What would you have done?

whiffofbun

I just got knocked out of the £3000 mini marksman. 40 players left with 700 players. Would like to here people's opinion on the hand to see if they would act different as I often reach this stage of tournament and get knocked out at this stage.

The guy playing was on tilt and swearing at the table after losing all in to A10 - A6, he had the A10. he also shoved all in on players who checked the turn multiple times so I was expecting the all in and snap called.

Would you have done anything differently or should I fold at this stage in the tournament?

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
jh1603	Small blind		500.00	500.00	15752.50
markrose22	Big blind		1000.00	1500.00	28310.00
	Your hole cards	A A
steerer	Fold
whiffofbun	Call		1000.00	2500.00	18813.50
terrytwomore	Call		1000.00	3500.00	21703.75
PUPPASMURF	Fold
jh1603	Call		500.00	4000.00	15252.50
markrose22	Check
Flop
		9 9 K
jh1603	Check
markrose22	Check
whiffofbun	Bet		2000.00	6000.00	16813.50
terrytwomore	Call		2000.00	8000.00	19703.75
jh1603	Fold
markrose22	Fold
Turn
		Q
whiffofbun	Check
terrytwomore	All-in		19703.75	27703.75	0.00
whiffofbun	All-in		16813.50	44517.25	0.00
terrytwomore	Unmatched bet		2890.25	41627.00	2890.25
whiffofbun	Show	A A
terrytwomore	Show	K J
River
		10
terrytwomore	Win	Straight to the King	41627.00		44517.25

mumsie

You should have raised when it was your turn to bet preflop. @whiffofbun

EvilPingu

If you're not limping anything else, it's suspicious AND you have a smaller pot preflop.

If you're limping lots of other stuff, then yeah limping Aces would be okay for deception, however limping from the hijack is generally going to be a bad idea. Therefore, we're making a mistake to be getting into a position for limping AA to ever be good.

As a result, either the limp is either bad in itself, or you have to be doing something that is bad to justify the limp, so you shouldn't ever be limping as a default strategy here.


HOWEVER, despite looking super suspicious, exploitatively limping a strong hand is okay in situations where your opponent(s) simply couldn't care how suspicious a limp looks and they're just going to spew off against a passive action, no matter what. If you feel like this applies here because the villain is tilted, then I don't think the limp is horrendous.

I think in most cases I probably still make my standard open - I think raising generally makes it easier to get stacks in against someone else who decides to isolate the tilted guy whenever he flats our raise. Alternatively, the tilted guy just 3bets, we get the money in pre and maybe cooler one of the players behind as well.

It's one of those things where it's hard to give a definitive answer without being sat at the table and seeing the dynamic, so I can't conclusively say the preflop play is bad for that reason.

Check/call turn is fine, considering notes. They're gonna have a 9 or they get there sometimes, but you can't do anything about it.

hhyftrftdr

Fookin he11.

TheEdge949

Once he flops 2 pr, unless you have a player specific note you're playing for stacks.

I would prefer to see a preflop raise but if he calls then its all going in on the turn anyway. Personally I shove the flop, not that it's making any difference here I think.