OK...what whould you do?

[Canuck]

 

   Live tourney. Down to 9 players spread over 2 tables playing hand for hand until a final table of 8. I am on the table of 4 players.

   I am the 2nd chipleader with 130,000 chips with 810,000 chips in play.

   A new player has just moved to the table and I have never played with him before.

   He is the BB to my SB and the first time we both post, it is folded to me. I have 22 and raise to 10,000 with the blinds 2000-4000. He calls. I bet 15,000 on a rag board and he makes some comment about me stealing and folds.

   The next orbit it is again folded to me in the small blind and I have AK. I again raise to 10,000. He looks at his cards and immediately goes all in for an additional 85,000 to me.

   What would you do and why?

[Newmanseye]

 

   Live tourney. Down to 9 players spread over 2 tables playing hand for hand until a final table of 8. I am on the table of 4 players.

   I am the 2nd chipleader with 130,000 chips with 810,000 chips in play.

   A new player has just moved to the table and I have never played with him before.

   He is the BB to my SB and the first time we both post, it is folded to me. I have 22 and raise to 10,000 with the blinds 2000-4000. He calls. I bet 15,000 on a rag board and he makes some comment about me stealing and folds.

   The next orbit it is again folded to me in the small blind and I have AK. I again raise to 10,000. He looks at his cards and immediately goes all in for an additional 85,000 to me.

   What would you do and why?

Call just because he is a cheeky barsteward.

A fold is probably a safe play but chances are you are in a race.  I would call.

[jezza777]

I call .He moves in with any ace if he feels you are stealing.

[SupaMonkey]

This would be a spot for a patented phil hellmuth call.

[Muahahahaha]

Oh dear, I think you lot are in trouble.

Without peeking I immediately went for the call, expecting to be told it's the wrong move. 

The way my game is at the moment you've just called JTh & he hits the straight.

The thing is, after your previous move, you know he bit.  So by making exacly the same raise, you're trying to push him into the response, aren't you ?  If you didn't want him to push all in,  you should have made a different raise

 

[SupaMonkey]

I want him to push in this spot and i would have made exactly the same raise.

[The Camel]

 

   Live tourney. Down to 9 players spread over 2 tables playing hand for hand until a final table of 8. I am on the table of 4 players.

   I am the 2nd chipleader with 130,000 chips with 810,000 chips in play.

   A new player has just moved to the table and I have never played with him before.

   He is the BB to my SB and the first time we both post, it is folded to me. I have 22 and raise to 10,000 with the blinds 2000-4000. He calls. I bet 15,000 on a rag board and he makes some comment about me stealing and folds.

   The next orbit it is again folded to me in the small blind and I have AK. I again raise to 10,000. He looks at his cards and immediately goes all in for an additional 85,000 to me.

   What would you do and why?

First of all, I hate the idea of an 8 handed final. Playing 4 handed is a considerable disadvantage to the short stacks paying the blinds twice every 4 hands. Just plain wrong.

As for the hand in question: if you are in control of your table winning most of the pots uncontested while you are short handed I would tend to fold (even though it is likely he thinks you are stealing). If you are playing pretty tight and only treading water chip wise I would tend to call.

This is all assuming you have no read on the reraiser.

[The_Diamond]

I can't figure out how you are second in chips holding only 16% of the chips in play with 9 players left. Does the chip leader have half the chips in play?

I call here as I'm not worried about him have Kings or Aces, and I want to catch up with the chip leader.

[ifm]

Fold and raise the next 10 hands in a row.

[totalise]

call happily

[GlasgowBandit]

I get my chips in before I have had a count on what he has.

He has A rag and feels you are bullying with your stack.

[Bazzaboy]

My chips beat his into the middle

[lazaroonie]

i guess I could ask, what were you expecting him to do, just fold "like a little girl".

I call. He is miles behind. Otherwise he is a really bad player. With a decent hand and position on the original raiser, then All In serves no purpose whatsoever.

[M3boy]

It would depend on what you want from the comp.

If you are looking to "Cash first" then "see how high you can go" - its a fold

If you are trying to WIN the comp - then its a call

Would be an insta call for me every time

[ifm]

It would depend on what you want from the comp.

If you are looking to "Cash first" then "see how high you can go" - its a fold

If you are trying to WIN the comp - then its a call

I disagree with this, if you call you gamble 2/3rds of your chips on what is likely to be a coinflip.
You can fold this easily without harming yourself and steal away to your hearts content and get yourself into a situation with a better hand than ace high.
You don't need to gamble every hand to win a comp!!!!!!!!