Tough hand from Paty 20K Gtd.

NickyOD

Party gave me $150 free, so I tried my luck in the 20K Gtd. $100+9 FO.

12 players left and its $5.5K for first. I'm guaranteed $250 at the moment and my stack is just a little under the average.

I didn't really notice the villain in this hand until he got short stacked around the bubble where he let himself blind away to nothing. At one point he had less than 2BBs. Then he was lucky to double up when forced in with crap about 3 times. I'd been pummelling his BB a lot but I'd never shown a bad hand. I gave him his last double up when I raised in MP with AT and he immediately shoved with aces. I was pot committed to call him.

This is his next BB after that hand. He seems to be on a roll, having shoved a lot and taken a lot of blinds to get the stack he has now.

Could anyone stratch to call his RRAI here? He took about 4 seconds to push when the action was on him. The blinds have only just gone up again and its likely I'll still make the final table if I fold.

#Game No : 5466277784
***** Hand History for Game 5466277784 *****
NL Texas Hold'em Trny:30538799 Level:13 Blinds-Antes(2000/4000 -100) - Monday, November 27, 22:18:48 ET 2006
Table $15K Gtd (886876) Table #1 (Real Money)
Seat 9 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 4: DedeAPS ( $58925 )
Seat 9: HERO ( $49395 )
Seat 10: korrupt911 ( $33022 )
Seat 2: She_DiDIt ( $89674 )
Seat 7: GABI999 ( $44229 )
Seat 1: saffe222 ( $46353 )
Trny:30538799 Level:13
Blinds-Antes(2000/4000 -100)
saffe222 posts ante [100].
She_DiDIt posts ante [100].
DedeAPS posts ante [100].
GABI999 posts ante [100].
NickyOD posts ante [100].
korrupt911 posts ante [100].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to NickyOD [ Ah 9s ]
She_DiDIt folds
DedeAPS folds
GABI999 folds
HERO raises [10000]
korrupt911 folds
saffe222 is all-In [42253]

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What to do?

mdwexford

fold, you still have a playable enough stack with 10 bb's

NickyOD

I guess no one else replied because they thought it was a standard fold.

Normally I would agree. This time I called.

If I'm an observer in this hand I'd have looked at the 2 players and said they were both total donkeys and that calling a RRAI with A9 here is very weak. I thought a long time about it and it wasn't one of those "ah sure **** it" calls. If he pushes straight away I fold here. I mean I think if he has AJ its an autoshove, same goes for pairs probably 88 and above. But 4 seconds is a long time in online poker so I got the feeling his decision to push wasn't automatic. Yes I do realise, LAG, distractions and multitabling can account for this too but couple this with the fact that he was on a rush, and I had been raising his blind a lot I got the feeling he was getting out of line so I decided it was a call. He had A-2 and he fantastically outflopped me. :mad:

By the way I don't think the fact that I still have a playable stack should have much influence on your analysis of this situation. I see so many players make these folds late in tournaments because they lack the conviction to go with their gut instinct, purely because they feel more comfortable playing short-stacked-all-in-or-fold-ninja-poker and find it more difficult to play with an average stack or a stack of more than 10BBs

Hitman Actual

I would have thought it was a standard fold, tbh, but then I don't know much about these online 'tells' that you speak of. I like your reasoning, though. Live, I think it's an easy fold with A9.

Edit: I see you got your interview with your hero. Did you propose?