$5 AKo pre

[Onfire71]

Poker Stars $5.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t100/t200 Blinds - 6 players
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

BTN: t2662 13.31 BBs
SB: t3345 16.73 BBs
Hero (BB): t1495 7.47 BBs
UTG: t1750 8.75 BBs
MP: t2993 14.96 BBs
CO: t1255 6.28 BBs

Pre Flop: (t300) Hero is BB with A K
2 folds, CO raises to t1255 all in, BTN calls t1255, 1 fold, Hero raises to t1495 all in, BTN calls t240

CO is a known regular.. BTN is unknown to me and had no reads on him.. good call?
AJo and below is definitely a fold.. but what about AQo/AQs? would u call/fold too? and pairs TT+ or 99+?

[RiverMonster]

Give us more than 30 seconds to think about it and I suppose it is a clear fold. Not worried about co he is fighting for his life with any two decent cards. BTN however is showing strength and what could he possibly be holding thats we are ahead of? AQ maybe but I suspect he is holding a pp with TT or better.

With that said, in the heat of battle I push all day long. If I win I reak havoc on this table. If I lose, its just the cost of doing business.

[fulksy]

i don't really think this is how you do this with 3 players and not sure if i did the calcs correct.
only did one scenario to give a rough idea.

if BTN wins when you fold, after the hand you will have 11.23 Equity
if you call and win you have 28.50 equity
if you call and btn wins you have 0 equity

11.23-0/28.50-0 =39.40% equity needed in above scenario.

Text results appended to pokerstove.txt

16,602,572,448 games 26.625 secs 623,570,796 games/sec

Board:
Dead:

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 35.337% 31.20% 04.14% 5179390422 687471364.17 { AhKs }
Hand 1: 28.136% 26.40% 01.73% 4383644847 287677235.17 { 22+, A7s+, KTs+, QJs, A8o+, KJo+ }
Hand 2: 36.527% 33.28% 03.25% 5524938189 539450390.67 { 77+, ATs+, KQs, AJo+ }


Text results appended to pokerstove.txt

32,064,677,568 games 52.828 secs 606,963,685 games/sec

Board:
Dead:

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 38.130% 34.70% 03.43% 11125749769 1100558826.17 { AhKs }
Hand 1: 27.307% 25.68% 01.63% 8234433279 521349883.17 { 22+, A3s+, K9s+, QTs+, A5o+, KJo+, QJo }
Hand 2: 34.563% 31.99% 02.57% 10257147243 825438567.67 { 55+, A9s+, KJs+, ATo+, KQo }

i believe this is a fold

[nice_aiau]

Poker Stars $5.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t100/t200 Blinds - 6 players
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

BTN: t2662 13.31 BBs
SB: t3345 16.73 BBs
Hero (BB): t1495 7.47 BBs
UTG: t1750 8.75 BBs
MP: t2993 14.96 BBs
CO: t1255 6.28 BBs

Pre Flop: (t300) Hero is BB with A K
2 folds, CO raises to t1255 all in, BTN calls t1255, 1 fold, Hero raises to t1495 all in, BTN calls t240

CO is a known regular.. BTN is unknown to me and had no reads on him.. good call?
AJo and below is definitely a fold.. but what about AQo/AQs? would u call/fold too? and pairs TT+ or 99+?

If CO is a known regular we should know his range is reasonably wide, Unknown could have Ax or any pokie pair.
Alot of the time we're flipping for a triple up or bette against two dominated hands. This definetly outweighs the times we run into AA-kk. Im never folding this.

[nice_aiau]

Plus like Rivermonster said, we get to destroy the bubble with a big stack if we win this which greatly improves the outcome of the game

[Gopentelp]

hello

[agnesamurphy]

I would fold. I don't know what the pay structure is, but why put myself at risk when there's someone else who could be out before me?

In this spot, I would only be calling with aces or kings. Begrudgingly folding queens, and happily folding everything else.

[Sykedupp]

nobody has any chips, shove it glgl

[KoRnholio]

Unless both the shover and caller are uber nits, you can't even contemplate folding here.

[postiga]

I don´t know if i can fold here...I´m very short and if you win you have a lot of chances to win the tourney but you have to crush both players..Fold is an option but i think i call in this spot with this stack...

[MadMojoMonkey]

Hero has only 4 M if Hero folds. Hero has AK, which has 30% equity against KK, and 45% equity against any other PP, not to mention it is the best unpaired hand. Hero is getting 2:1 for the bet and is basically priced in. Only hand that makes Hero puke is if one of them flips up AA.

Now, I'm not one to say you should put your tourney life on the line for a chop, but when you get below 5 M, you have to just find the best spot to gamble. AK is likely to be the best pocket out of the next 15 hands (1/17 to have any pair). By that time, Hero is down to 3 M (or less) and even a double up puts Hero back to this spot, but with higher blinds.

If Hero thinks there is enough fold equity on the rest of the table to fold here, and steal blinds with marginal shoves in the very near future, then there is an argument to fold.

[Chusko]

First of all, how do you have no reads on this guy by this point? Secondly, there are some serious nits in this tread. Your shove is the right play.

[jaxpaboo]

Too few BBs left. This a good spot to triple up and we will have the best hand more times than not. Don't want to see a pair and Ax from our opponents, but it is what it is.