I'm sorry I don't have any hand history for this..

10 seat $5 SnG, 5 handed, 2 very short stacks (approx. 3x BB). My stack is about 4500, in 2nd place.

I get dealt AKos in the BB (blinds are 100 and 200), a guy raises to 600 under the gun and it's folded round to me. The last time he made this raise he had 10s. What do I do? I've got this guy covered but by only about 700 and there are 2 players on the brink of elimination.

I normally like to re raise with AK so I made it 1400 and he instantly went all in. Should I have folded here and saved my chips? If I call and lose I'm very short stacked. Personally I like to go for the win and I called knowing at worst it was probably a coin flip but should I have waited until the short stacks were busted?

Result:
He turned over 8s which held up. I was crippled but thanks to good old pocket deuces ( ) I doubled up and held on for 3rd.

Any suggestions are welcome! Thanks!

Here is the thing:

First, if you raise with any hand, you should know what you are going to do if you ger re-raised. So dont raise if you dont know whether you will call a re-raise or not.

Second, I dont like going against a big stack toward the end of tournament when I have a big stack myself too.

Third, he raised from under the gun. So you should have given him some respect. Even if you knew he had low pair and it was a coin flip situation you should have tried to avoid that. Mainly because you are playing a tournament not a cash game and your chips are VERY valuable.


Now, to your specific hand: I would have flat called the raise and see the flop. If i dont flop an Ace, or King, or a very strong draw, I would check-fold.


Cheers,
Nima

Originally Posted by the alex

How many chips did UTG have?

He had about 3800.

Thanks nima, to be honest flat calling to see the flop was what I felt I should have done afterwards cos let's face it I'm not laying this down in my BB to a small raise.
I tend to go out too often on the bubble from a strong position because of getting myself in to big pots pre flop! Definitely something I need to try and avoid.