AQ preflop

DireWolf · #1 08-11-2005, 08:06 PM

Nothing really felt right here, specially with stacks so deep. Any thoughts?

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t200 (8 handed) converter

Button (t11950)
Hero (t28080)
BB (t21443)
UTG (t5025)
UTG+1 (t9040)
MP1 (t24035)
MP2 (t8570)
CO (t44055)

Preflop: Hero is SB with A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, MP1 calls t200, MP2 calls t200, CO calls t200, <font color="#CC3333">Button raises to t1000</font>, Hero ???

2005 · #2 08-11-2005, 08:12 PM

Meh.... fold I think.

TxSteve · #3 08-11-2005, 08:22 PM

i probably let it go as well.

and nice avatar 2005...me likey

Sykes · #4 08-11-2005, 08:44 PM

What's the buy-in? Is raiser a solid player or is he loose? Has he been raising alot? Is he making this play alot of times with this many limpers? Does he play awfully post-flop?

Usually, I would say to dump it because I hate calling/raising with AQ against another raiser. I'm thinking this is a fold because you're out of position plus you don't even know if it's going to be heads up.

#5 08-11-2005, 10:33 PM

without a strong read on the raiser, I fold.

MLG · #6 08-12-2005, 01:58 AM

This is a fascinating situation. A good button raiser could have a wide variety of hands here. Given how much money is in the pot with nobody having to have a premium hand my first instinct is to reraise here hoping to pick up a lot of chips fairly easily. The problem with that play is the button's stack size. Any reraise will be over 1/3 of his stack and will probably commit you to call a push for a lot of chips while trailing. Calling is pretty ugly because you are out of position and will very likely make very little the times you flop the best hand, while doubling the button up when you flop second best.

So, we have two plays. Move all-in preflop, or fold. Folding is probably the better option, although it really all depends on the range of the button. The fact that you will still have 50x if you lose argues in favor of pushing. I guess what I'm coming around to is if the button has been solid, fold. If the button is me or gavin or something then I would push.