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The way PA played this hand, it makes Adam's hand nearly impossible to play profitably. For those of you saying shove PF with that read, well if PA can get you to shove AJo for 300BB effective stacks, then he has already outplayed you. If he can get you to flat call PF and call a 600BB pot with no equity and A high, you are at a big disadvantage. If there is anything to learn from this hand, it is that ego has no place in poker. Why would you play for so many chips against PA?

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It was corrected to 150xBB.

Did Ivey outplay Black when he got Black to 5-bet allin with A2s? You have to consider the situation CO vs. button with tight blinds.

I like the flop call.

There is a lot to be said for reraising allin rather than flat calling.

It would also have been reasonable to just flat call the first preflop raise with position. Why play a big pot against the other big stack and good player at the table? Granted, maybe PA folds a lot to the reraise, although I am not sure what his folding range is. I kind of would rather reraise a speculative hand or a stronger hand than AJ.