Early hand in a tournament

Kayos · #1 () 03-08-2008, 10:43 PM

Ok this is only about the 3rd or 4th hand into a $10 tournament.

I am dealt Ah Qh and raise 4x the bb. one guy min raises me and action folds to me. I call

Flop: Ad 3s 7c

I check to him and he pot bets it. I re-raise all in and he calls.

Turn: Ks

River: 2c

Is this a standard play or way too loose for early in a tourney? I will post his hand after a few responses.

Kayos · #2 () 03-09-2008, 10:42 PM

bump

piv · #3 () 03-09-2008, 11:11 PM

seems alright, i guess most of the value comes from the fold equity of the c/r against JJ-KK, depends if donks will play AJ like this? sounds like you ran into AK.

i don't play donkaments so i may be way off.

jharding666 · #4 () 03-10-2008, 01:06 AM

Post stack sizes and blinds. Also, what's the buy in and tourney structure?

piv was that a brain fart? We get value from folding out JJ-KK???!!!!

Kayos · #5 () 03-10-2008, 02:26 AM

everyone is still at about 1500 in chips and blinds are 10/20 i believe.

classickred · #6 () 03-10-2008, 05:46 AM

make a normal size check raise instead of shoving it all in. A shove hugely narrows the range of hands that will call and give you value. You're also risking your whole stack for less than 300 chips(?) Most hands that will call a shove there will have you beat such as AK, which I'm assuming is what villain had.

OrionPro · #7 () 03-10-2008, 10:19 AM

I'd lead out and fold if there's any action. He has to have some guts to come over the top with KK, knowing that you probably have an ace.

Kayos · #8 () 03-10-2008, 04:50 PM

Ok thanks for the replys guys. There is about 650 in the pot after his pot sized bet on the flop. I would be pot commited on any raise I make here wouldnt I? He had pocket 9s

OrionPro · #9 () 03-11-2008, 03:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Kayos

Ok thanks for the replys guys. There is about 650 in the pot after his pot sized bet on the flop. I would be pot commited on any raise I make here wouldnt I? He had pocket 9s

Yeah I don't think you can raise/fold here. Minraise preflop is somewhat rare but it's often AA/KK, sometimes any pp from idiots who think they need to sweeten the pot in case they hit a set or something. I don't expect to see AK here very often. So CRAI is fine.