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02-26-2015 , 08:17 PM
Recently I was playing and found myself first to act UTG+1 w/ 100bb directly after UTG announced he was pushing blind for roughly 40bb.

Before I go forward I'll mention that this is a homegame and that it was also announced before the hand started that it would be the last hand of the night. There is 6 players at this point and the game has been tame for the most part. Even though there are two very aggressive maniacs at the table the size of their stacks, didn't allow for very big pots. It should also be noted that at this particular game the person running it only allows for 40bb buy-ins. Yes I know, this is ridiculous but its his game, his rules, however dumb they are.
I am personally seen as a nit amoung the other players and have abused this image repeatedly stealing small pots and rolling over big hands when necessary, making sure never to show a bluff. I have built my stack up 100bb at the time the hand took place.

I am directly inbetween two 20yr old aggro maniacs who have been playing every hand regardless of position. The first maniac to my right pushed for his last 40bb, the second maniac to my left has about 110bb. The rest of the table consists of 3 MAWGs, 2 of which are in the blinds. These players have been playing rather passive, check/calling most hands, never opening, and never c/r or even just raising for that matter. There is also a good player on the button but his stack is around 40bb as well so with the UTG blind shoving for 40bb either he has to wake up with a monster or just get involved purely for odds, all other action is killed for him so I'm not too worried about him.

Once the cards are dealt and there is $83 in the pot I look down at AKo?
I have 100bb ($200) at this point and realize I have only 2 options, to push or fold.

Can anyone give me a better idea of how to play at this point. With it being the last hand of the night I can expect aggression from anyone stuck (which was both maniacs as well as the 2 of the 3 MAWGS mentioned earlier, one in the blind, one in LP).

I chose to Isolate the UTG blind shove by pushing all in trying to kill all other action but with all this extra info to put into play does anyone have an alternate way of looking at it? and is it ever wrong to lay down this hand pf due to all the implications in play?

Last edited by Chicken Feed; 02-26-2015 at 08:44 PM.
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02-26-2015 , 09:12 PM
Fold is not an option
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02-26-2015 , 09:55 PM
This is always a shove and feel great, there isn't much else to say. Sorry if you lost.
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02-26-2015 , 09:55 PM
Snap shove all in 100% of the time.

In fact what you really want to is look at your cards, put them down for just a sec
And say "Fsck it, I'm all in too!" and push your chips into the center.


Gtd to get you called lighter than your normally would have.
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02-26-2015 , 10:24 PM
lol, you have the nuts

hand is more interesting if you had A9
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02-26-2015 , 11:02 PM
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Once the cards are dealt and there is $83 in the pot I look down at AKo?
I have 100bb ($200) at this point and realize I have only 2 options, to push or call and open shove any flop.
FYP
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02-26-2015 , 11:26 PM
There's been, roughly speaking, a zillion posts like this in the past. Almost everyone is going to tell you to shove. That's in spite of the fact, with just 3 dollars of potentially dead money, it's -EV if Villain has 22 (or any other pair).
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02-26-2015 , 11:50 PM
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Originally Posted by au4all
There's been, roughly speaking, a zillion posts like this in the past. Almost everyone is going to tell you to shove. That's in spite of the fact, with just 3 dollars of potentially dead money, it's -EV if Villain has 22 (or any other pair).
It's also -EV if he has AA what's your point?
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02-27-2015 , 12:01 AM
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Originally Posted by au4all
There's been, roughly speaking, a zillion posts like this in the past. Almost everyone is going to tell you to shove. That's in spite of the fact, with just 3 dollars of potentially dead money, it's -EV if Villain has 22 (or any other pair).
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I was tempted to delete this as trolling is not allowed.
But I think that you are being serious.

If you have poker stove (or flopzilla or whatever similar) put in a range of literally ATC (which is what his range is..) vs AKo.
Tell me what your equity is.

It doesn't matter if this time he shows up with 76s, or 44, or AA, or QQ, or T3o. What matters is that we are way ahead of his range. And we make a large profit against his range.
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02-27-2015 , 11:51 AM
I'd min raise to 80bb just to help sucker at least one more stuck player into the pot
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