how bad of a play is this or is it OK

[Toad13]

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t30 (8 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx

UTG (t3660)
UTG+1 (t1200)
MP1 (t1770)
MP2 (t1630)
CO (t850)
Button (t2880)
SB (t1880)
Hero (t1530)

Preflop: Hero is BB with K, A.
UTG raises to t120, UTG+1 calls t120, 3 folds, Button calls t120, SB raises to t1880, Hero calls t1500 (All-In), UTG folds, UTG+1 folds, Button folds.

[WildBobAA]

Pretty bad. It's only the 2nd level, why would you want to put your whole stack in on AK this early?

[Sprayed]

Pretty bad. It's only the 2nd level, why would you want to put your whole stack in on AK this early?

I have to agree. It is difficult to fold AK, but somebody has a big pair.

Let this one go all day long. AK is never good against a large raise and a larger reraise.

[Muxy]

accumulat0r

[Zidane18]

i would call. 90% of the time he is an idiot

[Miffed22001]

i would call. 90% of the time he is an idiot

If you think you can get more value from playing flops do so. I've just decieded to give these up because there is no value me getting invloved in races or preflop all ins simply because i can force errors from opps post flop. Its upto you but i wouldnt wanna get my stack in here 100% the time

[gabe]

its not like he just 3xed the initial raiser's raise, he just pushed. this makes me give him less credit.

[Sprayed]

its not like he just 3xed the initial raiser's raise, he just pushed. this makes me give him less credit.

Interesting point Gabe. However, would it depend upon the level of play of his opponent? Would a bad player make an all in with AA, KK, or even QQ? Or his play could be to force out marginal hands to get HU with someone. There were 3 people already in.

[WildBobAA]

Even if he has 22, do you really want to take a coinflip this early?

[k8s]

Call. I'd rather take the risk here, and go for a big stack early. If you lose, go enter another one, simple as that. The push makes me think he has A10-AQ, or a pocket pair, rather than you KK or AA. If it's a low buyin tourney, definitely call because I see this type of move with a4, KJs, etc as well.

[Zidane18]

fomr my experience, early in a tourny and random opponent:

40% of the time = a coin flip
30% of the time = u have them dominated (i.e AQ)
10% of the time = split pot
10 % of the time = some idiot who had to go with 7 2 off
10% of the time = aces or kings

CALL EVERY SINGLE TIME

[homerdash]

IMO, this question is unanswerable without the buy-in level.

[drmcboy]

If he really pushed here with AQ or worse, it's a nice move.

With no read on UTG I probably give hand up. If I think low chance UTG has AA/KK the math says joo must gambool here. You guys that think you're better than the price you're getting here on a flip... eh.

[Toad13]

20+2 180 SnG