JJ in the BB with a 4x raise

**andyjames28** · 02-14-2006

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t50 (9 handed) converter

SB (t2795)
Hero (t2915)
UTG (t1100)
UTG+1 (t5505)
MP1 (t1775)
MP2 (t1435)
MP3 (t1675)
CO (t2910)
Button (t2200)

Preflop: Hero is BB with

,

.
2 folds, MP1 raises to t200, 5 folds, Hero raises to t1000, MP1 calls t800.

Flop: (t2025)

,

(2 players)
Hero bets t775, MP1 calls t775 (All-In).

Turn: (t3575)

(2 players, 1 all-in)

River: (t3575)

(2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: t3575

MP1 had

my question is was I wrong to have re-raised his preflop raise even though i won. And then after that was he wrong to have called me? I don't know why but something about this hand has been annoying me!

Thanks for any help
AJ

**se7en** · 02-14-2006

By the looks of it, he seemed to feel pot comitted with over half his stack in and either not willing to let it go and suck it up or hoping to catch cards. I'd probably have put you on a PP based on the betting and got out hoping to see some better luck with my remaining 750 chips.

JJ is the kind of hand you want to play against as few people as possible, and it appears that 5 folded before you, putting you HU with the guy. I would have just called him, but maybe I'm wrong. Any AQK on the flop would have pushed me out if he bet post flop, and in this hand, I'd have folded a winning hand. Might not be a bad thing that you were commited.

**Trons** · 02-14-2006

I Think a lot of this is read dependant. If I was him, I would have either folded to your reraise PF or been AI. Post flop, I know I'm folding to your bet. There isn't a whole lot of hands that he has beat at that time that you would have bet in the way you did...

For you, I probably would have called PF to see what the flop brought. As se7en said, any A, K, or Q on the flop and I'm gone so I want to see it as cheap as possible while. With JJ, I am more afraid of building a big pot PF that I may have to call with a scare card on the flop because of pot odds. An example would be with this PF play and a pot of 2k, if an Q came on the flop, you checked and he bet 400 (5:1 odds), I would feel obligated to call because there is always the chance he's either bluffing or on a draw, or betting for information or yada yada yada. With a smaller pot on the flop, it's easier to get away from the hand if one of those scare cards fall...

With this flop, I think your push is fine because at this point, any hand that has you beat would have probably pushed PF.

**andyjames28** · 02-14-2006

thanks for that fellas.
Looking back over it there doesn't seem to be anything all that unusual about the hand its just whilst playing it I was thinking it was very poor play on both our parts. Maybe i was just being over critical :S lol

Thanks guys
AJ

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