Daily Hand Quiz

Fold.

We’re big stacked in a satellite? Why would we bother?

If we were more average stacked I’d still fold given that our eights aren’t doing that great against a short, but not shortest, stacked TAG near the bubble. We’d be fortunate to find ourselves flipping in this spot.

Even if we think we have the pot odds to call against his range we can’t raise to isolate here and a call increases the chances of one of the blinds joining in.

The chance that our eights might have to hold up multi-way seals it for me in that scenario.

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Voted call/shove. If hero loses the hand, they still maintain 2nd stack at the table. The button and blinds have M<2, so the ranges are wide – pps, broadway, Ax, Kx, and connectors. I don’t see how you can get hurt here – only 6 hands are ahead right now.

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Fold. Looks like we can fold our way through so why should we call and start getting into trouble?

Even if by some disaster the other players don’t go out we would still be better off saving these chips for pushing first later instead of calling

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Fold. We do not need the chips. This is a satellite near the bubble, not a regular MTT or cash game. We should be playing extremely tight at this point as we can very likely just fold our way to victory.

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Shove.

Your hand is way ahead of shover´s range.Actually 88 are the nizzles in this spot.

He probably knows that everyone at the bubble is tighten up far too much,so he is taking advantage of it.

We are no risking elimination,so just shove on top, to get this heads up.No one behind is calling with less than KK+ ( to avoid elimination ).

I would call A shove here with sth as low as :

44+,A6+,A2s,KT+,K9s+,QJ,QTs,JT,T9s,98s.

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alekhine11 Reply:
October 13th, 2009 at 7:52 am

ohhh!! THIS IS A SATELLITE!!

It changes a bit my shoving range :

88+,AQ+.

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We may be able to fold our way to the prize, but not if short stacks keep siphoning off chunks of chips and bigger stacks fold to every shove. 88 is pretty strong and well ahead of his range, i say raise it up and try for the knockout to get us one closer. If you get nicked, so be it, youre still in great shape. Youll put a bit of a scare into the shorties, and maybe stop them from trying to run rampant with constant shoves.

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I thought the same thing as all the shovers did. No one that can call me will be able to knock me out or even really cripple me. I’ve got to think that “E” finally found an Ace or and pocket pair and i’m in pretty good shape. And I don’t wanna have to face another hand in addition and leave myself with less % to win the hand. Gotta shove.

Like I said, there’s not a huge risk in this position to make a move.

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catcher Reply:
October 13th, 2009 at 12:32 pm

I agree there is no huge risk, but this being a satellite there is another question to ask – what’s the upside?

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I too voted shove and only then realized that this is a satty… which makes it a fold. There is no value in accumulating chips beyond survival.. I would shove here with QQ//JJ+, AK, AQs – and probably call with AA/KK.

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you have to call why let him get those 2000 chips , it isnt gonna hurt you that much and plus you have a chance to knockout a player

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*facepalm/fistpump calls*

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Crazy but why call..

If we were in the blinds and didn’t have the shortees left at the table to act I call. Given that, it is not a spot for the shover to be shipping light. His range should be tighter than normal.

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