$5+0.50 Beginners Stuff
 

I'm returning to STTs after a long lay off. Please help me remember the basics.

PokerStars Tournament, Big Blind is t20 (9 handed) Converter on pregopoker.com

UTG (t1600)
UTG+1 (t1500)
MP1 (t1990)
MP2 (t1500)
MP3 (t960)
Hero (t1470)
Button (t1450)
SB (t1530)
BB (t1500)

Preflop: Hero is in CO with Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]
UTG calls t20, <font color="gray">UTG+1 folds</font>, <font color="gray">MP1 folds</font>, <font color="gray">MP2 folds</font>, <font color="gray">MP3 folds</font>, Hero calls t20

Yes, no?

Re: $5+0.50 Beginners Stuff
 

this early i dont bother but im a nit

Re: $5+0.50 Beginners Stuff
 

with all the folds and you being in the CO, Raise.
Raise to 60-80. This hand is good enough, good position and lots of folds already.

Re: $5+0.50 Beginners Stuff
 

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with all the folds and you being in the CO, Raise.
Raise to 60-80. This hand is good enough, good position and lots of folds already.

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Re: $5+0.50 Beginners Stuff
 

limp is fine

Re: $5+0.50 Beginners Stuff
 

I think raising is pretty bad here, our hand isn't that good and it's very early. I wouldn't even be limping in here either. If it was suited I would think about limping, but even then I think it's marginal.

Re: $5+0.50 Beginners Stuff
 

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I think raising is pretty bad here, our hand isn't that good and it's very early. I wouldn't even be limping in here either. If it was suited I would think about limping, but even then I think it's marginal.

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This is what I was thinking after the fact as well.

Re: $5+0.50 Beginners Stuff
 

Calling looks ok for me me from the CO / btn. Marginal , though.

Re: $5+0.50 Beginners Stuff
 

Title says beginners stuff. With that in mind its probably best to just fold preflop since this hand is marginal at best by experienced players.

Re: $5+0.50 Beginners Stuff
 

I don't think it matters either way, but I would be more inclined to limp here but raise to 4x if it were 25/50 because the stacks with these blinds set up really bad if you raise and flop top pair and very good for a raise/cbet in the other case. I think with position this isn't really a marginal hand but the difference in equity is so small between the three options that if you don't feel comfortable with it you can just fold.