Party $100+9 Hand

[sergsz]

Early in the tourney, so no reads yet... At lower buy-ins or at higher blind level, this would be an easy push. Here, this seems like a tough decision:

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t15 (10 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

Hero (t1000)
UTG+2 (t1000)
MP1 (t1040)
MP2 (t945)
MP3 (t975)
CO (t1135)
Button (t950)
SB (t970)
BB (t1000)
UTG (t985)

Preflop: Hero is UTG+1 with Q/images/graemlins/spade.gif, Q/images/graemlins/heart.gif.
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t50</font>, <font color="#666666">4 folds</font>, CO calls t50, Button calls t50, SB calls t40, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>.

Flop: (t215) 7/images/graemlins/spade.gif, 4/images/graemlins/club.gif, T/images/graemlins/club.gif <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
SB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t150</font>, <font color="#CC3333">CO raises to t300</font>, Button folds, SB folds, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t950 (All-In)</font>, CO calls t650.

Turn: (t2115) 6/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>

River: (t2115) 9/images/graemlins/club.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>

Final Pot: t2115

Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF">
Hero has Qs Qh (one pair, queens).
CO has 4h 4d (three of a kind, fours).
Outcome: CO wins t2115. </font> <font color="white"> </font>

[Apathy]

who was the villian, some people get my money here, some don't.

[lutefisk]

I find myself saying this a lot, so someone feel free to come back at me if you disagree. I think you need to raise more PF at these lower levels. I like 3x later on, but it doesn't narrow the field like you want/need to do with a hand like QQ. Take it to 100 pf. You can then confidently make a 200 or 300 chip bet or so on that flop. If someone comes back at you, you then have to make a decision based on what else you've seen them play. This said, the larger pf bet makes it far less likely that someone will have the set against you in this spot. Here I'd only be worried about TT, KK or AA, and would probably call an all in if it came. Many times though, after a big play pf, and a board like this, your flop bet will take the pot right there.

[TheCat]

I'm with you all the way. You have to narrow the field with hands like QQ and AK, ideally to one caller and a 3x raise at the 10/15 level just won't work. If you get zero callers at least you've won the blinds and not lost 1/2 your stack.
Even AA you don't want more than two callers.

[Gramps]

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Unless you know this player doesn't "make plays" at people, then go to war. Just because you were behind on this particular occassion doesn't make it the wrong play. There's a lot of reckless crazies at all levels of buy-ins on PP. People go to war (either with the mini-raise and call of your push or straight push over your bet) with their TP or flush draw all the time here.