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A No Limit Tournament Question
Yesterday I was sitting at the final table of a no limit hold em tournament with 4 other players. I am the 3 seat and I am chip leader. The 8 seat and the 2 seat have close to 2/3 my chips and the 9 seat has about 1/4 of my chips at most. The blinds are 1500 and 1000 and I'm dealt A-Qo on the button. The player in front of me calls and raise to 4000. The 8 seat raises me all in the 9 seat drops and the 2 seat calls his all in with a slightly less chips. Before I act I think carefully whether or not I should lay it down. My reason being one of them is pretty much out after this hand locking me into at least 3rd place and after the hand I'll still have a big edge on the 9 seat and have about 3/4 of the chip leaders chips. However I figure if I call and win this hand the tournament is pretty much mine, and if should lose I'll still be at least 3rd place with a good chance to take 2nd and a big long shot to winning. I decide to call also. I'd like advice for what I should have done on the pre-flop play. Should I have raised the blind? Should I have called the all in raise? But I'll tell you the results now anyway. The 8 seat turns over J-J and the 2 seat turns over K-Jo. Before the flop my A-Qo is close to even money to win the pot. The board didn't help anybody and the pocket jacks take it down knocking out the 2 seat taking 2/3 of my chips giving the 8 seat who had J-J total control. He went on to win and I caught a bad beat a few hands later and ended up with 3rd. Should I have raised? Should I have called the re-raise? |
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Re: A No Limit Tournament Question
Fold. Unless they both play like the KJ guy (very badly) there is almost no chance that you have the best hand. Let one of them knock the other out while you hang on to a big stack and wait for a better chance to be aggressive when you have a good hand. KJS |
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