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benaars
Joined: 03.06.2010

PKR, $75 Buy-in (1,250/2,500 blinds, 250 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 4 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

SB: 146,649 (58.7 bb)
Hero (BB): 186,223 (74.5 bb)
CO: 23,825 (9.5 bb)
BTN: 203,303 (81.3 bb)

Preflop: Hero is BB with K A
CO raises to 23,575 and is all-in, BTN folds, SB calls 22,325, Hero raises to 55,000, SB raises to 146,399 and is all-in, Hero ?????

Hello,

This is a FT of 75$ tournament, 6 paid. Shorty pushes for his last chips and a regular on SB makes a call; I have some weird dynamics with this reg, he has 4bet pushed vs my 3bets light, made loose calls, and I have also tried to bluff his weird lines post. Overall he seems sticky and doesn't like to fold much. I have also seen him flatting a 10bb shove with AA on SB.
What would be the best to do here? I understand that shoving is def. profitable since he has to fold many combos, but if I do make a small raise instead I get to keep his possible worse hands that might shove on me (something like AJ AQ, KQ, pairs) but then the question is given that he is also trapping from time to time can I even make this a call, or is the spot so ICM intense that I can only call JJ+?


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tzoun
Joined: 02.05.2009

The pot is good enough. Your hand is strong enough. I will shove there preflop.
If I take your line, which I dont understand what do you intend with your small raise I will call.


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julito23
Joined: 24.08.2011

The payout structure would have to be pretty weird for this not to be a call. You will also be left with over 15BB if you lose, so I think this is a call. You are right about keeping his worse Ax in by raising small, but you also give him the chance to keep in and reshove all the medium/high pocket pairs that you are flipping against and that he would have had to fold against your shove.


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uglyboy88
Joined: 19.03.2009

when you play like you did i dont think you can call because of ICM, but i would prefer jamming pre or folding tbh or even flatting behind is also not bad, but it looks like minreraise is the worst, because he would jam his pairs into you minraise i think.


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