$5.50 KK facing reraise and flat caller

Yorkshire Pud · #1 04-18-2007, 02:10 PM

Just getting back into SnG's after a spell at cash. This hand came up last night and I not sure if I played it right. I'll post my actions once I get some replies:

PokerStars Tournament, Big Blind is t30 (8 handed) Converter on pregopoker.com

UTG (t1440)
UTG+1 (t3545)
MP1 (t780)
MP2 (t1435)
CO (t1665)
Hero (t1425)
SB (t1080)
BB (t2130)

Preflop: Hero is in Button with K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]
UTG folds, UTG+1 folds, MP1 folds, MP2 folds, CO folds, Hero raises to t90, SB raises to t150, BB calls t120, Hero ????

Cixelsyd23 · #2 04-18-2007, 02:13 PM

I'd reraise to about 450-600, at least one of them has a real hand and its very likely to be worse than kings (probably ak or qq or jj)...you really want to get all the money in if that's the case, and if they do have that type of hand they're likely to shove right there at this level

Kibby · #3 04-18-2007, 02:13 PM

I like raising to about 450 or so and pushing any non-ace flop.

wiggs73 · #4 04-18-2007, 02:15 PM

600 shove non-A flop

Yorkshire Pud · #5 04-18-2007, 02:21 PM

Yeah I figured there was no AA in there and pinned one on at least AQ and the other maybe a mid to mid-high PP.

What's my line if I raise to 600 and 1 or more villains come over the top? Do I shove with it being a $5.50?

In the actual hand I played it awful and pushed preflop and was called by the re-raiser holding AQ.

wiggs73 · #6 04-18-2007, 02:23 PM

If you raise to 600 and someone comes over the top, your line is to get really happy they came over the top and instacall.

Also if they will call with AQ pre, then pushing is far from awful.

I feel like you're just being results oriented because an ace flopped. My line of '600 shove non-A flop' wasn't to avoid stacking off to AQ on an A-high board, it was to get max value out of hands like JJ and AQ on a Q-high board.

Kibby · #7 04-18-2007, 02:25 PM

You'd be fine never folding KK PF in a sng. Rarely does a situation come up where you should. Get it in there.

dj32 · #8 04-18-2007, 02:25 PM

I think in the $5.50 you have to shove. For what it's worth, I got it all in last night in a $5.50 with KK and got called by QJs.

Yorkshire Pud · #9 04-18-2007, 02:26 PM

Suppose I am being a bit results orientated because he hit runner-runner Queens and crippled me.

I understand getting more value from those sort of hands because it is quite likely one or both villains have them with the action. Guess I'm a little rusty and have played less than 100 SnG's.

I am more bothered that I shoved an extra 1k chips into the middle than you guys suggest was necessary.

Thanks for the advice!

Cixelsyd23 · #10 04-18-2007, 02:27 PM

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Yeah I figured there was no AA in there and pinned one on at least AQ and the other maybe a mid to mid-high PP.

What's my line if I raise to 600 and 1 or more villains come over the top? Do I shove with it being a $5.50?

In the actual hand I played it awful and pushed preflop and was called by the re-raiser holding AQ.

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thats exactly what you want, shove shove shove, you got your money in with KK against AQ, nh, forget the results that's def +ev