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hummusx
06-09-2005, 02:42 AM
This is the $3 PS tournament. I'm playing to get cheap practice at my mid game in particular. So we're down to the final 15. I've raised about 3-4 times in the last 2 orbits and won all of them uncontested. This min-raise from UTG looked scary; I couldn't decide whether to fold or push. I've still got a good amount of playing left before I'm completely devoid of FE I think, so I decided to go for the fold.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t8000 (8 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

Button (t44924)
Hero (t66176)
BB (t111051)
UTG (t28453)
UTG+1 (t132793)
MP1 (t292844)
MP2 (t125945)
CO (t116807)

Preflop: Hero is SB with Q/images/graemlins/heart.gif, K/images/graemlins/spade.gif.
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">UTG+1 raises to t16400</font>, <font color="#666666">6 folds</font>.

Final Pot: t19200
CardSharpCook
06-09-2005, 02:59 AM
Yeah, barring a read of W/T, this is a standard fold. The resteal is ok, but it is standard to fold KQo to a raise.
schwza
06-09-2005, 11:24 AM
yeah, fold.
Raemius
06-09-2005, 11:35 AM
I'm folding this to an UTG min raise at this point in a tourney. A min raise from that position is highly suspect. He's looking for some action, I'm puttig him on A-A very likely. I'd probably even fold A-K here. This may be too tight, but if I play A-K and spike an Ace or King, and he's holding A-A or K-K I'm in danger of losing my stack.

I'm just here to learn though, so I'd like to hear what some other guys would do here.
schwza
06-09-2005, 11:36 AM
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I'm folding this to an UTG min raise at this point in a tourney. A min raise from that position is highly suspect. He's looking for some action, I'm puttig him on A-A very likely. I'd probably even fold A-K here. This may be too tight, but if I play A-K and spike an Ace or King, and he's holding A-A or K-K I'm in danger of losing my stack.

I'm just here to learn though, so I'd like to hear what some other guys would do here.

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not pushing AK would be really bad.
hummusx
06-09-2005, 11:41 AM
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not pushing AK would be really bad.

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It's funny, I was thinking 'yeah, duh of course it would be bad if an ace hit and he had an A, because you'd be drawing dead'. Then I realized he meant call with AK and then he'd be in trouble on the flop. If I had AK and villain had AA, all our chips would be in the pot PF.

On a side note, I ended up going out 13th when my AA was cracked by someones TT (all-in PF). Oh well.