What do you guys think about this hand?

[jasonv12]

I mean there is a reason why I have made 56 PO FT's, and won 15 of them. Dk is totally correct. AQ in a PO fr with 12bbs is never a min raise. It is an open-shove adl.

I don't see anywhere that suggests this is a final table. If it's late in a tournament and she has only 5400 chips or whatever. I'm guess no way in hell is 1st place worth more than 10x a min. cash. Just to add that in there too.

[sickread23]

I don't see anywhere that suggests this is a final table.

It is irr where you are in the mtt tbh. You have A and Q blockers. The worst hands you are getting called with are AK and KK. I mean if someone wakes up with AA/KK/QQ, it is a cooler in today's game. Even vs KK/QQ you have nearly 30% equity. With what is in thee middle relative to your 12bb stack, you are already approaching 50% equity. Folding is horribad/ Min-raising and folding is horribad/ opening and playing a pot post-flop is equally as bad. #ShoveAllDayLong

[jasonv12]

It is irr where you are in the mtt tbh. You have A and Q blockers. The worst hands you are getting called with are AK and KK. I mean if someone wakes up with AA/KK/QQ, it is a cooler in today's game. Even vs KK/QQ you have nearly 30% equity. With what is in thee middle relative to your 12bb stack, you are already approaching 50% equity. Folding is horribad/ Min-raising and folding is horribad/ opening and playing a pot post-flop is equally as bad. #ShoveAllDayLong

Let's say you will only be called by AA, KK, QQ, JJ, 1010, 99, AK, or another AQ, that's 4.8% of hands. Discount blockers, that's approx. 3.84% of hands. If there are 7 people behind you, one of them will have one of these hands approx. 29% of the time. So yes, as far as EV is concerned, it is a positive EV push.

However, there is still way more to factor in than that. And my point is revolving around the money structure, not EV. You can play to win all day, but that may not be the most profitable way to play this.