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Top pair facing an all in 3rd raise, Final Table of Stars Sunday Million
Game type: Final Table of Poker Stars Sunday Million Tournament
Your image: You’ve been playing loose
Stage of tourney: Final table, 5 remain
Avg stack: About 15 million
Misc notes: First place pays $215k, 2nd $108k, 3rd $76k, 4th 61k and 5th $45k.
Your hand: A♠5♥
The Setup: This is an actual hand taken from final table play at the PokerStars Sunday Million on 1/14/07.
Preflop, UTG raises to 3x the BB (2.4 million) and you decide to call on the cutoff with A♠5♥. The button and blinds fold and the flop brings good enough news:
A♥6♥3♠
Player A leads out for 3.2 million, about half pot. You make a minimum raise to 6.4 million. Player A raises you all in for about 16 million.
You have about 20 million behind. The average stack is 15 million. Two players have under 10 million. It will cost you about 9 million to call and the pot is roughly 28 million chips large. Your play?
1.15.07 / 1pm
man, what a donk play with that much money at stake. what the hell?
1.15.07 / 8pm
Fold preflop, fold flop. This is a good example why you don’t call raises with ace-rag. Also, villian in this hand has the 2nd largest stack. No need to get into a confrontation with him.
7.9.07 / 6am
fold this junk preflop… esp against UTG raiser.
Wtf was the player thinking when he called that 3-bet all in on the flop? just lol
1.15.07 / 12pm
I hate Ace-baby. Depending on the particular flavor, you might end up with a wheel draw, a nut flush draw, or a somewhat stealth two pair. But in this situation where you “hit” the flop, it’s just a nasty hand.
In this case, I would feel comfortable folding. You are almost certainly behind. With playable hands that you’d beat, such as KQ hearts or QQ, I’m not sure you’d see a re-raise. And even if you have in fact been playing loose enough for someone to re-raise you here… it’s just quite a bit more likely that they have an Ax (or other) that beats you.
If you fold, you still have a healthy stack in relation to the blinds and the other 3 players. I say live to fight another day.