1010 Reraised 5.50//45 man

markbris · #1 04-15-2007, 04:01 AM

Villain had limped AK 3 hands before when he had about 2700 and doubled up. He hadnt been at the table for much longer than that. What do you do?

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t200 (7 handed) internettexasholdem.com

MP1 (t2302)
Hero (t4170)
CO (t2113)
Button (t5080)
SB (t1465)
BB (t2965)
UTG (t3445)

Preflop: Hero is MP2 with T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
UTG calls t200, 1 fold, Hero raises to t800, 1 fold, Button raises to t1400, 2 folds, UTG calls t1200, Hero ?

Sherman · #2 04-15-2007, 04:23 AM

Call in an effort to stack his AA/KK. Without a set on the flop, check/fold. The price is just too good.

ymu · #3 04-15-2007, 05:52 AM

You're getting good odds to call and try to catch a set and your stack isn't crippled if you end up folding. There's no point pushing pre-flop - I'm just as worried about the limp-call from UTG.

The AK limp isn't much of a read really - 13.5BB is an awkward stack size, it's an awkward hand in this spot unless you're happy to push pre-flop, and how he plays as a shortstack might be (should be) very different from how he plays as a big stack.

Having said that, he is min-reraising an early position raise from the other big stack at the table when stack sizes suggest he should be pushing - so assume that he has AA and fold/stack him accordingly after the flop.