$11: low M, high Q; Queens

[beenben]

Min. raises had been taking it down and with a top three hand, I didn't really think long about how to play it. I had been all-in or fold for a lot of the tournament; then I switched gears and started raising 3x BB. This was the first time I'd tried a min. raise. One player had indicated that he needed to leave, didn't realize that the SNG would take this long. My M was around 4 and the player who needed to leave had a few hundred more chips than me.

The hand converter didn't work so I'm trying to convert it by hand:

Party Poker SitnGo $5; blinds are 500/1000 no ante. No limit. I'm on the button with $2930. He who must leave is SB and has 3150. BB has 1170. UTG has 750.

Dealt to Hero Q [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] Q [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]
Hero raises (1000) to 1000
SB folds.
BB raises (670) to 1170 and is all-In. (with A [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] J [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img])
hero calls (170)

The flop was OK but the turn was an Ace, and no help on the river. Now I'm down to 1760, 3rd in chips instead of second and my blinds are coming up. With the short stack being all-in for his blinds in the next couple of hands, should I have folded QQ?

[billy51]

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should I have folded QQ?

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Of course not.

[splashpot]

What could possibly be your arguement for folding?

[beenben]

The argument for folding is that the UTG player has $750 and the blinds are $750. he's out within two hands unless he gets lucky and I'm in the $$.

[aujoz]

if you're scared of your QQ getting beaten in this situation, perhap poker isn't for you.

all you can do is to play the cards you're given, and if your QQ happens to get outdrawn, so be it. that's why no one can win 100% of sngs.