Tough Spot with AQ in PS 180er 10$

[Gesangsverein]

Poker Stars
No Limit Holdem Tournament
Blinds: t300/t600
(Ante: t50)
7 players
Converter

Small Blind: 15185 in chips
Big Blind: 3754 in chips
Limper(UTG+1): 7036 in chips
Hero: 6463 in chips

Pre-flop: (7 players) Hero is Button with AsQh
UTG folds, UTG+1 calls t600 (pot was t1250), 2 folds, Hero ???

Table has tightened up recently though the below-average (Average is about 12k at that moment) stacks at the table keep pushing a lot.

What do you think about this spot?
I`m afraid of the early limper but want to play AQ of course.
Is calling an option ?
Or better raise to xxxx ?
Or even push ?
Other ideas ?

[Pants Optional]

converter messed up. we need your stack, the blinds stacks, and limpers stack

[Gesangsverein]

thx...
I`m working on it!

EDIT: done [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[ssnyc]

push...seems pretty ABC...pot is $1,850 with the limper...you have 6K ish...what hand are you waiting for to make your move?

[Dill3227]

Push!

[RonFezBuddy]

Shove...don't worry about the utg limper...this is mid-pairs more than it is a monster and he will fold the mid-pairs if he's afraid to raise with them.

Otherwise the pot is offering enough incentive to shove.

[Mostly]

I'd be more afraid of a premium hand looking to come over the top of a raiser than mid-pairs. You call utg+1 if your hand is so strong that you want an opponent to play with. You push if you just want to take down the blinds and don't want a call.

AQo is a good hand but this might not be the best spot. Still, I'd probably raise, with a definite idea of what I plan on doing if the limper goes over the top of me. But you're in position, you've got a good hand, and you've got room in your stack to play it - you don't HAVE to shove every time you pick up something halfway decent.

[SharkTank43]

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I'd be more afraid of a premium hand looking to come over the top of a raiser than mid-pairs. You call utg+1 if your hand is so strong that you want an opponent to play with. You push if you just want to take down the blinds and don't want a call.

AQo is a good hand but this might not be the best spot. Still, I'd probably raise, with a definite idea of what I plan on doing if the limper goes over the top of me. But you're in position, you've got a good hand, and you've got room in your stack to play it - you don't HAVE to shove every time you pick up something halfway decent.

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You have 10 big blinds. Making a standard raise should be out of the question.

[TFGoose]

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I'd be more afraid of a premium hand looking to come over the top of a raiser than mid-pairs. You call utg+1 if your hand is so strong that you want an opponent to play with. You push if you just want to take down the blinds and don't want a call.

AQo is a good hand but this might not be the best spot. Still, I'd probably raise, with a definite idea of what I plan on doing if the limper goes over the top of me. But you're in position, you've got a good hand, and you've got room in your stack to play it - you don't HAVE to shove every time you pick up something halfway decent.

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Raising anything less than all-in here is a crime. What are you gonna do, put 2 of your 6K out there and then fold on a whiffed flop? This is a push if you're going to raise (and you absolutely should raise here).

It's true it doesn't have to all-in every time you raise. But if you're going to put 30% of your chips in for a normal raise, then anything short of a push is fitting yourself for donkey ears.

--TFGoose

[Cornell Fiji]

Gotta shove.

No other raise makes any sense and your hand is way too strong too fold without a read that UTG+1 will only open limp KK+/AK. A large part of a $10 players limp range is being limp-folded for his tournament life. This is a very standard shove to increase your stack by a whopping 30% without a showdown.