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Originally Posted by
garrett
The reason I went from ~6100 to 4800 was right before I got moved the 2nd time I got QQ EP and opened 3x, got 3bet to 1200 (iirc or close) flatted tight amateurish guy so far. Flop came JJK I had QQ, I lead out ~40% of pot, he raises me. I folded QQ there on JJK flop, and then I got moved to brasilia on a table with Shorr+other all young players with ALOT of chips, oddly I would bet the guy I busted too and Shorr at that point in tourney, were both top 20 chip stacks in the tourney.
But I went down from ~6100 to the 4800 before the table move from pavilion to brasilia with QQ on a JJK flop (rainbow)
I have to agree with anonamoose that you should have shoved in.
There are a few reasons for this:
1) You're already a few levels in and have less than starting stack. So you can't use the argument of, "I already have plenty of chips, there's no point to throw them away in what could be a race or KK/AA situation".
2) You don't have enough chips to play the hand through postflop, unless the board is terrible and you end up folding. And yet you won't get most action postflop unless you're either outflopped (or already behind KK/AA), or facing a hand like 99/TT/JJ (which would have called your preflop shove anyway). So all you're doing by flatting there is robbing yourself of postflop value while letting hands behind you catch up. It's not like you would have been able to fold to a shove on a 883 board.
3) You are well behind the chip average (especially after calling 1200 and not winning), so you might as well get it in and hope to win a race or already be ahead (or perhaps pick up the pot uncontested if he folds to your shove). Simply put, you need to win chips at this point.
Note that I defended your QT/AQ bustout hand, and 100% would have done the same as you in that spot.
This is just one of those times you shove it in with your QQ, hope you're not facing AA/KK, and hope you don't get outflopped otherwise. It's definitely not a lock to win by any means, but you have to win hands like that if you want to have a shot at even cashing, let alone hitting a big score.
Or, simply put, you're always 4-bet-shoving QQ in a non-Main-Event, non-Extended-Play WSOP tournament if you or your opponent has a stack well below average.