6.5/ Bad Play?

[Tamynese]

UTG and UTG+1 have limped repeatedly and folded to raises. I didn't want to play this hand out of position and the pot was big enough with all of the limpers.

PokerStars Tournament, Big Blind is t100 (8 handed) Converter on pregopoker.com

UTG (t2740)
UTG+1 (t1290)
MP1 (t1570)
MP2 (t125)
CO (t1180)
Button (t1675)
SB (t2900)
Hero (t2020)

Preflop: Hero is in BB with J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]
UTG calls t100, UTG+1 calls t100, MP1 calls t100, <font color="red">MP2 raises to t125 (All-in)</font>, CO calls t125, Button calls t125, <font color="gray">SB folds</font>, <font color="red">Hero raises to t2020 (All-in)</font>,

[Jeff311420]

Pretty bad play, a reraise to 475-550 pretty much does the same thing, which is more or less seeing if the CO or Button is decent here. Your in 3rd/8 and only getting called by at best a coinflip.

[Tamynese]

A raise of slightly more than half the pot from the bb? I would give sufficient pot odds for most to call. Any significant raise would commit me to the pot anyway. Would a check be the better play?

[klaching]

This is the part i find toughest in sngs. If it's 10s or lower i always check in this spot. If it's queens or higher i always raise. Probably not all in, but 3xbb+1bb per limper ... but with Jacks?? who the hell knows. Wish i could help but i just can't. So i guess it's 50/50 either way raise or check. What were the actual results?

[Tamynese]

I get 3 callers, AQ, A6s, A4...Ace on flop...pbblt!!!

[mrmrdan]

Looks pretty standard to me. Free dead money in the pot.

[Dan.]

Push here every time.

[mmorpg]

nh sir

[EscapePlan9]

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Pretty bad play, a reraise to 475-550 pretty much does the same thing, which is more or less seeing if the CO or Button is decent here. Your in 3rd/8 and only getting called by at best a coinflip.

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So wrong on so many levels. 500 does not accomplish the same as a shove with this many people and chips in the pot. Easy shove &gt; raise.

You will get called by smaller pairs, AT/AJ, and random crap here plenty where you won't be forced into a coinflip. Not to mention you still have a good amount of FE to isolate the situation between you and shorties. And even if you're in a coinflip, there's PLENTY of dead monies in the pot. Like I said - EASY shove.

[sence25]

i like a shove too
not being result oriented, you actually really get called often by hands like those in your case
nh