T10k Tourney with AK in Hijack - Early Level? (1 Viewer)

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Here's the hand breakdown...

Tourney is at the 4th level (100/200 blinds) with t10k starting stacks on a $60 buyin. About 40 entries and an $1,800 total pot. Hero is still hovering around the buyin stack of 10,000, and is in the hijack.

- UTG raises to 1,200 ... this guy has been observed to be a total wild card, playing any/every hand, and previously busted out by calling an all-in shove (in that hand "Captain Wildcard" had 9-2 suited against the pocket Jacks who shoved first) ... he rebought and is seated with a new stack.
- A few players fold the UTG raise and action is now on hero who has AKoff in hijack.
- Hero repops to 3,400 - mainly to get Captain Wildcard out of the hand - and has about 5,500 behind.
- Button insta-folds out of turn.
- Player to my left (cutoff) pauses for a moment and shoves all in (and has hero covered by 2-3k). Player has been observed to be tight/aggressive, folding most hands, but making aggressive plays on the hands he does play and possibly making well-timed bluffs as well (just a guess since he doesn't show his cards).
- SB and BB fold. Captain Wildcard UTG raiser folds dramatically with a big pout and loud sigh.
- Action is now back on hero; and only two players remain... the hero and villain who is all-in.

What's the advised action here? Call, or fold?
 
What do we know about Villain? What kind of image does Hero have? How observant is Villain?

It's a pretty straightforward decision. We're getting about 2.5:1 and just need to estimate Villain's range to decide if 2.5:1 is enough.

This is one of those spots that's almost always a close decision for me. Old Man Coffee is almost never getting a call from me, but Guy Who 3-Bets All My Button Raises just might.
 
What do we know about Villain? What kind of image does Hero have? How observant is Villain?

It's a pretty straightforward decision. We're getting about 2.5:1 and just need to estimate Villain's range to decide if 2.5:1 is enough.

This is one of those spots that's almost always a close decision for me. Old Man Coffee is almost never getting a call from me, but Guy Who 3-Bets All My Button Raises just might.

I think I updated the OP while you were typing... Villain is definitely TAG, and hero's image is similar. Pushing hard on power hands, semi-bluffing draws and suited connectors to isolate or induce folds, but folding when I'm feeling far behind.
 
So our AK is probably the bottom of Villain's range, considering he's a TAG who 4-bet into us, and he can see we have so few chips left that it's almost a must-call.

We're either a hair worse than a coin flip against a smaller pair, a coin flip against AK, or a massive dog to KK or AA. Even if it's AA, KK, or AK, we're only a 1.64:1 dog equity-wise. As you add more pairs smaller than KK, our equity slowly improves. So really, the only range we can fold against is QQ or better (we're a 2.15:1 dog at best).

Basically, if Villain could have JJ or AK here, it's a (close) call.
 
I called...

Hero - :ah::kd:
Villain - :as::ad:

baaahhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!

Flop: :ks::9d::7c:

go two outs!!!!!!!

Turn: :ac:

F*ck this I'm going home. Didn't wait for the river. :p
 

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