Sevens multiway preflop, NL MTT

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Game type: $150 freezeout, Full Tilt Poker
Stage of tourney: Early stages
Your image: Fairly aggressive
Opponent’s image: No strong read
Your hand: 7♦7♣

The setup: You’ve picked up a couple of chips so far in this tournament with some fairly active preflop play and not many showdowns. This hand you get 77 in late position. You make it 3x and a bigger stack on the button flats. The SB folds and now the BB shoves for 1610 total.

The action’s on you. What’s your play?

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Groundhog day

Likely flipping with little invested and a big stack still to act I fold.

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samo

With over 25bbs left, I think you are facing a V trying to double-up by over-playing a big pair. Even though Hero has plenty of chips, I’d fold.

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Pirate21

Possible he’s just making a move or possible he has a smaller PP, but without strong read this is a pretty easy fold for me.

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Anonymous

What are my odds of flopping a set or all-in flopping a higher pair or pulling something better in the end? I am guessing I don’t win this more than 1 out of 4 times. Don’t like the odds to stay with one to act. Fold.

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general johnson jameson

Even though he is the short stack at the table, in reality he’s still at an M of 17. No where near desperate yet, this looks to me to be a play to pick up an easy 450. Our aggressive image gives our raise zero respect, which is probably letting the button call a lot lighter than usual.

If we call, the button will for sure be calling. 77 isn’t a hand we take against 2 people. If we raise, we’re going all in, and if button calls are we really prepared to go down this early in a tourney with over 40M and a pair of 7′s? The BB also knows he is shoving against a guy who has him covered almost 10:1, and even though BTN is only getting about 1.2:1, Harrington would say this is a call with ATC.

I’m folding here, and if BTN wants to rock let him roll. BB can get a little freebie here, that’s ok. We weren’t crippled in the slightest, and the BB doesn’t gain anything significant that makes him any more of a small threat than he already is.

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