PS $162 - FT with TT - Question

stanek · #1 05-31-2006, 08:19 PM

This is the 3rd orbit of FT and it had been very tight, almost all hands are taken down with a PF raise unless a short stack gets involed. BB is unknown to me.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t6000 (8 handed) internettexasholdem.com

MP1 (t76618)
Hero (t164564)
CO (t93206)
Button (t120752)
SB (t51080)
BB (t97017)
UTG (t252037)
UTG+1 (t31226)

Preflop: Hero is MP2 with T[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
2 folds, MP1 raises to t18000, Hero raises to t42000, 3 folds, BB raises to t96717, MP1 folds, Hero ??

As soon as the BB goes allin I feel like I am beat and think the best option would be fold and save these chips. But I am getting gigantic odds here to call at almost 3:1. What is the villians range? If I put the villian on QQ+ (JJ?) then it is a bad call. As I go into the tank I feel that there is a chance that BB could be doing this with AKs(AKo?) which would make it correct to call?

This decision has been haunting me for a few days but now as I put it down in writing it seems like an obvious call. Even though the BB is showing extreme strength folding looks VERY weak. What are your thougths?

timex · #2 05-31-2006, 09:28 PM

Call it.

If he only makes this play AA-xx where x >T, its a losing play. But players will make this with AKo and AKs. Any range including those hands makes this a call.

You win over 1/3 of the time against JJ+ , AKs, AKo, and if he does it with smaller ranges ie. QQ+, AKs, AKO it becomes more profitable.

You will typically be behind, but the chance of AK and the good odds make this a call in my opinion.

Cky3 · #3 05-31-2006, 10:03 PM

BB cant make this play with 88 or 99? AQs and AK? If the table has been so tight why is he shoving in with QQ+? JJ is like the worst case imo...