A sick hand

There are 17 players left, 16 win $1050 seats to the Friday night WSOP qualifier on stars. I am in 2nd position – and here are the stack sizes.

Seat 1: calluch (22880 in chips)
Seat 2: KidPokerJD (9534 in chips)
Seat 3: muscovey (11040 in chips)
Seat 4: pokerelmo (7439 in chips)
Seat 5: beowulf (4644 in chips)
Seat 6: raiseit (15960 in chips)
Seat 7: DaDonkeyDonk (44524 in chips)
Seat 8: Duffs#1fan (4448 in chips)
Seat 9: Y2JKID (31960 in chips)

The big blind is 8000, which means neither the big blind nor utg can get through the blinds without going all in (before I have to be all in). Further, the player utg on the other table has only 6000 chips, so he is all in.

I pick up aces!

What do you do?

I figured at least one other player would call, so I would win about 7/10 of the time.

I figured the odds of the 3 players all winning were about 1/8 (giving each a 50/50 chance). So there is a 7/8 chance I win without having to win a showdown. Further, if disaster strikes and they all win, I still could win my all in when I get the big blind.

I folded.

Here is what happened:

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t8000 (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: HTML)



SB (t22880)

BB (t9534)

UTG (t11040)

Hero (t7439)

MP1 (t4644)

MP2 (t15960)

MP3 (t44524)

CO (t4448)

Button (t31960)



Preflop: Hero is UTG+1 with As, Ah.

7 folds, SB raises to t16000, BB calls t1134 (All-In).



Flop: (t20334) 5h, Kh, 6c (2 players, 1 all-in)



Turn: (t20334) 2h (2 players, 1 all-in)



River: (t20334) Qs (2 players, 1 all-in)



Final Pot: t20334



Results in white below:

SB has Jh 9h (flush, king high).

BB has Kc Ad (one pair, kings).

Outcome: SB wins t20334.


And I win 1050 W$. Woo Hoo!