[stakman1011]

I was reading through Rizen's blog and came across this hand:

"I raised 4 3 of hearts from the cut off and it was folded around to the big blind who re-raised, but he was fairly deep stacked and his re-raise was kind of small. So I went ahead and called. The flop came 9 6 3 with two hearts. So I had the pair plus the flush draw and he pushed in for 22,000 chips. That was about as good as a flop I can have but I can't play that hand without fold equity or some sort of pot odds or something there was no way I was ahead. I was pretty sure he was pushing some sort of over pair and just didn't want me to call or do anything to draw out on him."

This surprised me very much. If we give villain two black aces (Rizen said he read him for an overpair) then we have the best hand, no? Is this a case of the famed passing up a small edge early? I thought the consensus was not to pass up any edge in an mtt?

I would think, if we put villain on a big pair, that calling would be correct.

Also, I wasn't at the table but I would imagine villain has AK some small percentage of the time, surely more often than he has some hand that has us in bad shape like a set or higher fd.

Rizen is a much better player than I am, surely. Can anyone take a shot as to his thought process and reason for folding? Are there any of you who would call in the same spot?