should i have taken more risk myself?

craigcu12

when the BB raised i coud see already she has got either AA-JJ or she is attempting to squeeze with AK AQ.
i make the call thinking i'll have position on here and maybe if the flop comes middle cards i could bluff a set by going all in and know i'll still have the A and possibly K as over cards.

when i had called the one thing i did forget was i had 2 callers in position to me and these were players i would have originally considered set mining or suited connector, so in another way playing it as described i could have lost lots of chip to a suited connector or middle pocket pair.

bolesAA	Small blind		25.00	25.00	3250.00
bb	Big blind		50.00	75.00	2245.00
	Your hole cards	A K
nutsinho	Fold
craigcu12	Raise		150.00	225.00	7075.00
reg	Call		150.00	375.00	4646.25
dicey1	Call		150.00	525.00	2250.00
bolesAA	Fold
bb	Raise		350.00	875.00	1895.00
craigcu12	Call		250.00	1125.00	6825.00
reg	All-in		4646.25	5771.25	0.00
dicey1	Fold
bb	All-in		1895.00	7666.25	0.00
craigcu12	Fold
reg	Unmatched bet		2501.25	5165.00	2501.25
bb	Show	Q Q
reg	Show	A K

craigcu12

the MTT it's from is a bounty hunter

Phantom66

Personally i would be reraising the bb to a level pot committing them and hoping to isolate.

As played fold is fine. Why gamble with ak 3 handed at that stage of comp.

seanallen

I'd make it 900, get it heads up. You're hands strong enough to take close to a flip versus her range (I cant work it out exactly, i'd guess 40%? versus JJ-AA. 2000 to win 5000?, seems about right when you factor in bounty equity and the fact its for less than a third of our stack.

craigcu12

i was happy enough with the fold myself, it's weather or not i should be taking a great risk 4betting rather than calling.

Phantom66

In Response to Re: should i have taken more risk myself?:

i was happy enough with the fold myself, it's weather or not i should be taking a great risk 4betting rather than calling.
Posted by craigcu12

I think calling is the riskier play.

You are inviting a multiway pot with ak which is just yuk. You have also given up  the betting lead and left others behind the opportunity to raise behind and do what you should have done.

By raising you should be going heads up with a short stack which is an ideal situation to be in. Even more so with it being a bh. Races with dead chips in the middle versus a short stack are exactly the sort of risk you should be taking.

Lambert180

You can pretty much completely rule out 'reg' and 'dicey1' having AA or KK after not 3betting so imo you should 4bet/GII no matter what the action behind. The stuff you see people get in pre in BHs on here regardless of stack depth, especially if a bounty is up for grabs, is insane.

vv rarely 'reg' might be sneaky and flat AA/KK but this is rare in itself and it's vvvvvvv unlikely that dicey1 would because he'll know he's already guaranteed to go 3way and in spots like this so often the whole table end up coming along which would be a nightmare. This is what I mean about putting people on ranges... If you do then you'll know that you're pretty much never gonna be worse than a flip (against the bigger stacks), lots of times we're a big favourite and we have fold equity on our side too.

Fwiw, calling with AK because you think you can jam and make them fold OPs is pretty bad. Good luck trying to make someone fold JJ+ on 279dd (or whatever) in a low stakes BH.