[sirio11]

My first tourney at the Bellagio was pretty uneventful. I finished 40th (they paid 27, 261 entrants). We started with 4k chips, and I never had more than 11k, this hand ocurred when I had a 11k stack.

Blinds 200-400 with 75 ante. Less than 100 players left at this point.

Player UTG is desperate and go all in with his last 2500.

I have AJ in UTG+1, and I'm pretty sure his range is so large that I have him beat, so, I decided to make the call.

Now, player in LP does not cooperate with my clever plan and go all in for about 5800, and then player in the SB decides this is a good pot to go all in, he has about 3 or 4k.

Back to me, I have to call about 3.3k into the 15 or 16k pot.

After some calculations, I decided to make the call.

Hands:

UTG: K2d
LP: QQ
SB: 87c

So, I had a chance with my A, the flop came 863 all spades, I have the As and nobody has a spade; so suddenly I'm the favorite; but the QQ managed to dodge all the bullets and won the hand.

There were 2 important points in the hand:

What do you think about the first call? You still have 8 people to act !!

What about the 2nd call? The guy who went all in had to have QQ+ , no way he has AK, if he has AK he would've just called.