Tournament hand

[Rod]

I am a bit unhappy with a hand I played yesterday in a tournament. Would like some opinions on it. The situation is that it is a £20 buy in with what can only be called a fairly low standard. When this hand comes up I have manged to be come short stacked with 3600 Chips, the blinds are 100/200 and about to go up to 150/300 in the next 5 minutes. In early position (9 handed) I pick up AQos. I make a raise to 800. A it folds to the cutoff who has been pretty active up to now. He reraises to 2000. He has only been at the table for a short amount of time and he has raised more pots than most and seems to be a decent player. This is also the first time he has 3-bet. He looks confident making the reraise and I really do honestly feel like he has a strong hand.

What play would you make?

[Longy]

Given he is active I would get it in but against a lot of live players you are crushed here as their 3betting ranges are so tight.

Also I would open to 500, 600 at most. The fact you are considering passing here, you are burning 200/300 chips when the decision would effectively be the same, also it allows you more room post flop if you get flatted.

[outragous76]

once you have raised to 800 you cant fold - you have 1/4 of your stack in the middle.

YOu simply cant flat his re raise here

And when you shove - he isnt passing (providing he understands poker and isnt a full on donkey)

So, this goes back to the usual point - before you act have a plan - knowing you cant raise fold - then you could either limp and under rep and play tricky or fold pre.

I think you stack is too low to fold the hand - so i would be raising and going with my hand I think in this spot (assuming the ave is something like 8-9k atm) - but nothing wrong with the limp either

There is 1 other point to pick up here - you should be raising 3x - not 4x! - There is an arguement to say that you could fold here if u just make it 600 leaving 3k back - but that would be tight

[Numpty Dumpty]

i think i would pass given that his re-raise is so small though obviously commiting him to call if you shove. at this level buy-in a player will re-raise larger the vast majority of the time.

however, your opening raise is far too large. as longy says, this is just burning chips.

i would open to 500-550 and then pass to the reraise. if the player is young, the reraise is larger and you have good reason to be suspicious of him, i would shove

[Rod]

Yes, the raise is too big (at that stage it should be 3xBB I suppose). I did push, he did have me crushed with QQ (I won but that is not the point). I think this mistake was caused by the fact I have spent so long playing nothing but online poker. Doing the maths is somuch easier when you can see all the figures on the screen. A bit more live poker is going to be the order of the day between now and the end of the year.

[AlexMartin]

open, jam, get there.