Bad call?

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10-10-2004, 12:51 PM
Running Gag

Bad call?

Situation: I'm in a 31 man B&M tournament, buy-in is 15 dollars, and we start off with 1050 chips each. Due to a couple of bad beats, I'm down to 350 chips, which makes me the short stack, and it's about halfway into the tournament, so I'm looking to take a stand before blinds get raised.

I'm on the button, and I get dealt KQs, so I wait it out to see if anybody is going to raise. Everyone folds until it gets to me, and I make a modest raise of 150 (3xBB), which leaves me with only 200 chips left. SB folds, and then BB, who's currently the chipleader with about 4000 chips in front of him, raises me all in, so I call.

Turns out he had JJ, which, I believe, is a 55-45 favorite to win against my KQs. To make a long story short, the board is of no help, and to rub salt in the wound, on the river he catches a J, giving him a set.

I just want to know, should I have folded? Or was it worth the coin flip to try and double up when I'm short stack? Normally, I wouldn't have given a second thought to this kinda hand, but this shit's been happening to me a lot lately (the other night, a guy at a ringtable I play with called a 10 dollar raise with A-8 off against my A-9 suited, only to catch an 8 on the river), so I'm wondering if I'm beginning to play a little too loose.
10-10-2004, 01:13 PM

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10-11-2004, 09:27 AM
Krapp

instead of raising, I would of either folded (waiting for an Ax or Pair) or went all in. In your situation, calling the all-in raise is fine.
10-11-2004, 03:04 PM
DavSimon

From the chipleaders point of view it probably looked like a somewhat tenative blind steal.... healthy raise...but leaving yourself some chips in case you get called. AI would have been a better play....still may have ended up the same, but JJ would have probably put some thought into calling off 10% of his stack.
10-11-2004, 05:35 PM

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10-11-2004, 06:15 PM
SteveO

If it makes you feel any better, I busted out of a home tournament on the exact same hand. I was in late position KQs, push AI w/ short stack. SB calls w/ JJ and I lost the race. Not a horrible play.
10-12-2004, 09:00 AM
DavSimon

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1/10th of my stack with JJ ? No brainer call in a heartbeat

Maybe it is just me getting burned by appearant suicide attempts. Short stack moving AI after a couple tough losses, looks a lot like frustration - pushing with marginal hands. I've called only to be surprised by KK, AA....and have my low PP not hold up. So I probabbly would have called as well but I would definately give it some thought first - Running Gag w/ 1000 or so chips would be right back in it.