Stars - $3.4 - AQo - Is this too nitty?

[DiCkO]

Villian wasn't good, and had his big stack as a result of getting all in in L1 with AJo v AK. In that case he raised 4.5BB PF and called a shove. I was worried about his smaller raise, and that this hand screams reverse implied odds. Was I too tight?

Poker Stars
No Limit Holdem Tournament
Blinds: t25/t50
9 players
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Stack sizes:
UTG: t1595
UTG+1: t1145
MP1: t1395
MP2: t1345
MP3: t1750
CO: t1365
Button: t3135
SB: t1720
Hero: t1550

Pre-flop: (9 players) Hero is BB with A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]
6 folds, <font color="#cc0000">Button raises to t135</font>, SB folds, Hero folds.

[DiCkO]

bump

[Austiger]

WTF yeah this is bad. I mean if you're folding AQ to a button steal attempt, just go get under your covers and sob cause poker is not for you. [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

[DiCkO]

OK, so do I call, and play the hand OOP, or do I raise, knowing that he is happy to get his chips in with a 88+, AJs. I folded because I figured I stood risk losing a lot for the chance of a small gain. It's still early, and don't want to race at this stage

[Guizones]

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OK, so do I call, and play the hand OOP, or do I raise, knowing that he is happy to get his chips in with a 88+, AJs. I folded because I figured I stood risk losing a lot for the chance of a small gain. It's still early, and don't want to race at this stage

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Hey man stop with this "still early" thing... any time is good to stack your opponent!

[MaLiik]

call and play teh flop, if you can play you donät want to go into a coin flip at this stage!

[hiho]

Easy Call

[Austiger]

Are you afraid of getting stacked by AK or something? You need to realize that he's raising A9,AT,AJ,KQ,QJ and tons of other hands you are dominating. Pushing is fine, but so is calling and CRAI any time you flop top pair. You are going to stack him a bunch in this spot so don't think of it as a small gain.

[DiCkO]

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Are you afraid of getting stacked by AK or something? You need to realize that he's raising A9,AT,AJ,KQ,QJ and tons of other hands you are dominating. Pushing is fine, but so is calling and CRAI any time you flop top pair. You are going to stack him a bunch in this spot so don't think of it as a small gain.

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So you don't think a standard raise is any good? Say, to 400?

My thoughts (in hindsight):
Raise &gt; Call &gt; Fold&gt; Push

[cougar62]

Shoving here accomplishes a lot of things. First, you take this down quite often. Second, you double up your share of times he does call. But, maybe most importantly against a villian like this, you slow down his stealing attempts. I'm not big on defending too much early, but when you have a real hand, you have to play strong, so you won't get picked apart by steals.