So, after all that its heads up but my opponent was the one who knocked out 3rd guy so has a bit of chips on me. First hand I steal the blinds. Second hand I'm BB with A5o and blinds are 7500/15000. Stacks are about 230k for me and 360k for him or thereabouts. He raises it up to 45k (3xBB). I have a lot of chips, of course, but decided to move in. Hopefully he'd fold of course. He thought for a min then called with AQo and won the tourney. I'll take the $2655, but $4200+ and a win would have been sweeter. One of the reasons I made the push was that he was getting very aggressive once 3-way, and I felt I needed to take a stand and this was as good a hand as I'd seen in a bit. Of course, its a pretty good hand heads up, too and puts him to the test if he has any non-ace non-pair or small pair.
Should I have just re-raised and folded if he pushed? If I did, I'd almost surely pot-commit myself anyway. So I can't really do that. I guess the question is whether A5o is enough to make a stand when you'll be down 2:1 in chips. I think it is. My brother who was watching sommented something to the effect that I gambled a bit hoping he had nothing -- which of course, I did, but heads up I think you have to at some point. I suppose a call could have been an option. The flop was rags and I could have moved in on the flop and he would have had to likely fold -- but isn't that just as big a gamble that the flop missed him as it is pushing preflop?Statistics: Posted by Zarathustra — Sat Apr 23, 2005 6:28 am
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