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Hey guuys,

yesterday i played the GG Master 150NL (i reached this ticket about a 1$ Sat from which i jumped to an 8$ Sat)

This was my last hand and not far from the final table.

https://www.casino.us/poker/tools/replayer/?hand=4t6Fc61C

I was eliminated with AK against a pair 5

How would you play this hand in this situation, because the jumps of the money winnings are extrem?

Was i to aggresive? I am thinking all the time about this hand.
Maybe a call would be better in this situation? And then a fold of the flop.

Let me know your thougts. Thanks.
 
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You flipped against a lower pair with less than 10bb. Mathematically you are supposed to play this way if you want to win (and are playing these tournaments regularly at this buy-in). But you don't have to play it that way if you feel that you would rather try to ladder up and get a bigger prize that isn't first place. This is especially relevant when you sattied into the game in the first place, so you are out of your comfort zone and bank roll management guidelines. You can just fold this pre-flop and wait for a better spot.
 
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First congratulations on going so deep, what an amazing run.

I think both above comments are good. Its tough when you get KO'd after going so deep, and you hit AK, and go for it.

The only reason you can fold here is cos you know villain isn't folding here ever to your raise, so you have lost an edge due to lack of fold equity, the thing is he also not folding KQ KT KJ, or any Ax, so you can dominate and be in with a real chance if you double up.

That said, I don't think I'm doing anything different, unless I know I'm pay jumping something pretty hefty in the next hand or 2!
 
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That’s a tough spot. With AK it’s usually standard to get it in, especially if you were short-stacked, just an unlucky flip. If stacks were deeper and pay jumps big, flatting could be fine to avoid variance. You didn’t play it wrong, sometimes it just doesn’t go your way.
 
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I can't imagine playing it any other way.
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Yes, I think almost all players would play it the way I did. By going all-in, I still had the small chance that the opponent would fold his small pair. That it then unfortunately holds and no A or K comes is just unlucky. In any case, the opponent's call with 55 was borderline, but that's just how poker is.

How is it on NL25? Can you have success there?
 
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SpanRmonka said:
First congratulations on going so deep, what an amazing run.

I think both above comments are good. Its tough when you get KO'd after going so deep, and you hit AK, and go for it.

The only reason you can fold here is cos you know villain isn't folding here ever to your raise, so you have lost an edge due to lack of fold equity, the thing is he also not folding KQ KT KJ, or any Ax, so you can dominate and be in with a real chance if you double up.

That said, I don't think I'm doing anything different, unless I know I'm pay jumping something pretty hefty in the next hand or 2!
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Yes, the price jumps were pretty intense, two more positions and there would have been $1,000 more. A final table and then a place in the top 5 would already be a year's salary, not to mention first place, which is more than two years' salaries.

Would you have folded if you knew the price jumps were this high?
 
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Wow you score big recently. ! Very impressive, I wish you much success for future games.

And no I wouldn't have played AK any other way in that situation 👍🏼👌🏼
 
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G0930 said:
Wow you score big recently. ! Very impressive, I wish you much success for future games.

And no I wouldn't have played AK any other way in that situation 👍🏼👌🏼
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Thank you so much.

On which pokerroum do you play most? And what do you prefer? Tournaments, Cash, Spins?
 
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ms_attack said:
Yes, the price jumps were pretty intense, two more positions and there would have been $1,000 more. A final table and then a place in the top 5 would already be a year's salary, not to mention first place, which is more than two years' salaries.

Would you have folded if you knew the price jumps were this high?
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I don't think you can fold just for a maybe jump......but lets say you have a guy on 1-2 bbs, and his KO will give that prize jump, then yeah, I think you can fold this kind of situation.....you were not this likely to get the jump, so your best way to go deeper was to go with your hand. Sometimes we lose these, it just hurts more when its out of our usual buy in range!!
 
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You had less than 10BB and went all-in preflop with AK. Very standard play and very results oriented question :)
 
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ms_attack said:
Thank you so much.

On which pokerroum do you play most? And what do you prefer? Tournaments, Cash, Spins?
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Mostly GG . I predominantly play their version of sit&gos. The mystery Battle Royale 18 players game. Kinda like sitngos but not really 😅
Tournaments also but few. The 2.5$ Mini Big Game I play regularely though
 
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First of all:
Congratulations on the deep run, especially for that $1 investment. 😍

As others have already said, going all-in with AK with less than 9 BBs is basically a no-brainer.

I see your point of hoping to ladder up more but since 4 more people had to bust, I don't think this was very likely - although I don't know the other players stack sizes.

Also hoping for a better hand, like TT+ is reasonable but not that common. It happens around 1 in 43 hands and a few more hands and you'll lose another 2 BBs.

So even if it sucks since you were pretty close to the FT, it's still a long way to go. 🥹
 
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