Look death in the eye and laugh. $77 reg, AQ hand, late.

[MadScientist]

Ok, so my title is melodramatic, but here is a common spot, you've raised a large hand on the bubble and someone has repushed. Reads are important. Even while ten tabling, I saw that this opponent used to have a huge stack that he was pushing around on the bubble, about 1.75 times per orbit (like a little less than two out of three spots that he could). The guy to his left doubled up through him a few hands ago. Also, I just restole by pushing all in off the guy to his left two hands ago and I get the vibe off him that he is frisky and wants to be active on the bubble. By not pushing here, he may take that as weakness.

So without further ado:
PartyPoker $77 Regular Tournament, Big Blind is t600 (4 handed) Converter on pregopoker.com

CO (t2308)
Hero (t5470)
SB (t6018)
BB (t6204)

Preflop: Hero is in Button with Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]
<font color="gray">CO folds</font>, <font color="red">Hero raises to t1600</font>, <font color="red">SB raises to t6018 (All-in)</font>, <font color="gray">BB folds</font>

Hero?

[cha59]

I would have just pushed preflop.

It sounds like you were trying to induce a resteal attempt. You got it. Now call.

[psyduck]

If he has 32o, it's horrible that you have to call with AQ now.

In other words, push preflop.

[vinyard]

I suspect that you will see AJ and smaller often enough that this is a call. From your read on the SB it seems that you planned to use his abgressive bubble play against. Isn't his push the exact play you were hoping for?

[Sykes]

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I suspect that you will see AJ and smaller often enough that this is a call. From your read on the SB it seems that you planned to use his abgressive bubble play against. Isn't his push the exact play you were hoping for?

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No. AQ is too weak to raise to 1600 here. I'd like the play more with QQ-AA

Push pf!.

[vinyard]

Well, I think its a pretty clear push here PF. From reading the reads the OP gave of the SB and looking at the hand as played its a pretty clear call to me after the SBs re-raise all-in.

[ilya]

Gross dude just shove the first time. Even if you know you can induce him to re-raise you all-in with any2, just shoving is still better.

[fluorescenthippo]

i have no idea how you can be a winning playing at the 77s if you arent pushing PF

[Slim Pickens]

This is an easy preflop push. You have a FPS problem. [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] It's fine to make raises when you know you can't call a push, and it's fine to make raises where you're trying to induce a push. Just don't make raises where you don't know what to do with a questionable hand (relative to what you need to call in the particular situation of course). If you played perfectly all the time and always made the correct decision when facing a reraise, you'd never have to push 10 BB preflop, but that's impossible for even the best, and you'll never do it 10-tabling. Here, you went against your read and left him FE you thought he had a good chance to exploit. Leave him FE when you think he won't take it.

Also, I was not aware it was even possible to run 10 $77 regulars simultaneously.

[UMTerp]

Agree with everyone else. Push preflop. $-EV wise, you honestly should fold this now, even if he were to turn his 75s face-up on the table.