Easy call with AK here right?

icemanjmw · #1 12-14-2006, 07:16 PM

Couple big hands early with AA vs JJ and two pair vs TPTK gave me a big chip lead. I've been trying to avoid all-ins early in SnG with AK but I think this is the right play? Also if the middle man calls is this a push or a call and check down situation?

PokerStars Tournament, Big Blind is t50 (6 handed) Converter on pregopoker.com

UTG (t1685)
UTG+1 (t2155)
CO (t2640)
Button (t865)
Hero (t4940)
BB (t1215)

Preflop: Hero is in SB with A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]
UTG folds, UTG+1 folds, CO calls t50, Button folds, Hero raises to t150, BB raises to t1215 (All-in), CO folds, Hero calls t1065

AMT · #2 12-14-2006, 07:22 PM

go all in

Fat Nicky · #3 12-14-2006, 07:37 PM

i hate the raise to 150 with a limper. Pop this to at least 250. fwiw, pushing is better than a T150 raise....and yes, it's an easy call.

Hercules · #4 12-14-2006, 07:48 PM

Perfectly played. You can`t always push AK here, since i guess you don`t do it with QQ+ also...If i have a pocket pair and i know you`re pushing only AK, you make it pretty easy for me...

So i actually like the way you played it. NH

Rook · #5 12-14-2006, 08:49 PM

Other than being nitty and pointing out that you should have raised to 200 initially, you played the hand fine. Pushing an effective stack of ~53BB with one limper would be a horrible play. Make a standard raise of 3BB+1BB per limper(like you tried to do and just barely missed) and see how the play unfolds from there.

If CO calls, I don't like an overcall as you are calling off 20% of your stack OOP. It's either push or fold. To me it's close, but I'd lean towards a fold as you are likely in a coin flip at best, and I don't want to chance being crippled when I'm an underdog in a coinflip. Obviously a push would have near zero FE as CO has committed near half his stack already and pot odds would be huge.