A WCOOP #1 hand

EverettKings · #1 09-05-2005, 01:39 PM

I had a number of interesting situations in this tournament. Here's one, might post others later.

Down to 175 from 3k. Table fairly tight, though theres a fair amount of stealing and such going on.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t1600 (8 handed) converter

Hero (t25803)
Button (t10800)
SB (t33636)
BB (t31381)
UTG (t31028)
UTG+1 (t27885)
MP1 (t26151)
MP2 (t56733)

Preflop: Hero is CO with Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
4 folds, Hero raises to t4000, 2 folds, BB raises to t10699

I had been doing a nontrivial amount of stealing. Not maniacal though, but enough to be noticed and not flagged as a tight wad. Villain in this hand had only been with us for an orbit or so, no read on him. His SN was Luckyliu if that means anything to anyone. For some odd reason I thought I recognized the name as a pro but I'm definitely not sure.

The problem with this spot is that I'm asking to be played back at given my image and position, etc. But KQs is too strong to fold, and I don't like limping with my stack size and over 2k in blinds in antes already out there.

Once I'm reraised, as I feared I now have no clue if I'm getting played back at or not, or how strong his hand could be. Obviously it could be Aces begging for a call or push, or it could be A5s or 66 looking to win the pot without having to be all in before seeing a flop. A push would lay him a touch over 2:1, which is likely enough to fold out small pairs and small/medium aces and kings.

Then again I could call and try to hit a flop. The problem with that is that I'm giving worse hands and marginalish hands another chance to take the pot off me when I miss 2/3 of boards, and monster hands won't fold anyway. The plus is that I pick up continuation bets when I do hit and maybe TT can't get away on a Q84 flop. Meh.

Of course I could fold. Save my chips, pick a more secure spot. But raise/folding KQh from steal territory makes me throw up a little. I mean I might as well have 23o, especially in a situation where (usually) I'll see a reraise or all folds. Though I guess there was a reasonable chance of a flat call. Hmmmmmmmm

So I'm juggling all three of my options here. What to do, what to do?

Everett