ITM blind battle, NL MTT | Daily Hand Quiz

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Game type: No limit tournament 50+5, Full Tilt Poker
Stage of tourney: ITM
Your image: Tight
Opponent’s image: Aggressive, winning player
Your hand: A♦8♥

The setup: You’re down to just a few tables in the fifty fifty on Full Tilt when the following hand comes up. You’re in the small blind and the table folds to you.

You’ve been playing pretty tight, passing on a couple of chances to open from middle-late position. Your opponent has been aggressive and is a steady winner in MTTs. The rest of your table seems fairly tough.

You open from the SB for 3x and the BB shoves over top. You haven’t been involved in any BvB situations with him yet. What’s your play?

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samo

I trusted the dynamics of the images based on prior history and voted call. Hero is tight and I’ll assume passive, perhaps prompting the v to make this move. Hero raised knowing agg v may make 3-bet. Need to follow through here with an A in your hand getting ~3-2 vs a wide range.

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Amakhosi

Surely this is a fold? Firstly, are behind to so many hands, I’d say the majority of his range here. At best (if he’s ATC here) then we’re a 60/40. Do we really need to get involved with a pretty piss-poor hand now? This seems to be a fairly easy fold.

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Pirate21

I think this is a marginal call, but at this stage of the tourney we’re likely to see a bunch of marginal situations and can’t just fold them all. I think V’s range is wide open and given H’s tight/passive image could be ATC.
If we fold here, we can expect that every bet we make from now on will face an aggressive re-raise since we’ve signaled we’ll fold to pressure. With M=6, H will need to find a hand to play very soon.

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Morat

He’s agressive + first BvB confrontation + we both have less then 20 BBs but more than 10 BBs left + if we call and loose we’re eliminated + we’re both under the average stack + we’re ITM = He’s shoving a pretty wide range here.
His range might look like any Ax, most Kxs, K8o+, any broadway, any pair, most suited connectors and suited one gappers and 10-15% of the time simply ATC. We need 40% equity to win but we’re actually flipping against that range. We have to double up soon – this is a +EV spot to take a chance and build a stack. Call.

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