This isn’t really all that interesting of a hand, but I’m supposed to do one from every day I play, so this is from the $500 Sunday tournament that Full Tilt has quarterly or whatever.
We’re about two hours into the tournament, which has a very good structure. Blinds are 120/240 with probably some kind of ante. I am dealt Q’s in the SB, which is the best hand I’ve seen all tournament. A very tight player min-raised to 480 UTG+1, and already I wasn’t happy with the situation. He had around 8000 chips, which was going to make things very awkward for me. I can’t really reraise and then fold to an all in (or maybe I can? as you’ll see, the situation grew more complicated), but I’m not in very good shape against his jamming range. If I just call, the blinds may well come in too, and I could end up playing QQ out of position in a 3- or 4-way pot.
Anway, before I could worry too much about this, the CO-1 reraised to 1500. Given that I was already a little suspicious of UTG+1’s min-raise, I could maybe have just folded right here. But I decided to call the reraise cold instead, hoping that the strength of this call would freeze the action unless someone had a really big hand. I left about 9000 behind.
Undeterred UTG+1 reraised, but not all in. Super fishy, though I was surely folding even if he jammed. CO-1 jammed over the top, I folded, and they had AA and KK, respectively. My Q hit, but so did the K.