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World Series of Poker (WSOP) Situation: $500 buy in tournament. Top 100 pay and 175 players remaining and you’re 120th in chips. Blinds / Antes: 500/1,000/200 Your Position / Stack: Button / 13,000 Your Hand: 7s7c Action: UTG limped with 42,000 behind. ...Callers / Stack: Hijack / 25,000.
Do you:
A) Call and fold to a re-raise by either of the blinds B) Raise and fold to a re-raise C) Fold D) Push all in
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We are down to 13 BB. So if we get involved in a hand we can't limp or raise and fold against aggression. It is push or fold again, and a lot depends from the UTG player. Do we think he tries to trap here?
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I'm playing chicken and will call, but fold to any re-raise. So I chose "A" jsu because I'd like to make the top00 to win something. Good Luck to All! See you on Sunday BMW!
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Can't possibly raise unless going all-in but I don't think it's worth pushing. A middle pair is quite weak imo and there is no need yet to look for races, with 13 big blinds we should not be desperate enough that we need to gamble. Unless we have a good idea of what our opponents have.
Fold is probably the right move but I would call. It is unlikely that the big blind will raise unless he is short-stack. We'll have position on the flop so if it's a good flop we are likely to be able to play and get a lot of action. ie there will be a c-bet and we have them committed or we can bet to induce the call/raise. And if the flop isn't good 12 blinds isn't too bad to make a move as long as we don't find ourselves only calling the next few hands.
