Early Tournament Play with Marginal Hand

[ClassicBob]

Dealer: Hand #38376848
Dealer: Toowong posts the small blind of 15
Dealer: All In Texas posts the big blind of 30
Dealer: You have been dealt [Qh As]
Dealer: DOTEYE calls 30
Dealer: RacerX16 folds
Dealer: hawkeyejr folds
Dealer: HERO raises to 80
Dealer: Aly Oops folds
Dealer: LUMAN calls 80
Dealer: Soweto RSA folds
Dealer: Toowong folds
Dealer: All In Texas has 15 seconds left to act
Dealer: All In Texas folds
Dealer: DOTEYE calls 50
Dealer: The flop is [5c 7s Qd]
Dealer: DOTEYE bets 30
Dealer: HERO raises to 90
Dealer: LUMAN calls 90
Dealer: DOTEYE raises to 150
Dealer: HERO calls 60
Dealer: LUMAN calls 60
Dealer: The turn is [Kd]
Dealer: DOTEYE bets 735
Dealer: HERO folds
Dealer: LUMAN folds
Dealer: Uncalled bet of 735 returned to DOTEYE
Dealer: DOTEYE mucks
Dealer: DOTEYE wins the pot (735)


Did I make the right play here? I'm pretty convinced that UTG flopped a set. Am I being too weak here?

[shaniac]

The flop raise is weak.

There's almost 300 in the pot if I count correctly and raising to 90 isn't going to get anyone off the hand who's been dancing along so far. AQ looks pretty good to me in that spot and I'm gonna charge my opponents the price of the pot or close to it to see a turn card.

As it is, if you're going to raise to 90 and UTG is going to make a ridiculous min. re-raise I'm coming over the top most of the time. By not showing strength on the flop, you invited him to take the pot away on the turn with a real bet, which is what he did.

I don't see anything wrong with taking TPTK all the way in a standard online tourney early in the game. Sure, they have a set sometimes, but you'd be amazed how often QJ/QK/QT and, like A7, pays you off.

Shane

[ClassicBob]

Thanks for the reply.

quick update in case anyone cares: 85 people entered this tourney. At the break, I'm currently 3rd of 44.