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ok 35 left. 27 paid. 100r with 1ra (TURBO) 5 min blinds

Villian set me in from sb last time- I folded. Previously he raised button with K9 and didnt bink against my aces (he had to call re raise)

I'm thinking his range in this spot is quite wide- given that is this a call or still a fold? Blinds are going to 1k/2k after this hand:

PokerStars Game #26394503953: Tournament #150035334, $100+$9 Hold'em No Limit - Level XX (750/1500) - 2009/03/26 17:43:27 ET
Table '150035334 18' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: George2Loose (13834 in chips)
Seat 2: truesyalose (21511 in chips)
Seat 3: Al Carmo (130424 in chips)
Seat 4: Joao M. (45491 in chips)
Seat 6: Aryamehr (59912 in chips)
Seat 7: mahtipeluri (13424 in chips)
Seat 8: pfkaok (26739 in chips) out of hand (moved from another table into small blind)
Seat 9: THE_ALPACA (50243 in chips)
George2Loose: posts the ante 175
truesyalose: posts the ante 175
Al Carmo: posts the ante 175
Joao M.: posts the ante 175
Aryamehr: posts the ante 175
mahtipeluri: posts the ante 175
THE_ALPACA: posts the ante 175
THE_ALPACA: posts small blind 750
George2Loose: posts big blind 1500
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to George2Loose [Kd 8s]
truesyalose: folds
Al Carmo: folds
Joao M.: folds
Aryamehr: folds
mahtipeluri: folds
THE_ALPACA: raises 16500 to 18000
George2Loose: ?

Fold for me and look to shove any 2 rather than call K8

fold for me...I'm with Asa on this one.

fold here too.

+1

OK and if I have A8?

call with 1 hand in the air tbh

I call with A8

is that flawed thinking? is A8 all that different to K8. Actually I guess weak aces are a large part of range so it is a reasonable difference...

+2

I probs fold A 8 in this spot as well.
I'd rather get it in first with 9 3 soooted than call with junk. 

I agree with Bandit!!!  fml  innit ;D

as a proviso a call is probably the right thing to do

if he's shoving atc then your k8o is only like 56% here and it's highly unlikely that his range is atc

rather stick it in with crap than call here

A8o is only about 3% better vs atc

I'll re-iterate that I believe villians range is super wide.

Also everyone so far has said you'd rather shove shite from the button then call in this spot. I'm very unlikely to get a chance to shove from LP as people are consistently opening before me

Also people's calling ranges from a cut off/button/MP shove are also quite wide

I don't hate a call here. If I'm in the small I'm shoving any two.

Timebank and OPR him imo.

If hes a winning player then call, if hes a losing player you can fold.

didnt OPR him but have seen him around a lot- assumed he's a winning player

scrapes in as a winning player

http://www.officialpokerrankings.com/pokerstars/THE_ALPACA/poker/results/A9F9F5E465EE4F0EAF96747181995660.html?t=2

lol.

I Call!

I call

I don't hate it either but have realised I didn't make it clear with my post. my reason for pointing out that we're 56% vs atc was to say that we're never too far ahead here so it's close.

if he's pushing top 60% it's a flip, if he's pushing atc we're 56%. essentially everyone's pushing range falls between these 2 so by making the call we're always going to be a slight favourite against oppos range here. in fact I've just talked myself into a call with no further info

easy

As the hand progresses and it gets folded round, I'm hovering over the call button ready to crush his dreams insta-style.

Call and its not close, yeah you might only be 55% against his range or whatever but i would rather be 55% now for this pot when i have this many blinds than looking for a 'better' spot down the line where i might find a 60-40 or even 70-30 for an 18k pot.

I put one arm in the air and snapped.

ALPACA had 72 suited (diamonds)

Flop was two diamonds and I dodged the lot to double up

fyp

nh