Marginal hand facing all in, final table of major tournament

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Game type: Sunday Mulligan, Full Tilt Poker
Stage of tourney: Final table
Your image: TAG
Opponent’s image: No strong read
Your hand: K♠Q♣

The setup: You’re at the final table of the Sunday Mulligan. A couple of orbits have gone by and you’ve raised a few pots and had no showdowns. This hand you raise in EP with KQo. The table folds around to the SB, who raises all in. The BB folds and the action is on you.

What’s your play?

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DHQ Staff

The price here is tempting at almost 1.75-1. However, there’s not much of a likely range that you’re getting the right price against, and even if you are getting the right price, an even money gamble just doesn’t seem worth taking at this point. You have a playable stack if you fold, and you’re down to a ship stack if you don’t.

You’re just likely to have far better spots in the orbits to come. I pass, and probably just fold preflop this early.

What actually happened: You called and were shown AQo. You failed to improve and lost the hand.

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kaimano

KQo hasn’t much showdown value…is behind any ace. Plus, it’s not time to gamble for most of our chips. I fold.

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Richard P

Were getting over 1.6 to 1 to call the all in and therefore only need a 38% hand to call. We only started the hand with an M of 9 and if we fold we’ll be the second shortest stack at the table. However I just don’t think it’s a good enough price – if opp had 30k less I would instant call though. Nothing wrong IMO in trying to pick up a 30k pot with KQ though.

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The Online Sports Bettor

I fold. Any ace is ahead of us here.

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samo2

Voted fold … agree with the previous comments. V likely has a pp or an Ax.

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Eric

We should already have a plan against this exact action. I can’t imagine that raise/calling is going to ever be profitable without a super strong read. We have a TAG image and raise in ep, then get shoved on for 12.5bbs. We are getting 1.64:1 odds against a pretty strong range considered he just shoved over an ep raise. Its an ez fold.

Why does the staff keep getting the pot odds wrong? It is not that close to 1.75:1 and the difference between the two is fairly significant.

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I DONKEY PUNCH RICHARD P

a) Why are we opening KQo here? Ugh.

b) Our KQ doesn’t look to rate well against the SB’s shove range; he was M=5, so he had a little time in selecting a hand to shove with. He’s choosing to shove over an EP raise? Uh-oh.

c) If he has, say, $110,000, a call here seems alright. But, with a loss in this hand sending you to the depths of M<3, I prefer to just find a better spot.

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caleb

wtf is M??

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henry

Yes i agree trying to invent poker jargon I donkey?

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