all-in against my JJ

[Mammux]

Live NL tournament. 10 players left out of 32. We are 5 at my table, when this hand comes up:

Stacks are UTG+1 23000, BB 10000 (out of 32000 chips total, so we're both shortstacked). Blinds are 800/1600.

UTG folds
UTG+1 limps
UTG+2 folds
SB folds
BB (me) raises 3000
UTG+1 goes all-in (instantly)

I have JJ and 5400 chips. What do I do?

-Magnus

[Lloyd]

You should have pushed pre-flop. JJ is a strong hand shorthanded and you only have 6XBB. The rule of thumb is that anytime you have less than 10XBB you should push if you're going to enter the pot.

As for whether or not to call the raise, I say yes. You didn't say what the entry was and that (in my opinion) slightly affects my decision. If it's a larger buy-in I would put UTG+1 on a smaller range of hands. With the smaller buy-in online tournaments, he could be going all-in with lots of hands - any pair, AK, AQ, even AJ. There are only 3 hands that your a dog to and they represent a fairly small percentage of the hands he could have.

But the bottom line was when you're this shortstacked, push with such a strong hand and hope for the best. You need to make a move and that was the hand to do it on.

[SossMan]

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Stacks are UTG+1 23000, BB 10000 (out of 32000 chips total...

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something is askew there....

this is a very, very, very easy push. it's not close...you should probably be pushing any pair there, too.

[Mammux]

Thanks for the advice. He had KK and I was wondering if there was any chance I could have got away from it. Guess not.

-Magnus

[js13_tps]

I had a similar situation last night and pushed my JJ in and got called by the big stack at CO with 65s.

I debated about 2 seconds while waiting my turn. Best cards I had saw all night.

Oh well, thats poker as they say. Dude hit runner-runner 5's. LOL, where's the bad beat police.