Jacks in the BB facing two raises, WCOOP event #14

Game type: $1,050 No Limit Hold em Tournament on Poker Stars
Stage of tourney: 190/3325 remain
Avg stack: 262k
Your image: Fairly quiet
Opponent’s image: Both have been very quiet preflop for the last few orbits
Your hand: J♦J♣

This hand is taken from actual gameplay in WCOOP Event #14 on Poker Stars. This hand took place between downosaur, KaSTeL83 and mpx71. You’ll be standing in for mpx71.

The setup: It’s deep in the money of the $1,050 tournament that is WCOOP Event #14. You are sitting on a playable but below-average stack.

UTG folds and downosaur, who hasn’t opened a pot in over 20 hands, raises a little under 3x. KaSTeL83, who’s been just as quiet, insta-shoves for about 111k total.

The table folds to you. What’s your play with Jacks?

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Jeremy Fisher

I’m folding here 100% of the time. Both of these players playing real quiet, I mean come on the UTG+1 hasn’t opened a pot in over two orbits.
I’d be very surprised if at least one of these two doesn’t have me dominated. It’s unlikely you’ll get QQ to fold if he has it. You don’t have an immediate need to gamble here, especially when there’s such a good chance you’re dead in the water.
I’m quite surprised to see the shover show AQ; I’d included only AK and TT+ in his range. In any case, your just about best case scenario is a race.

PS – QQ here instead of JJ would be an 80% shove for me.

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Joe

Because of my position I only feel that I have two options raise or fold. In this situation though I’m folding and looking for a better spot.one of these can very easily have me beat and we’re in a coinflip with the other. We stilgave a playable stack
fold this hand here.

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Cristiano

IMO this is an easy fold.
I have enought chips to last around another 15 orbits; and JJ are just not good enought to face these 2 guys. I would only play/push AA/KK given the situation.

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onlinepokerincome.com

easiest question in a while

clear fold

when you go all-in preflop at this stage in the tourney you always want some fold equity, which you don’t have here

calling is always a bad thing to do in this game unless you are trapping, which you certainly aren’t in this case

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Ben

This was an easy fold despite knowing that you had the reraiser beat. Before reading the outcome i put kastel on AK or AQ. This is very stereotypical but knowing that he was quiet AS OF LATE wasnt necessarily a tell that he was tight. it was that he hasnt gotten cards in a while. Also, His screen name was Kastel83…which to me says that he was born in 1983.. which means hes probably DYING to play a hand! Hes got ADD most likely and just wanted to get in there and gamble. AQ was the best hand he had seen in a long time and his mom was calling him for dinner. Why else would he reraise a 16k bet to 112k. he was short stacked and had to make a move sometime, especially with the blinds only 2-3 hands away.

Anyway, the orginal raiser was who i was worried about and most likely you were behind him and if both called, you might be facing AK and AQ, and youd be in a whole lot of trouble without great pot odds and out of a big time tourney. even if you just called, youd be pot commited. Reward not greater than or equal to risk.

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