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[Pure-Evil]

ok. here is the situation. blinds are 75/150 and a fairly tight player raises to 500 chips. a very weak and radical player goes all in with about 1200 chips...so i have 1200 to go or fold. i am not yet in this hand. it is still pretty early in the tourney, i have a decent stack but i want to build. i have about 2800 chips at this time.now, i am holding A J. the guy who went all in could be holding anything, he has busted out 3 times already playing stupid hands and rebought back in. buyins are now over though.i decided to go over the top to hopefully make it just heads up between me and the other loose guy so i went all in. now i was really not sure if i should do this or not. i was not involved in the hand, i was last to act though. i could have laid it down, but hell, it is pretty hard to lay a hand like that down with a crazy player all in right?the next to call is the tigh player. he is really debating because i have established myself at the table as a solid player. he even say this to me...then he says " there are only about 2-3 hands that have me beat right now" and i knew, uh oh. this is al pre flop btw.anyways, he calls and low and behold he has pocket J J, and the loose cannon from somewhere has A A, so now i'm almost drawing dead. flop comes out X K 10...so now i have straight draw, but never got the queen. next two cards were X K.now here is my question. hopefully Daniel will answer this fellow Canuck....did I make a major mistake going all in? is it better to lay down a big hand like that? I mean, I realize that A J is a drawing hand at best, but i honestly thought the other tight player had a small pair or something else. I know that's poker, but i would like to learn from this mistake so as to not make it again.WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE DANIEL??? thanks in advance for any advice!

[pokerplayer75]

ace jack is one of the hands I hate the most. I never call a raise with ace jack and don't have any trouble laying it down. With two raises you can be certain that it is the worst hand. The guy also made a bad call with the pocket jacks.

[sherric]

My first thought would be if the tight player raised three bets to go, to RUN. Sometimes it's better to watch the show than be a part of it. I have learned recently to lay down what I consider to be a big hand preflop if I think the fish at the table has be beat. Just an observation from an amatuer. Godd luck in your play!

[Kirney21]

pokerplayer75 said:

ace jack is one of the hands I hate the most. I never call a raise with ace jack and don't have any trouble laying it down. With two raises you can be certain that it is the worst hand. The guy also made a bad call with the pocket jacks.

i THINK THIS IS SOUND ADVICE. vERY HARD TO LAY DOWN AS A BEGINNER BUT YOU WILL FIND YOURSELF IN BETTER SITUATIONS THAN THIS DOWN THE ROAD.Why risk all of your chips pre flop if you agree this is a drawing hand? What if the wrong picture flops? You can lay it down.All the best, FlippinAces