Folding on the bubble

How often you need to fold AA on bubble stage? MTT buy-in 4.80$. On bubble stage I have AA, I have a stack 44bb, stack your opponent 52bb. I raise 3.5bb, opp re raise all in. After much thought i can fold. Having the best hand pre flop could lose if my opponent would put the best combination

Hi,

You should never ever fold AA Pre-Flop in a regular tournament. You may fold only in a specific situation or if you're playing satellites.

Your goal is to reach FT in every tournament so if you're folding AA Pre-Flop you're result oriented and scary money...

If you'll loose happens but you can't think that without any reasonable reason.

Hope you're playing MTT with BRM.

Best of luck

limagolf said:

Hi,

You should never ever fold AA Pre-Flop in a regular tournament. You may fold only in a specific situation or if you're playing satellites.

Your goal is to reach FT in every tournament so if you're folding AA Pre-Flop you're result oriented and scary money...

If you'll loose happens but you can't think that without any reasonable reason.

Hope you're playing MTT with BRM.

Best of luck

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Totally agree with you.

Preflop you cant fold AA.
When you have 44bb and your opponent have 52bb and he is going all-in is great situation to became chipleader.

seriously in the bubble must always super- aggressive play with AA always more to any bet allin theft or aggression

Folding AA pre-flop never ever. No matter what the situation is. AA is the best hand pre flop if you don't know that don't play.

Never folding AA here. We don't know if villian is shoving all in to capitalize on bubble busting fears with a wider range as many players incorrectly fold good hands on bubble or if he has a premium hand like AA/KK/QQ. And in either situation I'm getting all in here with AA. Actually in any situation I'm never folding AA preflop.

Depends on how deep you are. 44 BB isn't deep enough to pass on Aces. Depending on the tournament structure, 44 BB is 10 BBs in an hour of play (if it's a faster format, the value of a single hand significantly go up). Depending on the structure the payjumps are really flat, others are very top heavy (on top heavy MTTs you should play more to win and make FTs than to cash). 44 BB is possibly a call even with JJ or TT depending on how the tourney is made. Though I might find some folds in a 150+ BB effective stacks shove, but not in the regular ATC shove, though. KK is hard but I fold. QQ fold for 150 BB without thinking twice. Trash like K2 gives you a sweat.

OTOH:

UTG shoves for 15 BB
UTG+1 re-shoves for 25 BB
MP2 re-shoves for 40 BB
CO calls for 17 BB.
Hero is BB with 22 BB and looks down Aces.

Slow MTT format, flat prizepool, bubble of the Final Table?

I think it's pretty clearly a fold here. Unless you're all about them braceletzzzzzzz like a Negreanu.

yes - AA never fold its very srong preflop hand. But if you need take some money in MTT buble - for you it easy fold )

6a6yJIbkO_o said:

How often you need to fold AA on bubble stage? MTT buy-in 4.80$. On bubble stage I have AA, I have a stack 44bb, stack your opponent 52bb. I raise 3.5bb, opp re raise all in. After much thought i can fold. Having the best hand pre flop could lose if my opponent would put the best combination

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Please!! Never Ever fold AA Preflop, #WTF are you waiting for ?
To win Tourney have to knock people out if you lose with AA that's just bad luck
But folding Pocket Rockets PreFlop is in my opinion a Pussy Move

6a6yJIbkO_o said:

How often you need to fold AA on bubble stage? MTT buy-in 4.80$. On bubble stage I have AA, I have a stack 44bb, stack your opponent 52bb. I raise 3.5bb, opp re raise all in. After much thought i can fold. Having the best hand pre flop could lose if my opponent would put the best combination

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You can say this about every hand. Any hand will lose if your opponent hits better, no matter what you half. AA is no exception in that it's going to lose at times.

If this is your thinking, then why even play?

read my post in this room about folding AA preflop in NHL. There two and only two reasons to do it - in a satellite, or in the extreme case of bubble play and there are 6, yes SIX, or more players AI before you. This is the threshold of where the field gains the advantage of AA. (though at 5 its really close to 50/50 (54 to 46 I think or close to it) and many consider it a flip)

In regular tournaments you mustn't fold AA never because is the best hand pre-flop and you have more opportunity to win the hand , the only way to fold AA pre-flop is when you are playing satellite because you are waiting for a ticket to play another tournament , I think that this is the only way to fold AA pre-flop

MAdesG said:

In regular tournaments you mustn't fold AA never because is the best hand pre-flop and you have more opportunity to win the hand , the only way to fold AA pre-flop is when you are playing satellite because you are waiting for a ticket to play another tournament , I think that this is the only way to fold AA pre-flop

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I totally agree. I think there is nothing to add.

I would have took off on the bubble is very large tournament with a very short stack .If there is a possibility to sit out

Like many others here above, I never fold AA preflop even if I have a possibility to be knocked out with a bad beat. It's a good opportunity to duble up your chips.

I have only once folded aces.
I play 6max Sngs micro stakes, I once had 5 all in before me with AA, folded it and was ITM. There are exceptional cases to fold them, but against one opponent why would you ever?

Preflop with AA you should always play no matter what re-raising makes your oponent

I would prefer to go all in and hope that the best hand going in, will hold up. This will set you up nicely to climb the leaderboard.
If you are looking for a minimum cash, fold.

You should only fold AA preflop in satellites if you are sure that you are gonna win ticket.

Never fold preflop AA.

If your playing to win, snap call. If it was on the bubble of a satellite to a larger tournament, and you could get a ticket without playing another hand, you could fold. Some people loosen up on the bubble, and shove ATC. Are we making a thread about this every week now?

6a6yJIbkO_o said:

How often you need to fold AA on bubble stage? MTT buy-in 4.80$. On bubble stage I have AA, I have a stack 44bb, stack your opponent 52bb. I raise 3.5bb, opp re raise all in. After much thought i can fold. Having the best hand pre flop could lose if my opponent would put the best combination

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Hello everyone I know not a matter of luck, but I almost always lose when I hand AA - very angry

in the early stage you can limp but in the late stage always raise. So yo can never fold AA.

If you want to play like donkey.. yes offcorse you can fold the AA on preflop I will like to play with those people..)