Medium-strength hand versus button raise, NL MTT

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Game type: 100+9 No Limit tournament, Poker Stars
Stage of tourney: Middle stages
Your image: Fairly tight
Opponent’s image: TAG
Your hand: A♣T♥

The setup: You’ve been fairly quiet in the middle stages of this MTT on Poker Stars. This hand, the table folds to the button, who makes it 525 to go. The SB folds.

What’s your play?

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McCowish

Call, given stack sizes.

Shove is essentially a bluff-except for A9, any hand that calls we are either in a race situation or dominated. It puts our tournament at risk and optimizes risk vs hand that dominates ours.

3x raise let’s him jam with most pocket pairs and some non-A broadway if he’s smart. I’m in raise-fold mode here, but I’ll be getting nice pot odds for a call after I’ve stuck in 1/3 of my stack. If I was deeper, I would raise to 3x.

Call- I like call and lead for 1/2 pot to pot on any flop–this forces him to make a decision for his stack after you have seen the flop. 73% of the time he will whiff with his overcard cards, the pocket pair will probably call, you’ll see the turn, giving yourself an additional chance to catch an A in addition to your post-flop fold equity, and you may have bought yourself a free river.

fold is too weak.

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samo

Voted call – agree w/McCowish. 3x raise commits most of stack when considering v call and a c-bet. RAI seems high risk/low reward as pot is only 4bbs, and the times you are called you will be behind. Folding is weak when considering the range of the button, who is open-raising.

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_CityBorn_

Im with the call contingent. McCowish explains it nicely.

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John Kugelman

Shove. We’ve got a 20BB stack and this was a button raise, it’s a great spot for a resteal.

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teddy

definitely a call here.

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cada.yang.gold-LEGENDS

I agree with john k. button can raise with any range of hands. Often times the opponent on the button will fold to a shove in this situation unless he’s got it. this is the point in the tourney where you gotta send the message that you won’t be the one that people will take blinds from.

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tiltmehardurrrr

why the fuck you call? just to fold the flop

this is a insta repop, luckily you have a big enough stack to raise/fold if you feel like ur crushed

shipping it in is ok also

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BeLLz17

tilt, you call because your in the BB. durrrrr

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mynuts

shove doesnt work. only getting called if you’re beat in that spot. or you should be. if you’re getting called when you aren’t beat, then you shouldn’t put it all in there anyways, because you’ll probably take it down on the flop.

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JUICE

I agree with BeLLz17 we call this since we’re in the bb and only have to call 325 more into 825. that’s 2.5-1. I don’t just 3x it since that requires a substantial portion of our stack. AI is 8.6 times the original raise and only gets called by better hands so it sounds like a bad idea to me.

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