Dave, how to play AQ sooted in this scenerio?
Final Table NLHE MTT
blinds $600/$1200 ante $100
*** ANTE [dealer 2] ***
Seat 4 -Â $5440 in chips
Seat 6 -Â $15356.66 in chips
Seat 7 - HEROÂ $17640 in chips [ 3rd in chip lead...just slightly ]
Seat 8 -Â $2570 in chips
Seat 9 - $28125 in chips
Seat 1 -Â $42535 in chips
Seat 2 - $4183.34 in chips
Seat 1 - Ante $100
Seat 2 - Ante $100
Seat 4- Ante $100
Seat 6 - Ante $100
Seat 7 - Ante $100
Seat 8 - Ante $100
Seat 9 - Ante $100
Seat 4- Post small blind $600
Seat 6 - Post big blind $1200
HERO- Pocket [Ac,Qc]
what do you do in this case?
thx,
CO
blinds $600/$1200 ante $100
*** ANTE [dealer 2] ***
Seat 4 -Â $5440 in chips
Seat 6 -Â $15356.66 in chips
Seat 7 - HEROÂ $17640 in chips [ 3rd in chip lead...just slightly ]
Seat 8 -Â $2570 in chips
Seat 9 - $28125 in chips
Seat 1 -Â $42535 in chips
Seat 2 - $4183.34 in chips
Seat 1 - Ante $100
Seat 2 - Ante $100
Seat 4- Ante $100
Seat 6 - Ante $100
Seat 7 - Ante $100
Seat 8 - Ante $100
Seat 9 - Ante $100
Seat 4- Post small blind $600
Seat 6 - Post big blind $1200
HERO- Pocket [Ac,Qc]
what do you do in this case?
thx,
CO
Comments
I'd raise to 3k. If the big stacks want to dance, you've got a tough decision but you can get away from the hand with minimal damage. (You'd have to decide the types of hands that particular player would play back at you with.) If one of the small stacks wants to mix it up, you're much likelier to be the favourite.
One dominant stack, three middle stacks, including our hero, and three small stacks.
Also, at 2500 per lap, the middle stacks aren't pressed.
Our hero is UTG with AQs. This is the sort of hand that often comes up at this point in a tournament. I often think to myself, "This hand is too good to fold, but I sure hope that nobody calls me."
I make a standard raise. In my case I like a bet of about $3000. If the big stack or and middle stack move in, I fold. If any of the small stacks move in, I call.
There are lots of reasons to believe that none of the middle stacks will attempt a pure re-steal here. THere are three TINY stacks. After you have raised UTG it seems unlikely that one of the middle stacked players will move in on you since they have a lot to lose. Also, since you can expect to move up a couple of pay slots almost guaranteed, there is no urgent desire on your part to get into big confrontations.
But, if you are to win this tournament you will need to win ALL the chips. Laying down a hand as big as AQs UTG is too soft.
I would have made it $3,001 to go.
ScottyZ
You can't make it seem loose.
An extra 500-1000 could make the difference from the hugh stacks wanting to try to bluff you off this.
Now we're getting somewhere. I'm glad that someone picked up on the fact that there are probably no singles in play.
The point of betting the extra $1? To disrupt the game.
Insist that you need to bet that extra $1.1
Call the floor. Scream at the dealer. Pull an actual loonie out of your pocket and put it on the table. This dangerous (and potentially flammable) foreign object on the table will drive them nuts at Brantford. Demand to see the heads of the OLGC, and the AGCO. Bring in a detective from the Regional Municipality of Waterloo to resolve the situation. Ring your lawyer from a cell phone while on the gaming floor. Access PokerForum.ca with your Blackberry and "Ask Dave Scharf" whether Brantford not letting you bet the extra $1 constitutes running a common gaming house because you have earmarked the $1 for making a voluntary pizza and chair rental donation at tomorrow's home game.
Just keep yelling, over and over again, "It's NO limit! It's NO limit! Lou Diamond Phillips told me I could bet ANY amount!!!!".
I'm telling you baby. It's a +EV play.
ScottyZ
1I disagree that the extra $1 is not needed to "get the job done", but that's the topic for a good 1,583 other threads -> we'll simply hijack all the bad beat/site is rigged threads for this vital debate.
The moment at which ScottyZ posted one two many footnotes and slipped over the edge.
Sorry folks. I had half a beer with dinner.
ScottyZ