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Tournament after torunament i face same situation and decision. Maybe someone could help me with my dillema.

Situation:
Its deep late stage of the tournament. I have about 50bb and its looking good. Ther are 114 people left. Iam above the average chip stack. Im on 44th place. I get QQ UTG and open with 4BB. There are no short stacks on the table so i dont need to slow play or raising minimum. Thats why i choose for opening with 4BB. My image is perfect. I have only shown big winning cards. No funny lucky hands like 68 suited. So I have tight agressive image.
The guy in the middel position going quickly all in and he has me covered. He has also tight agressive image. I do not put him on AA/KK because he will reraise me and will not put all in. So i know exactly where I am. He has AKs/AKof/AQs.
So i know its a race. Having 46 BB left (still looking good) and knowing i light favourite to win do i have to call him or not? In a cash game you call automatically.

But here you have a decision: if u miss a race then you are out with 50bb. If u do win u have a big chance to reach the final table.

So what is proper thing to do??
Thanks in advance!

Farid

In my oppinion I wouldn't open 4 big blinds cos your kinda not gonna get played back that light. I mean when you are playing against an oponent now you are playing against a much stronger range than if you 2.2x or something which isn't a good situation. You want to play aginst a wide range and by 4xing you are kinda forcing your opponents to only play against you with the top of thier range which isn't really a good situation for us. I agree I doubt he has aa or kk most the time although some guys do panic and ship it in, I think its also very liekly he could have TT, JJ aswell as ak aq. Say we know he holds exactly ak we have the age old arguement "do i need to and should I flip?" I think it depends on your edge on the table. Taking a flip is actually a good thing to do if you have a small edge or no edge on the table. This is because imagine the 2 scenarios. 50% of the time ur stack goes from 50bb to 100bb and 50% of the time u have 0bb. This might look like a 50bb swing either way but in reality it isn't. Having this 100bb stack now at this earlier stage is allowing you to float and reraise and make a ton of plays a 50bb stack does not allow you to do, So you are now winning more pots and gaining more chips with this 100bb stack than if you had folded the flip. So now everytime you dont take the flip your also losing out on these extra pots you can win from doubling up. If you think your edge is large on the table and you are confident you can find a better spot than this to get it in then I might fold but to me this looks like a clear cut call since our opponenets range is barely ever aa kk and almost always ak aq jj tt which qq plays really good against, imo if you fold here you are serioously screwin up any shot you have of winning this tourney.

just put it in and pray.

click the raise button.

then

click the call button.

Not really sure. I think it has been about a year since I 4x and thought that people respected my raise. This is normally a snap call but u get urself in a gross spot by raising too much and not as often. Raise less with more. Widen ur range so people play back light. How do u ever expect to four bet a hand if u make it 4x all day.

I am a fan iof the 7bb raise but that is normally ny three bet size in position.

All joking aside the 4x bet size is terrible here because all ur opponent needs to do is three bet and it becomes a sick spot. Open 2.2x opponent makes it 7bbs in position (maybe less). You can now decided on if u want to fold, four bet or flat. Also it would be suicidal for ur opponent to shove over 2.2 opens. I never looked into the math but if u are ever 4x folding it should be easy to exploit at these stacks sizes .

Open for 7x the big blind, that way if you get re-raised they can only have American Airlines and you can make the fold