The Ultimate Bubble Hand

IMTheWalrus8 · #1 03-12-2005, 09:50 AM

Can't believe I actually ran into this situation. From last night:

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

Villain (t7838)
BB (t3495)
Hero (t1954)
Button (t213)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
Hero raises to t800, 1 fold, SB (Villain)/ raises to t4000, 1 fold, Hero ???

1C5 · #2 03-12-2005, 09:56 AM

PUSH!!!!!!! You double up here and you have a good shot at first place. You lose and you finish 4th, start up another SnG and laugh off the loss.

1C5 · #3 03-12-2005, 09:57 AM

PS, you are banned from the forums if you didn't push this...

IMTheWalrus8 · #4 03-12-2005, 10:16 AM

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lol

Whew - I pushed.

The fact that he called and hit a set of Kings on the flop hurt. Especially since it was my last hand of the night. I will always push with Aces.

But I would be surprised if there's someone out there who wouldn't fold. ITM is 2 or 3 hands away. I would love to hear that argument.

Allinlife · #5 03-12-2005, 10:17 AM

so what's your question? are you worried about being knocked out of tournamnet as 4:1 favorite?

with coinflipping hands like TT/AK/AQ, this MAYBE debatable, but with AA/KK there is no question. you gotta realize you will win over 80% of the time and doubling up means higher chance of you taking home the 1st place. if you lose, go register for next sng. simple as that.