$3.4: 9 handed AK preflop?

[dw33b]

CO's slightly larger stack is from the first hand where he called a 3X raise with QTo and won a small pot with second pair. No reads on MP1 or MP3

PokerStars Tournament, Big Blind is t30 (9 handed) Converter on pregopoker.com

Hero (t1470)
UTG+1 (t1585)
MP1 (t1290)
MP2 (t1510)
MP3 (t1965)
CO (t1670)
Button (t1205)
SB (t1190)
BB (t3115)

Preflop: Hero is in UTG with K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]
<font color="red">Hero raises to t120</font>, <font color="gray">UTG+1 folds</font>, MP1 calls t120, <font color="gray">MP2 folds</font>, MP3 calls t120, <font color="red">CO raises to t810</font>, <font color="gray">3 folds</font>, <font color="red">Hero ?</font>

[J-P]

I'd get it in in a 3.4

[cougar62]

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I'd get it in in a 3.4

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Yeah and maybe being a little nitpicky, but maybe a bigger raise pf in a 3.40 also, 5x or even 6x to try to thin the field. But I don't think you can fold here and calling is obviously wrong, so shove...you're probably dominating Ax a ton of the time here.

[ymu]

He calls raises with crap - but what does he reraise with?

It's a bit of an over-raise (645 is pot-sized). Bad players usually reraise too small with a really big hand - but they also tend to push rather than raise small/medium PPs (even when it's a lot less justified by the pot size than here).

Maybe he's just bad at maths (is there a menu for bet sizes, or just the slider and box? I don't play Stars). Or he knows how loose this table is and wants to isolate you (not so likely when he's also loose - but good LAG is different from bad LAG).

I'd push because there's plenty in the pot to flip against unknown donk range, and knowing what he has here adds value for future tourneys. If he doesn't go broke before we play him again.


If getting 3 callers for a 4x raise happens a lot at this table, you might want to raise a bit more at this blind level.