$Freeroll NLHE MTT: AQs in BB

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Should i have called here?

SB stats after 30 hands: VPIP 17 PFR 0 Limp pre-flop 25


pokerstars - 250/500 Ante 50 NL - Holdem - 9 players


UTG+1: 5,350 (10.7 bb)
MP: 16,950 (33.9 bb)
MP+1: 6,940 (13.9 bb)
MP+2: 59,703 (119.4 bb)
CO: 79,560 (159.1 bb)
BTN: 78,869 (157.7 bb)
SB: 21,830 (43.7 bb)
Hero (BB): 40,319 (80.6 bb)
UTG: 31,170 (62.3 bb)

9 players post ante of 50, SB posts 250, Hero posts BB 500

Pre Flop: (pot: 1,200) Hero has :Qh: :Ah:
2 folds, MP calls 500, 2 folds, CO calls 500, fold, SB raises to 21,780 and is all-in, Hero folds, 2 folds

Results: 2,450 pot (0 rake)

SB wins 2,450
 
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30 hands is not enough to determine anything about your opponent's tendencies. You will have to rely on population tendencies. This is a very large open shove, but based on his position I would assume our opponent has a fairly wide range. So I would fist pump call.
 
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Turn that stuff off and pay attention to their tendencies. Even if you're playing 3-5 tables you can make them small enough to see what they're doing on one screen. Multiple screens is even easier. That Hud stuff is for folks doing like 10-20 tables at a time. You should be able to know whats going on in about 1-2 orbits and taking notes.

Its usually going to be Ace x, small pairs where you're a coin flip against any 2 random or you're stuck looking at a 3 outer against AK most of the time if they're not donks. Premium hand can happen but you have an ace already, KK? sure but not likely.

You shouldn't call off half your stack with the blinds so low against bad players that go allin with Ace x though. THEY CANT PLAY A FLOP and can't let go of a hand so they shove without knowing what they're doing or the odds.
 
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I think this is a relatively easy fold unless you have a read on the villain. Yes, its a freeroll so anything is possible but I wouldnt take that approach here. Change a few things like previous 30 hands show some raises pre flop and make the villains stack <30 BBs and then we can think about calling.

In this hand I would not discount that villain has 0% raises even though it is only 30 hands. 30 hands is enough to get an idea of how people are playing. So for half my stack I would fold. Put a note on the villain that they did this move from the SB, over a limper, off a 44 BB stack. See then if they do it again in the future and how often. If they ramp up their frequency on this move then your calling range can adjust accordingly.
 
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30 hands is not enough to determine anything about your opponent's tendencies.

30 hands is enough, when we are talking about VPIP and PFR, because those actions happen every single hand. And when the numbers are as extreme as 0% PRF, then this is very valuable information, which it would be criminal to ignore. In 30 hands this player has never raised preflop, but now he wants to put in all his 43,7BB. Unless he is somehow suddenly on massive tilt, what hands do you really think, he is doing this with? In my opinion the best case scenario is, that this could perhaps be some kind of middling pair like 88 or 99, but it could also be AK or KK, and its never a hand, which AQ is ahead of.
 
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