All in or Call?

[Ron24810]

In the middle of a NL Holdem tournament at the Borgata. Full table of ten. Blinds are 500-1000, ante 100, so 2500 in the pot. Most stacks are 12,000-15,000, but I am shortstacked with almost 6,000. This hand, I am under the gun with pocket 10's and have 2-3 aggressive players following. My table image is very tight. I go all in, the player on my left calls with AK, and everyone else folds. Flop is AKx, and rags on turn and river. OK, so much for that tournament. But should I have just called and seen the flop? I haven't played many tournaments, but it seemed right to go all in given blind size and my table image. Opinions are most welcome. Thank you.

[b0000000000m]

Easy all-in. Question for others: At what point is your stack too big for the push, and a 3.5x raise is appropriate?

[Rocco]

If the raise is 2/3 of my stack, I'll push instead.

[ThrillFactor]

Good push, them's the breaks.

[ThrillFactor]

With TT UTG mid-tourney, I'm pushing with up to 12-13BB. With 15BB I'll make a standard open.

[Terrabon98]

yeah esay easy push here, if he hits his two pair, so be it, but you played it properly, especially with those blinds about to hit you. In response to the other question, I usually like to have about 15BB at the least in order to open with a standard raise here.

[curtains]

Calling would have been absolutely dreadful. You did the right thing and it's not even close.

[curtains]

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Easy all-in. Question for others: At what point is your stack too big for the push, and a 3.5x raise is appropriate?

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It depends. Also I don't think it's necessary to raise to 3.5x the BB, especially from EP. People aren't going to assume you are weak because you raised to 2.5-3x the BB from UTG. Of course sometimes raising to 3.5x may be appropriate, but I would never say that's the standard amount here.

If I had 11-14k I'd consider not opening allin. I believe there is no stack size that makes calling a reasonable play here.

[Ron24810]

Thanks to all who responded. Nice to do something right, even if it doesn't work. <g> Good luck to all. Ron

[young nut]

You did the right thing. I think no matter how you played it, your chips were getting in preflop. If you limped, LP would have certainly raised with AK, putting you all in. Also if you limp you eliminate any preflop fold equity that your push would have. You played correctly.

[MonkeeMan]

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Question for others: At what point is your stack too big for the push, and a 3.5x raise is appropriate?

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I've heard 40%, i.e. if the bet would be 40% or more of your stack just push instead.