WPT Foxwoods Main Event Hand

[Prickly Pete]

Thanks for the replies. I called for many of the reasons echoed here and was unforutnately, shown AA and I didn't improve.

[The Student]

Well, that hurts, but I still think it's a good call if you didn't have a read that he had a real hand. With a tough table, you will have to gamble at some point and you're getting pretty good odds on this hand to take a chance. He could have been making this move with much weaker PPs (99 - QQ) thinking that you're just making a squeeze play, and you're only really worried about KK and AA. Unfortunately he had one of those two hands this time, but I think that given your stack size, the table dynamics, and your cards, I still think this is a long-term EV+ call.

I qualify that however, by saying, that if you had a read on him as being very strong in this hand, then you should save your chips. One question I have that you didn't address in your OP - has the villian ever pushed AI before? If so, what did he show down?

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