Weaker ace faising prelfop all in, no limit tournament

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Game type: $50 one rebuy, one add on, Poker Stars
Stage of tourney: Bubble
Your image: Very aggressive preflop
Opponent’s image: No read
Your hand: A♦7♥

The setup: You’ve been a very aggressive big stack on this table as the tournament nears the money. This hand you get A7o in MP. You raise, and the table folds to the BB, who quickly shoves.

What’s your play?

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DHQ Staff

There are some competing factors at work here. On one hand, your image is probably causing his range to be wider than it would normally be. On the other hand, the bubble usually forces the average player to tighten up a bit.

Against a tight range, you’re just not getting the right price to call. Against a very loose range that includes all aces, pairs and all broadway, you’re getting about the right price.

Since an unknown’s range should be somewhere inbetween those two extremes, I think you can safely fold here.

What actually happened You called and were shown AQo, which held up to win the hand.

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kaimano

Your steal didn’t work. A7o is not a calling hand in this spot. I fold.

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Richard P

A10+ I would call as it gives more equity against the smaller pairs. A7 is too weak in this spot.

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Bert

agreed

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samo2

I voted fold. While the hero’s agg image expands the villain’s range, A7 just not good enough to potentially chip-off 25% of your stack. Getting almost 1.5-1 on a call, which is probably about right given the average of the villain’s range. Nonetheless the hero has invested only 4k … fold and move on to the next hand.

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Bado27

Adding to the factors discussed above is that Villain is re raising the biggest stack at the table. This narrows up Villain’s range of hands making it an even clearer fold.

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John Kugelman

You’re in bad shape against a better Ace or 77+, which is pretty much the villain’s range. You got caught; take your lumps and fold.

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Rhycar

Easy fold. What kind of donkey would call off a third of their stack on A7o?

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jspring86

Time to just be glad you invested only 4000 and move on. The fact that he is shoving on our big stack makes an even easier fold as mentioned, because he has plenty of a stack to make resteals against the more moderate stacks at the table…I don’t think he’s trying to resteal this pot weak.

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drhoho

I agree with pretty much everyone.

This is a no-brainer fold.

If you had a read that villain makes a hell lot of resteals, you migth consider calling. But even then A7 is a crap hand to do it, and why would he make a resteal on the only stack that can afford calling him rigth on the bubble? Resteals he would prefer to make on stacks they would hurt more.

This is an unknown villain pushing into your big stack rigth on the bubble, you cant possibly call with less than AJ+, 88+ imo.

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Anonymous

call because the last person to take down a pot in this tourney won with 4 8

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