Daily Hand Quiz

Call.

Its very close.

You could certainly call the UTG short stack profitably as your A9 is doing quite well against the majority of his range.

In fact we could probably call the UTG shove with almost any ace.

I’d say we’re about 50/50 vs the SB’s range. He can be shoving here with broadway and any medium ace.

How much of a shot we have at the side pot will very much depend on which of the three of us are sharing cards. Its certainly possible for them both to turn up with broadway only here.

Looking at the other stacks at the table we do need to chip up soon to have a shot.

The only consideration is how fast the players are dropping now the bubble has broke. It might be worth waiting if people are still busting at a rapid rate, but otherwise this is a reasonable spot to take a chance.

We’re not risking our tournament life here so I take a punt that the SB turns up with a weaker ace or broadway.

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Agreed !!

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I agree with Black Fair, the fact that the villain is aggressive is the tipping point for me. The chances are quite high that we’re ahead of him at least. Raise, or shouldn’t that be call?

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Voted fold. AJ would be my minimum. Likely result of this hand is that the hero will move-up one ITM. Hero will have position on the agg v, so fold and wait for another opportunity. Other shoves are on the horizon since v is also short-stacked.

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I too fold and would call with AJ+. Losing this hand would take us straight to shove or fold territory while right now we can certainly tighten up a bit and duck for an orbit or two until the first shove-fest is over. There’s really no need to get involved with a marginal hand, I’d much rather wait for a premium one as we’re very likely to get action.

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Easy fold. Small blind is not calling off his tourney with a hand that does not beat A-9 off. UTG could have anything, pocket pair or any ace. Small blind has a hand. You are not short unless you call and lose this hand which with A-9o is likely against two players.

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Ridiculous question.

Call with AQs,AK,jj+

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black fair Reply:
September 24th, 2009 at 7:55 pm

ridiculous answer.

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why risk tourney life against a ???? crap shoot with mediocre hand. Better opportunity will come.

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sigh

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A9o is not a marginal hand in this spot.

Everyone is giving our opponents hands far too much credit.

The UTG player has an M < 2, is about to be hit by the blinds and can be shoving any two cards here.

The SB player only has to call $4,556 to win $8,956. He’s getting 2:1 for his money against any two cards. 2:1! Any two cards!

Come on. He can shove to isolate with J10 here.

Also we’re playing for a side pot with his shove, so our A9o does not have to beat two hands.

Playing AJ+ only in this spot is absurd.

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