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First post, so bear with me... (nice site btw).

I played in the APAT UK Open over the weekend at Newcastle and made the most of some mediocre hands on Day 1 to find myself with 86500 chips to take into Day 2.

This was my first 'proper' live tournament (unless you count £2 rebuys at Bolton Grosvenor!), so come the start of day 2 I was pretty nervous about what was to come. There was 24 runners left with the payout starting at 21st.

2nd hand of the day with the blinds 5000/10000 I pick up:  Qs Qc on the button.

Action:
1st position : Fold
2nd: Raise to 50k    (This guy had about 135k and had played pretty loose from what I could see - but I hadn't been at the table with him long)
3rd: Fold
4th: Fold
5th: Fold
Me: All in for 81500 (I was small blind the previous hand)
SB: Fold
BB: Fold

2nd Position (Gent called David Groom) called my all in.... shows   Ad  Kh

Flop comes:  Js  9d 4h

Turn:   Kd

River:  5c

And i'm off home in 24th........ I guess I just want reassuring I did the right thing?? I wasn't gonna fold QQ, his raise smelled of a small pair or AK, AQ (I thought 5 times the big blind was too big for AA or KK). At this point in the tournament blinds were being stolen at every opportunity - granted he was in early position to be stealing blinds.

Perhaps I should've just flat called, then pushed my chips in after the flop if he didn't raise??? Would that have got him off AK?

What do you guys think?

Also - big thanks to everyone who organised the tournament, it was a great event and I met some top people. Particular thanks to Jackie and Trev (you know who you are) who were cheering me on - shame I didn't last a bit longer on day2!

Played perfectly IMO

the stop and go play wouldnt of got him off AK with all those chips in the middle

Unlucky and welcome to blonde.

 ;iagree; :hello: ;welcome;

once he has raised to 50k there is no way you can get him off the hand
for only another 30k

the only other option would of been to fold and look for a chance to get your chips in first

are you saying you would have folded Ironside?

Thanks for the response - nice to know you'd do the same thing.

Ironside - I thought about folding (albeit not very long), I just didn't think he had AA or KK. AK was the only other hand I didn't really want to see even though i'm still slight favourite.

Tighty would've folded.......................

The only other way you could play it is to flat call then push on the flop if he checks - you never know he could pass for the remaining 35k as he's missed completely and he has no pair no draw.

If he doesnt check then you're going all in regardless with QQ on a J high flop and maybe because of the difference in the space/time continuum from the original course of action then the turn card would have been the 6 of clubs!!

 :hello: & ;welcome; to the madhouse!!

I play it exactly the same.

Welcome to blonde David, glad you enjoyed the event. Great performance by you

50p

no i wouldnt have folded but if making the money meant something rather than playing to win no matter the cost folding is an option with an average stack

going all in was the option i would of used as i would of been playing for the 18 points 3.6k and thte wsop package and the gold medal

Welcome to Blonde, Slackjaw  ;)

We were kind of hoping we could cheer you all the way to the final table, despite the fact that meant hanging about with Fubar for a long time  ;D

Anyway, as far as I can see, you did absolutely nothing wrong. After all, if you aren't going to play Queens, then what are you going to play?

Great meeting you and Fubar, hope to see you posting on here regularly from now on.  ;)

I had to console slack with a new t-shirt and a cap ;)
Great to meet such a great bunch of people, and what a tourney !
Great to me u Rover, and Angelica.  Hope I didnt bore you with any freeroll tales :D hehe

Welcome to Blonde, Fubar!
No mate, your freeroll tales entertained us! zzzzzzz.
Have you deposited any actual money yet?!
Instead of a T-shirt and cap, you shoulda got Slackjaw a pint or 5.
 ;nana; ;sark;

What for?

The beat story.

I thought you only pay if it's a bad beat? This is just a race, no need for cash here is there?

"I have 8.5BB's i have QQ, i am pretty certain my oppo does not hold AA or KK, what should i do?"

Not much to analyse is there?!?!