ATo in SB versus button raise

betgo · #1 08-01-2005, 07:53 AM

Stars $10 rebuy, 3rd hour, blinds 300/600/50. Button has 7K, you have 9K, BB has 22K. Button open raises to 1800. What do you do?

billyjex · #2 08-01-2005, 08:37 AM

with no reads... i really think i muck this. you can't really just call because it will price the BB in. if you reraise you might as well be pushing because you're committing yourself and you're pretty much only getting called by hands that crush you.

sure, the button could be stealing, but i don't like risking my whole tourney w/ ATo when i'm not that desperate.

nath · #3 08-01-2005, 01:24 PM

Any reads on button? Does this look like a routine steal or has he been tight? Will he fold to a reraise?

Absent any other information I might push in. If I pick up the pot I'm adding 25% to my stack, and the button probably has a very large range of hands here.

An argument can be made for folding, but I don't think our chip position is anything to be comfortable with. BB is a worry but a reraise will probably get him to throw away a lot of hands. If he wakes up with a huge hand, well, them's the breaks.