From last nights Venetian 200 buy-in event.

8 remain. 715 for 8th place, 6240 for 1st.

Avg. chips remaining 290K. Hero has recently lost a hand and is sitting in 8th place with only 70K chips.

Antes and blinds are 4K/12K/24K

Folds to villain in the HJ and he min-raises to 48. Villain is in 7th place with ~ 100K, so this is half his stack. Folds to hero in BB with 84o.

What to do here? Hero has 46K behind and 116K in the pot.

Given that hero will have only 2BB remaining after the hand, he hopes for the best and moves all-in.

Villain is getting 7:1 to call. Villain shows 52o and folds his hand !!!

20 minutes later, hero and villain (after doubling) both receive ~ 5th place money in 8 way chip chop.

Shove Congrats on villain folding. lol

Sick outplay.

i sometimes fold with as much as 1/3 of my stack in the bb. not sure how correct this is tho without being on a bubble. anyway gg. ****in crazy that he minraise folded half his stack away.

if u think ur cards are live u should be gettin it in

I don't think you can fold this given how large the pot already is. Crazy that the villain would play it that. He should just open shove.

Poker isn't dead yet.

Also, this is why I never ever chop.

i chop $200 mtts at the Venetian because i can't win more than USD5K without paying lots of tax

^^^ and yet ANOTHER reason I never, ever chop!

bastard