Re: first hour of a tourney -- how many hands
 

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Without a very specific read I am always getting my chips in the middle w/ JJ in your situation.

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Ditto. If this is a lower level tourney, then I figure the range here runs the gauntlet from 22-AA, plus AK/AQ, maybe even AJ and KQ. If it's higher level, the range is narrower but I'd be tilted away from it being AA/KK, because they - especially AA - would prefer to get a caller and risk a flop to double up; taking down the blinds with AA (lesser extent KK) is a tragedy when you're that short stacked, I think.

Of course, depending on how they see the table, they might push AA/KK/QQ to make it *look* like they want to avoid a call. But without a read that way, I'd want to call.