AK/AQ pre-flop against an all-in

[taipan168]

Thoughts on what to do in situations like this? Call or fold when you would be short stacked (<10 BB) if you fold but likely to be flipping if you call? This is at the $5 PS level so they could be pushing with a wide range of hands. What to do?

On the AK hand the limp/re-raise usually screams AA or KK to me but SVT had been playing loose so I put him on a low-medium pocket pair. If I'm right, is it worth flipping in this situation?

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Hero (t1225)
CO (t2670)
Button (t2395)
SB (t2135)
BB (t1890)
UTG (t3185)

Preflop: Hero is MP with Q, A.
1 fold, Hero raises to t300, 3 folds, BB raises to t1890, Hero ?????

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CO (t845)
Button (t2120)
Hero (t1210)
BB (t1470)
UTG (t1325)
UTG+1 (t1125)
MP1 (t4170)
MP2 (t1235)

Preflop: Hero is SB with K, A.
1 fold, UTG+1 calls t100, 4 folds, Hero raises to t300, 1 fold, UTG+1 raises to t1125, Hero ?????

[gabe]

your stack is small in both, so call in both

[ChrisBCritter]

definitely call in both. These are the coinflips you need to take in order to get a stack to win the tourny...

[vqc]

in both hands hero reevaluates the reasons as to why he is raising, and then decides the best way to go about achieving that goal.

[silverfist]

You'll have to call in both. Given the pot odds, go for it. In the second one, I think you're probably beat (a limp-reraise is almost never a bluff). However, you're not doing very well, and you have to go for it.

In both of those cases, I actually would have gone all-in myself, rather than the 300 raises. Your M (stack/initial pot) is under 10 and you just don't have the maneuverability to play post-flop. Since you're putting in so much of your stack, and pretty much have to call an all-in reraise, you may as well go all-in yourself and steal the blinds.