Literally the first hand, I get AQoff UTG. I 3x raise to 60, guy in the cut off ships it, everybody else folds.
What is the correct play? Pros are if you win the hand you get a bounty (about a third of the BI) and basically start the tournament with a double stack so the potential to take further bounties early on. Conns are, most of the time you will be flipping or dominated, occasionally it might be AJ or worse.
I've seen people make this move in low stakes BHs a fair few times and wondered what the right play is.
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We only have 60 chips invested.
It's amazing the amount of times I have seen people do this with QQ plus.
Most often we are totally dominated here.
Very good argument for also folding AK.
If they've levelled me into a call and they have KK/AA then VWP them.
Perhaps I've just been sat against big gamblers too frequently in early stages of MTTs... its skewed my thinking by the amount of times I've seen middling suited connectors/any 2 face cards/any ace in spots like these... or even just shoving every hand in a sort of 'double or quits' start to a game.
PS - I'm happy with a fold or a call really. AQ is a horrid hand at the best of times...
Where possible we want to be avoiding flips in MTTs and winning uncontested chips, here we are taking one first hand.
And when (if?) we do consider calling, how wide do we open our calling range?