Archive Pick: Medium pair facing heavy preflop action, NL MTT

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Game type: $100 1 rebuy 1 add on, Full Tilt Poker
Stage of tourney: Nearing bubble
Your image: Fairly tight
Opponent’s image: Aggressive
Your hand: 8♣8♥

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The setup: You’ve got a healthy, but still vulnerable stack in this $100 one rebuy one add on tournament that’s nearing the bubble. You’re dealt 88 in the BB.

UTG folds and UTG+1 makes it 3x to go. The table folds to the SB, who jams for about 3k more.

The original raiser has been opening over 15% of his hands in the first two seats over a sample of a few hundred tournament hands. You don’t have anything on the SB.

What’s your play?

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DHQ Staff

What we said then: I think that the SB has actually done you a solid here. Let’s take a second to think about their range. It’s probably pretty wide, and even wider if they’ve been noticing the aggressiveness of the first raiser. Against a typical range, you’re about a flip.

So, you’re getting the right price for sure against the SB. What about UTG+1? If you raise him here, it has to get more respect than the typical three bet due to the presence of the SB (ok, it’s a four bet technically, but functionally it’s a three bet vs UTG+1). Not only that, the chips added by the SB make the prospect of a race against the UTG+1 raiser more appealing. Finally, this guy has a wide-open range here and is probably folding a ton – and the extra chips from the SB provide a nice cushion for the times he doesn’t. I think this is a solid spot for a re-raise.

What actually happened: You folded. UTG1 called, showing 66. The SB showed A9s; sixes won the pot.

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Runefs

I don’t think folding is entirely wrong here but it’s on the weak side.

We’ve been tight we’re getting more than the right price for all holdings SB could have except 99-AA and UTG+1 will have to have a really good hand if we shove. We can easily survive a hit from SB but we can’t raise with only the pot since that’ll commit us if UTG+1 shoves over. We should either fold (being affraid that UTG actually woke up with a real hand) or we shove telling UTG+1 to stay a way or risk most of his stack.
UTG+1 opens with roughly 200 (>15%) hands 36 has us beaten and he’ll fold 18-24 of those (99-JJ/QQ) He might keep 16 hands we’re flipping AK but against two shove’s that’s unlikely so out of he’s opening range he’ll stay in around say 10% of the time if we shove that’s a low risk

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Anonymous

SB probably observed the raises as well, so IMO, if you want to race for a very neat stack, this is THE SPOT. I dont think UTG will call off here anyway.

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_CityBorn_

Shove it. Youre probably racing vs the SB with a chance to knock him out and get the extra 2400 in the pot from utg+1 (plus antes). If utg+1 calls, they could be sharing outs, but its not so likely he calls if hes raising 15+ % of hands. He will put us on a real hand after coming over the top of a raise and an all in. We could use the chip up…..gotta be willing to ship em in when it looks like you can make a little extra cheddar….

Plus if we force out the utg+1 we cap our risk at 5k

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livohim

voted fold. I just don’t see original raiser beeing able to fold in that position. He must have something decent to raise in as early position. I would give him credit for at least AQ, and near the bublle and all, better to let go and hope he will knock out a short stack.

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Loki

Easy shove.
You have a nice tight image, you are clearly willing to flip over your cards against the SB’s all-in and the UTG raiser is aggressive anyway and could be raising with a lot. You need the chips in the middle. Shove.

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