$3.40 Level 1: WTF hand

[Ification]

All players are unknowns

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $3.00+$0.40 Tournament, 10/20 Blinds (10 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

CO (t1480)
Button (t1480)
SB (t1680)
BB (t1420)
UTG (t1500)
Hero (UTG+1) (t1500)
UTG+2 (t1440)
MP1 (t1500)
MP2 (t1500)
MP3 (t1500)

Hero's M: 50.00

Preflop: Hero is UTG+1 with J, J
1 fold, Hero bets t60, 2 folds, MP2 calls t60, 1 fold, CO calls t60, Button calls t60, SB calls t50, BB calls t40

Flop: (t360) 5, 3, 3 (6 players)
SB bets t20, 1 fold, Hero raises to t300, MP2 calls t300, CO calls t300, 1 fold, SB calls t280

Turn: (t1560) 5 (4 players)
SB bets t20

I'm lost

[Kijjo]

Isn't it obvious? You're up against Jd4d, As2c, 6h7d and 2c3s. duh!

[Nakamura]

You need to bet more to narrow the field a bit more before the flop. At lower stakes probably something like 80-120.

Raising 3/4 or the pot and getting 4 calls isn't a good sign. Unfortunately for you neither raising nor calling nor folding is going to make you money. If you raise and stack off you are often going to find one of your opponents has a 3 or 5. If you call, you give opps a chance to hit a free card and suck out on you. When you fold, you are sometimes going to be folding the best hand. I think I call and try to get a (very) cheap showdown.

[TLR]

1. In the $3.40 raise more preflop with big pocket pair, make it 5BB to go

2. As played I would not raise the flop, I would call and see what happens, if someone has a 3 you are in terrible shape, if someone has a hand like Ax diamonds you are racing or behind. I would call the donk minbet and see the action

[keepitstrict]

I agree, in early position I would go atleast 4x with a big pair...especially at these stakes.

[taipan168]

I agree with the others, I would make it 80-100 to go from early position with a big PP.

As played, I would raise the flop as you did, but probably a little less, say 250 or so. I do not want to just flat call because there are 5 opps seeing the flop so I want to charge them to draw.

On the turn, given that so many players called your flop raise, the 5 is a bad card for you, I'd probably just call down at this stage and see if we can show down our hand for cheap.

[99VPIP]

I'd bet more pre, approx 90, since these players are obviously willing to see flops for more as demonstrated by this hand.
Once we get to the flop, I'd actually bet a bit more since we have so many people who made it here, approx pot sized in my opinion.
Turn is a lol for sure, and I guess I'd check fold to any real bet because I find it pretty impossible that noone has either a 3 or a 5 at this point. Calling the 20 and other similarly ridiculous bets are fine I think.