Good push?

[BlackMamba]

Hello. I was recently playing in a tournament when this hand came up. I had just survivied against 2 all-ins with Q,Q so I feel on top of the world. Level is at $30/$60. Blinds are $15/$30. I have the 3rd largest stack at the table with about $2800. I think that my raises were getting a lot of respect but I guess I was worng with this hand.

I'm dealt K [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]K [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] in MP. 2 people limp, 1 folds, and I raise to $489. With this raise, I hope to knock out people with weak aces as and ace on the board could kill my hand. 2 people fold, 1 person calls, and a short stack moves in for $717. His raise doesn't scare me one bit. Another person folds and 1 person calls. To further try to get out the aces, I go all in for my remaining $2200 or so. Was this a good push?

[Nacarno]

Why raise so much? What hands are gonna call over 10x the BB? Was this based on some past table activity? In any case, since the other person just called and didn't re-raise I'm not too worried about AA (but who knows at the low buy-in tournaments) so I think your push is justified since you don't figure to be a dog to anything but AA and there's a lot of money in the pot. What did the other guy have?

[Jas3774]

Looks good to me.

[Roman]

very standard I think.

[fnurt]

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Hello. I was recently playing in a tournament when this hand came up. I had just survivied against 2 all-ins with Q,Q so I feel on top of the world. Level is at $30/$60. Blinds are $15/$30. I have the 3rd largest stack at the table with about $2800. I think that my raises were getting a lot of respect but I guess I was worng with this hand.

I'm dealt K [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]K [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] in MP. 2 people limp, 1 folds, and I raise to $489. With this raise, I hope to knock out people with weak aces as and ace on the board could kill my hand. 2 people fold, 1 person calls, and a short stack moves in for $717. His raise doesn't scare me one bit. Another person folds and 1 person calls. To further try to get out the aces, I go all in for my remaining $2200 or so. Was this a good push?

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I would have made the initial raise a little bigger, maybe $490 or $491. Your play was OK though.

[Roman]

lol

[BlackMamba]

Here are the results. The other player who has me covered decides to call. He turns over A,Qo and catches and ace on the turn and queen on the riv to knock me out. I feel that I made a good play and just got unlucky. Your opinions?

[fnurt]

I think you made a good play too. You correctly recognized that some people were in there with weaker hands and you made the maximum raise to punish them.

Even if your push had knocked out the other players completely, that's a lot of dead money you just got in the pot. And as you said, there was no reason to fear being heads-up against the all-in player.

I encourage you to keep playing your monster hands like this, rather than getting all cute preflop, because online players can and will call monster raises incorrectly, especially when they've got money in the pot already.

[BlackMamba]

Oops, I forgot to mention. There were 2 other players that went all-in that hand. They had A,8o and K,Qo.