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DeLaBass

Just want to know if I played this right so I'll know what to do next time.

Live €65 freezeout, 9,500 starting stack. Started with 25 players down to about 16 now, top 3 pay. I have 13,000 exactly which is slightly over average and playing TAG.

Blinds 300-600 folded around to villain in MP who is new to the table so no reads but he seems solid enough. He makes it 3000 to go. He has me slightly covered. I'm next to act and have AKo. I figure him for a mid-pocket pair with the large rasie and reraise all-in hoping either for him to fold and if he does call at least I'll see all 5 cards. Folded around and he calls the 10k with TT. Flop no help and I'm out.

Thoughts?

Also if you were the villain here, was calling the 10k reraise (almost all of your stack) correct?

De Deraco

if he put you on two high cards then he was right to call.
what was the villains stack if he was around 7000 there was really no way to push him off his cards as he had already invested so much. its a straighforward enough play it just didnt come off this time. i would have puhed too as smoth calling preflop means you'll get no more action on an A high flop unless in hits a set.

DeLaBass

De Deraco wrote:

if he put you on two high cards then he was right to call.
what was the villains stack if he was around 7000 there was really no way to push him off his cards as he had already invested so much. its a straighforward enough play it just didnt come off this time. i would have puhed too as smoth calling preflop means you'll get no more action on an A high flop unless in hits a set.

Villain had about 15,000 that's why I tried to push him off it. I generally try to avoid 50:50s in tourneys but this one I felt had to play out this way.

Hitman Actual

Your push is fine, I think, especially if he'll call with AQ. His call with TT is very marginal... I've often folded tens in this spot, but your push does look like AK so maybe it's not too bad.