$3.40: AK in BB early

[MagicKK]

PokerStars Tournament, Big Blind is t20 (10 handed)

UTG (t1500)
UTG+1 (t1480)
MP1 (t2120)
MP2 (t1350)
MP3 (t1220)
CO+1 (t1520)
CO (t1510)
Button (t1050)
SB (t1460)
Hero (t1790)

Preflop: Hero is in BB with A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]
<font color="gray">UTG folds</font>, <font color="red">UTG+1 raises to t80</font>, MP1 calls t80, <font color="gray">MP2 folds</font>, <font color="gray">MP3 folds</font>, CO+1 calls t80, <font color="gray">CO folds</font>, <font color="gray">Button folds</font>, <font color="gray">SB folds</font>, <font color="red">Hero?</font>

This is pretty early in the tournament so no real reads. I was thinking either call and see the flop or push as there was around 300 in the pot already. Are either of these plays the optimal play?

[luthar]

Call. I don't like shoving here since its a 3.4$ (you will have lots of other occasions to stack ppl here!)

Play a lil bit of postflop [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[cardworm]

Call looks by far the best here,if u hit your A or K odds
are good u will stack someone with a worse top pair of.

[DerrtySlime]

if you shove i thin k you will get called by worse here so much of the time.

[AMT]

shoving is ok. you will get called by a LOT worse at this buy in. calling is fine also.

[starchyy]

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you will get called by a LOT worse at this buy in.

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Very true, but at this buy in, you make all your money outplaying the post flop. No need to get into a flip against a small pp this early for no reason. See a flop.