No Limit Hold'em Tournament T20,000/T40,000 [4,800 ante]
Winning Poker Network
7 players

Stacks:
UTG - UTG (T638,006) VPIP 9 PFR 9 AGG ---
UTG+1 - UTG+1 (T110,806) VPIP 5 PFR 5 AGG ---
MP - Hero (T805,246) VPIP 21 PFR 13 AGG 47
CO - CO (T497,685) VPIP 21 PFR 11 AGG 75
BTN - BTN (T480,968) VPIP 37 PFR 26 AGG 0
SB - SB (T557,788) VPIP 30 PFR 22 AGG 100
BB - BB (T786,948) VPIP 11 PFR 6 AGG 33

Preflop: (T93,600, 7 players) Hero is MP with A 7
1 fold, UTG+1 raises to T106,006 (all-in), Hero raises to T172,012, CO raises to T492,885 (all-in), BTN calls T476,168 (all-in)


I made it to the final two tables of a big $16.50 MTT. At the time of this hand, I believe I was in 4th place with 14 players remaining. I wasn't sure exactly how to play A7s in this spot. Under normal circumstances, I would raise this hand from the HJ, but I'm not sure how the short stack shove and ICM should be affecting my range here.

I chose to put in a min-raise to isolate the shove, but then the CO and BTN both went all-in.

My questions are:
What should my ranges be in this spot?
How should I be playing A7s against the initial shove and then when it folds back to me after the CO and BTN shove?

Thanks!

I would just fold. I wouldn’t have a min raising or even calling range at all unless it’s a super aggro table. Jam something like AJs+/88 or fold

As played ....I guess we have to call now

Are you reading the action correctly? I'm not being rude cause I do it A LOT myself. But CO jams and then BTN jams too. Like our range after that is like razor thin to call.


@OP I don't see much value isolating this. Just flat since it benefits everyone to KO the player so you're not very likely to get 3b out of this. Since it's either 13-15 left everyone is happy to knock a player out.

I like the move in a PKO but not in a regular tourney. AJs probably the bottom of my range here.

We are really not that far ahead of OR's shoving range - at best we are 55% if they have a 50% shoving range - so even if everyone folds it's only a moderately good spot - if we get shoved on it's pretty disastrous - we are probably priced in to call here but doubtful if we have more than 20% equity so we're really not in a place we want to be- just open fold

I did read it correctly. I admit I’m not playing much poker these days and my posts are not really advice... more an exercise to see how far off I am getting

Once we put it 170k, and 2 players go in meaning we need to put in 320 more , I find it hard to fold ....but don’t exactly like calling either . Which is why I said “I guess” .

Looks kind of close and I wouldn’t of been in the pot to start with

Yeah, we may have potential good odds but you have to consider that equity being spread out as well multi way. But yea I wouldn't either.

Hi there,

Well I'd like to ask how would you study this spot by yourself? And how do you think people know the answer?