$10+$1 Party SnG - 1st hand

[JayKon]

FIrst hand, anyone play this different?

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t15 (10 handed) converter

saw flop|<font color="#C00000">saw showdown</font>

CO (t800)
Button (t800)
SB (t800)
BB (t800)
UTG (t800)
<font color="#C00000">UTG+1 (t800)</font>
UTG+2 (t800)
<font color="#C00000">Hero (t800)</font>
MP2 (t800)
<font color="#C00000">MP3 (t800)</font>

Preflop: Hero is MP1 with Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>,
<font color="#CC3333">UTG+1 raises to t70</font>,
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>,
<font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t200</font>,
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>,
<font color="#CC3333">MP3 raises to t500</font>,
<font color="#666666">4 folds</font>,
<font color="#CC3333">UTG+1 raises to t800</font>,
Hero calls [t600],
MP3 calls [t300].

Pot t2425

[Freudian]

Nope. You probably lose often but not often enough to make folding an option.

If it was at a higher limit I think you can safely fold though. And if I am MP3 you should definately fold because there are realistically only two hands I can have there.

[lastchance]

MP3 only has t300. He has to call. I don't think you can fold this either. Higher buy-in, and I'm really thinking about this.

[AndrewB]

I like your re-raise, but after the rest of the action I think it's a pretty easy laydown. The only hands I call with there are KK and AA.

[lastchance]

Clearly, you don't play at the $11's.

[microbet]

A lot more data than I have would be useful here, but as it is I would call in a $22 and below and fold in a $33 and above.

Knowing the villians could change this of course.

[handsome]

omfg QQ 3-way all-in on the first hand of a 10+1? SWEEEEEEET

[Pokerprowannabe]

I can't tell you how many times I have busted out with QQ from some idiot pushing Ax who gets lucky. In fact, just yesterday I busted the first hand with a 3 way all in on the FIRST hand with QQ. You guessed it, QQ, KK, AA.

Kings hit a set and tripled up eventually going on to win it all. Must be nice to triple up on the first hand.

[DJ Sensei]

MP3 has left himself only 300 chips, he's not folding. It definitely looks he's trying to get more action on a good hand, and given previous raise and reraise, its gotta be AA or KK, unless he's a total fish.

Sure the pot is big, but theres very little chance that you're ahead here, and you're probably up against an overpair (or two, not that the second one matters much). Without a read that the villains are fish, i'm folding. I havent played the party 10+1's in a while though, so who knows. I am curious as to how it turned out.

(on a side note, this is the kind of hand that pokerprophecy might be very worthwhile for)

[2callzU]

I wouldn't have reraised intitially with queens. Kings or Aces definately, but not queens. Had you not reraised you would have been able to see a flop for cheaper (probably 2x the initial raisers' bet) and at least if a scare card A or K came up, folding would have been much easier. Although there is the possibilty that rags would flop in which case you'd be dead but might as well try and save what you can. Afterall, it was the first hand. My thoughts. Peace.