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Playing in a live tournament last night. Final table. Six handed. Five get paid. First prize is £600. Fith prize is £60.
UTG=48K
Hijack=42k
Cutoff=100k
Button=15K
SB=15k
BB=30K

The blind are 1500 / 3000 no ante.
The button appears to be happy to try and fold his way into fith spot.
The small blind is an experienced, very competent TAG player.

It folds to the small blind who shoves all in for 15k
I'm on the BB with approx 30k.

I have  Ac 3c

Should i call or fold?

Easy call for me.

He should shove about 102% of his range there, so there is a chance your  Ac will be good enough, you can muck the other card now.

snap
fist pump
high five the rest of table.............. you just cashed

Villain wouldn't have finished saying all in, by the time my chips were in the middle.

It's a call but I think it's close. SB should be shoving 100% but you describe him as TAG so he might only be doing it with something half decent. The lack of antes too might tighten his range too.

hu shootout on saturday. women nit limps btn with 5bbs effective, i shove bb with KQcc, she open folds a10o

Can't be that competent if they have 5 bbs

But call u hav an ace

They might have been chip leader the hand before and lost a big pot to the now chip leader?


Agree with this bit.  You're well ahead of their range here.

Are we really "well ahead"? Not on a windows machine atm so don't have pokerstove but some random online calc says A3s is 57% against 2 random cards. I'm not convinced that in the spot described villain is shoving any two. I'm not saying it's not a call, but I think it's closer than people think. I certainly don't think it's a fistpump call.

Sorry, probably should have written - "well ahead of a lot of their range".

As for the easy/insta-ness of it, well I don't think any decision should be made like that - although many seem reluctant to take a second to think a decision over, even if it first appears obvious.

no antes in play which makes it a little closer but still its a call

If he's good he shouldn't really be this short unless he just lost a big pot but this is definitely a call because he should be shoving any 2 and if he's good he will be.

who cares if we're well ahead of his range or not, look at the pot odds!

yeah this

not really too bothered about his range as A3s plays almost as well aipf against someone only shoving top 50% as it does against atc

he needs to be very tight for me to be worrying about what he's actually got

I've been doing some pokerstove work around calling ranges as I was clueless.  If he pushes 33% of his hands A2s+ is a call as far as chip equity is concerned.

breakeven point for chip EV is 77+,A8s+,K9s+,QTs+,JTs,ATo+,KJo+ or something similar.  vs 33% it's an extremely +cEV call

Thanks for all of the replies. The villian who shoved on my BB was someone who i know well and respect. At the time i wasn't too thrilled to be calling with  Ac 3c but looking at all of the factors, including my position at the table, (having the short stacks on my right and the big stacks on my left) i felt that, if i didn't take my chances here, i could quickly become the weakest dog for the rest of the pack to gang up on.
 I agree that making snap decisions is usually not a good thing to do, but, i'd decided that, in this dog-eat-dog world of poker, my opponent would be shoving with a very wide range, so , i pretty much snap-called.
 He showed   Ahrt Qs. I hit a 3 on the flop, which was enough to win the hand and send my poker buddy to the rails. He wasn't very impressed with my call, which is why i thought i'd ask for your thoughts on this board.
 I went on to win the comp. Which was nice. :)

Iv noticed when playing live poker people often fistpump when they get there money in ahead, and then berate you when you draw out.......
Seems pretty stupid.

Congrats !

I always just keep in my head and suited Ace has min 30% equity vs A TIGHT 3bet calling range, so for that reason id snap it off in this spot.

he needs to be frantically wanking himself off for me to be worried about what he's got