I posted this in general discussion and was advised to post it here:

Ok, this hand has made me get registered here and ask all of you how to play it.

It has knocked me out of late stages of both a MTT and a STT tournament in one day. The hand is JJ.

I will start with the 40$ STT 9 seat I was playing online. We were down to 6 players, Blinds at 100/200$ and I was at about 3,000 chips and chip leader was at 3,500 chips, the rest of the table was struggling with almost everyone at around 1,000 chips. I had been pretty aggressive all game long and was working well for me. The chip leader was the kind of guy who will call big raises with a K9off even early in the tournament and had been getting lucky.

So anyways, during one hand, with blinds at 100/200 he was first to act and raised the bet to 400 and I had pocket jacks so I re-raised him to 600 i believe. Rest of the table folded, he re-raised me all in before the flop and I called. Of course he had pocket kings and I got busted. Similar thing happened in a MTT where I had pocket jacks, got re-raised and had to go all-in and the other guy was holding AQs and sucked me out on the river with an Ace.

My question is, How do you play pocket jacks or pocket queens when so many time if some other player has a decent hand like AK or AQ they call you all in because they dont know any other way to play it. I find it very hard to fold big pairs against players I know are kinda loose and I know every time they have a decent or even a big pair they just want to go all-in pre-flop. I don't mind going pre-flop all-in with AA because it's hardly against someone who has 89s that could hurt you with getting a straight and usually against another two face cards or something. But with KK, QQ, JJ, should I fold to a re-re-raise everytime because the other player is hell bent on going all-in?

Please advise.

I was also told re-raising the 400 bet to 600 was terrible, anyone know why?

I make decent amount of money online but would surely like some pointers to improve my game. I am kinda bad at figuring out how much to re-raise or bet even.

The less chips you have, the wider your range for getting all-in before the flop is.