Your move?

[Woodie]

Like 12 or 11 left 18 got paid but top 9 better paid. Whistlecrew has been raising big a few to many times. What is your action here when last to act? ***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 336840102 ***** NL Texas Hold'em $5 Buy-in + $0.50 Entry Fee, Level:17 Blinds(4,000/8,000-400 ante) - Friday, April 04, 22:15:48 GMT 2008 $600 GTD Turbo $5+$0.50 NLH #138387 Table 1 9-max (Real Money) Seat 5 is the button Total number of active players : 7 Seat 1: poolidol ( 4,096 ) Seat 2: littletac ( 12,181 ) Seat 3: lochsong2 ( 24,901.50 ) Seat 4: whistlecrew ( 110,858 ) Seat 5: FWLANAFW ( 23,118.50 ) Seat 7: rensy1 ( 46,558 ) Seat 8: jon16 ( 66,287 ) Tourney Level:17 Blinds(4,000/8,000-400 ante) poolidol posts ante [400] littletac posts ante [400] lochsong2 posts ante [400] jon16 posts ante [400] rensy1 posts ante [400] FWLANAFW posts ante [400] whistlecrew posts ante [400] rensy1 posts small blind [4,000] jon16 posts big blind [8,000] ** Dealing down cards ** Dealt to jon16 [ Qh, Ah ] poolidol calls [3,696] poolidol goes all-in littletac folds lochsong2 folds whistlecrew raises to [27,000] FWLANAFW folds rensy1 goes all-in rensy1 raises to [46,158] ??????????????????

[Guest]

Re: Your move? It seems there might be as many as 13 or 14 left in the tourney at this point. I've made the money, so my aim here is to try to win the thing ! I'm thinking the raise by whistlecrew is a standard big stack, blind stealing raise (if everyone folds he is pretty much in a no lose situation with the side pot). So he makes this raise with a pretty wide range. Maybe he has a hand, but the bet of nearly twice the pot should be enough to scare all but the most premium of hands off it as it puts all but you and rensy in for their life. Putting Rensy on a range of hands will depend on how you perceive him. Has he shown enough guile throughout the tourney that he could try and take the (now bigger) sidepot from whistle with an all in ? If so, his range would include many marginal hands that would put you on a near coin flip situation against him (but most likely as the slight favourite). In this case, my game plan here would be to move all in also. You have nearly 2:1 on your money (somebody check my maths!) and also if you lose you have him covered and are still in the tournament. If you seriously think Rensy is not brave enough to make this play without AA, KK or AK, lay down. It would take a lot for me to do this but sometimes your gut tells you !! BTW, unless Whistle has one of the 3 top hands, I expect him to lay down to your all in raise. Interested to know what others think as my tourney play definitely needs improving and my strategy may be the reason I crash and burn so often !!