$55 NL HE MTT: 55$ AQ

888Poker, Hold'em No Limit - 300/600 (70 ante) - 8 players
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UTG: 3,703 (6 bb)
UTG+1: 39,934 (67 bb)
MP (Hero): 19,134 (32 bb)
MP+1: 15,309 (26 bb)
CO: 16,687 (28 bb)
BU: 21,484 (36 bb)
SB: 22,377 (37 bb)
BB: 24,811 (41 bb)

Pre-Flop: (1,460) Hero is MP with A♥ Q♠
2 players fold, Hero raises to 1,500, MP+1 calls 1,500, 3 players fold, BB calls 900

Flop: (5,360) 9♥ A♠ 4♣ (3 players)
BB checks, Hero bets 1,768, MP+1 folds, BB calls 1,768

Turn: (8,896) 9♣ (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets 4,448, BB calls 4,448

River: (17,792) T♣ (2 players)
BB bets 17,025 (all-in), Hero calls 11,348 (all-in)

The bounty wasn't active yet


Preflop raise is fine


Flop is more favorable for me, I don't think a bigger Cbet is necessary


Turn Maybe a smaller raise would have been better here? Is checking too passive? BB could have a lot of 9s, 98+, possibly a flush draw, A9 full house



River The suits are complete, here I only have weaker AX, maybe I can go all-in with those as a bluff, but I'm still behind many combinations, I would have had 18BB left, it would have been better to fold

The range is quite wide, and I fall short of it!

Why does your solver (GTO Wizard) only see nutted hand (without the nutted Flushes and there are many in the BB calling range)?
Is that your shortfall?
BB calling range can be much wider than you think, with alot of suited combos, especially in a bounty tournament where he covers you.
One pair(two with the board) hands can be sometimes pure bluff catchers.

Goggelheimer said:

Why does your solver (GTO Wizard) only see nutted hand (without the nutted Flushes and there are many in the BB calling range)?
Is that your shortfall?
BB calling range can be much wider than you think, with alot of suited combos, especially in a bounty tournament where he covers you.
One pair(two with the board) hands can be sometimes pure bluff catchers.

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Yes, I forgot to mark the flush draw nuts.

The bounty wasn't active yet, but if it had been, they could have given me anything if they covered it.

I just wanted to see for myself how many combos I was behind, and maybe it wouldn't have been a mistake to fold.

Preflop
Standard open.

Flop
Standard C-bet.

Turn
Especially when you hold top pair yourself, you need to consider the possibility, that the opponent called your flop bet with second pair. So this is not a brick, and I would check back for pot control.

River
I think, its fair to say, that no worse hand is leading this board for value after calling flop and turn. So you have a bluff catcher, and then as always it comes down to pot odds, and how many logical combos of value and bluffs, he can have?

Starting with value we already establised, that he can have trips quite a bit. And since top pair is likely to check back this card, it makes sense for him to lead. He can also have the A high flush, which makes sense to lead for the same reason.

As for bluffs, well there are not really any, unless he called your turn bet with nothing out of position, or he is turning top pair into a bluff. So I fold here as played.

But not having to make that decision is part of the reason for checking back turn. In that situation you can easily call a normal river bet, and if he jam, he is risking his whole stack to win a small pot.

This is how I have lost a lot of money in cash games, so I certainly would not recommend doing it in a $55 MTT mystery bounty without even having the bounty stage on