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Old 04-22-2007, 05:54 PM
hERESY hERESY is offline
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Default Bad play with KK in early tournament?

It's very eary, a turbo, and I'm down chips.
I'm skater3598

PokerStars Game #9555960454: Tournament #48480651, Freeroll Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2007/04/22 - 17:49:29 (ET)
Table '48480651 417' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: RACCA (1550 in chips)
Seat 2: Makarius (1265 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 3: TropicalBabe (465 in chips)
Seat 4: Biff81 (5605 in chips)
Seat 5: shortcake75 (4420 in chips)
Seat 6: skater3598 (1250 in chips)
Seat 7: yankeeghandi (1390 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 8: 203ERIC (6427 in chips)
Seat 9: basbalplaya (3935 in chips)
Biff81: posts small blind 50
shortcake75: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to skater3598 [Kh Ks]
skater3598: raises 200 to 300
yankeeghandi: folds
203ERIC: folds
basbalplaya: calls 300
RACCA: calls 300
Makarius: folds
TropicalBabe: folds
Biff81: folds
shortcake75: raises 200 to 500
skater3598: raises 750 to 1250 and is all-in
basbalplaya: calls 950
RACCA: folds
shortcake75: calls 750

Should I call the small reraise and look for an Ace on the flop, or is the push correct?

Thanks!! Also I'm new so give me feedback on if this an acceptable post.
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Old 04-22-2007, 05:59 PM
mynameisjoe mynameisjoe is offline
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Default Re: Bad play with KK in early tournament?

The post is good, go into detail a little more if you can, but I like the shove here, you have 2 people calling your raise that are def way weaker than you, and the odds of shortcake having AA are slim, but you want to push them out to lessen the odds of someone improving their AQ 66 etc over your kings. welcome to 2+2 and GL.
PS I hate calling shorts min raise becuase youre letting the other 2 in cheaply as well, you pretty much would need a very safe flop to continue with the hand against 3 opponents
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Old 04-22-2007, 06:23 PM
chrismystero chrismystero is offline
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Default Re: Bad play with KK in early tournament?

use a hand converter
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Old 04-22-2007, 06:32 PM
Cleverbeans Cleverbeans is offline
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Default Re: Bad play with KK in early tournament?

Push is just fine here, you've got a small stack relative to the blinds and you've got lots of indication that your push will be called - which is what you want with KK preflop.
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Old 04-22-2007, 06:32 PM
Elrazor Elrazor is offline
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Default Re: Bad play with KK in early tournament?

yeah just shove pre flop - forget about waiting to see if an ace falls with such a short stack in a turbo MTT
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Old 04-22-2007, 07:07 PM
Cornell Fiji Cornell Fiji is offline
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Default Re: Bad play with KK in early tournament?

One of the reasons that you push preflop is to get AK/AQ/22-QQ to give you their whole stack when they might have folded postflop.

You should use a hand converter in future posts and you should also include any relevant reads including the way that you have been playing and the buy in amount.

However, this is all irrelevant in the hand posted as your hand plays itself.

You also might want to read the anthology sticky atop the page as a lot of useful information from amazing players is included in the stickied threads.

Welcome to the forums,
Steve
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