was it wrong to shove AA on the final table

craigcu12

i was on the final table with AA so i used this as the chance to gain lots of chips from a calling but they both folded making me wonder if this is the time slow play could have been better.

duke996	Small blind		400.00	400.00	56307.50
pointybird	Big blind		800.00	1200.00	47522.50
	Your hole cards	A A
craigcu12	All-in		38970.00	40170.00	0.00
duke996	Fold
pointybird	Fold
craigcu12	Muck

RyanC7

It looks like you wanted everyone to fold ?? Then well played lol

shakinaces

With pretty much 50 big blinds I'm not sure why you'd shove here... they'd have to have a monster to call, which is unlikely.

And you want them to call right, so make it smaller, depending on how the table has been playing I'd probably lift it to 2000... especially on the button they may then 3-bet thinking you are just stealing (jackpot) or you might get a caller and take down some more value post-flop.  If you happen to get outdrawn with some weird hand that sees you go bust, meh, you got 3rd in a tournament, still in profit so happy days.

If it was more like 10-15 bb then I probably err more to a shove, as a small raise looks like it wants to get called.

Congrats on the good run in the tourny though.

craigcu12

In Response to Re: was it wrong to shove AA on the final table:

It looks like you wanted everyone to fold ?? Then well played lol
Posted by RyanC7

i was hoping atleast on of them would call. but i'm new to MMTs i usually do cash. this was my first ever final table MMT. so it's fairly new how to play hands like AA.

BorinLoner

Which other hands are we shoving here?

Which hands do we think might call this shove?

What makes the shove a better value play than a standard raise?

THEROCK573

In Response to Re: was it wrong to shove AA on the final table:

In Response to Re: was it wrong to shove AA on the final table : i was hoping atleast on of them would call. but i'm new to MMTs i usually do cash. this was my first ever final table MMT. so it's fairly new how to play hands like AA.
Posted by craigcu12

you just lost all value m8, a min raise is fine, or even 2.5 x if u want, you can only make this huge shove if u have x ray vision and u no someones holding KK

bearlyther

Min raise pre jamming is crazy losing so much value.  

GREGHOGG

Are you lucky777 or petetheplaya?

seriously though... dreadful shove. I standard raise my entire range no more than 3x max. i will min raise more than 90% of the time tho.

rancid

if your shoving every btn & sb then it's ok )

loololollo

youve got 40 bb dude why shove