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AK against shortish stack shove highish blinds

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  1. #1

    Default AK against shortish stack shove highish blinds

    Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, 22 Tournament, 80/160 Blinds (6 handed) - Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

    Villain is 22/6 looks like he's been waiting to pick a spot. I'm more towards folding but also thinking I can take the hit and have some room to carry on and get back in it or have a decent stack and knock an extra player out...?

    CO (t2820)
    Button (t2660)
    Hero (SB) (t2795)
    BB (t2850)
    UTG (t935)
    MP (t1440)

    Hero's M: 11.65

    Preflop: Hero is SB with A, K
    UTG bets t935 (All-In), 3 folds
    Last edited by taipan168; 10-28-2010 at 07:07 PM.
  2. #2
    Can some1 please edit the title. argh.

    Anything like AK against shorstack shove

    thanks. it wont let me do it.
  3. #3
    Seems like a super standard call to me. He's shoving 6 big blinds utg and is about to take the blinds. Might be shoving 77+, ATs+, AJo+, KQs. But he would have to be shoving unbelievably tight to make this a fold.

    edit fwiw by call I also mean shove.
    Last edited by dneureiter; 10-29-2010 at 02:51 AM.
  4. #4
    I think shoving is much better than calling. We want to make sure BB won't do anything stupid like thinking he can push us off the hand.
  5. #5
    Shove. If you just call and BB calls it gives him the chance to push you out of the pot if you miss the flop. Even if BB is calling 100% when you shove preflop it's still positive equity.
  6. #6
    Easy shove for me too. I'm confident that we are ahead of UTG's range and I'm not going to give BB the chance to squeeze us by shoving over.

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