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Avoiding the blow up

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pokerpops:
Played the £50 at DTD on Wednesday night. 71 runners and a 20 minute clock - all those years of Pub Poker coming into use.
All went swimmingly for a while - got above average stack and kept building. Two big pots around level 4 which put me well over average for a while and by the time we get to this hand I"m still in decent shape although my 25000 is only just above the average at the time.
Villain is in BB, playing a stack almost identical to mine, been at table for a few orbits - he shoved AQ over the SBs reraise against an earlier button raise from me. He and the SB obviously know each other well and both reckoned I was rasing light...


600/1220/100 and we"re 8 handed so the pot has 2600 in it
Folded to me on Button and i have  5s  5c

I raise to 3,000
SB folds
BB raises (slowly, oh soooooooo slowly) to 8,000


Easy fold?

AMRN:
these tourneys become shovefests quite quickly - this seems a decent spot to 4-bet shove while you still have good fold equity.

mousebob:
The ""slowly"" bit seems like you"re implying a tell ??  ???
I read it as if he"s got a monster pair or is that too obvious ??
Also as from the "AQ" hand earlier if he thinks you"ll 4 bet light he"ll call anyway.
Tricky spot. Fold. Make a fuss. Say you"ve folded AQ, then bet lighter next time & watch them all fold ?!!

LongshanksED:
As AMRN said mist tourneys of this ilk are shove festa after a certain point

As played I reluctantly fold as we can"t really call to set mine as were too shallow. He could be raising with any 2 but I"d imagine were in a race or dominated if we shove. His re raise could be a bluff to make you think that were the one with fold equity


Personally I"d have just openshoved for the 20bb maybe a little spewy but the pot is 2600. That"s 10% of our stack. If on of the blinds turns up with a hand so be it, but it makes it a tough decision with a crappy ace or KQ type hand!

George2Loose:
I do a fold.

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