Hi
For a bit of preamble, see this thread...
NLHE: Pre-flop with QQ...
Same tourney as before, same table. 25 players left now (top 9 qualify), and I'm in 20th place with 14000 chips. Average stack is 35000. Blinds are 600/1200 with a 75 ante.
I'd been min-raising pre-flop a fair bit, but with limited success, hence my dwindling stack. Generally, these min-raises had been getting a couple of callers.
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t1200 (8 handed)
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Button (t34013)
SB (t32670)
BB (t27358)
UTG (t41800)
adam74 (t14096)
MP1 (t10811)
MP2 (t121281)
CO (t42637)
Preflop: adam74 is UTG+1 with Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
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1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">adam74 raises to t14021</font>, <font color="#666666">
1 fold</font>, MP2 calls t14021, <font color="#666666">
4 folds</font>.
Flop: (t28567) T[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Turn: (t28567) 3[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
River: (t28567) 8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Final Pot: t28567
Is moving all-in pre-flop with this reasonable, or am I not short-stacked enough yet to be having to make this sort of play, within the context of a 'top 9 qualify' tournament?
If I had min-raised pre-flop, and I'm reraised all-in, I'd be faced with calling my last 11600 chips into a pot of 18800. I think I pass in that spot.
But if I'd made, say, a pot-sized raise, and I'm reraised all-in, I'd be faced with calling my last 9200 chips into a pot of 21200. Is that now a call, given my small stack?
[Those two situations assume that everyone else folds, which I think they probably would.]
The guy that made the call (with QQ) had a lot of chips. He'd been calling a lot pre-flop, only very rarely raising. Had I put in a smaller raise, and he had put me all-in, I'd confidently have put him on a legitimate hand, possibly TT or AQ at worst.
Perhaps I should just not be bothering with AQ in early position...