Ace queen facing a call and a raise, nl tournament

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Game type: 109 freezeout on PokerStars
Stage of tourney: Early to mid
Your image: Aggressive
Your hand: A♦Q♦

The setup: You’ve been active but haven’t been able to accumulate many chips in this tournament. This hand you get AQ UTG and decide to make it 3x. The table folds to the cutoff, who has been playing loose. The button then moves all in. The blinds fold and the action is back to you.

What’s your play?

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DHQ Staff

To start, this is a raise or fold situation – I can’t really see calling under any circumstances.

I’m going to assume you’re ahead of the CO 95% of the time, so what about the button? They certainly have a hand of at least reasonable quality, since it’s obvious that they’re going to be called in at least one spot, but they’re also down to 10BBs. The thing about that kind of stack on the button is that most players tend to make up their mind about a hand as soon as it’s dealt, so the action in front doesn’t matter much to them. I’d think he’s doing this with 66 and up, and AJ and up. You’re basically a flip against that range, and you’re getting better than 2-1. I think you can make this call all the way down to ATs.

What actually happened: You folded. The CO showed JJ and the button held AK. AK failed to improve and the CO won the pot.

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Richard P

We are getting great odds against the button but the cutoff calling means he is pretty much priced in whatever we do (would only need a 23% hand if we shoved and he can afford it). To commit here for me is pure gambling.

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drhoho

Close one, either shove or fold.

I kinda voted shove, but I am not sure about it.

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DJ Shibby

AQ = the devil

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Rowdy

I’d shove. The images are important here.

The CO is loose so you are likely to be ahead of him. You have been active and doing pretty poorly, so with the loose CO there too I’d imagine it would be tempting for the Button to throw all in here with weaker than normal (especially being short), so you could well be ahead of him too.

Also you could do with a few more chips youself. It’s a gamble but I reckon you should take it.

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Cristianos

as it is I am already short stack compared to the rest of the table, so a shove here seems the right play with AQ, considering also what was pointed out by the staff.

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se7en

shove

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Anonymous

Fold… I still say wait for a better spot. I like AQ heads up but knowing that the cutoff is probably going to call after you shove all in… I say just be a little more patient for a stronger hand.

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Rhycar

Agreed, AQ is my least favorite hand for reasons like this.

Having said that, I would probably shove all-in to try to isolate on the button. Of course, it comes out we were WAY behind to both, but that’s poker.

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I voted fold because my image is aggressive (not loose) and yet the button still re-raised all-in after my UTG raise. So I figured he may well have something like pockets or AK and the CO is still in the hand as well. So I am going to wait for a better spot.

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_CityBorn_

I voted shove, but I didnt like it a whole lot. We could be ahead, but we could easily be behind as well -against either opponent. We’re shortstacked so at some point we’re going to have to rock n roll, and this is a gamble, but one I think we need to take given our situation and the opportunity to more than double up.

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Mike Litoris

Fold. There is a good chance you are dominated by one of the two others in the hand, and you are a coin flip at best to the other.

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ctew008

i say screw yall, kill the co guy slap the button guy and take the pot

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Adequate

As hard a decision as it would be, I would have to fold them. you could be facing AA, chances are your flush will draw dead, why gamble on cards that aren’t even on the board yet?

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