UTG- what to do

[yabastid]

4 questions-
1) Is my raise too much UTG?
2) Should I have folded to his reraise or seen the flop?
3) Would you bet the turn?
4) Anyone lead into the river?

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t150 (9 handed) converter

CO (t1710)
Button (t4700)
SB (t2405)
BB (t11047)
Hero (t1845)
UTG+1 (t1605)
MP1 (t2370)
MP2 (t2503)
MP3 (t10000)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
<font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t450</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">MP1 raises to t900</font>, <font color="#666666">6 folds</font>, Hero calls t450.

Flop: (t2025) A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Hero checks, MP1 checks.

Turn: (t2025) 8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Hero checks, MP1 checks.

River: (t2025) 3[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>

[DireWolf]

I dont like raising here utg. If the table was passive, you could try limping, otherwise i ditch it preflop. If you were going to raise, 3x is fine. Now your min-raised. You are getting goods odds to call, the problem is your putting half your stack in with a very marginal hand. I would fold to the reraise, there are too many re-rasing hands that dominate you.

[yabastid]

Hey, Dire-
Thanks for replying. Yeah, I thought the table was very passive and very weak. Not a lot of raises called. Being as though the blinds were next I thought I might be able to play them for free. Given the way the table had been going I expected maybe a call, there had been very very few reraises and I took the min reraise as more weakness (even Axs the way the table had been going).

Take Care,

yabastid

[schwza]

i like to raise to t400 at the t150 level. i think most good players advocate something under 3x.

i'd fold pre-flop. i'd rather steal a worse hand in position. then i'd fold to the reraise. it's very rare that i'd fold getting such good odds, but i don't see you winning this pot if you don't flop a pair or flush draw, and you'll often lose the rest of your stack when you do.

then i check-fold the whole way. your stack is too small to push villain off a hand like QQ, imo, and if i were him, i would be checking an Ax hand to induce a bluff (not sure if i would check the turn). check and hope that you somehow have the best hand.

[yabastid]

schwza,
thanks for the reply. It that under 3x raise for the UTG position or any position? And is that based on the BB being 150? Could you point me in a direction for learning what a raise at a given blind level should be?

Thanks much,

yabastid

[schwza]

i can tell you how i raise...

10/15 - 10/20 - 4x bb
15/30 - 100
25/50 - 150
50/100 - 270
roughly 2.7x from there on out regardless of position. with 1 limper in, always at least 4x, often more like 4.5x, and somewhat more with more limpers in.

hopefully others will weigh in as well.

[yabastid]

schwza,
That's great to have, man, thanks. Makes things a little more concrete. I tend to be a bit erratic in my betting [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]. I'm going to try this and would also like to here how others bet given blind levels.

Take care,

yabastid