Am I going bust here no matter what?

[Bad Beaten]

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t20 (9 handed) Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

saw flop|saw showdown

MP3 (t1480)
CO (t1400)
Button (t1420)
SB (t1580)
BB (t1500)
UTG (t1620)
UTG+1 (t1500)
Hero (t1500)
MP2 (t1500)

Preflop: Hero is MP1 with Q, A.
UTG raises to t100, 1 fold, Hero calls t100, 6 folds.

Flop: (t230) 3, A, A (2 players)
UTG bets t140, Hero calls t140.

Turn: (t510) 4 (2 players)
UTG bets t395, Hero raises to t1260, UTG calls t865.

River: (t3030) 5 (2 players)

Final Pot: t3030

Results in white below:
UTG has Kh Ac (three of a kind, aces).
Hero has Qh Ad (three of a kind, aces).
Outcome: UTG wins t3030.

[Im_new]

...simply put, YES!

[yourfather]

Yes, I am never folding that ever.

[Deafmann]

LOL, yeah this is made to go broke and you know what, be happy bout it LOL. Cause your not to blame.

[d0zer]

vs a solid player, I'd be tempted to fold preflop. What is a solid player's UTG raising range in the first blind level? TT+, AJ+/KQ+?

AQ doesn't fare that well vs that range, and when v is willing to play for stacks postflop, we're rarely ahead.

Too nitty?

[Illfavor]

Well I recently read an article, and I can't remember who it was by (TLR?), but they said they fold AKo and AQo to a raise early in a SnG almost always, and fold AQo in EP religiously. While youll be in position to the pflop raiser you'll too alsooften be facing a monster hand. That seems to be consistent strategy to almost never cc a raise from the person UTG, especially with KJ, KQ, AQ-AT. Just throw these hands away. I wrote this before reading the result.

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After the result, that just proves the point. AQ is terrible against a raise, and it just isn't worth the risk of domination when the blinds are so low. In these situations the fear of domination should be overwhelming. Sorry for your beat.

[Nakamura]

I have to agree with Dozer and Illfavor here. I'm folding AQ to an EP raise (>x4) unless the opponent is loose-aggressive. Calling is also acceptable but you have to realise that sometimes you are going to be dominated, and it's going to cost you a whole bunch of chips.

[taipan168]

vs a solid player, I'd be tempted to fold preflop. What is a solid player's UTG raising range in the first blind level? TT+, AJ+/KQ+?

My raising range from UTG level 1 is JJ+, AQ+ (I limp 22-TT and dump everything else). Don't know if I'm a solid player, but I do have a positive ROI over 2500 games

I agree with the fold preflop. If we were on the Button I might call and play carefully postflop on an A or Q high flop; if opp is LAGG I definitely call however. As played, you're definitely going broke on that flop and if UTG is a tight player, take the hand as a reminder as to why you fold AQ to such a player's range

[d0zer]

My raising range from UTG level 1 is JJ+, AQ+ (I limp 22-TT and dump everything else). Don't know if I'm a solid player, but I do have a positive ROI over 2500 games

You know damn right you're a solid player

I picked a slightly tighter UTG raising range than my full ring cash raising range, cause I wanted one of you tourney grinders to correct me.

I just post my gut instincts for hands in the SnG/MTT forums and wait for people who know what they're talking about to straighten up my cash-donk ass

[yourfather]

I don't think PF call is too bad against unknown. What buy in is this? Its about the worst hand I would call with besides set hunting.

Regardless as played you have to stack for sure. opp could do this with any ace and sometimes even with 1010+

[Bad Beaten]

$6.50 PokerStars 2 tables. Blinds were 10/20, so level 1.