Why did Gigabet call my allin with K8o?

[betgo]

$200 MTT with 30 minutes rounds. Just past the bubble. Blinds 600/1200/75, average stack T20K. Folded to me in the SB with A4o and T15K. I have A4o and push. Gigabet in BB is tournament leader with T80K. He calls with K8o. Why do you think he called?

[woodguy]

He thought he had best hand?

Your range is huge, and he has a K with a big stack.

No brainer call for him really.

Regards,
Woodguy

[Melchiades]

There is a fair chance his K high is the best hand?

[LearnedfromTV]

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$200 MTT with 30 minutes rounds. Just past the bubble. Blinds 600/1200/75, average stack T20K. Folded to me in the SB with A4o and T15K. I have A4o and push. Gigabet in BB is tournament leader with T80K. He calls with K8o. Why do you think he called?

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SB v BB, 15K to win 33K, he's almost certainly the needed 45% vs your range, he can afford it, and it lets people know not to f with his blind.

Edit: I guess it's 14 to win 31; same thing really

he is familiar with your play and pushing allin indicated to him weakness and not strength. Strength is hoping to get action. He has 5 times your chip stack and looking to gamble since this will not bust him.

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$200 MTT with 30 minutes rounds. Just past the bubble. Blinds 600/1200/75, average stack T20K. Folded to me in the SB with A4o and T15K. I have A4o and push. Gigabet in BB is tournament leader with T80K. He calls with K8o. Why do you think he called?

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There could be a few reasons:

1. It costs him approx. 14k to win 29k, 2:1; he has to expect your range to be quite wide here (as Woodguy said), and he didn't believe he was a 2:1 dog. He was actually a 3:2 dog, so the call makes sense in that area.

2. He's the big stack at 80k. If he loses, he's at 65k, which, him being Gigabet, is still a lot of chips to work back up to 80k.

3. Eliminating people helps him move up the ladder in money.

[TheBlueMonster]

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He calls with K8o. Why do you think he called?


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cause he knows that he will always win [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[KneeCo]

As chip leader poised to make a deep run he might have wanted to send a message about his willingness to defend his blind and figured that communicating that was more valuable than losing a fifth of his stack 3 times out of 5.

He also might have been multi-tabling and misclicked.

[LearnedfromTV]

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$200 MTT with 30 minutes rounds. Just past the bubble. Blinds 600/1200/75, average stack T20K. Folded to me in the SB with A4o and T15K. I have A4o and push. Gigabet in BB is tournament leader with T80K. He calls with K8o. Why do you think he called?

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There could be a few reasons:

1. It costs him approx. 14k to win 29k, 2:1; he has to expect your range to be quite wide here (as Woodguy said), and he didn't believe he was a 2:1 dog. He was actually a 3:2 dog, so the call makes sense in that area.

2. He's the big stack at 80k. If he loses, he's at 65k, which, him being Gigabet, is still a lot of chips to work back up to 80k.

3. Eliminating people helps him move up the ladder in money.

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It's not 2 to 1. 2 to 1 is if there were already 2x his call in the pot.

[kuro]

My push range is probably the upper 2/3 of the deck there. That call doesn't suprise me at all.