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Message: [QUOTE="fundiver199, post: 6439975, member: 397965"] Preflop With 24BB effective you should either min-raise or go slightly larger like 2,2BB. 3BB opens are for, when stacks are much deeper. The reason for this is, you want to be able to have a range for opening and then folding to a jeram without losing to much of your stack. Of course you are not planning to fold QQ preflop, but if you min-raise all your weak hands and go 3BB with the hands, that are strong enough to stack off, thats very face up. So good players will take advantage of you by not giving you action, when you are strong and attacking you, when you are weak. Its the same reason, why you dont want to only raise strong hands and limp all the marginal ones. Maybe this dont matter so much in a freeroll, but you asked, if you misplayed your hand, and the answer is, that yes this open sizing is a mistake. Against good players it will immedeatly tell them, you are recreational, since no solid regulars would raise to 3BB out of a short stack. So you are kind of putting a "fish" label on your own back, just like you would by limping. Which would actually almost be a better play here, if you think, it would likely induce a raise from the chipleader, because then you can jam over that raise with fold equity and a good risk-reward ratio. Flop The stereotypical awfull flop, when you are out of position against the only player, who can bust you. I save the C-bet here and go for a check-fold. Yes maybe he bluffed you, but in this particular situation ICM is so important, that you must focus on preserving your chips. Its annoying to have a loose and aggressive chip leader on your left, when you are a mid-stack, but there is nothing, you can do about it other than being patient and tighten up. And then try to become that annoying "chip bully" yourself another time :) [/QUOTE]

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