JJ ?

[Mangatang]

Middle stages of large online tourney. There are 170 remaining of the 411 entrants. I have a stack of $2200 and the blinds are $50/100.

Early Position comes in with a preflop raise to $350. He is table chip leader with about $3,500, and has been pretty aggressive but not over the top. I am to his immediate left, and have JJ.

What's my play here?

I raise to $1,000 only EP raiser calls. The flop comes K26 rainbow. He checks, I move all-in, he calls with AK.

How should I have played the flop differently? Should I have just checked, then folded to his turn bet? Or should I have made a small bet on the flop, then folded if he bet out the turn? Or was I pot committed after my large preflop raise?

[tiger7210]

I think you either flat call the raise preflop and play position or other option if you decide to play the hand is push.

JJ are extremely hard to play against an EP raise unless you know the raiser to be loose. The 1000 chip reraise did commit you to the hand so you're better off pushing preflop. The way you played it though, you were definiely right to push there with only 1 overcard on board.

Folding here preflop isn't horrible if you've only seen him show down good hands. I know some will say that's weak/tight but this early in the tourny its not a horrible play.

[dmk]

The one play I hate here is committing half your stack preflop. Calling, folding, and pushing are all viable options, but the line you took is awful. Calling is the best option IMO. You have position, see a flop and take it from there. After making the call I'd fold to the flop bet (given the flop you indicated).