Can you lay it down?
$10+1 Multitable tournament, top 20 paid. 65 players remain. Blinds 50/100.
Early position raiser who just lost 90% of his stack on the previous hand goes all in for 300. I call in MP with A :h: 10 :h:
Big Blind calls, he has a stack of about 4K, my stack is at 3600. Both a bit above the average, hovering around the bubble spot.
Flop comes A A 6. Big blind goes all-in. Can I lay it down here?
What i know about BB: Not much, havent been at the table long but what I have seen has been regular solid play. I have to put him on an ace or some type of made hand. I'm thinking chop here.
Anyone lay this down? The reason I post this is because lately this situation has come up enough to make me think twice about auto calling. I hesitated and then called. He showed 66 for the boat and I didn't improve, happens. The EP all-in had AK for the record.
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Early position raiser who just lost 90% of his stack on the previous hand goes all in for 300. I call in MP with A :h: 10 :h:
Big Blind calls, he has a stack of about 4K, my stack is at 3600. Both a bit above the average, hovering around the bubble spot.
Flop comes A A 6. Big blind goes all-in. Can I lay it down here?
What i know about BB: Not much, havent been at the table long but what I have seen has been regular solid play. I have to put him on an ace or some type of made hand. I'm thinking chop here.
Anyone lay this down? The reason I post this is because lately this situation has come up enough to make me think twice about auto calling. I hesitated and then called. He showed 66 for the boat and I didn't improve, happens. The EP all-in had AK for the record.
stp
Comments
But, looking back on the hand, if you were thinking "chop", then you are risking 3600 chips to split the
short stacks 300, it doesn't seem like the best place to call off the rest of your chips.
Would I have called? Ya, but, i'm weak.
Wader
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I would consider folding it pre-flop. You have a tricky hand that generally plays better as an implied odds hand, which means (by definition) that it may not be worth getting involved with the all-in player right here.
On the other hand (and almost the exact opposite of the previous comment), your opponent has suddenly dropped down into the Red Zone with an M-ratio of 21 and may be feeling either tilted or desparate to make a move. You certainly expect AT (suited or not) to be a reasonable holding against the all-in player's range of hands if you could get the all-in player heads up. I think that raising pre-flop would be superior to calling. It would easily be worth taking a shot at the all-in play from the BB, and perhaps even the SB (again, I'd raise rather than call) if no other players have enetered the pot. However, in MP I'd lean towards folding it.
ScottyZ
1Harrington's new book is just sick.
Tough loss but it happens.
say what?
can you explain what that means please? thanks
Having said that, I call.
My footnote was too subtle I guess.
M-ratio is defined (and discussed extensively) in Dan Harrington's new tournament book. An M-ratio is the ratio of a player's stack size to the size of the pre-flop pot before any action takes place (i.e. the blinds and antes). The "Red Zone" is also discussed in Harrington's book, other than being the area inside the opposition's 20 yard line. (Or the 23.34 metre line in the CFL.)
ScottyZ
An all in bet in early position is a great and well disguised bet!
Holding A 10 you have no idea where you stand. Is your kicker any good? Most people would call holding the A and that is what he is counting on!.
If I had AK I would have had to call, depending where I stood in the stack size. Low stacK = call. Medium to large = fold(and wonder what could have been).
Rob.
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