A tough call with 55

[Stripclubjunkie]

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t100 (9 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx

UTG+1 (t1525)
MP1 (t1859)
MP2 (t2790)
MP3 (t2260)
CO (t3218)
Button (t802)
SB (t1085)
BB (t4581)
Hero (t1880)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with 5, 5.
Hero raises to t300, UTG+1 calls t300, 3 folds, CO calls t300, 1 fold, SB calls t250, BB calls t200.

Flop: (t1500) 3, 7, 3 (5 players)
SB calls [t835] , BB folds, Hero calls [t1580] , UTG+1 folds, CO folds.

Final Pot: t1500

Im thinking that i should have raised a lot more pf? I'm putting him on high cards of some kind(AK,AQ,AJ,KQ,KJ), so I decided to call his all in...Thoughts, completely retarded or allright...

[AHiltz]

Why are you raising 55 pf utg?

[Jimmy Mac]

I love my low pocket pairs, but I would probably fold 55 UTG here. Your stack is too shallow to limp it, and much too deep to raise.

[Stripclubjunkie]

They have folded to bets from utg before, but i must say i wish i didn't raised it pf... I would usually fold this... But would you make the call if u were allmost sure he had AK?

[Aces]

Fold - two guys left to act and you could be dominated by SB if he has a PP>55 , which would be my guess. What makes you so sure he has two hi cards? Maybe if they're both spades, which also isn't good.

[GatorJH]

They have folded to bets from utg before, but i must say i wish i didn't raised it pf... I would usually fold this... But would you make the call if u were allmost sure he had AK?

Does that really matter? You have a low pocket pair and are 8 to 1 against flopping the set. Also, although you don't specifically mention it, my guess is that (based on this play) you have been pretty active and/or aggressive. If that is the case people are more likely to play with weaker hands that have the potential to be better than yours after the flop.

[Sprayed]

Fold pre-flop. As played fold on flop. Thinking either flush draw or over pair. Maybe you're line of thinking with high cards.

[Stripclubjunkie]

They have folded to bets from utg before, but i must say i wish i didn't raised it pf... I would usually fold this... But would you make the call if u were allmost sure he had AK?

Does that really matter? You have a low pocket pair and are 8 to 1 against flopping the set. Also, although you don't specifically mention it, my guess is that (based on this play) you have been pretty active and/or aggressive. If that is the case people are more likely to play with weaker hands that have the potential to be better than yours after the flop.

I havent been aggressive the entire tourney...I was very confident that he had AK, just a real gut feeling...B/c I could really see him pushing this even it missed him...He was shortstack, so this was really his last shot at it...

[Warpe]

Your call was probably good based on your read but, like everybody else, I hate playing this as you did from UTG. Fold pre-flop. If you'd limped and SB had raised/pushed pre-flop, how would you have played this? Your raise pre-flop committed you to calling SB's push.

[Aplomado]

I love my low pocket pairs, but I would probably fold 55 UTG here. Your stack is too shallow to limp it, and much too deep to raise.

[Rockymv]

Fold PF

[aislephive]

I fold preflop, but that aside I hate your call of the all in. Why would he bluff an AK into four other players, one of which raise UTG with a pretty shallow stack? I think he probably has something like 99 or TT and likes the flop of all low cards and figured his hand was good so he pushed. He might have something like two overcards and a flush draw, which still isn't a favorable situation for you. I think it's an easy fold on the flop.