Your minimum requirements for a raise-FT MTT(adapted from HOHII)

[7letters]

You: $48,000
Button: $34,000
SB: $20,000
BB: $110,000

MTT Final Table.
You have been active recently, winning several hands without showing.

Your Hand:

From HOHII, Arguments against raising..
1. You have a weak Ace.
2. You have been active lately, as far as opponents know, you may have
been pushing the table around with nothing.
3. There's a very big stack in the BB. He's the player you least want to get
involved with.

Harrington's preference is a fold (although he states he can't really fault
the raise)

Previous hands and your reads of opponents may well come into
play in a real situation but in theory what's the minimum kicker for your Ax that you would feel comfortable making a raise with?

 

[OzExorcist]

What are the blinds?

Assuming they're at a level where our stack size is still workable (ie: we're not in push-or-fold mode), I probably agree with folding, for the reasons Harrington states. If we wait just one more hand, we'll be on the button with the two shorter stacks in the blinds, a much better situation for us.

Short handed, I'd probably want ATs+ / AJo+ / 99+ to be raising here though that might change depending on reads on the other players. Lower pairs and connectors I might try taking a cheap flop with, or I might fold depending on how they're playing.

 

[7letters]

Sorry, didn't realise I left the blinds out...

Start again...


You: $48,000
Button: $34,000
SB: $20,000
BB: $110,000

Blinds: $2000/$4000
Antes: $200

MTT Final Table.
You have been active recently, winning several hands without showing.

Your Hand:

From HOHII, Arguments against raising..
1. You have a weak Ace.
2. You have been active lately, as far as opponents know, you may have
been pushing the table around with nothing.
3. There's a very big stack in the BB. He's the player you least want to get
involved with.

Harrington's preference is a fold (although he states he can't really fault
the raise)

Previous hands and your reads of opponents may well come into
play in a real situation but in theory what's the minimum kicker for your Ax that you would feel comfortable making a raise with?

 

[AlexeiVronsky]

I'd probably jam it here. There's a 64% chance you're not dominated, button and SB can't call without very strong hands, and you're the player who can do the most damage to the BB, cutting his stack nearly in half. So you're unlikely to be called, if you are called your ace high might be the best hand and even if it's not you're likely about a 25% chance to win. If everyone folds your stack increases about 12%, if you lose to a shorter stack you've still got a few chips you might double up with the next hand, you might eliminate a short stack, and the blinds are about to take away a non-negligible portion of your stack. So while it's a pretty aggressive move, I like the jam here. And I prefer the jam over a smaller raise as if you make a smaller raise the BB can jam and basically make you have to fold nearly everything.

 

[DukeDrew]

There's a $6800 pot here and you're at an M of 7. You've got first in vigorish and an Ace. I'm all in.

So, I'm assuming you pushed, the BB showed TT and the tens held?

 

[LUCIUS VARENUS]

Shorthanded, high blinds, you want to win this tournament or go out in 3rd after getting blinded out? Shove sir, shove!

 

[MitchellC]

I would push too, but I might think about it a little longer if we are at the Main event of the wsop and first place was $5 million, 2nd place $2.5 million, 3rd place was $1 million, and 4th place was $500,000.