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Originally Posted by brianr
Seems like a somewhat loose all-in call w AQs and a top 20 ish stack at the time, but I guess w 30 bigs in a $300 buyin, 20k entrants event you’re going to need to get lucky more than once to go deep…
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Originally Posted by BringBackMo
Go get 'em, Nick! Good luck today.
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Originally Posted by Black Aces 518
Positions aren't given, which definitely could impact it some. Also, it's not impossible that the reporting is mistaken and the AQs jammed and the KK overcalled. But would agree in general, calling off 30 bigs there with zero fold equity and not that much overlay doesn't seem great.
In what I think was my first-ever live tourney cash way back when, I had a very similar situation. I'm waiting in the BB with KK and about 30 bigs, give or take. We're probably five away from the money in a field of 100 or so. Shorty shoved for around 6x, then player directly behind him reshoved for something like 40x. It folded to me, and I made a trivial call. Shorty had A9, other guy had AQ, and my kings held up for more than a double up. Sweet.
But here's the funny part...
The AQ guy started in on
me, telling me that
I'm supposed to fold there. At first, I just laughed and said something like "that's funny, good one" because I genuinely thought he was just kidding around. Oh no, no, no, no, no. Clownshoes went on and on about how I'm supposed to fold my entire range due to the impending money bubble. Some of his buddies at the table started chiding him, which got him to further dig in and defend his stance. He said he shoved to isolate the short stack and chase out the rest of the field (I recall a phrase along the lines of "don't want others intruding on my equity"). Their discussion lasted for at least a few hands, with the AQ player remaining convinced that I was supposed to fold.
Anyway, I agree that the seat order being reversed makes more sense, which in turn suggests White was thinking similarly to the AQ guy in my hand. He just happened to run into a bigger hand, then got lucky. Reading the other updates, it sounds like there was a lot of AIPF action at that point, so AQ might look bigger to Patrick White in that situation than it does to us.
And if the reporting WAS correct, well... some of the play in the Gladiator must have been pretty goofy in general. There is another hand report in which a player with 7x limps in the cutoff. The button raised to 3.5x. The BB called, and CO calls. Flop came A
A
K
. BB checks, CO ships, button calls, BB calls. No further action to the river.
The hands were:
CO: K
9
BTN: Q
T
BB: J
J
...and CO triples up.
It's also worth noting that the money bubble had just burst.