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Live tournament about 45 minutes in. Playing 8 handed. Blinds are 150/300. I have about 4000. Raise to 1000 with JJ in early position. Get called by a middle position and bb pushes. She has been playing ABC poker. I put her on over cards, so I call for another 1000+. Then the middle position player goes over the top. At this point I know I'm beat, but I only have 1000 left in a pot of 10,000+. So I call since I'm pot committed. Middle position player has AA, and bb has KK. I bust out.
 

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If I am reading this right, you raised 3.3 BB (1000) after the flop, which is right.
However, when BB pushed, that should have sent up a red flag, and at that point I would have cut my losses and laid down those Jacks.
 

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I agree with BillHill as once the second player pushed over the top I doubt both of them just have over cards. I would also say with the initial call after the push you still have a chance to get away from it as you won't be completely crippled and still have 2000 in chips. I've seen crazier things live but your only hope in this case is that both have AK as in this case most of the time you are probably a pretty big underdog most of the time.
 

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If I am reading this right, you raised 3.3 BB (1000) after the flop, which is right.
However, when BB pushed, that should have sent up a red flag, and at that point I would have cut my losses and laid down those Jacks.

Sorry for explaining it poorly. This was all preflop.
 

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If one player calls you, and BB raises, let go of those Jacks.
The answer to your question is you overplayed your Jacks.
 

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Thanks for your help. I have been wrecking my home game (60% win rate), but I've been running terribly lately. I'm trying to find some leaks. This all culminated Wednesday. I was heads up against a bum for $250. He called me all ins preflop with 63os and J4. He would call any raise as long as it was less than the pot. He would always bet on the turn. I still lost because I couldn't get a single hand. I lost with A7 against A10 on a AAx flop. It was aweful. Then at this live game, I flopped two pair then the board paired on the turn to ruin that. Then I would have eliminated a donk with AJ but another person went all in, so I had to fold. First I couldn't get a sinlge hand (I played 15 hands in a 10 hour span at my home game) then my solid hands kept getting raped. I'm alright with all this as long as I'm playing well. I'm worried I might not be. So against, thanks for the help. Damn jacks.
 

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What Doyle says about AQ is spot on.
You hate to lay it down, but when that King comes out on the flop and the dude next to you is pushing, you gotta lay AQ down, it hurts to lay AQ down.
 

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Raise to $650-$680. You can lay it down easier without compromising the ability to 4bet when you get 3-bet. Based on the way the action went 3 ways, you got trapped in the middle and can't lay it down after you put most of your chips in regardless of what they have.
 

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Thanks for the help rpark. Raising close to 2x seems logical in these situations. I will keep this in mind.
 

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