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Originally Posted by richlp
Thanks for the responses so far. As for my sizing I agree that it is large. I will say, however, that this was perhaps the most aggressive table of the 5 or so times I have played this event and a 4x raise was not particularly out of line.
I should have mentioned raiser's stack size. He was one of the table chip leaders and, while I don't know his actual stack, he had four or five times my stack and could gamble and lose without being too adversely affected and with plenty of time to recover the loss.
Since there was no way I was just going to call (I wouldn't have enough chips to survive another round or two) and would be shoving the flop (probably even if an Ace or King appeared), I decided to shove.
Didn't work out well as he had AA and I didn't get lucky.
To change the scenario a little .......
Assume I had raised to 2000 and had been re-raised to 5000. What would be my best option then?
Thanks agains to everybody
Don't let the table's standard raise size change your game. Opening to 4x here, if you were doing it correctly, would make your range super tight. Much better to do as the other posters suggested and min raise, maybe a little over.
With 19BBs, it would take an extreme read to raise/fold here. You mentioned the word aggressive; that is not the read we'd be looking for to fold here.
QQ is supposed to go broke to AA, even with bigger stacks.