WSOP#56 hand: TP-TK

A few weeks ago, I played the wsop event #56 ($2500, 3 days, 1949 entrants, 7500 starting chips). Here's a hand I'd like comments on:

It was at the 3rd level ($100/$200, with 1 hour levels). I had about 3600 chips (after making one failed move, then just folding for a long time with no hands to speak of).

I got dealt AT in mid-pos. Someone in early position raised to 600, I called, and Button called; blinds folded. (pot = 2100; I've got ~3000). Flop comes: 5, 9, T (rainbow). EP-guy checks. My move?

Easy, All-in. Top pair, top kicker, no one else showing any strength.
Time to get those chips back.

Fold pre-flop. AT plays horribly against an EP raise.

Once he checks to you on the flop, its a trivial shove.

Easy shove. But I smell a bad beat story. Most likely a QK that sucks out a J.

tenbob said:

Fold pre-flop. AT plays horribly against an EP raise.

Once he checks to you on the flop, its a trivial shove.

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Ten-Bob -- How would you have played if you held AK, and flop was 5QK?
Also, where is your cutoff point? (ie: AQ?, AJ?) It was a fairly tight table in general, and I didn't have any read on this guy.

I would broke down crying from all the pressure, and then withdrew from the tournament. (Challenging everyone involved in the hand to a footrace for a $2500 buy-in of course).

jpalumbos said:

Ten-Bob -- How would you have played if you held AK, and flop was 5QK?
Also, where is your cutoff point? (ie: AQ?, AJ?) It was a fairly tight table in general, and I didn't have any read on this guy.

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You were playing for 2+ hours and had no reads?

At the time of this hand we are sitting with only 18bbs so we should be looking out for hands that we can 3 bet shove over, rather than calling a raise with. You say the table was fairly tight, if this guy was one of the fairly tight ones I think we will be up against AQ+ TT+ with the ep raise (maybe AJs, KQs if he wanted to get loose).

Against this range (including AJs, KQs) we are 55/45 underdogs even after hitting top pair on the flop.

So as tenbob says, this was not a good spot to get involved...