How would you play these hands preflop?

[Fatdogs12]

I came up with a couple situations. How would you play it and why? All games are NL

1.
You hold: AQ off.
Your stack is 650 and the blinds are 25/50. You are under the gun. There are 5 players left, only one player has less chips than you.

2.
You Hold: JJ
Your stack is 1200. blinds are 50/100.
There are 6 players left with most people having a similar sized stack. You are in late position. (2 seats from the BB). 3 callers so far.

3.
You Hold: K10. You are in early position(UTG+1) and have 425
chips remaining. Blinds are 25/50. There are 5 players left.

[pooh74]

raise 4 bbs-
raise 6 bbs or push
fold

[Bigwig]

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1.
You hold: AQ off.
Your stack is 650 and the blinds are 25/50. You are under the gun. There are 5 players left, only one player has less chips than you.

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I raise to 150. The reason is to narrow the field to hopefully one player, or take down the blinds.

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2.
You Hold: JJ
Your stack is 1200. blinds are 50/100.
There are 6 players left with most people having a similar sized stack. You are in late position. (2 seats from the BB). 3 callers so far.

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All-in. A standard raise isn't enough here, because the limpers will have good odds to call and see a flop. Therefore, you need to raise to at least 400, preferably 600, and that pot commits you. All-in for the extra fold equity.

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3.
You Hold: K10. You are in early position(UTG+1) and have 425
chips remaining. Blinds are 25/50. There are 5 players left.

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I muck. I'm not in good shape with 8.5BB, but I'm certainly not dead yet. If you raise you're pot committing yourself with a hand that will certainly be a dog--perhaps a huge dog--to any callers. Better to conserve your chips and wait for a better spot.

[adanthar]

Low buyin 10 person SNG's, right?

1)I push, no sense screwing around and with 5 left AJ will still call your 'fishy' move.

2)450 in the pot already so I push.

3)I fold.

[Fatdogs12]

In our second example where we have JJ, how would our play change if we had the person to our direct right raise it to 350 total?

Lets say in one case the person has 2500 chips and in another the player has 1500 chips.

Are we still pushing here? I would figure we are up against at least some overcards. Possibly an underpair?

[Bigwig]

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In our second example where we have JJ, how would our play change if we had the person to our direct right raise it to 350 total?

Lets say in one case the person has 2500 chips and in another the player has 1500 chips.

Are we still pushing here? I would figure we are up against at least some overcards. Possibly an underpair?

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I'm still pushing. JJ is a solid favorite over the likely range of hands in the scenario that you describe. And at this point in the tournament, I'd obviously prefer that the player had TT, but I'm okay with AQ. Being a 57% favorite is pretty damn good at this point.