Today I wanted to do something a little different. Instead of reviewing a tournament hand I played, I'm instead going to analyze a hand someone else played — one that is quite educational.
It was early in a small-stakes live tournament, and the player — Chad — already had a relatively shorter stack than others with 1,150 with the blinds 25/50.
The hand began with Chad making a 3x raise to 150 from early position with . As I state in the video below, I'd recommend a smaller opening raise size here (perhaps 2.3-2.5x BB). Two players called — the cutoff and button — and the flop came .