My first PS Sunday Million - What would you do?

[creamfillin]

There's too many draws that could be doing this to lay this down + you have a read on him that he tends to be maniacal/ overvalues his hands. I definitely lean call.

[AAKKallin]

Fold. Range not correct. Why would he push with A8 or A9 after u reraised flop? no f'kin way.

[nath]

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Fold. Range not correct. Why would he push with A8 or A9 after u reraised flop? no f'kin way.

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Did you read OP's description of the villain?

I like a call based on what you've told us.

[CTFIRE]

You need to trust your gut. You are conflicted because this is your first big tourney. In a 5 or 10 game you are pushing with AK because you are willing to risk the $5 entry fee, even though your gut tells you shouldn't. Since it was a $215 tourney you listened to your gut and thought better of overplaying your AK. Knowing when to throw away AK post flop is a hard lesson for people to learn. You may have had him beat, but I agree that his early shows confirm folding was the right thing to do. Then you watch him and wait until you know your hand is good.

[Jan]

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In a 5 or 10 game you are pushing with AK because you are willing to risk the $5 entry fee, even though your gut tells you shouldn't.

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No, actually I'm willing to go all the way with AK in the smaller buy-ins because most times I'll be up against a player with a weaker ace in this spot.

I expected a better caliber of players in the Sunday Million, which is why I am analyzing my play here. In a $5 tourney I would chalk this hand up to a weak player getting lucky and just move on, feeling pretty confident that he/she would have made the same play with A3o.

Jan

[Semtex]

Villain might have been in a lot of pots, but unless you gauged him to be a total moron your line is fine. Reraising with your stack preflop can be good, but I'd probably play it as you did, unless original raiser was maniacal...

[registrar]

Calling with AK pre-flop allows us, IMO, to take exactly this line. The whole point, as far as I see it, is that we do not declare the strength of our hand and can thus stack AQ on flops like this. I think you have to go broke here if BB has flopped aces up or a set of threes because he's also doing this with flush draws and probably any ace.

OP - the Million does not really play like a high buyin. The standard is very variable, often very bad, and if you are prepared to felt this hand in a $20/180, I think you should be prepared to felt it here.

[Requin]

Did you guys not notice that this is a cold 3-bet? Just call the flop every time, and this is a really easy fold.

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Did you guys not notice that this is a cold 3-bet? Just call the flop every time, and this is a really easy fold.

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This depends on our read of villain. The read give is this:

"Villian was in a lot of pots, and most of his bets were exceptionally large both pre-flop and post flop. He only showed down a couple of hands, both times weaker hands than would have been expected."

If these are my chips, then I would want a better read, but if I've seen BB willing to felt QJ as top pair, I'm calling here.

[Requin]

Villain would have to be reaaaaally bad to show up here with a range that makes this a call. All the given read said was that he's laggy and that his bets are large. We don't know what he was felting when he showed down weak hands, they could easily have been smart bluffs or calldowns that went wrong. I don't think we should assume he;s retarded just from that.