Hi all,

I'm newer here to the forums, been reading 2+2 books for years. I have recently started playing tournaments and I had a question I'd like to run by the experts and see if I was thinking correctly or not. Any advice is greatly appreciated thank you.

It was level 3 of a $40 NLHE tournament, blinds 300-600. I had 6700 left in chips and there is a pre-flop raise from a player to my right and I decide to shove all in with my A8s. Flop comes A 6 blank 8 blank. I lost to my opponents 66 they having hit a set on the flop.

My question is, as I had roughly 10 big blinds there. Was I correct to go all in pre-flop or should I have played it differently? Thank you.

what position were you?

I had position on her. I think I was HJ and she was somewhere UTG + 2 position something like that.

it depends a bit on whether there are antes in play and style of play of the raiser - also whether there are shortstacks in play.
- with your stack you have little or no fold equity and raiser should be opening a fairly strong range - 66 towards the bottom of their range. I think you're a little too weak - but it's not terrible
ATs would be a clear shove imo

If you get the chance to play around with ICMizer it helps with this kind of spot

A lot depends on the particulars of the hand-- is the opponent opening a lot or are they fairly tight? What's their opening size? Do they have enough chips to look you up light? (And whether there are antes has some effect, especially on your own ability to wait.)

vs. a looser player who's opening small a lot it's probably fine, although here you'd want to know stacks of the players behind you and adjust for how likely they are to have a hand they can call you with-- with four players behind you it's certainly a concern, especially since at your stack size they're not likely to fold hands that might be borderline if you had more chips. And vs. a tighter player who opens 4x it's bad. It really depends on a fair amount of info we don't have.