17K, 12 left, A9 from BB

[Casper05]

I don't play many MTTs, so I had no idea what to do here.

We are about 130K deep in this hand. Blinds are 1K/2K with 250 antes I think.

I'm in the BB with A9o. CO min raises to 4K. I call (this is prob a raise?).

Flop comes 779, he checks. I bet 10K, he raises to 50K, I fold. ???

[dant734]

Well thats a tough spot to be in id probaly fold you gotta lot of chips. I dont see how the cut off checked before you when your in the bb though?

[Casper05]

haha, good question...he def checked so it must have been SB v BB..sorry.

[4CardStraight]

Boy, it really matters if he was cutoff or if he was Small blind. Against a cutoff were oop rest of the action, if we are against SB, then we have position on him.

Against either I probably do reraise preflop, depends how tight he is from late position. If he is super nit tight, I honestly muck this if he was in cutoff, since I dont like playing trash from out of position. A lot of A9 strength comes from ace high at showdown, or top pair against a random hand. Here against a raiser, our top pair loses value since were often dominated against whatever he raised with, and if we are OOP than we are unlikely to get to showdown our Ace high, or even bluff it profitably.


With deep stacks yeah 3 bet against a wide raiser with a hand like this to help define his hand range and also for value if he is raising wide enough. Consider folding if you are OOP against him later and he is a tight raiser. If the root of your question is what do we do when we bet pot with really deep stacks and he effectively goes all in on a board that was unlikely to hit either of us? yeah we can probably fold this since he very likely has a 7 or an overpair to the board now.