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TheAmp
02-20-2005, 07:04 PM
AKs on party 50+5. No special read on raise.

Q: call or push?

I pushed because:
1)I dominate many of his possible hands.
2)Folding equity - he might not go all the way.
3)I am out of position - tougher post flop play.

Reason to only call:
1) fourth place sucks - we have same stack size.
2) Pushing might give too much equity to other two players.

For those that move-in:
Would you only call if you had position?

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t200 (4 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

Button (t2545)
Hero (t2660)
BB (t1635)
UTG (t3160)

Preflop: Hero is SB with A/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, K/images/graemlins/diamond.gif.
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Button raises to t500</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t2660 (All-In)</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Button calls t2045 (All-In).

Flop: (t5405) 9/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, 8/images/graemlins/spade.gif, Q/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 2 all-in)</font>

Turn: (t5405) 5/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 2 all-in)</font>

River: (t5405) 9/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 2 all-in)</font>

Final Pot: t5405

(He had TT)

TylerD
02-20-2005, 07:50 PM
I'd push even if I had position.

Seadood228
02-20-2005, 10:54 PM
Given the chip stacks and position of the raiser, I think you have a tremendous amount of folding equity plus there is a high likelihood that you are up against a dominated hand. If not, AK is not a bad hand to be all in with /images/graemlins/smile.gif

He made a questionable call with TT against another big stack, but then again he could have put you on a resteal.

I'd play it the same way, and question my decision after I got taken down by a small pair /images/graemlins/smile.gif