AaronBeen's Live Saturday MTT Grind (4)

Hey thanks for your comments!

The JJ hand is a situation where his tightness and the strength of our hand vs stack size might influence me to call and where I might not be absolutely dominating a 4bet range. I felt that my aggressive image counteracted those things (I expected him to not fold hands he might otherwise fold) and I was planning on getting it in preflop if he raised again or postflop on most boards if he called. There are a lot of players, especially at these stakes and in a 6max tournament, who 3bet a bunch of bluff hands (especially in the small blind) and don't balance very well. As a result 4bet ranges are almost always fairly wide even from a tight players. He may be folding some hands I dominate but a lot of the hands he folds have 30-50% equity in the pot+position+initiative if flat call. Also a minor consideration is that if I don't 3bet JJ here I can't really ever bluff without being very exploitable, and a strategy of always flatting the small blind lets the big blind in too often.

The KQ hand where my cbet gets raised is a difficult situation. I do have mid pairs there a lot that I can call his raise with and then shut down. And I would definitely continue (some mix of call and raise) with any ace, seven, or flush draw. It's hard for me to just put him on a bluff when he isn't representing much by raising. A weird line can just as often be trying to induce me to spew. I considered shoving but without any kind of read against a good reg I'm usually just going to decide based on where I am on my range and I decided king high is low enough to fold. (That could be wrong though I haven't thought about the hand very much since.)