Hi everyone, this is my first post at pocketfives and I apologize in advance for not having the hand history. I didn't think to save it at the time, but I have been thinking about this hand a lot in the past few days. I will do my best to recount the situation but obviously some details such as stack sizes will be approximate.

I made the final table in the $109 40k guarantee event on pokerstars, and was in 6th place with 8 people remaining. My stack was at roughly 200,000. Blinds I believe were at 2k/4k. For what it's worth, the players in 7th and 8th place were both down around 100,000 in chips, and several players had similar stacks to mine, so I was not really a short stack. 2 players had larger stacks... chip leader at over 600,00 and fly44 for those of you that know him at approx. 450,000.

I am UTG+1 with AK suited. UTG folds and I raise 2.5x to 10k. Action folds to the cutoff, who has a similar stack to mine but does have me covered. Cutoff 3 bets to 32k, no real reads on this player he has played a fairly standard game. Fly44 has the button and puts in a third raise to something like 70k. Fly has been aggressive with his large stack and has put in several reraises throughout the tournament (I was at his table leading up to final table as well). It folds back to me, I tank, and eventually fold. Cutoff folds as well so I never got to see the hands.

Is this too tight? I have been thinking about it and still do not know if it was the right play. Part of me thinks that because it was my first big final table that I froze up and played for survival and passed up a +EV spot. Any thoughts/advice would be great. Sorry again about the lack of hand history I will be sure to have it next time I post.

shove. top three pay is where we want to be, and although you are stacked pretty deep i dont see anything wrong with getting it in with top two, there is a lot of dead chips in the middle now so you might just get a call with hands that are behind and you might take the pot down right there. Seems like the 4 betters range is some what wide depending on how active he has been.. play to win, and this looks like a good spot to do that, stop being such a nit

I don't mind a call or a fold, this spot seems real 50-50 to me. I think if you're playing for the win and not afraid to take 8th then you ship it in which is probably what I do.

 

Originally Posted by FrosBros82

Make Fly have the tough decision to call here.

In what way is calling 130k more a tough decision with like 300k+ in the pot already (if he shoves)

 

Originally Posted by mattk1981

In what way is calling 130k more a tough decision with like 300k+ in the pot already (if he shoves)

All im saying is if he re popped with lets say an 88 or a pp close to that he will have the tough spot to fold. He has the chips so he could be re raising with anything. I would take my odds with AK and hope he doesnt have 2 hands that are killing me.