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Crucial Bounty Hunter decision. Shove or fold?
if you didnt want to play a big pot, then dont 3bet AK.
as played ship, folding here would be bad, you have the best draw, along with TPTK, you win this hand your sure to get into the final 3.
as played ship, folding here would be bad, you have the best draw, along with TPTK, you win this hand your sure to get into the final 3.
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This bounty hunter tournament started with 60 runners, the money bubble has just gone and we're now playing the final table bubble. With 37K I'm chip leader, the villain is a close second with 34K, we have a big lead over the rest of the field, the other 5 players have an average of 9K.
Table image
The villain and myself have only been sat at the same table for around 20 to 30 hands, in that time there have been 3 eliminations. I've been running very well and picking up lots of good hole cards, I've been raising most buttons and shoving against short stacks with a wide range. The villain has been playing a similar aggresive game, perhaps entering slightly fewer pots than me. We haven't really had a confrontation against each other yet, both of us prefering to bully the short stacks and keep out of each others way. Both of us considers the other to be playing loose/aggresive.
The hand
It's a beautiful flop for my AK, top pair/top kicker with a nut flush draw. I put in my standard c-bet, but the villain surprises me by effectively moving all-in. If I shove and lose here I'll go from chip leader to small change. If I win we go to the final table and I'll have the luxury of a monster stack. The bounty on the villains head has absolutely no influence on my decision, this might as well be an ordinary freezeout.
Should I shove or fold?
GaryQQQ Small blind 400.00 400.00 37035.00 short stack Big blind 800.00 1200.00 1870.00 Your hole cards K A villainRaise 1600.00 2800.00 32707.50 GaryQQQ Raise 3200.00 6000.00 33835.00 short stack Fold villain Call 2000.00 8000.00 30707.50 Flop 9 2 K GaryQQQ Bet 6000.00 14000.00 27835.00 villain Raise 26000.00 40000.00 4707.50 GaryQQQ
Snap shove.
With alacrity as TK would say.
Possibly ahead and 2/1 to hit the nuts? Shove, shove, shove. Especially because you've already cashed. I couldn't fold because there would be dark alleyways for my mind to run down forever after. What happened?
However, I'd been c-betting every flop and playing very aggro in general, so I thought it equally possible he would be raising light in the hope that I'd missed.
The shove was a fairly easy decison.
This is what happened;
But that hand has played on my mind since. How many times would I be behind? Did I gamble and get lucky? I posted it here to gauge opinion, I got my answer.