Too Tight? II

[johnnyshaka]

Hi...lurker posting for the first time. I've spent hours and hours reading through several parts of this forum and lately I've been spending an awful lot of time reading about SNG strategies. GREAT STUFF...all of it!!!

First...a little bit about me...I've been playing online for a couple of years now...but, not very seriously until a couple of months ago. When I say seriously, I mean that I had been playing the occassional home game with friends and freerolls from time to time and now I've run away from freerolls and play the $5/0.50 SNGs and $0.10/0.25 NLHE at PokerStars instead. Obviously, serious for me is silliness for most of you...and that's fine, ya gotta start somewhere!! Anyways, after busting out a couple of times I figured I'd better learn how to play this game properly and have been reading this and other poker forums/sites over the past couple of months and as a result I've really seen my game improve. By no means am I good, but I'm getting better. Guess that sums it up for now...

Anyways, onto my question: did I play this correctly??

I've been playing tight/aggressive and to this point have CO pegged as the same. SB had been playing VERY tight until a couple of hands prior to this one when he doubled up MP (who was shortstacked with 500 in chips) by calling an allin preflop raise and MP hit a straight on the river. Tilt could have been a factor.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is $100 (6 handed)

Button ($2450)
SB ($1355)
Hero ($2430)
UTG ($4190)
MP ($1690)
CO ($1385)

Preflop: Hero is BB with A, K.
1 fold, MP calls $100, CO raises to $300, Button calls $300, SB raises to $1355, Hero folds, MP folds, CO raises to $1385, Button folds.

[Halv]

I'm with you on the fold here. You almost certainly haven't got two live cards.

[AHiltz]

Standard

[baudib]

I would call.

[Fortune 500]

Nice fold. You've got a raise and a reraise in front. AK kind of shrivels up here. At absolute BEST, you're racing two smaller pairs.

[konahead]

You've got a nice stack - no need to gamble here. I'd say they both have pocket pairs, or you and one other opp share AK. Not a good situation. Let the two short stacks duke it out.

Good fold.

[johnnyshaka]

Great, thanks guys...caught a little heat from the rest of the table, but I guess I shouldn't have let that bother me as I ended up winning it all anyways!!!

Turns out that the original raiser had AJo and the re-raiser had 66 with AJo winning the hand when he hit trip aces by the turn. Sure, I would've won, but I could've easily been the shortstack had it gone the other way.

[samsonite2100]

I agree with the fold and will also say that, in general, I do not like calling all-ins. Granted, there are times when you have to--when you have a premium hand that someone walks into, or when you have a huge lead and can afford it. Generally speaking, though, I think people are push-crazy and I prefer playing poker to getting in a series of 50/50 races with bad players. If I'm gonna be involved in an AI, I like to be on the raising side, since that way, at least you have FE.