AQs

[betgo]

$30 MTT

Paradise Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t200 (9 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx

CO (t5815)
Hero (t3505)
SB (t2340)
BB (t5403)
UTG (t27115)
UTG+1 (t9229)
MP1 (t20)
MP2 (t7631)
MP3 (t1548)

Preflop: Hero is Button with A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]. SB posts a blind of t100.
UTG calls t200, <font color="#666666">4 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero ???

Hmmmm... You can call and bet if you hit (tight) or raise to 600, however with UTG call, you will have to let it go if he re-raises.

I would raise to 600 for a couple raseons :

1- To know right now if UTG has a monster,
2- To make the blind fold (no free cards)
3- To take the pot right now.

[Bill Kolter]

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Hmmmm... You can call and bet if you hit (tight) or raise to 600, however with UTG call, you will have to let it go if he re-raises.

I would raise to 600 for a couple raseons :

1- To know right now if UTG has a monster,
2- To make the blind fold (no free cards)
3- To take the pot right now.

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Exactly right.

[pokerstudAA]

I would raise to 1000 here.

UTG has 27000 chips and is going to play with you for 600 and probably more. The BB has 6k and might call a 400 raise with less than premim hands - we want him out of the way. Get some value out of this one - you are far ahead of the junk he is limping and you want to make him think twice about calling you.

[Elaboration]

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3- To take the pot right now.


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Exactly right.

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Sorry, but I doubt utg folds for just 400 more.

Regards-

[betgo]

What if you raise to 1000 and UTG reraises? What if he calls?

[durron597]

Make it 700, fold to a limp-reraise.

You can push here and easily add 15% to your stack most of the time, if you wanted to. depends on your image, the blinds', and the limper. If the blinds or the limpers have been willing to see flops a lot for a standard raise, i'd push or raise 5x. Or, you can put in a normal raise and play it out. as with the push, the blinds will be more reluctant to call because of the limper yet to act.
Mike

[Elaboration]

Betgo,

I would pump it to t800. Or, if utg is loose and might call with KQ or a weaker A, then I could just push.

The downside of a standard raise is that if you miss a continuation is going to be akward for you. You would have to pump at least 1k at it. Its tough to speculate on my flop action without a read on utg.

Regards-

[pokerstudAA]

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What if you raise to 1000 and UTG reraises? What if he calls?

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If UTG reraises - I think I am going to war with AQs here. The biggest stack is not going to be limping his big hands here IMO. I think a LRR looks like more 77-JJ trying to push you out than AA,KK.

If here calls the 1000 - who knows? whats the flop? I would really like to hit an ace or Q on the flop. The Big stack is going to be playing alot of hands and gambling here with small pairs/ suited connectors even KT, QJ, TJ.