You're a Bunch of Factors

FT of a 20m sng on 888. Final 9, top 5 cash.

Blinds 100/200, I have 2.7k. The average is 3k.

UTG+1 jams all in for 1800. This is the first hand I've seen him play. Folds to a player in MP, who snaps all in for 880. MP player has also been folding down (waiting for a hand). Folds to me in the SB, I have Jacks.

???

with no reads, i think its an easy fold

highly likely u are up against an overpair, or that all overcards are covered by them

let me qualify that by saying its an easy fold looking at it now, not in the heat of the situation

fold.

Better spots to get your money in. Also if 1800 all in, knocks out shorty. At least you still have more chips

Yep, I folded JJ tonight on the same table as Brett, although the allin had me covered...
I don;t know if people beleived me when I said I folded JJ but for those who saw the hand, here's proof:

#Game No : 57363602
***** Cassava Hand History for Game 57363602 *****
$100/$200 Blinds No Limit Holdem - *** 25 06 2009 23:50:22
Tournament #23752493 $3 + $0.30 - Table #3 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: .pKoIkNeGr. ( $4,885 )
Seat 2: jeri58au ( $3,753 )
Seat 3: Kodakai ( $8,345 )
Seat 4: hutchy027 ( $1,920 )
Seat 6: hapot ( $7,475 )
Seat 8: 1stonechip ( $1,895 )
Kodakai posts small blind [$100]
hutchy027 posts big blind [$200]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to .pKoIkNeGr. [ Jc, Jh ]
hapot raises [$700]
1stonechip folds
.pKoIkNeGr. raises [$1,200]
jeri58au folds
Kodakai folds
hutchy027 raises [$1,720]
hapot raises [$6,775]
.pKoIkNeGr. folds
** Dealing flop ** [ 7h, 2s, Ad ]
** Dealing turn ** [ 2d ]
** Dealing river ** [ 3h ]
** Summary **
hutchy027 shows [ Jd, As ]
hapot shows [ Kh, 5h ]
hutchy027 collected [ $5,140 ]

Notwithstanding me editing the handhistory, but I wouldnt lie here...

Personally I think AJ is marginal to 2 rtaises in front, but she short-stacked so understandable play.

AJG, i am interested in your thoughts as to why you min raised?

when raising you always should have a reason.

just interested. ill post thoughts after u reply

Seat 3: Kodakai ( $8,345 )

This guy took it down. LOL. A fine effort of poker. Eventually. LOL.

Snap all in.

Just coz I'm bored!

bennymacca wrote:AJG, I am interested in your thoughts as to why you min raised?

when raising you always should have a reason.

just interested. ill post thoughts after u reply

Sometimes, my 'bet amount' textbox wont accept input, and I didnt want to just flat call here, so I either had to flat call, minraise or allin to beat the clock. I wanted to reraise to get HU with initial raiser. I wouldnt push with JJ and the M I had, unless there were only 2 left live in the hand and I thought opponent would fold. Didnt really expect the BB to call or push over the top with the action before them (even with the SS).
Also, while I dont like minraises when u are the first raiser, I dont think they so bad for a reraise.

Well done Kodakai! U took me out with my pocket 3s on the SS, glad you made good use of my chips!

i just think in that case, a min raise just invites a shove over the top by the out of position player. lets say i had a decent but good hand, like AQ, 1010, 99, even AJ.

i would be opening with most of these hands.

with your min raise, there is no way in hell i am flat calling out of position with these sorts of hands. i am either shoving or i am folding.

so really, you are losing value from hands that you beat - either they shove and u have to fold, or they fold anyway. i would suspect that most hands that flat call here are beating you.

so i would either make a bigger raise or flat call and re-evaluate the flop in position