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Final table local tournament eight players average stack is about 20,000. I am small blind with 12,400. Blinds are 300 600. Checks around to dealer who goes all in for 4300. I have 12,400 and just call. Big blind raises me 4000, I go all in , BB calls with TT, dealer has 33. No A,K or 3 on run out and dealer and me are both out. I know I should have gone all in rather than just calling but I think the big blind would’ve called anyway so I guess I am just stuck with having to depend on variance to win the pot. I guess you have to win these races to win tournaments? Okay guys let me have it.
You should be re-jamming the AKo here in order to isolate the button and knock the BB out of the pot. You do not want him to call here. I repeat, YOU DO NOT WANT HIM TO CALL HERE. With only 20 BB this is an easy all-in situation, but you want to do the best that you can to get the pot heads up as AK does much better equity wise AND to avoid having to play postflop with a non-nutted hand in an SPR of 1:1 if BB overcalls. You also eliminate any chance that Villain in the BB can try to bluff you or something. You’d obviously never fold with AK here, but after he puts in 8000 and you go all-in, he’s actually going to have the correct price to call with all of his bluffs too. You probably don’t have much fold equity against his actual hand of TT, but you have LOTS of fold equity against hands like QJs, pocket 3s, etc. all of which have lots of equity against you and make up a huuuuuuge % of his range. If he happens to wake up with a strong pair, well, it’s clear you were going to get the money in anyway right?
So, yes you should 100% of the time be getting in AK in this situation, but the way in which you do it is the important thing. The ONLY acceptable line is to re-jam your stack to knock out the BB whenever possible and allow AK to realize its full equity by seeing all 5 cards without playing postflop.
Sorry it didn’t this time! You’re right, sometimes you just have to win some flips to go deep. You have to get your stack in here and hope to hit. Remember – it’s possible the button could be shoving a hand like AJ or AQ and you just have him CRUSHED.
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