5 left - AQ - Call all in or fold

[MonkeyButler]

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t200 (6 handed) Hand History converter Courtesy of PokerZion.com

Hero (t2185)
UTG (t1208)
MP (t3620)
CO (t2142)
Button (t3290)
SB (t1055)

Preflop: Hero is BB with Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">MP raises to t620</font>. FOlds around to me.

Push / FOld? my only 2 options... given the blinds, people left etc... push or fold - i realize i have little to no FE.

[jurrasstoil]

This "raising so I have round-numbered stack" is so annoying - it always looks like a tell...
Edit: actually ran it through SNGWiz and it is a push if he is opening 20% and calling like 15-18%.

A call is out of the question having just 10.5bb.

[TruFloridaGator]

What is the buy-in? You got to have a read here as well.

If he is tight then it's a fold, loose then a shove.

[MonkeyButler]

buy-in is $27... tough to say - it seemed like he knew decent push/fold tactics -- i thought his range was pretty wide.. but why the round numbered raise? it raises questions w/ me as well... it's essentially 3x - seems standard and would fold to a reshove, but then again, as stated above -- i have no FE

[Webster]

This is where I differ from SNGWiz and it is only my personal playing style.

I'm glad jurrasstoil ran it through.

ME? I would fold and look back fondly at those wonderful cards later.

Again you have +10BB and players waiting to be booted out. You have a big stack PROBABLY stealing. But you also have time.

Two guys plus CO are getting fidgety and might become desperate. Maybe one of them will push and you will be sitting on AQs and THEN you could call their push - lose and you are still in the game. I'd wait.

I'd continue treading water and when I want to speak I want to be the first in the conversation and make them react to ME.

Or I want to call their push with AQs if losing will not totally kill me.

[MonkeyButler]

excellent feedback - thanks webster -- and thank you jurrasstoil for running that hand through the WIZ...

IMO - he was raising lighter than top %20 so equitably it was a push... but i like your style webster and will probably proceed this way as i don't play 120903 SNGs a day... if i did and was playing robot ICM, then i'd push.

[Webster]

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if i did and was playing robot ICM, then i'd push.

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YUP - the human bot players (not that there is anything wrong with them) would push. Not a bad idea but being a guy that NOW plays for entertainment only (my cash games died)and knowing my limitations in NL, I just try to survive and take the chips I can when presented with opportunity and then go into destroy mode when I have too.

Survive, Accumulate, Destroy or die trying!

[MonkeyButler]

what do you mean your cash games died? home games or online?? you play limit?