Hornet's Strategy Questions. Part 6

[happyhornet]

Hi all, Apologies, but the hand history bit on Paradise isn't working (for me:unsure) at the moment. The synopsis is as such: 3 Euro Freezeout. 456 runners, about 60 or so left. Pays to 50. I have about 8000 chips left, which I think had be in about 30th or so. The blinds are 300/600/a50. I have just moved tables a few hands ago (to the UTG position AGAIN!!) and have no reads on my table. There is a good mix of short (2K) medium (8K) and larger (15K) stacks on the tables. I have AKs on the button. A mid position player goes all-in for about 6800, it is folded to me. The blinds are both shorties with about 2-3K left. My thought pattern (in the 20 or so seconds I was allowed) fell between two thoughts: 1. To get to the 'real' money, I'm going to have to take risks to double up, AKs is a big hand, only dominated by AA and KK, if I call and win, I have 16K-ish and am in the top ten. 2. Unless the raiser has AQ or AJ, I'm in a race at best with any other reasonable holding, and if I call and lose, I'm virtually out. Maybe i am better to wait for a better opportunity and/or be the aggressor not the caller. What should you do? Call or fold?

[daftpegasus]

Re: Hornet's Strategy Questions. Part 6 This looks like a shove from a player who doesn't want a call. If he had a monster he could raise to about 2400 and hope to get action from one of the blinds. A shove looks to me like he's happy to simply pick up the blinds and ante's. I doubt that finishing 40-50 pays you back much more than your tournament entrance fee therefore you have to be looking higher than those positions. AKs has a number of outs against AA and KK (the only hands you're really worried about). Anything else and it's probably a coin flip at worst. Your concern here should be those to act after you. If both of those call your odds are slashed dramatically. I know it makes no difference due to the chip stack sizes but if you call you should actually re-raise (hoping the blinds will see this as an extra sign of strength). All things considered I'd raise/call