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
HoradeJogar: shows [Qh Qs] (a pair of Queens)
GungFuBanda: shows [Kh Kc] (a pair of Kings)
GungFuBanda collected 1160160 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1160160 | Rake 0
Board [5d 2h 3c Td 8d]
Seat 1: VeganMan420 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: epsiliion195 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: danadono96 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: GungFuBanda (button) showed [Kh Kc] and won (1160160) with a pair of Kings
Seat 5: BIGTIMUK (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: HoradeJogar (big blind) showed [Qh Qs] and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 7: EFRA21212 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: kobd7 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

My condolences 🙏

QQ on BTN vs. KK in the blinds for less than 60BB. Just a standard cooler. Even if you had just called his 3-bet, which is an option in position, its not like, you are ever getting away from QQ on that board postflop.

It's difficult to let go of the QQ, but as a friend says, we have to learn to let go (but it's very difficult). The click he made is a tell for a very strong hand.

Two points were made above
1 cooler nothing you can do about it
2 min click is nutty we can fold.

Both of those points are viable - they depend on Villain type.
If you have a poker tracker you can study preflop min clicks in your player pool and see the frequency of nutted hands.
This spot is an exploit spot only-- GTO has 0 4 bet non-all-in from BTN
We have to think how often this bounty available player min clicks with worse?

I can see, that I got the action wrong. Hero was in BB and 3-bet a BTN open, faced a 4-bet and then jammed. This still does not change the conclusion though. If Hero just call the 4-bet, he is not getting away postflop on this board.

That’s a really deep run, nice job getting that far. Spots like that are always tough, especially when the pressure is high. What exactly happened in the hand?

fundiver199 said:

I can see, that I got the action wrong. Hero was in BB and 3-bet a BTN open, faced a 4-bet and then jammed. This still does not change the conclusion though. If Hero just call the 4-bet, he is not getting away postflop on this board.

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If hero was going to play exploit based on the very low frequency of 4 bet clicks in spots like this, they would have to fold not call. If they are unable to make that strong of a read and fold then they need not be upset with themselves-- this was not a bad play.

eetenor said:

If hero was going to play exploit based on the very low frequency of 4 bet clicks in spots like this, they would have to fold not call.

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Given the stack size, and the fact the opponent was in position, this was a completely normal size for a 4-bet. So if we try to read anything into the sizing, we are basically saying, the opponent has a 4-betting range of only KK and AA. Which I think is generally completely false in a BTN vs. blinds confrontation. This is because, the 4-bet cant be much larger without committing him to the pot, and then he might as well jam.

fundiver199 said:

Given the stack size, and the fact the opponent was in position, this was a completely normal size for a 4-bet. So if we try to read anything into the sizing, we are basically saying, the opponent has a 4-betting range of only KK and AA. Which I think is generally completely false in a BTN vs. blinds confrontation. This is because, the 4-bet cant be much larger without committing him to the pot, and then he might as well jam.

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As I stated in an earlier post there is no 4 bet non all-in play at this stack depth GTO, so it must be an exploit play by the Villain. Which means the V is choosing not to shove all-in based on hand strength alone which would make it more likely to be AA KK than anything else not a certainty but a very high probability.
A very low % of humans click it back here hoping you will fold. What hands do the majority of players have that they do not want folds? AK wants folds JJ flats or shoves. A5s? What hands click it that we are ahead of?
This is a bounty MTT the V is bounty available why would they just click it? Why let us call to see a flop and get the bounty?


The % of times that we run into a V making this bet with worse is so low that we can even mistakenly fold and not lose over all EV.

We do not want to confuse situations in poker, there are often situations that the V will make this raise and it will be a solid strategy, this is not that spot.