Medium ace with action in front, NL tournament
Game type: $50 MTT
Stage of tourney: Early
Your image: n/a
Opponent’s image: No strong read
Your hand: A♠J♣
The setup: You’re on a 20 BB stack in this tournament that is still quite a ways from the money when the following hand comes up.
You get AJo in the BB. Two players fold and a short stack pushes. A fairly deep-stacked player flat calls. The table folds to you in the BB.
What’s your play?
Loading …2.23.10 / 3am
dumb quiz. easy fold. next.
If I had a bigger stack I might try and isolate on player C, but as it is player D is calling our raise here, and we are three way for our tournament life (or at least half our stack) with AJo. Calling and hoping to spike a flop is plainly just sad, so I’m folding all day every day and waiting for a better spot.
Sure, player C will have a wide range, and the deep stacked player D knows this, blah blah, just fold.
2.23.10 / 4am
Voted fold. Player D just calling rather than isolating (by raising) indicates strength. AJo is likely well behind, so wait for another spot.
2.23.10 / 7am
Easy fold.. maybe think about shoving if it’s suited
2.23.10 / 8am
Definite fold. Way to early to get yourself committed preflop OOP vs. 2 players with a 2nd tier hand. I probably call/shove QQ+ / AK and fold everything else in this spot.
2.23.10 / 8am
Agree with Pirate. Pretty pointless quiz. It almost seems like its set up to be a trick question or something. If you can’t see that this is a FOLD spot then you are definitely a beginner. Enough said.
2.23.10 / 9am
Yea…gotta fold. I didnt immediately click fold, but thats only cause it took me a moment to realize we had zero fold equity against player D. We could easily be ahead or dominating the all in shortstack, and I dont think player D’s flat necessarily indicates strength, it could easily indicate a guy with some chips who wants to play his hand against a wide range shortstack shove. KQ, A10-AK, 55-99, that type of range. The problem is if we shove, we’re getting called 100% of the time by player D, and even if we’re in decent shape against the 2 opps, that still means we’re roughly 30% to win chips while risking our tourney life. Doesnt sound like a great idea…wait for a better spot.
2.25.10 / 9am
Fold! Does Small stack have a better A, Is big stack calling and not re-raising because hes weak or because he wants a re-raise?
Call and your 1st after the flop, if U get squat do you then go all in or check and then fold to a bet when Big Stack goes all in.
Would Big Stack just call if weak with so many players after him?
Fold and live for another day!
2.25.10 / 9pm
Fold it. Unless you don’t care about your $50. I’d say the All-In player has atleast 9’s and up or AK. Either way your shot!.
2.26.10 / 8am
nits imo
Chris Reply:
February 23rd, 2010 at 9:54 am
You’d really shove if its suited?
Being suited only adds about 4%. I’m folding both AJo and AJs here.