Local Casino MTT

[rsq]

Last night I played at a local Casino MTT - $60 buy in.

It the game had progressed from 12 tables to 4. My table had 8 people.

Antes were now 200 a hand; blinds were 1000 and 2000.

4 Major Chip stacks at the table were myself with 19k, the guy to my left with 19k, and for this hand the BB with 30k and the SB with 60K.

I was UTG with AK off.

I pushed all in.

Is that a reasonable approach here?

[woodguy]

Yes.

Regards,
Woodguy

Well, its costing you 4600 a round to call. Your 19k doesn't really look too good when you consider you can only play another 4 rounds with it, even less considering the blinds will go up. You need to double up and this looks like a very good time to do it. If everyone folds you've bought yourself another round and added a quarter to your stack. If you're called you are in good shape against any ace, and coinflipping against a pocket pair.

Lets look at some alternatives. Making a small raise is no good because you're likely to be pot committed on the flop with less fold equity. Folding is obviously not an option and if you just call you're asking for one of the blinds to put a bad beat on you.

In short it was exactly the right thing to do.