Thanks for all the comments. I was kicking myself after I had left my seat for not staying and looking to take all the money back.

I suppose you're right about folding pre, I just find it hard when I see the strength of hands being shown down generally when playing live. Anyway, I did call and he had QQ. I hit the heart and he housed up at the end.

£0.50/£1cash table at sunday night GUKPT side event.

The table has only been open for about 30 minutes and the history includes:

The first hand involved 3 limpers when I had AJ on the button so I raised to 5 and was called in 2 spots and then the villain pushed all in for £180+ which we all folded to.

Next I was involved with the villain in a 3 way pot where he checked called the flop with  in an unraised pot. He then lead out for £10 into a pot of £20 when a second diamond came on the turn and then he bet £6 into the £50 pot on the river when the flush came and reraised when raised holding the nuts.

A few hands later he raised to £5 again from the small blind and I called with 2 of the limpers holding     in the big blind. Now when he raised he was shaking like he did when he bet the AQ on the turn before and I had him down as having a big hand here and called with the aim of stacking him on the right sort of flop.

The flop came down  and he went all in for £200. I had £112 in front of me and I've got the ace, straight draw, second nut flush draw and the  would give me the royal flush.

This put me in a really difficult spot and after a think I decided that I couldn't fold.

The question is should I have?

What hands would he do this with?

I felt that KK holding the was a fairly good chance as was AK, AQ and AT but AQ and AT less likely given his perceived strength pre flop.

I didn't think a flush was at all possible.

So I felt I was probably behind but with the best possible draw and no chance of drawing dead.

AK and the was my worst case scenario.

Any opinions would be welcome here.

Any indications yet where the 4th and 5th legs will be?

Thanks for the input.
I folded but when asked by someone else later - after i had gone - he said he had queens.

£500 entry festival
Level 1 blinds 25/50 10000 starting stack down to 9500.

Opponent is wearing a Mansion cap (probably satellited in) and has been playing relatively solidly, not playing a huge number of hands and this is the first serious pot of the day.

UTG (seat 3) I limp 50 with   and there is a raise to 150 in seat 5 followed by a call and then a raise to 600 by opponent in seat 1 (sb). I reraise to 1600 which is called by the sb.

the flop comes 

sb checks, I bet 2000 sb calls

turn is  and sb goes all in for 5000.

What i his range and should I call for my tournament life?

Good luck to Charlie Denton from me too!

[I was pretty active, taking advantage of some tight play to win a lot of hands uncontested.]

In a tournament I think there is a very definite sliding scale between a chip accumulation strategy and a chip preservation strategy and most of the time you will be somewhere in between the two poles. However, when you become a desperate short-stack chip preservation is no longer an issue and it becomes all about the double-up....you simply HAVE to risk your chips in order to accumulate. Now it stands to reason that at the other end of the scale if you are a big chip leader in a tournament chip preservation is the priority. You do not HAVE to risk lots of chips to accumulate and you can merrily edge forwards by using your stack to pressure the table.

I was pretty active, taking advantage of some tight play to win a lot of hands uncontested.

At THIS STAGE in the tournament a min raise to 16K and another player calling 25% of his stack would signal the end of my interest in playing this hand and I would fold. Although a pair of 10's is a pretty good starting hand that you are going to want to play in a lot of situations there is absolutely no need to play them in this current situation. Don't forget that if your stack is cut in half here you loose the power to keep taking orphan pots and people will be more inclined to play back at you. Why take such a risk? There is no immediate need for it. Folding might seem a bit weak here but I actually think it is quite a strong play.

I quite like the reasons above although I suppose the alternative is a call looking for a set.

I like preflop play, re-raise is a nice size and stacks make calling difficult for opponents. I HATE shoving preflop here, risking 120k to win 40k. On the flop i think ur bet is fine, but you should prolly shut down on turn. He wont be folding any holdings that have you beat (and wont be calling with worse) when you bet again on the turn. Check back on turn, river prolly a fold to his shove.

He actually bet 8000 turn so I presume you call that and fold to river shove?

Pre-flop if I am going to re-raise there I raise more maybe to 60/- or so..you learn more then..as it is once original raiser flat calls (as he should with the price you are giving him) the third player is priced in. At that point I wouldn't be thinking AA-QQ for either..more Ax-AQ or 55-99

if you rr to 60/- and the original raiser ships then its one of those things

Flop again 50/- into a pot of 120+ feels too small for me..if you make it 80/- or so then if you get a call you can play it softer after that

Turn 8/- is a weird bet by him..I might flat call and same on river for pot control

A bit of well meant advice (as thank you for posting, I like seeing new faces on PHA!) if you post next time without the result I think its easier fro people to give views without being too results orientated

Advice noted and thanks for the analysis. I've been coming to the same conclusion regarding the size of the bet.

I was concerned about the small utg raise being a bigger pair.

Ironically, if I was smaller stacked I would probably have gone all in.

Are we committed to calling the shove if we bet 60000?

It was down to the last 25 of the Mansion $110k guaranteed. I was a big chip leader (270000 to the second places 150000) and had been for a while, I was pretty active, taking advantage of some tight play to win a lot of hands uncontested.

However, I had just been moved to this table within the last 7 hands.

I picked up a pair of tens in late position and there was a raise from someone with 120000 chips.

Blinds were 4000 8000 and he raised to 16000. someone with 66000 chips then called and I decided that there was a fair chance I was ahead and even if I wasn't, the squeeze would make it difficult for the raiser to call with anything other than a massive hand and even AK would be a difficult call. So I raised to 40000 which the raiser and the other player both called.

I was a bit concerned by this and thought he probably had AA or KK maybe QQ with a small chance of AK. The flop came J55 and they both checked so i bet 50000 thinking that an overpair would have made some sort of bet.

The raiser flat called with 35000 left and the other player folded.

I am now pretty sure he must have AA. However a Jack came on the turn and he bet a meagre 8000. Now I am certain he has AA and is scared of the Jack so I re-raised him and he went all in for an extra few thousand which I felt I had to call in case he did have the overpair and a ten hit the river.

I'm not sure if it was possible to put him on the AJ and whether my play was really bad or not but it cost me 150k of my 270k chips.

Any comments would be welcome.

I'm not interested in analysing his play.

Thanks.

How's Andy Booth doing please?

I read that they are negotiating with online sites in order to get an official on-line exclusive partner

I KNOW IT and ifm will have to confirm this one for me, but even though this chipy chap is a Liverpudlian, I often see him around these shores so he might well be a Scouser living in Brum. Nice guy though.

That's Jimmy Morgan and he is from Liverpool, just goes down to Walsall to bring some money back up to Liverpool!!!

Does he live in Liverpool or Birmingham?

He lives in Liverpool, moving up the buy in ladder at the moment. Good player

I KNOW IT and ifm will have to confirm this one for me, but even though this chipy chap is a Liverpudlian, I often see him around these shores so he might well be a Scouser living in Brum. Nice guy though.

That's Jimmy Morgan and he is from Liverpool, just goes down to Walsall to bring some money back up to Liverpool!!!