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Posted Fri May 04, 2007 11:44 am GMT by AHBrownell
Last night I was playing in a 10+2 tourney on FT and made it to the final three tables. I was in 7th place, with 98k in chips, when I picked up JJ in middle/late position. We were 7 handed. Blinds were 2500/5000 with a 250? ante. A relatively solid/tight player who was recently moved to my table, with about 80k raised for 15k in 3rd position. What's the right move here?
I figured with the ~25k in the pot, and the high likelyhood he could be on a steal, it was a good spot to stick it all in and give my opponent a tough decision, where he might fold all steals, AQ-AT, KQ-KJ, and most smaller pairs. I thought that I was probably at least 55%/45% against his range.
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My opponent called with QQ and took most of my chips, leading to me busting out shortly thereafter.
Without being affected by the results, was pushing the optimal play? smaller raise? folding? calling?
Based on the stack sizes, I've considered that calling might have been a safer play - but then it puts me in a terrible spot if someone sqeezes in the blinds.
Thanks. 
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Posted Fri May 04, 2007 12:39 pm GMT by Ensano
you have position, he has 80k in chips and he raised 3xBB... if you were to raise, what would be a decent reraise?... i'd say 12xBB.. but that's 60k... who would call 3/4 of their stack PF and not be pushing on any flop?
also if the villian pushed to our reraise we were calling anyways... so it sounds like to me you have to ask yourself..
"am I going to play all my chips PF or do I want to see at least 3 cards first?"
the only other thought would be the people left to act...
oh... almost forgot... you said he was recently brought to your table... how many hands has he played?... 10?... 50?
Posted Fri May 04, 2007 12:49 pm GMT by AHBrownell
| Quote: | | how many hands has he played?... 10?... 50? |
Well he was moved about 10-15 hands before. And I'd seen him play 1-2 hands.
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