112 of 1998 left in the Stars $3r. I'm in it for $39.30, so I have to finish top 100 to show a profit. Not really thinking about that. I want to win the $4800 at the top.

MP1 was a solid TA that was showing great cards every hand he played. He was on a real heater and MP2 was only at the table for about 13-15 up to this point and hadn't played a hand.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t8000 (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

CO (t140209)
Button (t63344)
SB (t120792)
BB (t89492)
UTG (t79220)
UTG+1 (t91513)
MP1 (t173293)
MP2 (t93737)
Hero (t110341)

Preflop: Hero is MP3 with A, K.
2 folds, MP1 raises to t24000, MP2 raises to t93337, Hero _______________

I would have folded and let them fight it out. That late in the tourney, with an M of 7 (if I'm calculating that right), I want to be first in the pot and let them react to me. I'm leery about being second in the pot. And third in? Blech.

I'd figure at least one has a pair, which would make it a coin flip if it were just the two of you. Two opponents make it worse. I'd let the ace-high hand go.

Caveat: I'm out of practice playing recently, so I may have no idea of what I'm talking about.

So what did you do?

I'm folding this and waiting for a better spot. I've got to put MP2 on either a pair (mid or big pair) or a big Ace (AKs, AQs, etc..) MP1 looks like a pair, big ace, big king suited (KQs, KJs would be the smallest I think here). So in reality, I would think I'm behind with no more than 5 outs.

Plugging these possibilities into Pokerstove
MP1 - 66+, AJs+, AJo+, KJs+, KQo
MP2 - 88+, AJs+, AQo+
With these ranges, everyone is about even with MP2 having 37.2% equity, you have 32%, and MP1 has 30.8%.

So how wrong am I?

I folded.

MP1 called with AQo

MP2 had AJs

I went on tilt.

Busted about 15 minutes later. gg.

But the fold is clearly the right play...isn't it?

Originally Posted by SeanyBullets1

But the fold is clearly the right play...isn't it?

Yeah. I think I had to figure that one of them has a pair and I have no fold equity. I thought I had fold equity to MP1 because I had a lot of respect for him. Clearly, I gave him too much credit because that was a donkey fuckin' call.

I actually like MP2's squeeze/iso-push. He was seeing the same MP1 that I was seeing and this call by MP1 was not expected with a hand like AQ.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t8000 (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

saw flop|saw showdown

CO (t140209)
Button (t63344)
SB (t120792)
BB (t89492)
UTG (t79220)
UTG+1 (t91513)
MP1 (t173293)
MP2 (t93737)
Hero (t110341)

Preflop: Hero is MP3 with A, K.
2 folds, MP1 raises to t24000, MP2 raises to t93337, 5 folds, MP1 calls t69337.

Flop: (t189474) 8, 9, 5 (2 players)

Turn: (t189474) K (2 players)

River: (t189474) 3 (2 players)

Final Pot: t189474

Results in white below:
MP1 has Qh Ac (high card, ace).
MP2 has Ah Jh (high card, ace).
Outcome: MP1 wins t189474.