Playing AQo

[Ripclawph]

How would you have played this hand if you were in my case???
its the final table of the tourney with 8 players left.

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Full Tilt Poker Game , Table 16 - 800/1600 Ante 200 - No Limit Hold'em - 18:10:52 ET - 2009/06/23
Seat 1: pantin007 (20,608)
Seat 2: only_bridge (41,322)
Seat 3: thewinner44 (43,278)
Seat 4: DubMeUp (38,027)
Seat 6: chefjimmy (33,934)
Seat 7: Wildjaxx (8,409)
Seat 8: ripclawph (10,392)
Seat 9: allndave (21,530)
pantin007 antes 200
only_bridge antes 200
thewinner44 antes 200
DubMeUp antes 200
chefjimmy antes 200
Wildjaxx antes 200
ripclawph antes 200
allndave antes 200
DubMeUp posts the small blind of 800
chefjimmy posts the big blind of 1,600
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to ripclawph [As Qh]
only_bridge: gg
Tonyb1965 (Observer): gg all
thewinner44: vv gg
Wildjaxx has 15 seconds left to act
DubMeUp: gg
Wildjaxx calls 1,600
DubMeUp: nh
Tonyb1965 (Observer): congrats winner on the challenge win
ripclawph has 15 seconds left to act
thewinner44: tks
ripclawph raises to 4,800
allndave folds
pantin007 folds
only_bridge folds
thewinner44 folds
DubMeUp folds
chefjimmy folds
Wildjaxx raises to 8,209, and is all in
ripclawph calls 3,409
Wildjaxx shows [2h 2d]
ripclawph shows [As Qh]
*** FLOP *** [5c Td Kc]
*** TURN *** [5c Td Kc] [5d]
*** RIVER *** [5c Td Kc 5d] [4d]
Wildjaxx shows two pair, Fives and Twos
ripclawph shows a pair of Fives
Wildjaxx wins the pot (20,418) with two pair, Fives and Twos
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 20,418 | Rake 0
Board: [5c Td Kc 5d 4d]
Seat 1: pantin007 folded before the Flop
Seat 2: only_bridge folded before the Flop
Seat 3: thewinner44 (button) folded before the Flop
Seat 4: DubMeUp (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 6: chefjimmy (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 7: Wildjaxx showed [2h 2d] and won (20,418) with two pair, Fives and Twos
Seat 8: ripclawph showed [As Qh] and lost with a pair of Fives
Seat 9: allndave folded before the Flop
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i was thinking of goin' allin pf instead to steal the pot and force that 22 to fold.
hhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmm

[PokerJonny]

This is an easy shove pre flop.

With the pot at 4k and your stack at just over 10k you should not be raising here just get all your chips in.

I suspect that 22 may have called you anyway! but thats poker.

[Phunkphlex]

I agree with Jonny that it would probably be best to shove all-in preflop here. A general rule of thumb is that if 40%+ of your stack is in the middle of the table, then you are pot-committed. In this case, you have over 40% of your chips in the middle. Are you going to fold to a re-raise? If the answer is no, then why not put all your chips in there to start with?

HOWEVER, I believe that's all moot in this scenario because that 2-2 is going all-in regardless of what you do. He's got a short stack and is most likely hoping to win a coin flip to get back into the game. In other words, I don't feel you did anything wrong in this scenario, but in the future you may just want to push it all-in if a normal raise would leave you pot-committed anyways.

[pirates831]

as scotty would say, all you can eat baby.

seriously, you have less than 10BB, right? autoshove, be happy to be called by 22 and hope you double up.