COMMENTS ON THIS HAND GREATLY APPRECIATED

[Morethanluck]

I've never tried this before, but I'd be interested in comments on the following hand.  I'll only post pre-flop at this stage.

There are approximately 750 people left from 4,750 in $15k Guaranteed PokerStars tournament.  I'm slightly below average chips with 14.4k, but have approximately 25 big blinds so I'm not desperate. I'm Hero.  I finished second in the same tournament two weeks ago with 5,000 starters and am looking for another deep run.

Csatiaor has been playing VPIP 16 PFR 13, but I only have 30 hands on him (he pushed on me earlier and I folded).  Torereraise is 26/16 after 50 hands.  He has put down a couple of hands and folded when he thought he was in a coin flip fairly recently (or at least that's what he said).

I am under the gun.

PokerStars Game #25417650115: Tournament #142279376, $5.00+$0.50 Hold'em No Limit - Level X (300/600) - 2009/02/27 20:42:29 GMT [2009/02/27 15:42:29 ET

Table "142279376 115" 9-max Seat #5 is the button

Seat 1: csatiúr (12570 in chips)
Seat 2: iulluision11 (10102 in chips)
Seat 3: onthefelt2 (4058 in chips)
Seat 4: ebner (5030 in chips)
Seat 5: Toreraise (27449 in chips)
Seat 6: marysboy (57120 in chips)
Seat 7: metalo (3200 in chips)
Seat 8: Hero (14378 in chips)
Seat 9: chantago (3545 in chips)

csatiúr: posts the ante 50
iulluision11: posts the ante 50
onthefelt2: posts the ante 50
ebner: posts the ante 50
Toreraise: posts the ante 50
marysboy: posts the ante 50
metalo: posts the ante 50
Hero: posts the ante 50
chantago: posts the ante 50
marysboy: posts small blind 300
metalo: posts big blind 600

Hole Cards (Hero)  qc qh

Hero: raises 733 to 1333
chantago: folds
csatiúr: raises 11187 to 12520 and is all-in
iulluision11: folds
onthefelt2: folds
ebner: folds
Toreraise: calls 12520 (another 15k behind, but he has me covered)
marysboy: folds
metalo: folds

What do I do?

Any comments greatly appreciated.  Results to follow.

Many thanks.

Craig

[AMRN]

fold

[duke3016]

fold

[baldaceguy]

fold

[Chipaccrual]

Insta-fold

[LongshanksED]

fold - if you were desperate for chips 5BB or less then maybe call - you"d need at least kings to carry on imo

just last night in live £10 rebuy tourney i was playing

UTG raised 50/100BB to 350
mid position all in for 1500

me on button - i looked and came up with aces - should i shove or call?

i shoved for 2.5k, as i always try to just isolate 1 player pre flop - i hate going up with 2 or more opponents

UTG thought for a while and mucked pocket kings face up but said even if i only called the all in he"d still probably fold

mid position, all in had pocket 3"s and board came

3,K,4 flop - glad i isolated and managed at leats one fold but at least i had chips left
q turn
ACE  river

[Morethanluck]

[AMRN]

Try not to be results oriented - you made the right play in the circumstances. Most of the time, you are going to be behind in that spot, and the fold is perfectly acceptable.

[Morethanluck]

Cheers Steve.  I"ve been playing around with Poker Stove and it could be argued I should have made the call if I have the first guy on something like 99+ AQ+ even if the second guy is on a much tighter range of say KK+ AK.  However I don"t like flipping for my tournament life (best case) and felt that the second guy (based on previous play) was more than likely ahead.  With 25BBs left I agree that there are better spots.
Many thanks.

Craig

[TopPair2Pair]

I hate the ladies, sometimes I even hate AQ!!!!!!

[duke3016]

Try not to be results oriented - you made the right play in the circumstances. Most of the time, you are going to be behind in that spot, and the fold is perfectly acceptable.

Sometimes he does make sense -- not often -- but sometimes

[AMRN]

Try not to be results oriented - you made the right play in the circumstances. Most of the time, you are going to be behind in that spot, and the fold is perfectly acceptable.

Sometimes he does make sense -- not often -- but sometimes

Oooooooooooo I"ve finally made it

[Morethanluck]

Rather ironically I reraised a mid position raiser and flat caller from the big blind in the league this evening with  qd qh and was called by  kd ks!  Hit a flush, but his was higher lol  

[BOINGBLITZ]

It takes a good player to be able to fold Q-Q there mate. The fact that you would have been ahead doesn"t come into it. You made the right play in your mind so what happens after that is irrelevant (Though VERY frustrating !). The time to worry is when you are consistantly making the wrong plays.

[Morethanluck]

Cheers Boing.