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facing open shove in ep with AQs. MicroMillions Event 98 $1M GTD 8Kpaid 26K left

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November 25, 2013 - 7:12 pm

This was a really tough decision, I'd been owning the table for the last few orbits getting away with steals, 3bets. Most of the table have around 10BB left.

I'm not sure if this was a mistake or not I think its pretty close. In any case it put me on tilt and next orbit I was out.

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PokerStars Game 107540480201 / Tournament
Table 809540602 4061 –
Blinds : [color=darkred]600/1200[/color] – Ante [color=darkred]150.0[/color]
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9 players
[SB] TOL777503 (11222)
[BB] ron1211 (18485)
[1] JayMow30 (16626)
[2] TrojanMan81 (49042)
[3] markovitsus (12687)
[4] Grekzorba (51151)
[5] PTRVG (18227)
[6] Marcel Luske (16465)
[But] abaças (7665)

TrojanMan81 A Q Initial Pot: 3150

JayMow30 is All in
TrojanMan81 is All in
markovitsus folds
Grekzorba folds
PTRVG folds
Marcel Luske folds
abaças folds
TOL777503 folds
ron1211 folds
### FLOP ### 3 4 J Pot: 68518
### TURN ### 9 Pot: 68518
### RIVER ### 3 Pot: 68518
JayMow30 shows K A
TrojanMan81 shows A Q
[color=violet]JayMow30[/color] wins 36102 from the main pot with A Pair of treys
[color=violet]TrojanMan81[/color] wins 32416 from side pot n°1 with A Pair of treys

A few hands later, I thought this was a great resteal spot, I'm 99% the opener is folding but perhaps I should have considered my position also.

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PokerStars Game 107540839666 / Tournament
Table 809540602 4061 –
Blinds : [color=darkred]700/1400[/color] – Ante [color=darkred]175.0[/color]
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9 players
[SB] abaças (15055)
[BB] huehnertod (31389)
[1] ron1211 (15410)
[2] JayMow30 (27392)
[3] TrojanMan81 (21029)
[4] markovitsus (31097)
[5] Grekzorba (45576)
[6] PTRVG (20424)
[But] Marcel Luske (26562)

TrojanMan81 8 8 Initial Pot: 3675

ron1211 folds
JayMow30 raises to 2800
TrojanMan81 is All in
markovitsus is All in
Grekzorba folds
PTRVG folds
Marcel Luske folds
abaças folds
huehnertod folds
JayMow30 folds
### FLOP ### 5 5 7 Pot: 58251
### TURN ### 3 Pot: 58251
### RIVER ### 5 Pot: 58251
TrojanMan81 shows 8 8
markovitsus shows T T
[color=violet]markovitsus[/color] wins 10068 from side pot n°1 with A Full House, fives full of tens
[color=violet]markovitsus[/color] wins 48183 from the main pot with A Full House, fives full of tens

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November 25, 2013 - 8:22 pm

Reshoving AQs there looks super standard to me.

Given the dynamic, I would think he might think your on tilt and call lighter like AJs+ obv but I think some small pps might shove up in his range too like 66+ and maybe some smaller suited aces.

Poker stove it and see what your equity is…regardless it’s a huge mine field gonna have to risk it to get the biscuit lol.

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November 26, 2013 - 11:33 am

AQ hand looks fine and with 1/3 of your stack in if you call then a shove is best. There is only one stack behind you that can hurt you and if he wakes up with better than AQ so be it. You got unlucky here with UTG having as strong as AK in this spot so no need to tilt. Right play, wrong time. Plenty of times he will show up with QJs, KQ, AQ, AJ, AT, you get the drift.

Second hand is a different kettle of fish. I personally think it is a fold. Think about it. You have an early position raiser with a touch < 20bbs so what so you range him as? Personally, I always feel like these raises are more likely strong than not and he will not be folding 99% of the time. I suspect he would only fold hands like 88 or less and maybe AJ or less but his raising range is likely to be 77+, AT+, KQ+ and not much more as he has no implied odds to raise with speculative hands. This means he is calling a huge % and when he does call we are crushed by 99-AA and flip versus say AJ+.

On top of that you need to add into the mix the fact that you have 7 players still to act behind and if one of them decides to play then you will be crushed the vast majority. I think 15bbs is a workable stack and I would rather be jamming in late position with marginal hands than 3b all-in v UTG raiser and the whole table behind with mid-pairs.

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November 27, 2013 - 1:41 am

yeah that jam with 88 was a bad spot. Still not sure UTG is calling very wide here but then again he might given I've 3bet him a few times forcing folds and flipped with him AKo vs AQs. I was a little surprised when the supernova to my left overcalled with TT. I made a few really bad decisions after that flip with AQs. I really should have tightened up, rebuilt my image and waited for better spots.

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