Wedded To Your Hand?

I used the coupon I won in the Monday night game to enter the $10 rebuy satellite to the $2k GTD. This lovely smack in the face happened early on in that tourney. I wasn`t going to write this up but I mentioned it to Murry so here it is.

Blinds were still at 5/10, we were maybe eight or so hands into the game when I find myself with AA in middle position. A couple of players limp into the pot and then the next player raises to 50. I re-raise to 150 and much to my surprise the cutoff flat calls. Everyone folds round to the initial raiser who promptly pushes all-in. Obviously I insta-call and I`m pretty surprised when the cutoff also calls.

I`m up against KK from the initial raiser and JJ from the cutoff. A jack hits the flop and I get no help on the turn and river and I leave in disgust. Rebuying would have been pointless given my frustration at losing that hand.

I really had to bite my tongue because I just couldn`t see how the JJ could make that call. Ok it`s a rebuy but look at the action before he even calls the first bet never mind the all-in... 5xBB from early position, re-raised to 15xBB and then after he makes the initial call he faces two all-ins.

I`d ask what he was thinking but that`s obviously pointless. The answer is he wasn`t thinking, he saw that big pair and couldn`t let it go. Don`t get me wrong, it worked out for him but he should have realised the best situation he could be in would be to be up against two big aces with big kickers. Worst case he`s up against a bigger pair/pairs.

That would have been an easy fold for me once the initial raiser was re-raised and definitely a mucking hand vs two all-ins.