Weak jack on the CO to open, NL MTT

DailyHandQuiz

Game type: $109 freezeout, PokerStars
Stage of tourney: 16 players remain
Your image: Tight
Opponent’s image:
Your hand: J♦7♦

The setup: You’re deep in this 109 freezeout on Stars. Two tables remain.

You’ve been pretty tight when the following hand comes up. You get Q8s in the CO and the table folds.

What’s your play?

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general johnson jameson

I’m confused here. This isn’t even a quiz, this is just a basic question with no context. Since we don’t have a hand, there are only a few things that matter. How have F, SB, and BB been playing. Is H a maniac with a roller coaster stack? Has SB had our number all day? Is BB in auto-fold mode til final table? We’re not desperate yet, so it isn’t like we need to cash in our image chips yet on a raise. Without even a single opponent image provided, this should be an auto-fold. Like I said it’s not even a question.

Well, wait not quite. I guess the real question here is “Should you open raise from the CO with no hand against the short stack and the 2 big stacks with ~12M and zero reads?” I’m positive the answer here should always be NO.

At least provide 2 of the 3 with an image so we can have at least at minimum some kind of debate here. Otherwise this is a default fold.

“This one time, I had KJ in middle pos, what should I have done?!”

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Anonymous Reply:
October 7th, 2010 at 3:48 am

^ The man’s got a point ^

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Groundhog day

Finally a quiz we can all agree on.

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_CityBorn_

the quality control on these quizzes is top notch.

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Major Dude

This whole quiz is like a bad dream – our hole cards are constantly changing; no one will tell us if we’re in the money or not; opponents are totally inscrutable, etc.

I’m praying for the alarm clock to go off. Because if we get involved, it’s a sure thing that the game will morph into PL Omaha – everyone else will have four cards — we’ll still have only two — some big guy with a knife will make a play for the chips — and the cops will show up.

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Pirate21 Reply:
October 7th, 2010 at 8:28 am

But we do have four cards… apparently QJ78 double suited.
(And I’d definitely open-raise with that if it were PLO
I have a good plan for the dude with the knife though… be the first one out the door.

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catcher Reply:
October 7th, 2010 at 8:46 am

We are in the money all right with 16 players remaining on Stars $109 tourney. The question is basically this “what is your opening range at CO with effective M of 10 and do you also defend with the lower end of your range should you get played back to”.

FWIW, I would be hesitant getting involved with suited 3-gappers like Q8s or J7s — if we get raised there is very little space to maneuver.

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Everyone who votes on this quiz is a fish!

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samo

Well, two things are for sure. If we raise w/J7s, then Q8 will hit the flop. If we raise w/Q8s, then J7 will hit the flop.

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Waste_of_Paint Reply:
October 7th, 2010 at 11:58 am

That made me laugh

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Pirate21

Okay, admittedly this is a foolish quiz so trying to evaluate the voting is ridiculous, but still….. Seriously with the Raise/Call?
Putting around 15-20% of our stack in the middle…P/F…with Q8s or J7s???? That’s just insane.

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Not a Fish

Push all in and try and hit quad jacks on the flop.

Hope to then fade Q Turn and Q River when your opponent tables QQ

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