small pairs short handed

[novus]

I was heavily criticized for this play by all three people at the table, so I'll take another opinion here.

We are at a 15+1 SNG at poker starrs, we are in something like level 5, 50, 100 blinds. Five people are left and the chip leader is sitting out. I have approximately 3500 chips . I am raised in the BB by the utg player who has 500 chips, everyone else has folded.

People have routinely been stealing blinds with any A and any two face cards. I have pocket threes so I call. The board was TT5. The raiser bets as expected and I reraise, putting him all in. He had JJ and I sucked out the boat, but I make this play every time. At this stage and that flop, I am in good shape, only losing to a big pair, a lucky catch or another 5.

So the question is, should I have reraised him preflop, which would not have put him all in. As far as post flop, is reraising the right play. Calling is pointless, and I really don't see folding as the right play either.

[durron597]

If he only has 500 chips and 50/100 blinds you should have no problem getting allin with him and pocket 33 in the BB.

correct me if im wrong but i think this is almost always a auto call. your in the bb only going to cost you a little more to call. only thing im concerned with ( would have to have been playing with the playert) is that 500 chips with the blinds that big should be a auto all in. the fact that he raised small shows he didnt mind action. hmmm any thoughts??

[novus]

I forgot to mention it was a limit tourney. The big question here is do you reraise or just call and look at the board before deciding what to do.

wuth the blinds as high as they are i dont know if it matters, hes going to bet at the flop no matter what comes out becuase: A: amount of chips he has in pot and how much he have if he folded (nothing) And B) he cant check and let you see a free card. not a very scary board if he didnt have a pair your good. i think he plays AK, AQ, AJ, KQ the same way so i think you still did a good move. nice job getting lucky on the suckout too [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

dont worry about what other people says, anytime you raise even off a dry pot you are increasing your chances of winning the hand