TPTK-AQ vs Big Slick for the Tournament Chip Lead

HardGrind · #1 08-30-2007, 06:26 PM

This was middle-late stages of a 180man sitngo. Villian comes out with a 3-4x BB raise. Previous few hands I was fortunate to catch the right cards at the right time which gave me the lead at my table. As I was saying, Villian makes the standard prefllop raise. I have position with AQ & after a ponder I decided to simply call & see the flop, if I didnt catch anything I would have foled. No harm done. Q comes out on the on the flop & Villian is 1st to act. I guess he felt like he was still strong & he could push me off the hand with a continuation bet. At best I put him on either middle PP or overcards. Considering I had TPTK, I wanted to take the pot right there & preferred not to see a show down. To my surprise he reraised me....maybe he thought I was on the steal...if so that was a horrible read...or maybe he fell in love with AK (I know that has happened to me at times). In any regard, I had to shove everything right there.

Full Tilt Poker
No Limit Holdem Tournament
Blinds: t250/t500
(Ante: t50)
7 players
Converter

Pre-flop: (7 players) Hero is UTG+1 with Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]
UTG folds, Hero calls t500 (pot was t1100), 3 folds, SB calls t250 (pot was t1600), BB raises to t2000, Hero calls t1500 (pot was t2850), SB folds.

Flop: T[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 5[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (t4850, 2 players)
BB bets t3500, Hero raises to t7000, BB raises to t14000, Hero raises all-in t18917, BB calls all-in t3324.
Uncalled bets: t1593 returned to Hero.

Turn: T[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (t39498, 0 player + 2 all-in - Main pot: t39498)

River: 7[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (t39498, 0 player + 2 all-in - Main pot: t39498)

Results:
Final pot: t39498

This pot allowed me to coast to the final table in which Im still playing & maintaing my chip lead....Wish me luck!