Maybe it's not an interesting hand... but I see people say that you should only call with AA or KK in this spot, and I disagree. Especially at the 109s when you play a lot of the same players again and again, and have a lot of bubble experience against them.

Button is a good bubble player--- He's pushing at a minimum every Ace, King, and pair... I've seen him push much worse hands as well-- though correctly. Also, one VERY important thing is that I KNOW that he doesn't push AA or KK here.

On a side-note, in this set of 8 games, I happened to be at 4 tables with him. I've just busted him out at three of them, during the push/fold stage.


400/800 Tourney Texas Hold'em Game Table (NL) (Tournament ) - Wed Dec 07 22:42:56 EST 2005
Table Table 67199 (Real Money) -- Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 4
Seat 3: UTG (1475)
Seat 5: Button (3060)
Seat 8: bad_egg (3835)
Seat 9: BB (1630)
bad_egg posts small blind (200)
BB posts big blind (400)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to bad_egg [ Ks, As ]
UTG folds.
Button raises (3060) to 3060
Button is all-In.
bad_egg raises (3635) to 3835
bad_egg is all-In.
BB folds.
Creating Main Pot with $6520 with Button
Creating Side Pot 1 with $775 with bad_egg
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 5h, Qs, Tc ]
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 2s ]
** Dealing River ** : [ Js ]
** Summary **
Main Pot: 6520 | Side Pot 1: 775
Board: [ 5h Qs Tc 2s Js ]
UTG balance 1475, didn't bet (folded)
Button balance 0, lost 3060 [ Jh 3h ] [ a pair of jacks -- Qs,Jh,Js,Tc,5h ]
bad_egg balance 7295, bet 3835, collected 7295, net +3460 [ Ks As ] [ a flush, ace high -- As,Ks,Qs,Js,2s ]
BB balance 1230, lost 400 (folded)

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Who would say that I should fold here and just wait for a confrontation with him ITM, knowing what I know about the Button's wide range of hands?

I think it's also important to note the the Button was correct in his push here.