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Sit and Go on Bodog.Chipleader was formerly the shortstack. He has pushed all-in 15 of the last 20 hands. Has gotten lucky on a couple, and hasn't been called the others.How do you play against someone like this? I tried being patient since I had a good stack of my own. I decide to wait for a strong hand. Finally, I'm dealt QQ and am 2nd to act. I limp. Another player limps. Pusher pushes - of course.I . . .

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Sit and Go on Bodog.Chipleader was formerly the shortstack. He has pushed all-in 15 of the last 20 hands. Has gotten lucky on a couple, and hasn't been called the others.How do you play against someone like this? I tried being patient since I had a good stack of my own. I decide to wait for a strong hand. Finally, I'm dealt QQ and am 2nd to act. I limp. Another player limps. Pusher pushes - of course.I . . .
call/push - no brainer - he's pushing 75% of his hands - he doesn't have AA, KK 75% of the time.How worried are you about the other limper, and does he have you covered?
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Sounds like you already know how to play against him - stay out of his way until you have a real hand, then call. QQ is plenty good enough. If you don't take his chips, the next guy to pick up QQ,KK,or AA will, most likely.

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I would probably call this with anything all the way down to A9 if there was no limper to deal with. The quality of hands needs to go up with him still there b/c he could very easily be doing the same thing you are, but this is still an easy call IMO.You're probably going to say you called and he turned over AA KK or AK, I hope not though.

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I would probably call this with anything all the way down to A9 if there was no limper to deal with. The quality of hands needs to go up with him still there b/c he could very easily be doing the same thing you are, but this is still an easy call IMO.You're probably going to say you called and he turned over AA KK or AK, I hope not though.
Nope. I'll post results later.
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How you play Q-Q here depends on what you're looking to do I think.If you want to amass a truckload of chips and go for the win, limping here to induce the push is fine. You then of course, call.If you don't want to tangle with the big stack, you probably should raise pre-flop and hope he chucks his hand so you can take on smaller stacks yourself. You win that hand (we'll just say) and then let that guy make others go broke or go broke himself while you safely stay out of the way until the chaos is over (unless you pick up another monster hand).Overall though, if you're looking to grab a huge chiplead and take control of the table, I like how you played it.

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