MTT 300$ freeroll hand, comments?

unreg1987

Hey guys,

I've been reading posts fairly regularly here but this is the first hand I'm posting. This is from a freeroll MTT, 2300 out of 9000 left, average stack was around 8000 at that point, I had 12000. As u can c I bet 2.5 times BB on JJ (comments?). I was a bit tentative as both guys left in had me covered and I'd only lost money since I'd been moved to that table. Flop comes [ 5s, 7h, 4s ] but I still (eventually) decide to push, in spite of reraises. I ran this thrugh a poker calc and it came up with 54% win % for my hand after flop (other players had 6 6 and 10 10). Could you please give me advice on whether the push was correct in the situation.

Thx guys I'm new to posting hands so I've probably rambled a lot

#Game No : 4507643585
***** Hand History for Game 4507643585 *****
NL Texas Hold'em Trny:24796177 Level:6 Blinds(300/600) - Tuesday, June 13, 16:32:16 ET 2006
Table $300 Freeroll(728451) Table #176 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 2: godoesntplay ( $12203 )
Seat 7: hugzz111 ( $28356 )
Seat 10: Raisinmuck ( $300 )
Seat 5: merrillxc ( $93239 )
Seat 3: Missouri_19 ( $7825 )
Seat 1: GamingJulie ( $710 )
Seat 6: flashkowski ( $390 )
Seat 8: Mantango ( $610 )
Seat 4: ymiomd ( $16682 )
Seat 9: waynenelms ( $150 )
Trny:24796177 Level:6
Blinds(300/600)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to godoesntplay [ Js Jh ]
GamingJulie folds.
Raisinmuck folds.
waynenelms folds.
Mantango folds.
godoesntplay raises [1500].
Missouri_19 folds.
ymiomd folds.
merrillxc calls [1500].
flashkowski folds.
hugzz111 calls [900].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5s, 7h, 4s ]
hugzz111 checks.
godoesntplay bets [5410].
merrillxc raises [10820].
There will be a break in 2 minute(s)
hugzz111 calls [10820].
godoesntplay is all-In [5293]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ad ]
hugzz111 checks.
merrillxc checks.
** Dealing River ** [ 8h ]
hugzz111 checks.
merrillxc checks.
hugzz111 shows [ 6h, 6c ] a straight, four to eight.
godoesntplay doesn't show [ Js, Jh ] a pair of jacks.
merrillxc doesn't show [ Tc, Ts ] a pair of tens.
hugzz111 wins 234 chips from side pot #1 with a straight, four to eight.
hugzz111 wins 36909 chips from the main pot with a straight, four to eight.
Player godoesntplay finished in 2367 place

pok3rplaya

Its fine. This is a bad beat. wp

unreg1987

pok3rplaya wrote:

Its fine. This is a bad beat. wp

WoW. I very rarely play hands well

Hitman Actual

Maybe raise a bit more pre-flop, and bet a bit less on the flop. You've put half your stack in on the flop, leaving yourself with 10BBs, so you're definately pot-commited. If you bet less on the flop, you can then maybe decide to get out to any serious action after you, but seeing as it's a freeroll JJ is probably good here a lot of the time. The all-in call is fine as it plays out.

TBH, I wouldn't even class it as a bad beat, the winner had a pair and an open-ended straight draw which is a decent holding here.

unreg1987

lenny_leonard wrote:

Maybe raise a bit more pre-flop

Well, I was actually afraid of just picking up the blinds if I raised any more, as there were quite a few AFKers (4-5 I think). On the other hand, those people who did stay in this hand had played very aggressively up till then.

Hitman Actual

unreg1987 wrote:

Well, I was actually afraid of just picking up the blinds if I raised any more

Fair enough, there's nothing wrong with that thinking, although JJ is a bit more vulnerable than the higher pairs so just picking up the blinds isn't a total disaster.