$Freeroll NLHE MTT: $100 CC Daily Platinum | AJo push or fold?

[mariussica88]

This hand was played with 2 players left to bust before the $. Is my push here right ? Is my hand strong enough to push around the bubble? (If it was not around the bubble I would push 100% of the time with 11BB left).



pokerstars - 300/600 Ante 50 NL - Holdem - 7 players


UTG: 1,403 (2.3 bb)
Hero (UTG+1): 6,449 (10.7 bb)
MP: 11,358 (18.9 bb)
CO: 37,862 (63.1 bb)
BTN: 18,684 (31.1 bb)
SB: 17,517 (29.2 bb)
BB: 6,166 (10.3 bb)

7 players post ante of 50, SB posts 300, BB posts 600

Pre Flop: (pot: 1,250) Hero has
fold, Hero raises to 6,399 and is all-in, 2 folds, BTN calls 6,399, 2 folds

Flop: (14,048, 2 players)

Turn: (14,048, 2 players)

River: (14,048, 2 players)

Results: 14,048 pot (0 rake)
Final Board:

Spoiler

Hero shows : (One Pair, Jacks)
(Pre 45%, Flop 5%, Turn 0%)

BTN shows : (Three of a Kind, Eights)
(Pre 55%, Flop 95%, Turn 100%)

BTN wins 14,048

 

[WickedFRoST]

1. You typically should not ever have a shoving range from UTG (according to solvers) unless your stack is supershort (0-7bb). So with AJo you wanna make a standard 2bb(2.2bb) open raise.
2. With ICM implications, though, you might actually even consider folding this hand from UTG. You have a super-short stack at the table, and since there are 2 spots left before the money, the value of your stack increases tremendously compared to the chip EV gain of a hand like AJo.

That said, while I do not necessarily like the play, it's fair to note that it is a freeroll tournament and you really should be aiming at top 3 spots rather than getting ITM.

Just make sure you do not commit such ICM suicides in high buy-in tournaments.

Thank you for sharing the hand, and good luck!

 

[fundiver199]

For sure this is a situation, where we would really like two more guys to bust before risking our stack. But with something like 36-54 places paying, this can still take a while, and in just two hands we will get hit by the blinds again. So picking up a round on blinds and antes here is quite valuable, since if nothing else it will allow us to survive longer, before we are forced all-in with a random hand. Also as WickedFRoST say, do you really care that much about a min-cash in a 100$ freeroll? So for me this is an easy shove, but you could also go for a min-raise.

 

[Tigroslav]

Pretty typical stuff dont worry about it.
In a high buy in tournament youd better fold though.