Would you call this?

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So we are playing 10NL at a friend's house and a complete pre-flop gambling frenzy is on. So it happens in this hand that the UTG goes all-in with 150 BB but while putting all his chips in he ends up flipping over both his cards and turns out he has AKo. Whether he did it intentionally or not is obviously not relevant to me.

I am the BB and everyone folds around to me. I have over 300 BB stack and I am looking at QQ now. I have been a big winner on the night and I really don't play poker with a pure gambling perspective. I know I am mathematically the favorite but we all know how much equity 2 over cards have over a pair its very close.

So I just fold the hand without letting anyone know what I folded. However would you say I made a move that's cowardice or reasonable?
 
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It is mathematically incorrect, if there are antes then even more so. Long term you should get it in every time, it is free money. Your equity is actually quite good here and for 150bb it is worth it.

Now, against AKs it is thinner but again slightly +EV due to small equity advantage and minor amount of dead money. It is better for you if one of your Queens is in his suit.

If you hate variance so much that it would tilt you if you lost, then yeah you can fold I guess.
 
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cowardice, considering that shoving all in with aces or kings is very unlikely preflop. few players are going to put 150 bb, with a mounster preflop hand so you should have called the all in, even if you lose you still having 150 bb to keep playing or leaving. a different story would be if someone before you calls the all in. then folding could be an option, not necessarily the best one.
 
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i always try to play my queens, if against just one player i almost play them for sure although in this situation you know is a coin flip but still you doubled him in chips, but if you are playing tight and want to stay still knowing his cards is not a bad move
 
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Your queens have good +ev especially since his AK is off suited and your queens block a straight possibility. You're ahead and unless you're playing outside your BR then a call is definitely the right move.
 
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Would you of made the call, without seeing his hand first??
If yes, it's a bad fold.
 
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You had a big enough chips stack to make an easy call, and the odds were in your favor. Bad fold!
 
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You should call. Your concern seems to come from potentially losing money in the short term, regardless of the play's long-term profitability; which isn't a great mentality tbh.
 
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I understand the stress of calling that big of a bet vs two overs BUT you just can't get much better than that without a top two hand and that is just way too tight.
 
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You are getting money in good and have some dead money on the table, easy call. Unless you really need the money to get some gas for the way home ;)
 
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