$11 AQ on the bubble

darkcore · #1 10-06-2005, 06:08 AM

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t400 (4 handed) converter

BB (t4650)
Hero (t4321)
Button (t2204)
SB (t2325)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
Hero raises to t1200, 2 folds, BB raises to t2000, Hero raises to t4296, BB calls t2296.

Flop: (t8642) 8[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] (2 players)

Turn: (t8642) 4[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (2 players)

River: (t8642) Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (2 players)

Final Pot: t8642

as always any comments appreciated.

Sabrazack · #2 10-06-2005, 06:34 AM

You either open push or you simply call his raise. Reraising here is not going to make him fold. And you don't want to tangle with the other big stack if you aren't pretty darn sure you have the best hand.

In this situation i would probably push all my chips right in.

darkcore · #3 10-06-2005, 09:30 AM

thanks for the comment. i think i have to add some points.

of course i reraised all-in, and not left myself with T25 like the hand history suggests. somehow the converter must have mixed something up.

it was (correctly) noticed in chat by another player that i played very agressiv earlier on (mainly against two low stacks to my left). since then my raises encountered a lot more action.

and my read on the BB tells me, that he is definatly able to protected his (weaker) hands with a reraise like this. he had done these things before. so i was pretty sure i had a legitimate hand here.

but i am still unsure if i should be involved in this hand, because AQ is not quite a monster-hand and i have good chances to score itm with the two lower stacks by simply sitting back. on the other side i suck at bubble play.

aaronk56 · #4 10-06-2005, 09:34 AM

Open push. If not call and push any flop.

darkcore · #5 10-06-2005, 10:30 AM

thx. looks like i played it right. it's just that i bubble out so often right now, that i don't dare to say wich hands i play correct and where i took too many risks.

btw my read was accurate. he had A8... [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]