Not Raising Pre Flop with KK against Calling Stations Early MTT

[pokerstudAA]

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Reraise with your kings both times, nit. Stop worrying about busting out with kings. Your approach sucks.

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Betgo up early and cranky. Drink some coffee or something.

[Frank Zappy]

Before I finished reading I knew BB didn't have AA.

Even even before getting to that point, how does anyone smooth call with KK to a 6bb raise and cold call especially if we believe they're calling stations.

Easy Push

[flettl2]

The title of this post gives you the answer: "Not Raising Pre Flop with KK against Calling Stations Early MTT" We don't slowplay against calling stations we push our edge, they are going to call, so make them call with the worst of it.

[udbrky]

The biggest argument for shoving PF over the BB's raise and EP's raise, call of the re-raise and the other guy's call of both is that the pot is humungous, everyone's pot committed, and your stack after the flop is tiny. There's what? almost 5K in the pot? You have 675 left? What are your plans after that? Fold? That's ugly. Push over BB, everyone calls, you win. Profit.

The time for slowplaying to trap is when you're deep, not this short.

[Bogeysave]

Point made....i was wrong. I think i may have let my bust from the day before cloud my judgement. I put in third raise with KK only to have original raiser come over the top with his aces. I don't know that i had ever played KK this way before....guess i won't at this stage again.

[SuperUberBob]

Shove preflop over the UTG raiser and CO caller. Your stack makes a good re-raise (1,300) a bit awkward. You'd only be left with $675 and you'd have to get it all-in on the flop no matter what happens. One way or another, you should be getting all of your chips in on this hand.

[udbrky]

The way you played isn't bad if either of the blinds would pull a squeeze, and then come over the top of his raise. IMO, 2nd call <<<<<< 1st call.