Unloading QQ, Why Is It So Hard??

[LearnedfromTV]

What are the blinds here anyway, that the pot is only 600 after 20xBB goes in pre, then you check raise the flop and get called? 5/10 with 1500 chip stacks? Something seems wrong.

With 100 BB or less stacks, it's reasonably hard to get away from KK/AA v QQ especially if you're playing against standard loose opposition.

In a lot of online tourneys I just push preflop or reraise and push the flop and chalk it up to bad luck when I hit AA/KK, because I know i'm getting called by worse hands too. But with deeper stacks and/or better competition you have to put more thought into how you play this kind of hand.

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What are the blinds here anyway, that the pot is only 600 after 20xBB goes in pre, then you check raise the flop and get called? 5/10 with 1500 chip stacks? Something seems wrong.

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You have the situation right. It was the 2nd or 3rd hand of the tourney. Obvious hindsight is that I should have let it go and played it differently to keep myself from getting too many chips committed so early. As I said, I had my cursor over the fold button when he pushed but changed my mind. Obviously a bad decision. On the other hand, building a nice chip lead early can be a good thing.

[Dave D]

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What are the blinds here anyway, that the pot is only 600 after 20xBB goes in pre, then you check raise the flop and get called? 5/10 with 1500 chip stacks? Something seems wrong.

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You have the situation right. It was the 2nd or 3rd hand of the tourney. Obvious hindsight is that I should have let it go and played it differently to keep myself from getting too many chips committed so early. As I said, I had my cursor over the fold button when he pushed but changed my mind. Obviously a bad decision. On the other hand, building a nice chip lead early can be a good thing.

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Oh. My. God.

NO.

This is results based thinking. This early in a tourney villian's range is huge. There's donks everywhere that might do what villian did in this hand with any range of hands. You simply cannot fold an overpair because you're afraid of TWO HANDS. You should be getting all in with this hand every time. Wow, this is making me angry.