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Old 07-19-2007, 05:04 PM
JFJB JFJB is offline
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Default Re: commiting to a hand at the start of a tourney

Now some information is missing here about this situation. Namely, what were the starting stacks (I assume both you and vilain still have about a starting stack). Right now the blinds seems to be at 15-30 but how fast will they be moving up (I mean time per level and rate of increase of the blind). How many players at the table (10 handed is not 6 handed).

After you get re-raise, you have to re-evalutate your hand in the current situation. Now as others have said QQ is likely ahead of vilain range but not by that much.

If you are both (you and vilain) deep stacks you can always play your QQ for set value but we do not know how deep you are. If the tournament structure is slow, you have a stack of say 30BB and the play is 10 handed you could consider folding a hand like JJ here because you are likely to find a better situation than this one further ahead in the tournament. QQ is bordeline and folding it is on the nitty side of things when fairly short stacked but could be done.

Now, if you are relatively short stacked, say the blinds are 15-30 and you have about 350, the blinds double up every 20 minutes (this is live) and you are playing 8 handed - you have to play this hand here ; there is no question about it. With this flop you have to play for vilain (and your) stack.
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