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Satellite Question

  • 06-07-2005 8:30pm
    #1
    NickyOD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,124 ✭✭✭


    AK is fast becoming my least favourite hand.

    $39 SuperSat to the 200+15 on PS. 13 remaining. 8 get in and 9th gets $152. I am in 9th. I get AKo on the button but the tight CO who I only have covered by about 500 makes it 800 to go (100/200/25) The blinds are about to go up to 200/400 and the shortest stack has 2.5K. I have T3910. I put him on TT-QQ. Should I take the race?

    PokerStars Game #2045291824: Tournament #9607804, Hold'em No Limit - Level VII (100/200) - 2005/07/06 - 16:17:15 (ET)
    Table '9607804 6' Seat #4 is the button
    Seat 1: Albagubrath (3925 in chips)
    Seat 2: Bpsamus (10015 in chips)
    Seat 3: xBankie (3427 in chips)
    Seat 4: NickyOD (3910 in chips)
    Seat 5: Yun-Harla (7190 in chips)
    Seat 7: mexineil (6700 in chips)
    Albagubrath: posts the ante 25
    Bpsamus: posts the ante 25
    xBankie: posts the ante 25
    NickyOD: posts the ante 25
    Yun-Harla: posts the ante 25
    mexineil: posts the ante 25
    Yun-Harla: posts small blind 100
    mexineil: posts big blind 200
    *** HOLE CARDS ***
    Dealt to NickyOD [Kh Ac]
    Albagubrath: folds
    Bpsamus: folds
    xBankie: raises 600 to 800


Comments

  • #2
    Davey Devil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,221 ✭✭✭Davey Devil


    NickyOD wrote:
    AK is fast becoming my least favourite hand.

    Join the club.

    In a normal tourney I'd move all-in but in a sat with top 8 getting tickets, I'd have to chuck it.


  • #3
    NickyOD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,124 ✭✭✭NickyOD


    Davey Devil wrote:
    Join the club.

    In a normal tourney I'd move all-in but in a sat with top 8 getting tickets, I'd have to chuck it.

    OK, but what about the stack sizes? When I fold I'll almost be the shorty at the table with the blinds about to go up. I'll have less than T3900 at 200/400.


  • #4
    dropsy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭dropsy


    Why not flat call the raise Nicky? You've got position so for less than a quarter of your stack you play a hand that, if u hit, could almost guarantee your ticket...if u don't, you've still got enough to play with.


  • #5
    Tackle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 275 ✭✭Tackle


    I'd fold it here. The blinds are still relatively small compared to your stack so there's no reason to go for a coinflip just yet. You could have him dominated but it's too risky imo.

    AK is pissing me off too. I'm just back from a MTT where I went all in with AK and was called by some retard with A4s. Caught the flush on the turn. One of the other guys at the table starting saying "Great call, great call".
    I called an all-in a €50 STT in the Red Cow last week. It was just the two of us left with approximately the same stack size. The guy had J7o and rivered a 9 for the straight to take 1st.
    Knocked out both times with AK. :confused:


  • #6
    Davey Devil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,221 ✭✭✭Davey Devil


    I'd prefer not to flat call here, I really think it's a fold or all-in situation. Your right Nicky it's pretty tight with the blinds going up but if you feel it's only going to be a 50/50 I'd prefer to pick a better spot.

    I'd much rather try rob the blinds with junk and no previous callers rather than re-raise a rock. It's a tricky one you can make arguments for both sides.


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  • #7
    Hectorjelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,696 ✭✭✭Hectorjelly


    If you put him firmly on TT-QQ then I think its a fold. You have no chips invested in the pot, no folding equity, and a hand that is behind every possible hand, Id rather push the next hand blind. However if his range is broader and includes hands which he wont call all in with (KQ, JT,44) and hands where you would like him to call with (AK, AQ, AJ) then its a push.

    Why do you put him on TT - QQ? Would he act differently with AQ in that spot?


  • #8
    NickyOD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,124 ✭✭✭NickyOD


    Hectorjelly wrote:
    Why do you put him on TT - QQ? Would he act differently with AQ in that spot?

    I see it a lot on Pokerstars at this blind level. 800 is more likely to be a big pair than AK/AQ etc because players don't want to play it postflop or are happy to just take the blinds.

    He had TT. I pushed in and lost the race. The table had been getting tougher with the big stacks beginning to pressurise. Blind stealing was easy earlier but the player on my left had started to play back at me. I felt with the blinds about to go up I may be forced into a worse scenario. Its difucult to say really how it would have gone but I felt my chance of folding and making top 8 were less than 50/50. If I had just a few more chips I would have folded, but that still may have been the right decision.


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