another bubble DoN 5.20

[philly and the phanatics]

Hand 1

My read on this guy is that he will play basically any two cards, he had a huge stack, but even now with a decent size one he is still calling a lot of all ins to try and pop the bubble, so i figured this is my best spot available

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $5.00+$0.20 Tournament, 125/250 Blinds 25 Ante (6 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

SB (t5835)
Hero (BB) (t1655)
UTG (t2895)
MP (t1405)
CO (t1935)
Button (t1275)

Hero's M: 3.15

Preflop: Hero is BB with Q, A
UTG raises to t750, 4 folds, Hero raises to t1630 (All-In)

Total pot: t1775


Hand 2


PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $5.00+$0.20 Tournament, 125/250 Blinds 25 Ante (6 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

BB (t6110)
Hero (UTG) (t3310)
MP (t1165)
CO (t1555)
Button (t1435)
SB (t1425)

Hero's M: 6.30

Preflop: Hero is UTG with Q, A
hero folds

Total pot: t525



Hand 3

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $5.00+$0.20 Tournament, 150/300 Blinds 30 Ante (6 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

UTG (t6550)
Hero (MP) (t2810)
CO (t2185)
Button (t1265)
SB (t1480)
BB (t710)

Hero's M: 4.46

Preflop: Hero is MP with A, Q
1 fold, hero folds

[TLR]

1: Well played
2: fine
3: I call this to try to get the BB eliminated

[philly and the phanatics]

thanks for the advice in all 5 of the hands i just posted tlr, the cutoff in hand 3 was the same guy who i reraised all in on hand 1, i guess i thought the BB would call anyway and i could avoid any confrontation at all

[TLR]

you have a good hand and you want to increase the chance BB will be eliminated

[philly and the phanatics]

i misread the HH, and edited hand 3, how about how it is now? maybe even a raise now?

[Nakamura]

The first 2 hands are well played. Nicely done Sir!

Hand 3 is more difficult. What is clearly in everyone's interest is a string of calls before the big blind, since the more people that are involved in the hand the greater chance to beat the BB and place (whatever the BB is holding). For example, against 5 completely random hands a hand as strong as AK is only about 27% to win.

TLR is correct in saying that you should just call and see what happens. You are very happy to see the CO just call here as that increases your chances of moneying. If the CO goes over the top of you and the BB folds, this is a easy fold. Situations like the CO calling and BB going AI are more difficult to deal with since the CO is still live and could potentially force you to play for most of your chips. Despite this I still call and see what happens here.