Was this even close?

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PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t30 (9 handed) converter

MP3 (t860)
Hero (t1435)
Button (t1775)
SB (t1130)
BB (t2155)
UTG (t1285)
UTG+1 (t1450)
MP1 (t2105)
MP2 (t1305)

Preflop: Hero is CO with 9[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">5 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t90</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">SB raises to t210</font>, BB calls t180, Hero calls t120.

Flop: (t630) 7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">SB bets t920 (All-In)</font>, BB folds, Hero folds.

Final Pot: t1550

Was going to muck preflop, but when BB called, i had good position and not too expensive.

I couldn't think of many hands he plays this way that has me beat,

am i thinking too much about this? I really wanted to call him.

Any thoughts?

[runout_mick]

If I'm villain and catch my set of 10s, I play EXACTLY this way. I'm pretty darn sure you'd have wished you had folded if you did call this.

[beetyjoose]

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Was going to muck preflop, but when BB called, i had good position and not too expensive.I couldn't think of many hands he plays this way that has me beat

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I couldn't think of many hands he could have that doesn't have you beat.

I really don't understand what you are doing here.

Why are you raising preflop with this junky hand this early in a torney? Why even call the BB in this situation.

Then you call a reraise with this hand too? You're obviously behind. Just fold.

If you play like this, you're going to slowly lose all your chips and be forced to push with a marginal hand, early in the torney.

[billyjex]

fold preflop.

raising is ok though, if you feel the button will fold and you can outplay the blinds (you do have position.)

however, this is a TURBO muck to the SB's reraise. you are asking for some serious trouble by calling his reraise, no matter how tempting the odds are (and they are not that tempting.)

[nyc999]

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I couldn't think of many hands he plays this way that has me beat

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If I had top-pair or an overpair I would play it just like the SB to force the straight and flush draws to fold.

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Was going to muck preflop, but when BB called, i had good position and not too expensive.I couldn't think of many hands he plays this way that has me beat

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I couldn't think of many hands he could have that doesn't have you beat.

I really don't understand what you are doing here.

Why are you raising preflop with this junky hand this early in a torney? Why even call the BB in this situation.

Then you call a reraise with this hand too? You're obviously behind. Just fold.

If you play like this, you're going to slowly lose all your chips and be forced to push with a marginal hand, early in the torney.

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Folded to me in the cutoff? i'll try and take the blinds with J9 every time. And like i said i was going to fold to his raise, but when BB came along too i had good position for a cheap price, and i ended up getting a half-way decent flop.

And i didnt think an overpair because it doestn seem like the best way to get paid off.. though i guess since i was considering calling with my 2nd pair/gutshot... mayeb it is.

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fold preflop.

raising is ok though, if you feel the button will fold and you can outplay the blinds (you do have position.)

however, this is a TURBO muck to the SB's reraise. you are asking for some serious trouble by calling his reraise, no matter how tempting the odds are (and they are not that tempting.)

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Sounds good to me, i gotta learn to ditch my blind steals.

SB has TT. I like the preflop raise but not calling the reraise. It might technically be worth calling with JTo or T9o but not J9o...even then I probably fold and save my chips for a better option.