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Is this too tight?
| oneLUCKY_1 | Small blind | 100.00 | 100.00 | 9587.50 | |
| X | Big blind | 200.00 | 300.00 | 5875.00 | |
| Your hole cards |
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| Dudeskin8 | Raise | 600.00 | 900.00 | 18460.00 | |
| TANGERI137 | Fold | ||||
| lozgo | Fold | ||||
| oneLUCKY_1 | Fold | ||||
| X | All-in | 5875.00 | 6775.00 | 0.00 |
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its 50/50 against a range of any pair 22-AA, AK AQ
Now im going to answer in try as general as possible for my own personal opinion many may disagree.
Now ive never folded AK pre flop, ever. Yes ive won sometime lost others. Say the opponent has 22-QQ we're still 44% with them being suited it moves us to 45%.
If they have KK we're 33% and ok we're crushed to Aces at 13% but miricles do happen. I was once told many a time actually to win a tournament you have to win a few races. So you risk a 3rd of your stack here, to win a third. So if yopu win you move closer to that chip leader and take another one out.
This is one of the fundamentals ive always taken in any type of tournament, as long as i think im 50% ill likley take a gamle, AK suited fits close enough to that for me to be willing to.
Ive always seen poker as a game of risks, and this is a risk worth taking. Just my two pence.
In Response to Re: Is this too tight?: If you're confident with your game, I think the fold is better. Can't remember who said it, might have been Helmuth, but I totally agree- if you feel you have the game to outplay someone down the streets, and especially if you have a stack that means you're in no danger of needing to shove, then there's no need to race. Unless you're sat facing a large allin with KK/AA, maybe QQ, there's no need to call. On the other hand, if you don't feel you're playing great, taking the risk and gambling may be the better idea, since you're that much more dominant if it comes off.
I feel the same as you, when I've amassed that much of a lead early on, last thing I want to do is call a huge portion of it off on a race. If you win, you're not exactly in that much of a better spot, but if you lose- you're right back down in the pack. In a BH tourn, I snap call- in any other tourn, I fold if I'm confident, call if I'm not.
tournaments are about winning, not min cashing cawl and run good
Also on the hand I waited ages before folding, and because of this the villain decided to show and it was JJ. Yes I would have been racing but I was still happy with the decision as I don't like gambling unless when I need to.