Hand Analysis from weekend Live tourney

Starting to play a few tourneys online again.. took a break this summer, played a little more live events, started a real job, took a trip to Vegas, played at Hollywood Fl Hardrock and Tampa Fl Hardrock and getting ready to play some events in the north florida poker classic In Jacksonville next week.

Played a live tourney Friday night and I wanted to discuss a hand I played that had the potential to win me the tourney or cut my stack down low.

26 players in the tourney, down to 5 players left, Paid 5, all of us in the money. 260,000 chips in play. I had ave stack with 57000. Blinds are 4000/8000 and im in the BB with A4 suited clubs. Button shoves, with 27000, he is a solid player but I knew that with the stacks/blinds at these levels his range was wide. I put him on any Ace, Any 2 broadway cards, or any pair. I made the call, but I wanted to further analyze the play today.

I opened up my poker stove and plugged these ranges in vs my A4clubs.
First of all, I knew I was calling 19,000 to win a pot of 58,000 chips so i was getting just under 3-1 on my money which is always hard to pass up with any Ace. I also was using about half of my remaining stack after the big blind to make this call.

When the Poker stove results came back it showed that I was a 45.7% underdog vs this range which is still very good odds considering I was getting 3-1 to call. When we turned over the cards, He showed KQ which was what I hoped I would see, 2 broadway cards. I was a 60% vs 40% favorite. Flop and turn were low and safe, but the river turned a K and he had knocked me down to 30,000 chips. I ended up getting my J10 all in from the small blind vs AK and was knocked out in 4th.

Hope to see ya all on the tables again soon, playing fewer tourneys online but more higher priced buyins like the weekly 50K guaranteed and a couple nightly tourneys a couple days a week.

Chuck Myers
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