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Old 02-20-2008, 06:37 PM
Marty_73 Marty_73 is offline
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Default MTT - QQ v's re-raise

Early in the tournament, blinds are 25/50. 8 people at my table.

I'm UTG with QQ. 1600 chips. I raise to 200.
MP1, 3000 chips, re-raises to 600.
MP2 folds
MP3, 450 chips, all-in
CO, 350 chips, all-in
Button folds
SB folds
BB folds

What would most people do in this situation?. I thought MP1's most likely holdings were A,K or KK or AA. The way he was acting screamed big hand. His play is what you describe as TAG I think, he waits for good hands and plays them aggressively. But I couldn't throw away QQ when I'm getting 4 to 1 odds to call. I figured there was no way he would fold if I went all-in, so I decided to just call and take a look at the flop. My thoughts were that if an ace or king came on the flop, I would check-fold, but otherwise I would push the hand and pray it was A,K he was holding.

As it turned out, I flopped quads, check-called (all-in) and he turned over pocket aces.

I'm not sure how I would have played it if there wasn't an additional 800 chips from the short stacks in the pot. QQ seems like a marginal hand against a re-raise, at least at this stage of a tournament when the blinds are low. TBH I'm not confident when it comes to re-raise situations. I haven't been in these situations often enough to be comfortable (only 3 months playing poker).

Any advice or comments welcome.
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