$16 - AJs late

[MonkeyButler]

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t200 (5 handed) Hand History converter Courtesy of PokerZion.com

UTG (t1685)
MP (t2685)
Hero (t5995)
SB (t1345)
BB (t1790)

Preflop: Hero is Button with A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">MP raises to t500</font>.

Hero?

Villain seemed competent. Was getting late, and the 500 raise seems like one of 2 things. #1 - he wants someone to push or #2 - he's trying to raise the minimum to steal the blinds w/o min-raising...

Feedback?

[TruFloridaGator]

500 is a common raise from a good player though. I would probably fold if he is competent &amp; raising through you plus the smaller blinds, especially if they are loose.

[RexWoo]

I would push on the bubble but here you're 5 handed and villain has a better hand and call you most of the time.

I'd like the push better if he had a much bigger stack.

[TruFloridaGator]

His stack size is fine, but he is a good player, I don't see him raising wide enough to make this is a shove because of the stack set ups. It's very close though.

[Paul B.]

wtf how is this not an auto-shove

[jaydreb]

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wtf how is this not an auto-shove

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Because you're usually behind??

[Paul B.]

I respectfully disagree

[MonkeyButler]

Paul - what's your reasoning for auto-shove?

[kylephilly]

How do we know MP isn't trying to pick up the blinds and keep the chip leader out of the action?

We have 3 stacks all at about the same size and he probably realizes that. Depends how nitty he is but I think you could justify a shove to scoop the 800 out there.

I think he may fold anything except JJ+, AKs

[The Venetian]

Readless, I probably shove in-game, but with time to think, I wonder if this would be a good place to make a goofy re-raise to 1000-1100.