Weak ace preflop with the chip lead, PokerStars Sunday Millions

Why not just push pre-flop? Avoid the hard decision if one of them push back. If you know they’re capable of re-stealing just deny them that possibility?

“Why not just push pre-flop?” (Im assuming you mean, making the shove rather than a standard 3x blind raise)

Because you still have the SB and the BB to act. By making the 3x raise, you still give yourself the option to pull out of the race if both blinds shove.

because shoving 1.6 million into 70k is spew…

If you push pre-flop, you’re not risking 1.6 Million to win 70K because you have them both covered. You’re only risking about 500K.

It might even make them lay down a few hands that beat you and they would have immediately pushed against your apparent steal: 22, 33, 44, 55. Those hands do very well to push with, but are quite bad to call a push (only a small favorite against any 2 cards and with ICM in mind probably a lay-down).

Since you’re getting really good odds to call if they would re-steal you will almost always call with your semi-decent A6s. So why not push? Good chance they’ll lay down 22-77 and A7-A9 which beat you?

I dont think shoving pre-flop would be too bad, but a 3x raise has more value, since you may have both players to fold most hands, you’ve given yourself the right odds to make the right call against any reasonalbe hand; ans should someone just call you, you have a chance to see the flop and then decide if you want to invest the remaining 350K left for your opponents all-in. Futhermore, after the flop you will be in position and might get a second chance to make your opponentes fold.

Your analysis of the hand is pretty much the same that I made in that hand. = )

I mean the analysis that the DHQ staff made…

I’d dump it

there are only two players I am interested in tangling with at this table and that’s player A and player C - I’m not blowing off chips to anybody else by losing a race

against those two players I will call an all-in shove with about 90% of all holdings

other than that I’m shutting down shop (unless dealt premium cards) until some point where chip stacks get more even again, and then it’s game on again - this will likely be well after the next bubble

This is definitely is a judgement call on how you feel you look at the table an how you feel your opponent would play against your image. MrKorvOla abvious made the right read on the situation. A-6 suited is defintely a good hand and even if his read was incorrect he would still be above the average stack.

Good Job!

Korv0la, since you’re commenting on the hand, can you respond to the question of why not shove to begin with here? Is that something you would do sometimes/ usually/ never? Any specific reason you didn’t do it on this hand?

Raising 3xbb then folding to either of these stacks is pretty weak. It would be ridiculous to even think of folding in this spot against luckyfire

I don’t understand why you would shove to begin with. Why risk over 400K in chips if both blinds pick up hands and you walk into a raise, re-raise situation from the blinds, here you make a standard raise and then if one of the blinds shove or both or you walk into the first situation I mentioned, you now have a chance to re-evaluate the situation and make a good read which clearly MrKorvOla did in the actual hand. I think calling the all-in the absolute correct play, but shoving to begin with doesn’t seem appealing to me.