[noelsarchs]

OK, so this is a high roller touney, 10 cent buy in, 5000 people signed up. Top 800 pay. There are 801 people left in tourney and I'm dealt this hand...How would you play this one.

PokerStars Game #13711478827: Tournament #68768422, $0.10+$0.00 Hold'em No Limit - Level XII (600/1200) - 2007/12/07 - 16:56:55 (ET)
Table '68768422 480' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: LuciSusi (25115 in chips)
Seat 2: HellBunker (2925 in chips)
Seat 3: Harry G 13 (180 in chips)
Seat 4: JohnGalt111 (11015 in chips)
Seat 5: TeiresiasRex (8715 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 6: casitaking (1656 in chips)
Seat 7: FWB-61 (3715 in chips)
Seat 8: ben700 (5150 in chips)
Seat 9: haribomann (10165 in chips)

FWB-61: posts small blind 600
ben700: posts big blind 1200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to HellBunker [Qs Qd]
haribomann: folds
LuciSusi: folds
HellBunker: raises 1200 to 2400
Harry G 13 has timed out
Harry G 13: folds
Harry G 13 is sitting out
JohnGalt111: folds
TeiresiasRex: folds
casitaking: folds
Harry G 13 has returned
FWB-61: folds
ben700: raises 1200 to 3600

I"m now pot committed, so what should I do?

[daffyd]

Easy push for me. 800th place is unlikely to be a huge payoff and you were down to less than 3BB. Give yourself a chance to come back rather than squeak in to a minimal payout.

Regards,

David.

PS: I suppose if I were to think more broadly, I should ask when the next cutoff point for payment is (ie. does 601-800 pay the same 15c or similar?) If you don't think you can savagely outplay another 200 (for eg) high stakes players to make the next payment cutoff after doubling up then I guess it would be +ev to fold (before you raised). In any other situation, push push push!

[jojobinks]

don't minraise. shove it in when it gets to you.

as played, also shove it in.

[shanghai_sparky]

QQ? fold.

[JM]

I don't even think the number of players or buy-in amount comes into the argument here. You've got less than 3BB left and a top 5 hand, PUSH.

[shanghai_sparky]

You are on the bubble with your least favorite hand.
Why raise? You know that it will lose.
You are better off waiting for a stronger hand like 7-2 os and then push.

[noelsarchs]

Best thing about tonight is that some people from the office came knocking on my door just as the tourney began...so I just hit the sit out button and started drinking a few beers while watching my hands go by.

A few times I just pushed all in with the best hand and had three callers and won. So I went back to having a few beers, sitting out and not paying attention. Then saw that I was finally in the money.

QQ comes up and I raise.

Everyone at the table took a very long time to decide whether to call or fold.

While that was happening, more than 100 players were out already just since this hand began.

Dealt to HellBunker [Qs Qd]

ben700: raises 1200 to 3600 (with

HellBunker: calls 400 and is all-in


*** FLOP *** [7c 9c Jh]
*** TURN *** [7c 9c Jh] [3c]
*** RIVER *** [7c 9c Jh 3c] [Ah]


*** SHOW DOWN ***
ben700: shows [Tc 8d] (a straight, Seven to Jack)
HellBunker: shows [Qs Qd] (a pair of Queens)
ben700 collected 7325 from pot


Guess I should have pushed all in pre flop.