Weak ace from CO, two tables remaining, NL MTT

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Game type: $109 freezeout, PokerStars
Stage of tourney: 16 players remain
Your image: Tight
Opponent’s image:
Your hand: A♦8♥

The setup: You’re deep in this 109 freezeout on Stars. Two tables remain.

You’ve been pretty tight when the following hand comes up. You get A8o in the CO and the table folds.

What’s your play?

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Raise – Four Jam

Thats my play.

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samo

Voted fold; A8o just not a playable hand in this situation. All-in seems risky given the stack sizes of the blinds. Raise may get looked-up by the blinds as well, or even squeezed. If called, you will miss the flop ~2/3 of the time, will likely have to c-bet, may get caled by the stacks, so could get costly. Hero has M>10, so let this go.

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Anonymous Reply:
December 15th, 2009 at 8:53 am

I totally agree Aj+ def but a8 off no sense in riskin any thing here

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Dan L

I voted raise-fold here, but really it’s so opponent dependant that the question becomes unanswerable. How do your opponents react to late position raises? How do they react to your raises in general? I can see lineups that 3-bet this alot to the point where open folding is worth it, and I can see lineups where folding here is leaving ALOT on the table (both those that give you alot of credit and fold and those that defend more than they 3 bet).

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