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11-22-2008 , 10:20 AM

exoendo

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Full Tilt Poker $6 + $0.50 Sit & Go (Turbo) No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t400/t800 Blinds - 4 players
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Hero (BB): t2140
CO: t500
BTN: t1065
SB: t9795

Pre Flop: (t1200) Hero is BB with Q

2 folds, SB raises to t2400, Hero?

Villain is likely shoving ATC.

After posting BB I have 1300 behind. If I fold here, Villain will likely be shoving any two next hand as well and I'll be folding worse leaving me with 900 behind. Though there are two stacks shorter than me if one of them doubles up the next hand I'm in bad shape.

What do you think?

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11-22-2008 , 10:38 AM

slip_18_

journeyman

Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 331

Given the amount of chips you have yourself, I think you have to call. BB at 800 is brutal, and you cant be folding 40% of your stack with QQ. If Biggie pushes again, you drop to 900 and shortest stack can double here leaving you in a lot of strife. You wont be able to push in again with any FE and if both other shorties win their races against CL you are in terrible shape. Have to call here imo. If you had 3500 in chips it may be possible to get rid of it, but I cant here beign this short, and likely a 4:1 lead over CL

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11-22-2008 , 12:25 PM

Dumbo_89

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+1 instacall, I should not even think of folding this hands with the blinds so high imo.

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11-22-2008 , 12:54 PM

catapult

centurion

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Agree its an easy call. It becomes quite good for you the wider sb is opening.

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11-22-2008 , 12:56 PM

Doublez-Down

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Well the fact that you ARE thinking about folding here means you have a concept of ICM. But I think you have to call here, however this would be the bottom of my calling range. And yeah, if your stack was a bit bigger, I'd say it would be a fairly easy fold.

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11-22-2008 , 04:36 PM

Obamacide

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I would gladly ship it here with QQ given the blind sizes and our stack. You are not guaranteed of anything if you fold despite being in second at this point.

if the blinds were smaller in relation to your stack you would have to fold anything but KK+ here, but in this situation you actually can call probably down to about TTs profitably, maybe even 88s

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11-22-2008 , 05:01 PM

Hattifnatt

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shove

but what if 1-3 had the same prize?

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11-22-2008 , 05:03 PM

camstandard

grinder

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Originally Posted by Hattifnatt

shove

but what if 1-3 had the same prize?

yeah fold in that case

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11-22-2008 , 05:11 PM

exoendo

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Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 5,583

Welp I called, and lost. I thought it was a little close but the more I thought about it and the fact that if I folded the next two hands I could be in bad shape it makes me more happy about the call I made.

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11-22-2008 , 05:43 PM

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Nicktheone

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You're too short yourself to allow you to fold here imo

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