Good afternoon, everyone! I would like to know from you what you would do in the following situation: You are at BB, being the last to answer, and you receive an AA with 5k of chips. The table rotates and the button goes All-in with 10k chips. Knowing that only one player needs to be eliminated to be ITM, would you call and risk leaving without winning anything or will you fold to guarantee a prize? Hugs!
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It depends on your goals for the tournament. We should always be playing to win the tournament but if we need the min cash than we can fold and give up on the true purpose of our playing in the first place.
Going out on the bubble in that spot with AA in a normal tournament that I am bankrolled for is what I would do 100% of the time.
The
hands you have a real decision on are JJ-99 AK AQ. The reason is these are 50-50 hands most often in this spot so we have to decide do we fold these hands, get the cash then flip. We would need to range our villain to fold the top of this range. If the V is shoving a wide range then we can call as we could have the V dominated.
If the V would always just raise not shove with AA-QQ we would want to know this.
It helps to to know what the size of the big blind is so we can range V based on that as well.
So if the BB is 1K than BTN is shoving 10BB so they could have their full range.
If we have AK and the V shoves AQ-A2 KQ-10 KQs-K2s we are crushing
equity wise.
A great exercise is to input AK Vs KQs into the cardschat
odds calculator and it
tells you have 69% equity on a call where you need only get 50% equity to call.
Try inputing other hands to get a good idea of what your folding range in this spot should be.
Hope this helps