Aces in the BB facing a UTG raise, 45 man SNG

The weak UTG raise from a short stack either means a monster or air representing a monster. Most medium aces, broadway and pairs would shove here to pick up the blinds and avoid awkward flops.

Against monsters, you’re probably going to be able to get the money in right now and on most flops, since you hold two of the overs to KK and QQ. Against air, you’re obviously not getting any more money in now, but you stand a good chance of getting them to fire at a wide range of flops, and your aces are in pretty good shape against unpaired overcards, making an out of position slowplay a little more palatable than usual.

I like the flat call and check here.

What actually happened: You shoved and UTG folded.

stack your superior hand

I want his whole stack, but I dont often flat call with aces, merely for the times they get cracked by someone raising with K10os. Its just too annoying!!

On the bubble though it might be worth the risk to get a good standing on FT.

ok you raise he folds…you went from 4th in chips
to 2nd in chips on the table…not bad considering a smooth call gives him the option to crush that flop where your skill don’t come into play anymore and its all in the poker gods hands…I think a smooth call is the worst possible scenario!

Our stack is less than double the pot. The call looks very suspicious to a thinking opponent. I shove and hope he thinks I have KTo.

I would rather win a small pot with AA versus losing a big pot with them. I’ve seen AA get cracked way too often. I raise here and don’t mind if they fold.

Against decent players, flatting here should set off massive alarm bells for villina, esp if he thinks your good so very read dependant IMO. Also, if he is good, he is not raise folding. Flat if he is bad, shove if he is good.

Will about 6 orbits left, it doesn’t get any better than this for me. I want to extract as much money as possible from this guy without scaring him away. With anything less than the top 10%, I’d shove now to discourage action. Unfortunately, I don’t have enough chips to offer poor odds to him on the flop.

For me, there are two options: Shove here, or shove on the flop.

I’d call here and check raise all in on the flop to present am image of weakness. If I had a weaker image, I’d want to get all my chips in before any action occurred. Because of my tight image, I would think a shove now would simply scare him away. If he flops a monster It wasn’t my tourney anyway.

Call…Check….if he bets the flop, re-raise all in, in most cases. If he checks, I push on the turn.

I also like the flat call/check here. I think this is the only way you have a chance of getting any more money into the pot if he’s on a weak hand. If the board comes too wet, you can try to get away from it on the bubble, but more often than not, you’ll be ahead post flop as well. Not really wrong to shove, but the table being shorthanded disguises the strength of you hand to some degree. Your only getting your shove called here with KK or QQ, or possibly AK and JJ. Give the guy a chance to stab at it post flop and extract maximum value.

Calling gives to a chance to get an additional c-bet when the opponent is bluffing. It risks them shutting down with a big-hand to a missed or otherwise scary board.

In my experience the smallish raises UTG are more often monsters than not, and when not they are usually abandoned until they hit their miracle flop.

I disagree with the staff on this one, it’s worth missing the chance that your opponent will fire off a bluffing c-bet so you can make sure you get it all in now against 10s jacks or some high ace that might shut down after a bad flop.

I can’t belive ppl are even fathoming trying to get tricky in this spot. reshove all day, everytime. or maybe when villian flops 2 pr or something and cracks you, you can make a bad beat whine post in SO.

poker is about capitolizing on ur opponents mistakes, not making them yourself.

btw, villian is not raising with 2 bigger stacks behind with dead air.

How exactly a flat call would raise suspicions? We’re getting what, 4-to-1 on our money here? It looks more like a “I’m geting good odds, so I’ll call”. I like the flat call/check-raise all in on flop.

Yes, it’s the bubble, but are you playing to win or are you playing to get your buy-in back?

so waiting til ur less of an obvious favorite to get the money in is the better play? please be joking.

pocket rockets all in! its a heads up situation! the call is risky merely due 2 the fact if he hits sumthn on flop, he gony call anyways! aces in this situation is an all in or re-raise EVERYTIME!

The flat call is risky here in the way that he might shut down a “big” hand after the flop where as he would have called an all in, say for example 88 or AJ

We push all in here to gain value from these worse hands, not because we are scared of getting a bad beat if we flat call

I fold.

Call, and shove on the flop no matter what the villain does.

why not a min raise here and shove any flop?

I voted:

Forget that I’m playing poker because I full screened the porno I’m looking at and eventually time out fold