QQ late in the tourney

[Glintir]

First off, thanks for the information. This wasn't a joke, and heads up vs any one player I wouldn't hesitate. I just wasn't sure if this was one of those situations where two callers made it a bad idea.

Also, since someone suggested a new hobby. I'll mention I've only been playing for about 6 months, so for a complete newb, I'm doing well. I just find situations I'm not sure about.

In any case, I pushed. Blinds folded. The other two called.

Imagine my delight when they BOTH turned over AK unsuited. Unfortunately, an Ace hit on the turn and they split my stack.

[Glintir]

That half stack call baffled me utterly. But I see people on Pokerroom doing things like that all the time. I've seen people limp into a pot with a blind of t200 with a t300 stack from middle position. If you're that committed, just push it in.

I've also seen people just refuse to raise the extra t20 to put some guy all in who left himself a tiny amount of chips after his bet.

[KKsuited]

SossMan - I have to really disagree with your making a joke of me laying down QQ. In this situation, I wouldn't lay down QQ, but there are others where I would.

ATs a good laydown? In this situation yes, but I hope in others this hand is not one you find tough to laydown.

I'd say we're just talking about different situations.

Midway through a tournament, if I raise, get reraised, and a 3rd guy reraises all in, I would consider laying down QQ. One of the biggest tournaments I've ever won, I layed down QQ to KK and AK. I would have been done.

[davidross]

It's a tough break but absolutely the right play. TO win one of these tournaments you need to win almost every pot you play at the end. You got a great hand for that to happen and got unlucky. Most of the time you will come out of that hand in great shape, and some day you'll be the guy that beats the odds and wins while behind.

I'm amazed at the caller having AK, I thought for sure you'd see a medium pair there.