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A week ago tomorrow was NPA’s first anniversary. To celebrate, I offered a prize of a signed complete set of four books and my limit DVDs to the best question of the week asked on the message board. I’ll choose the winner tomorrow, so ask your questions today to get in before the deadline.
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My question is in regards to isolation plays in tournaments. I often see people just calling a raise from a short stack all-in with a decent hand. However, when I pick up a strong hand and believe it’s has a good chance to be better then the short stacks all-in, due to his possible wide range and his limited time to make a move. I usually put in a raise or go all-in myself so I can go heads up with the orginal raiser. The only time I see a call a viable option is with pocket aces hoping to get another caller, but even that has it risks. The blinds or a later position player might call and you might see 3 or 4 to the flop instead of 2.
So here’s my question using an example. Hero being the chip leader at this table with 12000 in chips and average stack is around 4000. The next closest to you has 9000 chips and is your neighbor in position. The blinds are every 15 minutes and are now 200/400 and no antes.
UTG villian goes all-in for 2200, they fold to you in MP3 with:
AA, KK, QQ, JJ, 1010, 99, AKs, AKo, AQs, AQo, AJs, AJo, KQs, KQo
The next biggest stack is next to act and I know that is a big part of the equation. But what do you do with the above hands and why? When does it make sense raise and when to just call?
Thanks,
Paul.