Hey Guys,
Long time ago and lost my account details. So..here's the ****

Hand 1:

Live 100$ tourney, 82 players.
25k starting chips, 20 min levels.

We're down to two tables with 12 people left, 9 prizes.

Av. is 'bout 150k.

Hero is utg with 230k.
CO is 200k, rest of the table is about 70-120k, most of the chips is at the other table.

blinds 5/10k 1000 ante.

Hero is UTG with AQo makes it 25k

fold to bb who jams 113

Hero?



Hand 2:

Same tourney, a couple minutes later

12 players.

Hero is on button with 100k

sb: 100k
bb: 80k
utg: 60k

utg jams 60k, fold to CO who jams 250k

Hero: AQo

Action?

Wrong forum. Should move to midstakes MTT.

ok...sorry

wrong forum.. yes, but while I'm here:

Hand 1 - So close to the money, I would fold AQo pre here, or raise a bit less pre and fold to a re-raise. There's no reason to flip coins (at best) for half your stack at this point, especially since there are lots of players who are in far worse shape than you. That doesn't mean you should always fold hands like AQo... I just wouldn't play it OOP for a big pot when I have an above average stack

Hand 2- I think its highly likely you have no more than 30% equity or so by calling there. If you're lucky, the shorter stack has some small/medium pair and the big stack made a loose shove with like AJ. If its the other way around, or if the big stack woke up with a premium hand, you are way behind.

Anyhow, maybe its worth it given the pot size and how short stacked you are, but I wouldn't feel great about making that call. Of course, you were forced into that decision by your play with AQo in the previous hand which was more aggressive that it had to be.

1) call
2) fold

First spot is probably a call. AQo is at the bottom of my range based on some prelim calcs and I can be ok with folding if you think villain is going to be snug and folding out stuff like AJ and 88-99 in that spot, but nothing wrong with the call.

Second spot's a clear 100% fold as you want the player behind to bust and you're almost certainly behind CO's 3-bet range. Yes, it's possible CO is isolating there with worse, but that seems hopeful. I think I'm probably only calling there with JJ+ and folding everything else.

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How are you guys justifying a call in the first hand? At worst we're crushed by AK or better. I can't imagine he has AJ or worse so at best we're flipping for it. We're all set up to make a deep run in the final table so I don't see why we'd take that chance in this spot.