What do you do here?

[Olback]

$22

What do you do in a situation like this?

Sandg4me was playing tight and his reraise screamed a big hand. Was i correct to just call and try to hit a set here?
Or should i folded?

I had not been playing many hands and got my chips on the back of big hands.

#Game No : 2754332202
***** Hand History for Game 2754332202 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $20 Buy-in + $2 Entry Fee Trny:15958424 Level:4 Blinds(50/100) - Thursday, September 22, 01:43:16 EDT 2005
Table Table 13863 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: Olback1 ( $2590 )
Seat 3: zadig ( $965 )
Seat 4: sandg4me ( $2435 )
Seat 7: ricorooster1 ( $515 )
Seat 9: J2_baby ( $865 )
Seat 10: abutameem ( $630 )
Trny:15958424 Level:4
Blinds(50/100)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Olback1 [ 8c 8h ]
J2_baby folds.
>You have options at Table 14944 Table!.
>You have options at Table 14944 Table!.
>You have options at Table 14944 Table!.
>You have options at Table 14944 Table!.
>You have options at Table 14951 Table!.
abutameem did not respond in time.
abutameem folds.
Olback1 raises [300].
zadig folds.
>You have options at Table 14944 Table!.
sandg4me raises [550].
ricorooster1 folds.
>You have options at Table 14944 Table!.
Olback1 calls [300].
>You have options at Table 14944 Table!.
** Dealing Flop ** [ Qh, Qc, 4s ]
>You have options at Table 14005 Table!.
sandg4me bets [800].
>You have options at Table 14944 Table!.
Olback1 folds.
sandg4me does not show cards.
sandg4me wins 2100 chips
Game #2754340550 starts.

Hi Olly,

If it's any consolation I would have played this hand in the same way as you. But I'm feeling similar to how you felt about it. Not too sure but I think either way it's pretty close. If you do manage to hit a set and he does have a high pair and you stack him you've basically won the tournament and your stack is fairly healthy here. So yeah, close decision, but I would play here the same as you.

[lorinda]

Another one that seems entirely fine to me.

So fine that I can't even think of a useful comment. Sorry.

Lori

[Olback]

So you think his mini raise screams weakness?

That was my thought process as well an 8 = me take his entire stack

[lorinda]

My experience is that these mini raises are dangerous unless they come from the BB. I haven't played many 22s though, but have played more 11s than almost anyone and lots of 33s.

Lori

[45suited]

nh. lori's right about the mini-reraise. it sure doesn't scream weakness to me, and i'm not going to pay to find out. i would have played it exactly the same way that you did. no point getting into a pissing match with the other bigstack here.

[Olback]

That was my theory as well. Just wish i had hit the 8 lol [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]