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Old 11-08-2005, 12:03 PM
ZootMurph ZootMurph is offline
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Default Party $100+$9 early dilemma

Blinds are 25/50. I have 880 chips. I haven't seen a hand since the start of the tournament. I have to be considered to be SUPER tight at this point. Villain is new to the table in MP1. He has 970 in chips.

I'm UTG with two black Queens. I raise to 175. Villain pushes. All fold to me. What do you do and why?
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Old 11-08-2005, 12:06 PM
Tyler Durden Tyler Durden is offline
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Default Re: Party $100+$9 early dilemma

I kinda want to ask how the villain has been playing, but really it wouldn't factor into my decision b/c I'm calling here close to 100% of the time.
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Old 11-08-2005, 12:06 PM
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If the villian is new to the table, he doesn't necessarily view you as super-tight.
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Old 11-08-2005, 01:02 PM
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Default Re: Party $100+$9 early dilemma

I was faced by a similar situation a couple days ago only i was probably viewed as aggressive after a few nice hands, I called without hesitation, of course villain showed KK and my tournament ended but even so I dont think it was an error to call.
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Old 11-08-2005, 01:18 PM
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I'd call. I think the chances of seeing AK or a smaller pair greatly outweight AA/KK both because of the number of those possible hands and the fact that many people would not push AA/KK there.
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Old 11-08-2005, 01:39 PM
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Default Re: Party $100+$9 early dilemma

Zoot,

Almost the exact same thing happened to me last night at FullTilt. I raised 4x the blind and the button came over the top of me. I called for all my chips and sure enough KK. Good night.
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Old 11-08-2005, 01:49 PM
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Default Re: Party $100+$9 early dilemma

only 880 in chips, 175 of them in the middle and needing to double up. this is an easy call. i would be begging someone to put me in preflop
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Old 11-08-2005, 02:04 PM
ZootMurph ZootMurph is offline
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Default Re: Party $100+$9 early dilemma

Tyler, he is new to the table, so I don't know how he has been playing.

FeNeF, I understand that. Just a habit giving as much background info as possible. So many posters don't do it and it is very annoying.

Everyone else... I agree that it seems to be an easy call against an unknown. In the smaller buyin tournaments, this is a no brainer. I just thought players would be better in the 100+9.

I made the call and villain showed A8o... so it was a good call. My problems here are that I thought play was better at these higher buyins, and an UTG raise usually means a pretty big hand, so a middle position allin would generally mean a monster and finally the guy gave me a lot of grief for not laying it down, LOL. In any case, I'm really not good enough to lay down QQ in that situation, and I'm glad I didn't [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Thanks for all the replies!
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Old 11-08-2005, 02:21 PM
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Guess there are wealthy donkeys too.
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Old 11-08-2005, 03:18 PM
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Default Re: Party $100+$9 early dilemma

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I kinda want to ask how the villain has been playing, but really it wouldn't factor into my decision b/c I'm calling here close to 100% of the time.

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in that 100% is close to 100%, i totally agree.
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