Chips - A Tactical Question

[Thunder]

Hi all,

I just finished in 49th place out of 500 in another MTT and it's raised a question.

I had 28k and was around 10th place over all with blinds of 750/1500. I was in the BB and the blinds were gonna change after this game to 1000/2000 - leaving me with 14 bbs.

All fold to guy in late position, with 82k chips, he raises to 4000. I look down on KA. Only KK and AA dominates and any other pockets is a coin toss so I decide to make a move with 4750 of other people's chips on offer. Just to call would mean I'm down to 24k so I push all in, after all it's just me and him and he could be stealing. He calls with QQ and neither hand improves.

Now, of all those still in play, about 10 had less than 1500 chips and easily half of the runners had less than 6000. And this begs the question, though my stack was gonna run low, should I have not been so hasty to make a move? Even if I called and folded, 24k stil would've kept me around 10th with not much separating most of the top 10. And even though I'd have <15 bbs, it was considerably better than most others.

Or did I do right as there's no point in watching my chips dwindle, hoping for a big hand, and making it to the final table on just fumes?

And I'm not talking final table of the WSOP - just a freeroll with a top prize of $11. So moving up the cash ladder was hardly pressing.

[biondino]

Yeah but you need to play any tournament to give yourself the best chance of a big cash - and I'd have thought scraping weakly into the money in a freeroll would be even more depressing than a money tourney.

You did it absolutely right - your thinking was spot on regarding the strength of your hand, the dead money available, and the fact it looked like a big stack was bullying/stealing. As it was, you were 45% to win pre-flop which isn't at all bad.

[Jack Sawyer]

You made a 0th level decision, and got burned

1 poker hand encompasses much more than "oooh lookie AK aaaawww iiiinnnn"

[Thunder]

Bio,

Thx for the feedback.




Jack,

I would have thought that my explanation - and thinking behind it - indicated far more than "oh lookee, KA - Awwwwwww innnn!"

And the hand is pretty regardless as the question was about the dynamics of the MTT at the time.

[drmcboy]

auto shove

[Reidak]

AK is always getting all in unless you are confident that your opponent has aces or kings, or you are both deep. Neither of these conditions exist.

Theres over 8K worth of chips in the pot, youve got about 3.5x that. I don't see you getting away from this hand. You have a bit of FE here, but since this guy is so deep its not that much, 20K of his.. what.. 80K stack? Youd get called by 77+AQ+ (AJ if hes loose, maybe). So some FE exists in Ax, low pp hands.

Regarding the hand, you should know that you didnt do anything wrong. Another semi-deep post where you got beat is written.

Theres nothing tactical about this question. You know AK gets in there. If you told us he was on a very tight raising range, even given his large chip stack, then maybe we might have some meaningful discussion here.

[Thunder]

Mucho thx.