just gone out in a tourny, 52 out of 1000 - happy with the result, but I had about 55,000 in chips the chip leader was well over 100,000. I went all in preflop with AJ and got called off the button for about the same amount of chips with QQ is this a good play pre-flop?? or should I play this hand differently? I always seem to end up going out of tournys via a flip of the coin going to the races hand and its frustrating or is that just poker.

Originally Posted by Hangus

just gone out in a tourny, 52 out of 1000 - happy with the result, but I had about 55,000 in chips the chip leader was well over 100,000. I went all in preflop with AJ and got called off the button for about the same amount of chips with QQ is this a good play pre-flop?? or should I play this hand differently? I always seem to end up going out of tournys via a flip of the coin going to the races hand and its frustrating or is that just poker.

What were the blinds at?

im not too sure 4,000 ish i think

You probably could have raised it to 16K and still been able to fold to a shove preflop. I think overall it really wasn't that bad of a play though. We have all done it. Just bad timing, I think.

what was your position ?

Originally Posted by B2BAces

IMO raise-folding 4BB with only 13BB is bad . You have two options -

1) If the blinds/button/cutoff/whatever is ahead of you is loose shoving is best

2) If the table is tight min-raise and fold to a shove (Or call someone who's re-stealing light )

You're probably right. I don't think I would have been able to fold had I raised it to 16K and got a shove. I would have probably min-raised my self and folded to a shove.

B2B has a point though, we really can't be sure without knowing the type of players you were at the table with.