Facing a raise holding AQ in the BB, no limit tournament

Game type: No Limit tournament
Your image: You have been quiet for the last two orbits
Stage of tourney: Still several levels until the bubble
Avg stack: 5500
Misc notes:
Your hand: A♦Q♥

With a strong hand in the BB, you don’t mind some action in front of you, so the raise from Player B isn’t an unwelcome sight. Then something complicates the situation – Player F, who is playing with a very deep stack, flat calls the raise two off the button. The remaining players fold, bringing the action to you. With 1300 in the pot already, what’s your move?

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antiDuke

Might as well call and catch a flop. If the big stack wasn’t in the hand then I go ahead and push,

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yellow#5

I think a call is much better. I like to see a cheap flop here with this hand.

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JimJims

I like calliing. I think that you need to hit some flops to win tournaments like this, and if you flop a pair, you have a well disguised hand that will probably get paid off.

I know the value of picking up those chips now, but I also know the value of doubling up on someone with AJ or KQ.

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Mike

Obvious play… See the UTG+1 raiser most likely has a hand of AQ or worse (simply excluding AA, AK, KK)… with the Chip leader flat calling.. he probly has mediocre cards hoping to hit flop hard and then bust UTG+1… however since I am almost 80% sure that the CL will fold… I am not concerned about getting knocked out… I push all 6100 chips in (or at least 4500, showing the pot-committment to CL)… if UTG folds, objective accomplished.. $1300 pot, if he calls, I might be against AK, however more likely AJ or worse so I have 10000 chips now.. easy push

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Cristiano

I go for a 3k raise which might get my oponents to fold and then push it no matter what comes at the flop. I believe that represents a good hand and givem me better odds at stealing the pot

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_CityBorn_

easy jam. the only one to worry about is player b, and he’d need ak or qq+ to hurt us. regardless of whether he folds, the hijack will muck due to max pressure and his likely mediocre holdings. once hes gone, we’ve got his dead money to sweeten the deal with player b and we’re only at risk for 3200 total. we’d have ~25 bb left even if we lose.

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