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[RichC.]

Something I like to do very early on is take a couple of risks to build a good size stack for later on. Taking flips and raising with less than premium hand, like in the hand below. This can also lead to some less than ideal situations. The hand below is a typical hand i might raise with, not just early on either, deeper stack size does help though.

Too early here for any reads as this was about the 10th hand into the tourney.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t20 (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: 2+2 Forums)

saw flop|<font color="#C00000">saw showdown</font>

<font color="#C00000">MP2 (t1500)</font>
MP3 (t1430)
CO (t1480)
Button (t1540)
SB (t1520)
BB (t1710)
UTG (t2870)
<font color="#C00000">Hero (t1620)</font>
MP1 (t1290)

Preflop: Hero is UTG+1 with 5[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t60</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, MP2 calls t60, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, Button calls t60, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>.

Flop: (t210) 6[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 3[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t160</font>, <font color="#CC3333">MP2 raises to t1440</font>, Button folds, Hero ????

Obviously i hit a monster flop is anyone folding this?