$Freeroll NLHE MTT: University League, small stack goes all in

rari458

rari458

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pokerstars Hand #174741384358: Tournament #1980880578, Freeroll Hold'em No Limit - Level V (60/120) - 2017/08/24 13:54:24 ET
Table '1980880578 64' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: Player A (5095 in chips)
Seat 2: Rari458 (1530 in chips)
Seat 3: Player B (2495 in chips)
Seat 4: Player C (4284 in chips)
Seat 5: Player D (578 in chips)
Seat 6: Player E (3058 in chips)
Seat 7: Player F (2070 in chips)
Seat 8: Player G (1013 in chips)
Seat 9: Player H (1720 in chips)

Rari458: posts the ante 10

ANTES

Player D: posts big blind 120
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Rari458 [As Qh]

All Folds

Rari458: calls 120

Folds

Player D: raises 448 to 568 and is all-in
Rari458: calls 448
*** FLOP *** [8d 5s Ts]
*** TURN *** [8d 5s Ts] [Th]
*** RIVER *** [8d 5s Ts Th] [Ks]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Player D: shows [Qd Qc] (two pair, Queens and Tens)
Rari458: shows [As Qh] (a pair of Tens)
Player D collected 1286 from pot

So there we have it, Small stack (1/3rd of mine, approximately 5 big blinds) shoves all in preflop, I have AQo and decide to call. The reason I decided to just check the flop is because I had been stealing blinds quite often.

Thoughts?
 
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Fold shove stacks

Both the hero and the villain have Fold or Shove stack sizes.

Although AQo is a strong hand Hero didn't play it as a strong hand and only called it in the CO.

When the Villain shoved his remaining stack pot odds were less than 2:1.

Calling Villains shove left Hero with less than 10 BB.

In live play (which is what I prefer to play) the BB with this stack size will not be bluffing very often and will be playing only strong hands. 22+, A10s+, AQo+ of which only 2 hands is Hero ahead, 2 hands are tied with Hero , 3 hands Hero is dominated and the rest are a race. Unless villain was a loose player or on tilt, but with info I have, I am putting him on my default range for a short stack of an unknown player.

With all the info we had at the time, I feel it comes down to whether or not you want to gamble or not, personally I would have folded everything but my strongest of hands after the shove. Hero should never call in this situation as the BB was a major short stack and had only two options, if Hero planned on playing this, Hero should have shoved.

If anybody disagrees with this please let me know why with constructive criticism, and what you would've done different or give info I might have missed.

Regards,
GiGiCat:)

That's the same unit my Brother was in from the early 80's through the late 90's. Thank you for your service!
 
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MstrBlast3r

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The only mistake I think you made is not raising or shoving the initial bet. I know you said you are stealing a lot. In my opinion so what, if weak hands get frustrated and call that's OK you are ahead. By limping you let marginal hands sneak in that may out flop you. I personally don't like the call but otherwise I think the play is fine. You ran into a strong hand. The BB could have just as easily had a middle pair, J10s etc etc.
 
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I agree with the comments above, as minimum is a raise preflop or if you prefer a shove in order to hide the strong of your hand, but limp is a mistake IMO because when you dont hit postflop is awful to play when the villains bets.

Regards!
 
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shove after the bet, AQo is a good hand, but it doesnt play very well in a multi way pot, and you still dominates lots of Ax, QT+
 
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Work on your short stack strategy. With 13Bb, I don't see any other play other than to shove pre-flop.
 
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