AJs in MP vs small open shove

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12.03.2018, 18:25 0

No Limit Hold'em Tournament T2,500/T5,000 Ante: 625
Buy-in: $6.82+$0.68 USD Hold'em No Limit
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7 players
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Stacks:
UTG - UTG (T218,331)
UTG+1 - UTG+1 (T47,061) (9bb) (unknown, new at this table)
MP - MP (T304,090)
CO - Hero (T231,469) (46bb)
BTN - BTN (T506,426)
SB - SB (T78,531)
BB - BB (T177,810)

Preflop: (T11,875, 7 players) Hero is CO with A♥ J♥
1 fold, UTG+1 raises to T46,436 (all-in), 1 fold, Hero raises to T230,844 (all-in)

Spoiler

3 folds, Uncalled bet of T184,408 returned to Hero

Flop: 2♠ 7♦ T♣ (T104,747, 2 players, 1 all-in)

Turn: Q♦ (T104,747, 2 players, 1 all-in)

River: A♦ (T104,747, 2 players, 1 all-in)

Total Pot: T104,747
UTG+1 shows T♠ T♦ (three of a kind, Tens)
Hero shows A♥ J♥ (a pair of Aces)

UTG+1 wins T104,747

Is re-shove the best play here? It seems like we are pretty deep to re-shove.
If not re-shoving should we just call? If call, what if bigger stack re-shoves? Or could we raise/fold?

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villijmeen99

Joined: 04.11.2016

Posts: 112

12.03.2018, 19:49 0

In my opinion reshoving is fine. Because if you just call and someone behind you shoves then it would be hard for you to call allin with 37BB left with AJs. So you would lose 9BB. Also just calling shows weakness, in most cases it means you have a enough strong hand to call shortstack allin but you don’t have strong enough and you don’t want to risk all your chips.
Only exception could be if you “slowplay” AA or KK.

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SDK1987

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Joined: 12.11.2008

Posts: 43,850

13.03.2018, 07:18 0

Shoving is +ev for sure or the original shover is a nit, but if you would call you need to fold on the shove of the bigger stacks. I don’t think they would do it often with a weaker hand then AJ.

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SDK1987

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koiota1

Joined: 09.12.2017

Posts: 123

14.03.2018, 12:26 0

+1 reshove.👏 🙌

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