Just checking, but I'm a moron, right?

[jeffraider]

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t300 (4 handed) converter

Hero (t2116)
UTG (t1840)
Button (t1790)
SB (t2254)

Preflop: Hero is BB with J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">UTG bets 1840 (All-In)2 folds</font>, Hero calls t1540

[jeffraider]

Oh and UTG had not got out of line or anything, and had pushed either once or twice previous to this hand.

[Bigwig]

Yeah, don't do that. His stack needs to be about 800 less to make this call on the bubble. Or maybe even 1000 less, depending on who you ask.

[ilya]

Yeah, I think that's a crappy call.

[Voltron87]

He needs half as many chips and to be pushing liberally to make this call.

[zaphod]

I think Forumbot could come up with 2 good answers to this one.

[jeffraider]

Okay thanks, I thought so. This was one of those insane calls where the hand just moves the mouse and clicks without any kind of thought. [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

[ilya]

I think the calling range here is 99+, AK, AQs, and perhaps AQo and AJs.

[flo]

Can you elaborate? Im not sure i fully understand the mechanics behind that. According to what calculation do i get my hand range here? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

Thanks in advance!

[vinyard]

So, bubble play completely alludes me. I'll fess up (and happily take specific post recommendations via PM) to that and say that I don't understand having AJ and AQ in the range. Is it a pot odds issue am missing?

By my calcs the pot is at 2290, he's calling 1540 so I guess he's getting 60/40 from the pot. Just looking at the situation, I can see the pusher on A8+, 77+ and KQ? Is that an arbitrarily narrow range for his push?

I am really not trying to be a pain in the ass, just trying to understand better.