But with the fact that shoving is better than calling, we don"t we put the BB in that same frame of mind, with also the added information he has in the we only raised and not shoved ourselves - making his range more open to perhaps the norm in this situ.
Despite alot better players arguing against, I"m still calling as I"m still not convinced
So lets assume he has a reasonably realistic range of 88+,AJs+,AQo+ - our AKo has just under 50% equity in this spot, and given that he is the only player at the table that can bust us, we are calling for a flip for our tourney.
If this was a normal MTT, then I would agree that it could arguably be a good call - but that"s cos we would be playing for the win, and trying to gather all the chips in play. In this spot though, we don"t need to gather all the chips - in fact we are only a short way from owning half the chips in play which would be the average stack when the seats are awarded.
I really don"t understand why people think taking a completely unnecessary flip against the only player that can hurt us at this stage in a satellite would be logical play when we have such a big stack.