Poker Stars, $0.75 Buy-in (75/150 blinds, 20 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 9 Players
Poker Tools by CardRunners - Hand Details
Hero (CO): 2,435 (16.2 bb)
BTN: 2,905 (19.4 bb)
SB: 12,724 (84.8 bb)
BB: 4,805 (32 bb)
UTG+1: 2,660 (17.7 bb)
UTG+2: 6,193 (41.3 bb)
MP1: 2,495 (16.6 bb)
MP2: 4,667 (31.1 bb)
MP3: 3,000 (20 bb)
Preflop: Hero is CO with Q
A
UTG+1 calls 150, UTG+2 calls 150, 3 folds, Hero calls 150, BTN calls 150, SB folds, BB checks
Flop: (1,005) 7
J 7 (5 players)
BB checks, UTG+1 checks, UTG+2 checks, Hero bets 2,265 and is all-in, BTN raises to 2,735 and is all-in, 3 folds
Turn: (5,535) A
(2 players, 2 are all-in)
River: (5,535) J (2 players, 2 are all-in)
Spoiler
Villain had QsJs
Really unsure about a few things with this hand.
1) With AQs in late position with two callers is calling acceptable? A normal raise would be 750 which, if I had to leave it behind in the face of a re-raise or a raise on a flop I'd missed, would leave me with 1685 and an uphill struggle to double up enough times to get in the money. I felt a pre-flop shove would be too risky though at this stage. The 150 seemed a reasonable price to pay in order to see what developed on the flop and in general the table had not been particularly aggressive raising over callers from late position/blinds.
2) Once I have got to the flop and seen three checks before me - is it a valid play to shove in this position? My thinking was that there weren't many hands that could call me and be ahead and even hands like KJ,QJ were only a little ahead of me. The only hands that were comfortably ahead seemed to me to be hands with a 7 in them and maybe a very conservatively played JJ. With that in mind I thought it was worth the risk?
