Re: $25 Live MTT: AJ in the BB with 7 BBs left
The blinds had just gone up from $200/400 so I mentally noted that I was in all-in-or-fold mode. I saw a decent hand and pushed. It was a bad play - both people called me and checked it down after a board of blanks. EP raiser had AJ but button took it down with his unimproved AQ.
Given the fact that the flop was a eight-high rainbow, it is very possible that a stop and go would have worked here - it would have forced either villan to call $4000 with an Ace high on a raggy board.
Of course this is totally results oriented but even if I was against the kind of hand that would make this call - a pocket pair tens or worse - the results are better than pushing PF because I most likely don't get two callers so the effect is the same as a push into one oppponent and being in a race. However playing it this way I do have fold equity whereas preflop I have none.
Thoughts?
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