Call or fold? Late in MTT

ninconvert · #1 08-07-2007, 09:02 PM

Hi, I'm going to apologise up front for this not being converted properly. I tried using the flop turn river converter but it won't work for tournament hands [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] hopefully it's not too hard to decipher...

Down to the last 15 or so in a full tilt 90 player deep stack $5 MTT...

Blinds are pretty big, I have no information on villain.

Is this call correct based on pot odds against a random villain?

Seat 1: IdunNO300 (6,406)
Seat 2: zodaddy3 (30,575)
Seat 4: steveysee (12,245)
Seat 5: oneeyedpat (29,055)
Seat 6: ninconvert (22,327)
Seat 9: eaglepkg (24,230)

IdunNO300 antes 150
zodaddy3 antes 150
steveysee antes 150
oneeyedpat antes 150
ninconvert antes 150
eaglepkg antes 150
zodaddy3 posts the small blind of 600
steveysee posts the big blind of 1,200
The button is in seat #1

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to ninconvert [8d 8s]
oneeyedpat folds
ninconvert raises to 4,500
eaglepkg folds
IdunNO300 folds
zodaddy3 has 15 seconds left to act
zodaddy3 folds
steveysee raises to 12,095, and is all in
ninconvert has 15 seconds left to act
ninconvert calls 7,595

Yoshi63 · #2 08-07-2007, 09:15 PM

Yes, against a fairly tight range of AQ+ 99+ you are 35% and getting slightly over 2-1. Throwing in some weaker aces or other random hands makes this an easy call.

I don't know that I like the size of your opening raise, however. I think it is too big and commits too much of your stack. 3000-3600 looks about right.

SuperUberBob · #3 08-07-2007, 09:54 PM

Given your preflop raise, you have to call the all-in. You won't like it, but you have to.

I'd probably raise less preflop. I like anywhere from 2.5x to 3.5x the BB. However, if you've been regularly raising about 4x BB, then there's no reason to stop doing that.

ninconvert · #4 08-07-2007, 10:13 PM

Yeah I'd been raising more than 3x because of the antes. and getting quite a lot of folds. Do you think 2.5 and 3x BB work as well when antes get involved?

In the end I did call and felt like it was marginal but correct, glad to hear you guys agree because I certainly was not sure...