Quote Originally Posted by Staple Gun
I agree with journey, AJ and 10-10 are not great hands by anymeans in a 10 person game. I really think I should have called this hand and tried not to get sucked in on an A-high flop. But at these low limits its hard to tell with so many fish. I will often be hesitant to call AI preflop with QQ or KK thinking I'm beat only to find out they pushed with A-9.
No, they are not "great" hands but they are both extremely playable under most circumstances. In this case you were on the button and so should have at least called the raise. Reraising wouldn't necessarily be a bad play, but as you know often the reason for raising and reraising is to get position - here you already had that, so I would possibly just favour calling the raise knowing that you would probably be in a pot with 3 or 4 others and that if you hit the flop, you could win a fair chunk. If you missed the flop and there was a bet, you could still get away from the hand cheaply. If you missed and it was checked to you, you could use your position to try to steal the pot, as you might still hit something on the turn if called.

By the way, if you don't call all-in bets with KK, I suggest you are probably folding many winning hands. The only hand you are losing to pre-flop is AA - if you are fairly sure your opponent holds this, then of course you fold. But you are a big favourite over any other pair and if your opponent holds anything else, such as a big A, he still has to hit to beat you. If you get KK cracked, then you just have to lose your money - there's no disgrace in that.

And I would not usually recommend calling an all-in with QQ unless a loss won't damage you too much or it's short handed. If you're against AA or KK then you're in deep trouble, against AK it's only a slight favourite, and even an oppoent playing Ax or Kx, suited or not, can hit something to beat you.

I find many players overrate QQ - and the other hand they overrate is AQ.