QQ after 3 limpers....new table

OK, so I have just been moved to a new table, we are down to 18 players and my stack is relatively short to the table. This is the very first hand....

Blinds are 400/800 and I have around 16,000. UTG, UTG+1 and MP all limp, MP+1 folds and then it's me with QQ...what is the most profitable play here?

I don't like a raise because it's going to be for a large majority of my stack and any K or A on flop and I hate it.

I don't like the call for pretty much the same reasons, and I certainly am not folding it.

This leaves me with the shove? Is that the right move?

Any reads whatsoever or have you played there a lot? Knowing one of the limpers will call light or would likely call light based on play at that casino with a weak pair would lean me towards a shove. Without info like that I'd make it 2.5k and evaluate the flop.

3.2k

Prefer raise unless you have a loose or aggro image or the limpwrs are gamble-y.
Pascal- only 3 bb over 3 limpers? I make it 3.2-4 k and shove any flop no a no k, else eval.

Side note- everyone covers you? By how much? The shorter you are comparatively the more i wanna just jam.

As said, I got moved to a brand new table and I only knew one guy on it, I got the feeling he saw me as a solid player, capable of big bluffs and he was one of the lads who limped in.

I had around 16K, everyone else was 25K+, so I was well covered.

more info on tournament? casino? home game? low buy-in? high buy-in? predominantly recreational players? grinders?

Please more info.

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Originally Posted by dneureiter

Prefer raise unless you have a loose or aggro image or the limpwrs are gamble-y.
Pascal- only 3 bb over 3 limpers? I make it 3.2-4 k and shove any flop no a no k, else eval.

Side note- everyone covers you? By how much? The shorter you are comparatively the more i wanna just jam.

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Yeah I think we can make people do stupid stuff live really easily. If we make it 3bb they'll call stuff like 45o and peel at least one street with bottom pair, whereas if we make it 5bb+ then they'll probably fold. We're deep enough that if the flop comes something really horrible then we can get away from it and still have plenty of chips.