Party $200+15, KQo in the BB

[mosch]

Party $200+15 with 1800 entrants, it's down to 700 something now. The average chip stack is around 2500 or so, and I've been had nothing but trouble so far.

I've beeen going over this hand in my mind, and I really can't decide what I like the least about it.

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t100 (10 handed) converter

UTG+1 (t320)
UTG+2 (t926)
MP1 (t5438)
MP2 (t3737)
MP3 (t2205)
CO (t3156)
Button (t5450)
SB (t3983)
Mosch (t1533)
UTG (t655)

Preflop: Mosch is BB with Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
UTG folds, UTG+1 folds, UTG+2 calls t100, MP1 folds, MP2 folds, MP3 folds, CO raises to t200, Button folds, SB folds, Mosch calls t100, UTG+2 calls t100.

Flop: (t650) 2[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(3 players)</font>
Mosch bets t650, UTG+2 folds, CO calls t650.

Turn: (t1950) T[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(2 players)</font>
Mosch bets t683 (All-In), CO calls t683.

River: (t3316) 8[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>

Final Pot: t3316
<font color="#990066">Main Pot: t3316 (t3316), between CO and Mosch.</font> &gt; <font color="white">Pot won by CO (t3316).</font>

Results in white below: <font color="white">
Mosch shows Qs Kc (one pair, queens).
CO shows 5s 5d (three of a kind, fives).
Outcome: CO wins t3316. </font>

[cferejohn]

What a horribly played hand by the cutoff (preflop, anyway). I would be suspicious of that min-raise after a limper, thinking it means AA or KK. Even if you slow down on the turn though, I don't see how you can get away from this with TP/2nd kicker and getting 4:1 on a call.

I think the only way you are getting away is by folding preflop on the theory that you don't want to play KQ three handed in a raised pot; I think I'd probably play it the same way.