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Hello all I'm new to the site and would love some feedback on this topic. I recently was in a tournament and had AJoff UTG, 30BB effective. There was 66 players left in the tourney. Small stack had 20BB rest of the table had 30BB+. I decided to lead 3x and the small stack from middle position shoved everyone else folded . What is the best play here?
 
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Hello all I'm new to the site and would love some feedback on this topic. I recently was in a tournament and had AJoff UTG, 30BB effective. There was 66 players left in the tourney. Small stack had 20BB rest of the table had 30BB+. I decided to lead 3x and the small stack from middle position shoved everyone else folded . What is the best play here?

Hey man, welcome :)

First of, I would allways 2.1-2.5x open in the late phase of a tourney. Just safes you money since people are going to be tighter anyway, because of ITM.

Openraise, fold to a shove. 20bb is just to much and you risk putting yourself at a huge disadvantage with only 10bb left. Depending on the next payjump, whos shoving etc, id call something like 10bb max. And even then, AJo is just too weak.

If someone is shoving 20bb into your UTG openingrange you should wonder what is he doing that with? Only hands that either dominate or flip against you. Depends on your image and the villian, but you are usually never ahead with AJo for 20bb.
 
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Thanks for your reply, I appreciate your input. Sometimes the right play is hard to make but i did make it. Being chip drunk you try to win on luck vs making the smart play. I have a tendency like you said to leak chips like that with my bet sizing.I don't think about it until my chips are already in the middle.
 
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Most of the time I would fold unless freeroll or opponent is pushing any two constantly but in big buy in tourneys the minimum players seem to have is AQ AK or pocket pair good luck
 
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Thanks for your reply, I appreciate your input. Sometimes the right play is hard to make but i did make it. Being chip drunk you try to win on luck vs making the smart play. I have a tendency like you said to leak chips like that with my bet sizing.I don't think about it until my chips are already in the middle.

Cheers!

It depends on how serious you want to take the game i guess. Allways try to think about what youre doing, and why you are doing it. Everyone makes mistakes, but there is people that work on them, and there is others that dont. Both is fine :)
 
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You should know that UTG is the worst position of MTT tournament, when entering a hand with AJ you are at disadvantage, because your position does not allow you to see the development of FLOP / TURN / RIVER bets you will always be dominated by the BOTTON because in every round of betting you are always going to be the first to bet, AJ is a hand that can also bring you problems, I think that in that position with AJ you should only make CALL and see that it comes out in the FLOP and play carefully
 
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You should know that UTG is the worst position of MTT tournament, when entering a hand with AJ you are at disadvantage, because your position does not allow you to see the development of FLOP / TURN / RIVER bets you will always be dominated by the BOTTON because in every round of betting you are always going to be the first to bet, AJ is a hand that can also bring you problems, I think that in that position with AJ you should only make CALL and see that it comes out in the FLOP and play carefully

so do you advocate for folding AJo UTG?

I think that generally speaking this is too tight.
 
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so do you advocate for folding AJo UTG?

I think that generally speaking this is too tight.
if the tournament is in final instances and BB/SB/MP-RAISE or REREISE (I FOLD AJ) automatically
 
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if the tournament is in final instances and BB/SB/MP-RAISE or REREISE (I FOLD AJ) automatically

Yeah right. I was thinking you wouldnt even open AJo UTG, wich seemed to tight for me.
 
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it all depends if u have reads on anyone, if u had just moved to the table definitly a fold,
 
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It would be nice to see it the player stat, but iguess it is easy fold.
 
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This is not the best hand for UTG, with more problems, especially on the flop. If the passive table, you can 2BB or fold.
 
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Open smaller preflop, 3x open with 30BB is too big. When you get shoved on you have an easy fold.
 
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I asked a coach, about playing with AJ of in utg, and he told me that it is better to fold from that position, many times you are dominated by AQ AK.And if someone has pairs like 88 99 1010 and you do not connect anything on the flop, you go behind, and you lose chips.
You would also be playing without a position.
 
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Easy fold, you have villain covered and they're 3betting into an UTG raise. Unless you have specific information of villain, you have to assume, a TT+, AQo+ range, when they risk their tournament life for 20bb.

I second opening smaller, especially with a hand in your raise-fold range.
 
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