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Micro Battle Royal $2.20 l AK l Near the bubble phase

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ggeshov
Joined: 25.12.2010

Hello,

Is this a call or was I supposed to fold it? The shove did seem like a way to isolate the bounty. I was not really happy about shoving here because I was in around 180th place with 1300 people still in the game with around the top 1000 getting ITM.

Villain was this type of guy who limped a lot with many hands, so he did seem to me like a guy who would also isolate here with something like AJ+, 88+. Even with that in mind, I didn't know if I was suppose to risk my stack here or wait for a better spot.

PokerStars, $1.96 + $0.24 - Hold'em No Limit - 800/1,600 (160 ante) - 9 players
Hand delivered by Upswing Poker

UTG: 496 (0 bb)
UTG+1: 12,092 (8 bb)
MP: 103,277 (65 bb)
MP+1: 6,431 (4 bb)
LP (Hero): 85,532 (53 bb)
CO: 60,296 (38 bb)
BU: 41,026 (26 bb)
SB: 38,821 (24 bb)
BB: 84,161 (53 bb)

Pre-Flop: (3,840) Hero is LP with A K
UTG calls 336 (all-in), 1 fold, MP raises to 103,117 (all-in), 1 fold, Hero calls 85,372 (all-in), 4 players fold

Flop: (174,920) 9 7 3 (3 players, 3 all-in)

Turn: (174,920) 4 (3 players, 3 all-in)

River: (174,920) 7 (3 players, 3 all-in)

Total pot: 174,920

Showdown:
MP shows A A (two pair, Aces and Sevens)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 82%, Flop: 76%, Turn: 88%, River: 100%)

UTG shows 3 Q (two pair, Sevens and Threes)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 11%, Flop: 20%, Turn: 12%, River: 0%)

LP (Hero) shows A K (a pair of Sevens)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 7%, Flop: 4%, Turn: <1%, River: 0%)

MP wins 174,920


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SDK1987
Joined: 12.11.2008

It's a really weird shove of villain. Tough to expect someone would shove for 53bb effective with a really strong hand and that makes it tough to fold with in mind you have most of the time at least a flip with AK and you block KK and AA. Read less I would stack off as well. Especially if UTG had a decent bounty on his/her head.

Cheers,
SDK1987


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samni
Joined: 06.08.2009

I don't think I ever fold but it's actually not completely dumb from MP. It's a microstakes meta to just shove to hunt bounties so it makes kinda sense. Only thing that goes against him is that he has everyone covered so no one can be inclined to overcall for his bounty.

Fwiw, I don't think I'd ever play my aces like this. I'm just saying that ppl do the wildest things to hunt bounties (esp microstakes) so why not shove 65bb with AA.


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