jcoop89

Why would you ever flat there? Would you then fold to a shove from the tight player? Silly to make any play besides shoving "with fingers crossed." Gotta avoid making any decisions like that in tournament poker. Fold it knowing you'll definitely be able to find a better shove spot later on, even if it is with only 20 BBs. Obviously hind sight is 20/20, but I am curious to hear who/what you were called down by

Stack sizes? Would be helpful to know what MP and the Russian kid were sitting with. Assuming they were both deeper stacked than you, and given their table images, it's likely you could get called down too often by either the Russian (whose range is probably from 88+, AT-Js) or the tight player in MP who was sitting there with a monster. Obviously you wouldn't mind playing against the Russian's range of hands, but given the scenario, I'd imagine that his hand would generally be closer to the top of his range than the bottom. Any pair in the Russian's range is most likely to call, and if the ti