This hand crops up i'm told it's a fold but what do you guys think
Poker Stars, $0.60 Buy-in (8,000/16,000 blinds, 1,600 ante) No Limit Omaha H/L Tournament, 5 Players Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite. View Hand #29309111
I think its a fold. Your hand is pretty weak. But more importantly you are not playing to win the tournament. You will still be in great shape with a fold and the pressure will still be on the short stacks. My thinking is preserve chips and stay clear of trouble.
I'd look at your hand as not that bad and do what you did. Antes could start to eat you and if you fold you're letting the short stack go from 21,185 to 35,585. Better to try and kill him now.
Your position won't change much if you get scooped but will be VERY strong if you win.
but aren't we giving the short stack a freeroll with these stacks? he is virtually doubling up if we fold but if we call and lose he only makes about 23% gain (less than 1bb) plus we have the chance to scoop or split
This hand crops up i'm told it's a fold but what do you guys think
Poker Stars, $0.60 Buy-in (8,000/16,000 blinds, 1,600 ante) No Limit Omaha H/L Tournament, 5 Players Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite. View Hand #29309111
Since you must be aware you don't have a very strong starting hand, surely you didn't raise because you have a strong starting hand.
That leaves me looking for the reason you raised.
It can't be to isolate BB, because everyone else has already folded.
The only reason left to raise here is to steal the big blind. Could you have raised because you want to steal the big blind?
Folding would leave BB with only 5185 in chips, less than a small blind. Folding here would mean to BB that he/she will be all-in on posting the small blind on the very next hand.
Will BB fold to the raise?
I don't think so.
But forcing BB to go all-in has some appeal... meh.
On the other hand, if you fold, you'll have 8.1bb left, SB will have 2.3bb, and you won't be the chip leader any more. That can't feel good to you.
Thus you don't have a good choice here, only the least of three evils (fold, call, raise). A raise would be out of the question for me with this dog of a starting hand, even though if Hero miraculously won, one opponent would be eliminated and Hero would still be top dog. And not raising leaves Hero with only two choices, the lesser of two evils (fold and call). Of the two, I prefer fold.
Now there's no question about it. (There wasn't much of a question before).
Fold.
Hero's starting hand is simply not good enough to play and if Hero just bides his time, he should easily make it into the money, if not first place.
Well... I do see that if all the players at the other table have large enough stacks, the two players likely to be eliminated before the final table will both be from Hero's table.