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JJ in UKIPT satellite

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AMRN:
Although you don"t have a seat locked up yet, you have a sizeable chip advantage, and I would be looking to protect that at this stage, and not play anything that might be marginal. In this hand, pre I"m flatting, and ready to fold to action if any overcards flop. Of course though, reads within the game can make a significant difference - has he raise/folded pre much? Has he been playing very tight or very loose? Does he understand Satellite tactics?

As played I think you have to wince and call.

pokerpops:
Thanks - I called, on a similar basis to noble1"s view that he shoves a lot here that I am beating. Pretty sure he couldn"t have AK given that he flats my 3bet

I was wrong, he did have AK, I didn"t re-bink.

In hindsight I prefer AMRN"s version of the hand - flat and be prepared to get away from the hand.

three minutes later I confirmed the fact that Jacks need some caution. I had a moment of inattention to the game due to outside influences and had to hurriedly call with JJ on the button. A flop of QJ9 looked so good that I ignored the possibility that the SB had completed with 8 10.....

gg me

mporter123:
Not 3betting here is a mistake IMO.

We can be cautious in some spots when we have a big stack in satellites but that is no reason to play our value hands passively. If we flat pre we leave ourselves open to easy bluffs when he cbets his whole range and there is an overcard on the board.

In this situation we have even more reason to 3bet based on opponents stack size. We can risk a small portion of our stack 3 betting and give him a decision for all his stack. I would prefer it if he had 25bb"s and we were on the button but I dont think a good player peels lots of 3 bets here with 30bb"s, even in position. We should be relentlessly attacking the medium sized stacks unless reads tell us not to. I would be three betting really wide here.

The time to be cautious is post flop, I would be happy to cbet half pot then give up/shut down when faced with any aggression on this flop. We definitely shouldn"t start flatting pre and not cbetting flops just because we have the big stack.

deanp27:
Given situation might just jam pre. Obv wouldn"t do this in a normal tournament

George2Loose:
It"s amazing how bad the villian played this hand and somehow finds conditions falling just right for him

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