AK in the bubble

jenium · #1 05-11-2005, 11:40 PM

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t50 (6 handed) converter

Hero (t1895)
UTG (t960)
MP (t1000)
CO (t1758)
Button (t1505)
SB (t882)

Preflop: Hero is BB with K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
3 folds, Button raises to t100, 1 fold, Hero raises to t350, Button raises to t1200, Hero raises to t1895 (All-In), Button calls t305 (All-In).

Flop: (t3425) J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (2 players, 2 all-in)

Turn: (t3425) 3[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (2 players, 2 all-in)

River: (t3425) 8[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] (2 players, 2 all-in)

Final Pot: t3425

I considered folding after the preflop reraise- i figured he was over 50% to have a pair and then it would be a coin flip for most of my stack. But it's such a great hand in BB against the button, that i decided to just go with it...AT-AK seem like reasonable hands for him to play this way with. What would you do?

Maulik · #2 05-11-2005, 11:41 PM

what's the buyin?

jenium · #3 05-11-2005, 11:45 PM

It's a 22$ buyin

jenium · #4 05-11-2005, 11:49 PM

BTW, it turned out that the other guy had AK offsuit also so we split the pot.

bluefeet · #5 05-11-2005, 11:59 PM

His reraise was double the minimum...on top of your 2.5x riase, I think the pair is much more of a certainty - or perhaps AK. I wouldn't think he had anything less than this. His original min-raise is a little odd. If you put him on the pair, it's more likely he's letting you in cheap the 1st time around with a pretty big one...maybe even AA/KK. Overs are overs for anything else. You're still in pretty good standing minus the 350, against someone half his size it's a no-brainer. Get crippled here and your toast. If you had committed > 600 or so, then I'd take the risk. Despite a laydown, you still have plenty of chips to effectively pressure the short stacks.

bluefeet · #6 05-12-2005, 12:00 AM

Like I said.......

PUSH!

lol. (at least my read was right)

microbet · #7 05-12-2005, 12:09 AM

I would have just called the 100. If I were going to raise, I would think about 450 would be the minimum. I'm already HU, which is good, the only other think I would really want to do is take the pot down and I don't think 350 is enough.

Having bet 350 and gotten raraised by that much, I would fold. If the blinds were higher or my stack were lower, I'd call.