Re: Help w/ Tournament Play: Jacks

On Aug 31 2005 12:23 PM, bivy wrote:

> Beginning of a small Full Tilt tournament (~340/376 players left.) Second
blind
> level, most people are still at ~38xBB.
>
> I'm dealt JJ on the button.
> Two limpers (UTG and MP1)
>
> I raise it 3xBB to 120
> ~ I normally mix my raises up between 2.5-5xBB
> ~ Should I have raised more here?
>
> ---
>
> UTG calls
> MP1 min-raises to 200

EP and MP limpers that reraise preflop almost always have a huge hand.
But you are getting odds to call and hit a set.

> I call
> UTG Calls
> ~ Thoughts?
>
> ---
>
> Flop: Q 4 Q (rainbow)
>
> UTG checks
> MP1 bets ~660 (bets the pot)
> I push (~600 more)

Unless this guy is a maniac, I am not sure which hands you can beat here.
Could he do this with AK or 10-10 (which I think are the only hands he
could reraise preflop with and that you can beat post-flop)? Really, it's
hard to think of a hand you have beat when you look at this bet coupled
with the preflop reraise.

> UTG folds
> MP1 calls (has me covered)
> ~ Thoughts? Rip into me.
>
> ---
>
> I think I still get too excited by pocket paint. I think I had two places I
> could have improved my play here. I could have shown more strength pre-flop
> with a larger raise or a re-raise. Second, I should have been willing to let
> the hand go to the pot size bet on the Q4Q flop; with no read on the MP1
player
> - I should give him credit for a hand, at least until I see more of his
play.
> But those are my thoughts -- I seek the wisdome of RGP ;)
>
> MP1 had AA.
>
> -bivy

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