Take a stand with KJs?

[rtrombone]

NLHE $50 buy-in tournament, live. Blinds are $100 and $200 and they've just added a $25 ante. I'm relatively short stacked with $900. I've been in very few hands, having been dealt almost nothing worth playing.

I'm UTG with K /forums/images/icons/diamond.gif J /forums/images/icons/diamond.gif . With the antes and blinds, the pot is $550. In two hands my stack will be down to $550 (assuming I don't bust out or double up).

Do you move in here as a steal attempt from UTG? Results to come.

[rtrombone]

I moved in and was called by a guy holding pocket jacks. The case jack flopped and I was gone.

[Rickfish]

In principle, no I wouldn't because this does not figure to be the best hand out. At some point in the next few hands I will probably get a hand that is more likely to be the best hand out. Maybe on the BB it will be passed out or only SB will limp and you win with a bet.

However, sometimes impatience makes me do the same thing.

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

The blinds are going to take 40% of your stack, and this may be the best you'll see in the next orbit, so I'd go for it. You could get called by a medium ace, so even though you're behind, you're suited and odds are both your cards will be live.

[Al_Capone_Junior]

I don't think it's a bad choice if you moved all-in on this one. I'm not saying it's ideal, but when desperate.... The thing is, if you get called, it will usually be by a better hand, which is something to consider. If your stack were smaller, say 600, I'd say do it without hesitation.

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[Wardfish]

I would probably have made a move sooner than this.

Did you not get a chance to steal on the previous one or two orbits?

I would have made my move then, with just about anything when first into the pot in late position.

[fnurt]

I would definitely raise all-in here. With only 4.5x the BB and antes to pay as well, you don't have time to wait till the next orbit. If you pay the blinds and then get a better hand and double up during the next orbit, you're still not much better off, if at all, than you are right now.

I'd rather take a 40-60 chance right now than blind away half my money waiting for a 60-40 chance just so I can say I went out as the favorite. Also you have some chance of winning the pot uncontested now, whereas after paying the blinds your chances of stealing will be virtually nil.

[bigfishead]

I usually dont. Yesterday in an online tourn I was in the same boat. I hate this hand and really really hate this position. I muck it and wait. I was fortunate to pick-up AK the very next hand in the BB and double-up, then the very next hand got QQ and doubled again!

This lead me to final table and 3rd place. BTW when we got to the final I was ever so slightly the chip leader. This from 1100 in chips at 300-600 blinds.

[Guy McSucker]

I often go for it in this situation, and of course usually lose if called.

However, a lot of times you will not be called. Here someone had JJ and called you; fine. But this gives me the impression that had there been no big pair out, you would not have been called, and of course if someone had called on a different holding you might well have won when that J flopped.

Guy.