KK Dilema

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I am on a 30+3 30k gauranteed tournament on Pacific Poker. Slightly above average at about 1260 in chips. Blinds are 10/20 with no real reads on the players. Sitting UTG with KK, I miniraise to 40. UTG+1 reraises to 60. 3 Callers behind him. I reraiese to 200 and everyone calls. Down comes 358 all hearts with a pot of 800. I don't have a heart. I decide to go for it and go all in for 1060. Everyone calls. I lose to final caller who had 88 and landed a set. Did I do the right thing? Should I have raised more?

[yoadrians]

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I am on a 30+3 30k gauranteed tournament on Pacific Poker. Slightly above average at about 1260 in chips. Blinds are 10/20 with no real reads on the players. Sitting UTG with KK, I miniraise to 40. UTG+1 reraises to 60. 3 Callers behind him. I reraiese to 200 and everyone calls. Down comes 358 all hearts with a pot of 800. I don't have a heart. I decide to go for it and go all in for 1060. Everyone calls. I lose to final caller who had 88 and landed a set. Did I do the right thing? Should I have raised more?

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I don't like the miniraise, for starters. You are giving other playable hands decent odds to see a flop, and for as strong of a starting hand as KK is, you don't want to see a flop with KK with 5 or 6 other people, IMHO.

I would've started with a raise of 60 to 80 (3X or 4X the BB). After the re-raise, I would've pushed right there. From your description of the table, you might have gotten a few people to come along for the ride, anyway. But at least you save yourself the decision-making process of an ugly, 3-heart flop.