JJ to a preflop raise

[Costanza]

I felt OK about the fold at the time because I figured I was looking at a coin-flip given the raise. After reviewing the tournament, well... now I think poker doesn't get much weaker than this.

Don't be gentle.



Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t50 (7 handed) converter

MP1 (t600)
MP2 (t880)
CO (t485)
Hero (t635)
SB (t1550)
BB (t2520)
UTG (t1330)

Preflop: Hero is Button with J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">MP1 raises to t225</font>, <font color="#666666">5 folds</font>.

Final Pot: t300

[Voltron87]

insta push 100%.

[UMTerp]

Yeah, that's bad, especially in a lower-level buy-in. There's no reason the initial raiser couldn't have AT+, KQ, 66+ at a $10+$1. And you're a significant favorite over that range. And given your stack, you need to double up relatively soon. This is likely the best chance you'd have. Live and learn. And FWIW, AA or KK generally won't raise that much either.

[pokerlaw]

Push it real good.

[Phoenix1010]

I was going to say I might fold it if he raised that much on level 1, but then I noticed you were at level 3 with ~12 x BB. You've got to take this one man. Yes you are probably in a race, but you are getting extra value from the blinds, and you would be slightly ahead. Also there's a better than average chance that he has an underpair, since he raised so much. At this stage in this buy-in, you can't pass this up.

[kodonnell]

I was at a B&amp;M tournament where a guy folded aces preflop face up to an all-in raise on the first hand of the tournament! He said "I didn't want to risk busting out on the first hand".

[KenProspero]

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I was at a B&amp;M tournament where a guy folded aces preflop face up to an all-in raise on the first hand of the tournament! He said "I didn't want to risk busting out on the first hand".

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I hope you were at his table