nittin it up in some tourneys recently on carbon. This was the big $15 yesterday on the bubble. 54 paid 56 remain. i was also playing the bubble in the sunday big ticket, so my attention was a little split.

There were some very short stacks, so my intention in this hand was to play in position hoping villain would shut down if he thought my range was too strong or the board ran out in a way that would get him to stop value betting hands that are better than mine. He didn't stop betting. I'm not sure about all the numbers. I thought his bet was bigger than this otf in relation to the pot, but oh well.

I've seen villain in some other mtts on the same site recently. He'd FTd a few tourneys w me the past few days, so he probably knows a little something about poker. I'm currently not running a HUD cause 1) my computer cost $300 and I don't want it to conk out and 2) I'm trying to practice paying more attention and not relying as much on HUD in preparation for live play this summer.

Villain and I start w very similar stacks. I might cover slightly. ~130k. blinds 2/4k.

he opens utg to 10.5k.
I'm in hj w AJdd and flat? others fold.

J83 dd! he bets 23k into 33k. i flat?
Ts. he bets 20k into 80k? i... flat?
6o. he shoves 70k into 120k. i nit.

if someone showed me this hand from a cash game i would say they shouldn't be folding tp otr- esp if they create raising ranges on a prior street (cause they might have hands like ATdd and 99 that fold river, so Jx looks like a call to me if we're making an effort to defend)

but this isn't a cash game. And my 70-80k that i still had seemed pretty valuable given there were some very short stacks remaining (< 20k) and a ton of ~30k stacks.

My hand reading skills tell me he might not bet so small on the turn on this texture with a vulnerable hand. And he might even nit it up himself otr and not valuebet some overpairs. So folding seems a little criminal. I don't think people shove KJ for value otr.

I don't like having the Ad in my hand otr cause I think AdQ and AdK probably make it into his bluffing range more than combos without a diamond. But if he has all the KQ and might barrel weird combos expecting me to nit then I don't think I should be folding. In retrospect I can get behind the way I played it until the river.

I'm asking for advice on all streets. Thanks.