DECISION POINT: In a Tournament, the Hijack raises, and the Button calls. It folds to you in the Big Blind with A♠T♦. Action is on you, what do you do here?

PRO ANSWER: You hold AT in the Big Blind after a raise from the Hijack and a call on the Button, what do you do?

After the Hijack raises and the Button calls, action is on us in the Big Blind with AT. With just over 15 big blinds in our stack, we have an excellent stack size for a reshove. Stack sizes between 10 and 20 big blinds allow us to reshove preflop very effectively, since we have enough chips to create fold equity but not so many chips that we are giving ourselves a poor risk to reward ratio.

In this hand, we are risking about 6000 chips to win just over 3000 chips, so we can potentially increase our stack size by 50% without a showdown. This is an excellent risk to reward ratio for us.

In addition, our hand has value against a Hijack open and a Button call. Had the initial raise come from early position, the best play would have been to fold, due to the more narrow hand range of an early position raiser.

However, against a Hijack raise and a Button call, we should move all-in. We can win this pot uncontested a fair portion of the time and still have reasonable equity when we our all-in is called.

These type of moves are essential to accumulating chips in tournament poker.

Moving all-in is the best play.

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