Re-raise big or push all-in here?

[taipan168]

What would you do here? RJW was a solid player and had become very aggressive once we got to heads-up. Would you reraise (say to 2000-2400) or push all-in here?

POKERSTARS GAME #2715305210: TOURNAMENT #13314730, HOLD'EM NO LIMIT - LEVEL VI (100/200) - 2005/10/03 - 00:46:00 (ET)
Table '13314730 1' Seat #6 is the button
Seat 2: taipan168 (5838 in chips)
Seat 6: RJW1877 (7662 in chips)
RJW1877: posts small blind 100
taipan168: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to taipan168 [5s Ad]
RJW1877: raises 600 to 800
taipan168: ??????

[PokerPatNEU]

I certainly am not calling.


Playing Ax out of position against a pre flop raise is an enormous amount of trouble. You will have a really hard time defining your hand without spending a ton of money to find out your beat. And if you're not beat, you stand to make little money with it most of the time.


If villain is raising a ton of hands pre flop from the button(like most do heads up) i reraise to 2000 with the intention of pushing the flop if it's raggy or i hit, as long as i don't think villain hit it too hard (JQK flop i'm obviously check/folding...etc). You're holdings are better than average for this situation and you can make the most chips that way unless he hits the flop hard.

[taipan168]

Sorry Pat, I totally agree with your analysis - the real question I meant to ask (I've edited the original post) is whether I should reraise or push AI.