I was playing on intertopspoker where i made the ft of the 300$ gte $6.60 rebuy -tournament. I was on the big blind with about 9500 chips the blinds are 600-1200 with an ante that i dont remember what it was. Everything gets folded around too the blinds the sb has 23000 chips left and the player is taking a longer time the normal too make a desion after about 30 secs or so they decide too push his chips all in. Im in the bb and i look and i have aj now i thought about folding the hand but my mind was like that the player took along too too shove and he might not have much of anything so i decide too call of my chips on aj. When the hands were shown he pushed all in with j7. On the flop the player floped trip 77s and took me out of the tournament in 8th place my question is should i have called of my stack with aj or should i have folded the hand.
Hello. This is a good question. I personally log my hands and in what position what works for me. I did not catch whether you had AJS or AJO, and when I reviewed my logs, I found something interesting about both in the BB position.
Here are my stats:
AJO
Early 6 of 11
Late 3 of 7
Cutoff 4 of 9
Button 0 of 12
SB 5 of 9
BB 1 of 7
AJS
Early 0 of 3
Late 1 of 3
Cutoff 1 of 3
Button 2 of 4
SB 2 of 6
BB 4 of 4
So: If I had been in your situation, with AJO and still having a chance at a better hand, I would fold. 1/7 AJO in BB would quickly become unattractive. On the other side of the deal, if I had AJS and stats show 100% wins 4/4 from BB, I would go for it. In the case of a loss with AJS, I would chalk it up for the what I believe is 50+% lady luck. I have found that logging my results when I bet a hand has helped me play better, feel better about results if I lose, feel great if I win and helps me understand what and when I can bett with a hand and be successful. I hope this helps. Good luck with your game!