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[Wily]

Early in a 194-entrant $20 NL MTT. You are sitting in excellent chip position after a nice double up when you hit a set, with about 4500 chips and 3rd position. Blinds are 25/50. On the CO, you are dealt A K Girl from UTG+1 raises to 200. She has about 3500 chips, and seems to be a savvy player. You decide to push it so that no one else calls, and make it 500. She's the only caller.Flop comes A J 3 . She checks, you bet 800 (about 2/3 the pot), and she smooth calls. Turn is 10 . After thinking for a while, she pushes all in. What do you do?

[gobears]

Wily said:

Early in a 194-entrant $20 NL MTT.  You are sitting in excellent chip position after a nice double up when you hit a set, with about 4500 chips and 3rd position.  Blinds are 25/50.  On the CO, you are dealt A  K  Girl from UTG+1 raises to 200.  She has about 3500 chips, and seems to be a savvy player.  You decide to push it so that no one else calls, and make it 500.  She's the only caller.Flop comes A J 3 .  She checks, you bet 800 (about 2/3 the pot), and she smooth calls.  Turn is 10   .  After thinking for a while, she pushes all in.  What do you do?

About 2,700 chips in the pot, it will cost another 2,200 to call her all-in.Can't really put her on KQ or 10 10, but AJ or JJ seem like possibilities. Maybe even AK. It's still early in the tournament, I would fold at this point as you are drawing to 12 outs. You still have 3,200 chips after this hand and would still be in good position.

[Wilderness]

I think you fold. Its quite possible you are folding the best hand (to an AQ) or that she has AK as well, in which case you're freerolling, but its also a very real possibility that she has AJ or JJ and doesn't want you drawing any more. With either one of those hands, you have a good number of outs, but you are not getting the right pot odds and I don't think there is a reason to risk this many chips at this point in the tournament.

[TJ_Eckleburg]

I just can't see her doing this with too many hands you have beaten right now. If she raised with a weaker ace... you need it to be AQ to be ahead. I realize you've got the hearts, but I think folding is the right play. It's too easy for her to have JJ or AJ.