AK 3 Handed at Final Table, Second in Chips, Facing 3bet

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AK 3 Handed at Final Table, Second in Chips, Facing 3bet

Chip distribution is 41 -30- 18. Payouts are roughly $4,500, $2,700, and $2,060. We're second in chips on the button with AK and min raise. The chip leader 2.5x 3bets from the small blind and the 18 big blind stack folds. What's the line here and with the rest of our range?

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Sextonhardcastle 5 years, 8 months ago

Default I would shove AK. How aggressive villain has been and how we expect them to play moving forward matters a lot. If they're the type that thinks they can put on a lot of pressure just cause they have big stack then I think we're printing money by shoving any pair and a lot of Ax and broadway hands. Against an opponent being aggro I think we want to flat the hands that dominate their 3bets and shove the ones that that are tough to play postflop and can get better hands to fold. So if theyre playing very aggro a hand like JT QT QJ A2s-A8s might make a pretty good 3b shove. But flatting KQ AJ AQ ATs A9s might be better because you can cooler them postflop. But it also might just be better to shove everything thats profitable just because you wont get into weird postflop spots and growing your stack will force them to slow down.

If Villain is pretty tight or not pushing their chip advantage then flatting preflop with most hands you continue with here makes a lot of sense.

In general I'm going to be more likely to call the big suited aces than shove. My strategy changes so much based on how the other two players are playing. In spots like these I Really want to avoid being the one calling all in and I want to be the one who's shoving all in. A lot of players are too afraid to risk their stack and dwindle down just to have 3rd place chips up a few times then end up being the short stack yourself. Players also tend to overfold for their stack because of ICM so I like to find good spots to be the aggressor and overbluff a little bit

impregnatio 5 years, 7 months ago

generally agree re jamming ourselves rather than calling a jam... if biggest stack aggressive and competent he may not want to call an all in and risk losing 30bb and becoming the short stack himself. however, once he makes it 7.5bb he has to call 22.5bb to win 61bb. so we should expect him to call. standard shove at these stack sizes.

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