What would you do?

[Senshi]

I apologise straight off the bat if this has already been discussed but last night I was on a night shift with a few of my poker mates and we got talking about hands and whether we could/would/should lay them down. We came up with one which led to a heated debate between us which lasted most of the night. Here it is: You have won a Satellite to a Major Poker Event WSOP Main Event for example and have played well all week but are now on the Bubble and are sat the Shortest stack on the table with only 6/7 BB's left. You are on the Button and you look down at Aces. You look to get involved in the hand but the next shortest stack has gone all in, another has reshoved and the Big Stack of the table has called that. The action comes to you and you have a choice. Fold with a very good chance that you are going to make the money unless the Short Stack has the best hand and then the second best hand wins the side pot. Almost sure to get into the money which will be a nice boost being you got the seat off a satellite anyway. Call you are getting it in with the best hand and face the chance that the pot is 3 way you may take the beat but if they hold up then well you are getting a nice quadruple up at least and will be left with a 25-28BB stack. My opinion was that I would probably fold in this situation as I am almost guaranteed to get into the money and should even the short of middle stack wins you still have another 7 hands before you are going to be the BB so there would probably be someone going out on one of the other tables, last thing I would want to happen would be to call in this situation and be outdrawn and played for so long without anything to show for it other than one hell of a bad beat story (but what a Story it would be!) My mate argued that the call is an absolute no brainer you have to call as you have the best hand regardless of where you are in the tournament, would you fold it early on in the tournament, so why because it is right on the bubble should you fold. The chances are they have less chance to hit as well as they are probably sharing outs and one of them you would suspect to have an Ace so would have to hit the board hard as he only has one live card. He is a little more reckless than me and although I would hamper the rest of tournament and will probably go out just after the bubble I would rather that and take some money, but its probably the only case I can ever think of for folding a hand like Aces Pre flop. Smaller money tournaments I would also be calling but an event like WSOP with a substantial cash out even on the bubble I would take the security of taking at least some money.

[wurzel133]

Re: What would you do? if you are happy to min cash fold if you want to try and go further in tourny call in reality if it was this situation in the main event autofold as $20k is a lot of money