How bad is this?
 

10+1, I think this play was pretty terrible...what could I have done differently...

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t50 (9 handed) converter

MP2 (t840)
MP3 (t785)
CO (t625)
Hero (t675)
SB Villan (t810)
BB (t950)
UTG (t1795)
UTG+1 (t730)
MP1 (t790)

Preflop: Hero is Button with Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">6 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t150</font>, <font color="#CC3333">SB Villan raises to t325</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Hero calls t175.

Any comments are welcome...I'll post the rest of the hand if anyone is interested...

Peace~

Re: How bad is this?
 

Bad play, you are putting 25% of your stack on a semi-steal. I say if you are going to steal this, you are close enough to 10 BB to push it, calling isn't horrible, because you can dump to any sort of agression, i would be inclined to fold it, looking for a move soon.

Maybe that's weak-tight on my part though. I hate the 25-50 level.

Re: How bad is this?
 

I would fold to the raise. You're basically committing yourself after you call. He's either got you dominated (AK, AQ, AA, KK, QQ) or in a race situation where you'll probably only get to see the flop. Either limp/fold or just push it. I hate just calling for 1/2 of your stack.

What wound up happening?

Re: How bad is this?
 

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t50 (9 handed) converter

MP2 (t840)
MP3 (t785)
CO (t625)
Hero (t675)
SB :#A500AF(Villan)/ (t810)
BB (t950)
UTG (t1795)
UTG+1 (t730)
MP1 (t790)

Preflop: Hero is Button with Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">6 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t150</font>, <font color="#CC3333">SB :#A500AF(Villan)/ raises to t325</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Hero calls t175.

Flop: (t700) K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 6[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Villan bets t300</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t350 (All-In)</font>, Villan calls t50.

Turn: (t1400) 8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>

River: (t1400) T[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>

Final Pot: t1400
Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF">
Villan has Jh Ac (one pair, eights).
Hero has Qs Kc (two pair, kings and eights).
Outcome: Hero wins t1400. </font>

Man I suck...I dont really know exactly what was going through my head. I figured I couldn't fold for just another 175 chips in a pot of 525, that just seemed too weak to me. Is pushing over the top pre flop even an option here? I really have no idea how to play this...I dont really like the idea of pushing Pre flop with 13 BB's. Any other input...?

Re: How bad is this?
 

SB's half stack re-raise is terrible unless he has a monster. Unless you have a read that he has no idea what he is doing you have to let it go while you still have a workable stack.

Re: How bad is this?
 

If it makes you feel any better...I think the SB played the hand worse than you did.

Re: How bad is this?
 

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Man I suck...I dont really know exactly what was going through my head. I figured I couldn't fold for just another 175 chips in a pot of 525, that just seemed too weak to me. Is pushing over the top pre flop even an option here? I really have no idea how to play this...I dont really like the idea of pushing Pre flop with 13 BB's. Any other input...?

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I think both of you botched this hand pretty good. I don't get why he didn't just push if he was going to raise that much. Whatever...

Even though you're getting 3-1 on your call, I still don't like it as it risks so much of your stack. You gotta consider that it's still pretty early on and you don't want to risk your tourney life on a possible pair on the flop that might not even be good. For instance, what do you do if a K/Q comes PLUS an A. It leaves you in a wierd spot. That's why I like the limp/fold line. Just my thoughts.

Re: How bad is this?
 

Thanks, I see your point. So do you not advocate blind stealing in level 3 then?

Re: How bad is this?
 

Limping here is terrible IMO. You have to take a shot at the blinds. The only question is do you push or make a normal raise. If you push you don't have to make any more decisions and will get a few more folds. But you've risked your whole stack to pickup 75 chips. You've increased your stack from 675 to 750 an increase of roughly 11%. I think a push here is okay but I would make a normal 3BB raise and play from there. As a general guideline I push in these situations if the blinds are &gt;15% of my stack.

Re: How bad is this?
 

I think a raise here is fine. It's not stealing the blinds, you have a genuinely big chance of having the best hand right now. What if you limp and the flop is Q27 and he reraises you? I'm raising this 99% of the time.

And to the OP, I'm folding to that reraise, you have a 1/3 chance of continuing with the hand after the flop, and you're going to be in pretty bad shape when you have to pass 2/3 of the time.... Then the 1/3 times, you could easily be behind anyway.