Bubble play - take me to school please...

Seadood228 · #1 01-08-2005, 07:17 AM

I've recently moved up to the 30s and have been second guessing some of my moves. I think this is pretty much a no brainer decision but would like input from some of the pros.

Who makes this call and who folds?

Background... I've been nursing a middling stack throughout the tourney. All four players have been playing very aggro, and the big stack has definitely been doing his job. Here are the stack sizes.

MP - 865
BT - 3800
SB - 2060
BB (me) - 1275

Blinds are 200/400. I have 875 after posting. Folded to the BT who bets exactly the amount of chips I have left. I have KJo..

Thanks in advance

Myst · #2 01-08-2005, 07:23 AM

Easy call. You have put a 1/3 of your stack in, and you have an agressive big stack.

schwah · #3 01-08-2005, 09:26 AM

call

you should be calling with hands significantly worse than KJo, too

El Maximo · #4 01-08-2005, 11:27 AM

You are calling 875 to win 2750. You only need to win 32% of the time against his range of hands to be correct in calling. Against a loose raiser who would raise any pair, any A, and Kxs, or any 2 10+ you would have a 45% chance to win this hand. I think in this situation the button's range of raising hands is even wider than this.

daboze · #5 01-08-2005, 01:51 PM

With the I think the button could have a very wide range of hands at this point which means you statistically have to call.

You have to make a stand when you have a decent hand, especially against an aggressive bigstack. you can only survive 1 orbit if you fold this hand, and will have 0 fold equity on your pushes....