$55 Quick check 1: 88 UTG

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Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t200 (5 handed) converter

Button (t830)
SB (t1075)
BB (t3000)
Hero (t3025)
MP (t2070)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with 8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
Hero ?

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BB is not going to come back at you without a real big hand. He will be very wary to put a RR move on you because you are raising from UTG and he SHOULD respect that. I'd raise ~3bbs and call pushes from SB and button, folding to a PF push from the other two. A call from MP is very unlikely and if thats the case, proceed with caution. A call from BB will put you in position which is nice.

Whoever said raise to 550 and play some poker had it right IMO.