MTT- early stages, facing massive ob otf w/tpgk

DOHHHHHHH

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Posted by DOHHHHHHH

Any chance you could post the hand itself? If not, I'll close this.

DOHHHHHHH

£5.50 mtt, about 40 runners, v ealy stages, no notes.

Normal strategy in these is be patient, and double up within the first hour, then ge aggressive when the blinds are big, and stacks are shallow, when the other guys become clueless as they can't see flops anymore.

However, here I was clueless....

Speculative call pre maybe otb....

Basically, do you call/fold here against an unknown?

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
taylor1009	Small blind		15.00	15.00	1875.00
porter11	Big blind		30.00	45.00	1605.00
	Your hole cards	K J
don2	Fold
selwyn09	Fold
SDarks	Raise		120.00	165.00	1517.50
DOHHHHHHH	Call		120.00	285.00	1820.00
taylor1009	Call		105.00	390.00	1770.00
porter11	Fold
Flop
		5 J 6
taylor1009	Bet		90.00	480.00	1680.00
SDarks	All-in		1517.50	1997.50	0.00
DOHHHHHHH

pod1

aj or trips, either way i think a def fold!

scotty77

In Response to Re: MTT- early stages, facing massive ob otf w/tpgk:

aj or trips, either way i think a def fold!
Posted by pod1

its def not a set

get it in. lose and then don't bubble????

but yeah looks like a fold tbf

unknown_username

I dont think we have trips here, we all know in this type of tourny we only limp with pocket 5's or 6's this early, and his 4 x BB raise this early means a higher pocket pair QQ KK AA and the flop is good for his shove here cause he knows he's ahead.

I'm folding to the shove.

TheWombat

Fold preflop but as played easy call, like you said double up early

JIMMYMAD

I think the villain has AJ in this situation maybe even trips

splashies

In Response to Re: MTT- early stages, facing massive ob otf w/tpgk:

I dont think we have trips here, we all know in this type of tourny we only limp with pocket 5's or 6's this early, and his 4 x BB raise this early means a higher pocket pair QQ KK AA and the flop is good for his shove here cause he knows he's ahead. I'm folding to the shove.
Posted by POKERTREV

Couldn't have put it better myself.

futsalref

I thought it looked like a big pair also from the initial post. If he is new to MTTs though it may be trips.

Either way I reluctanly fold especially as there is only the J on the flop for us.

GaryQQQ

Personally I think the call on the button with KJs is fine. It's only 6% of your stack, you have postion and it's the sort of hand that might win you a huge pot. If you have to lay it down you still have plenty of chips to work with.

As for the shove, it's a ridiculous bet no matter what your opponent has. Therefore he's probably quite an inexperienced player, you have position on this guy and will get opportunities to stack him later. He could be holding anything from a set of jacks to a straight draw, maybe even air, but you're dominated far too often to justify a call.

I fold, but I'm confident I can outplay this guy and win back my chips with interest.