Brilliant lay down or wimpy fold?

[happyhornet]

Last nights GUKPT Poker Player freeroll. About an hour in, I am doing ok, have about 3500 chips. The blinds are 100/200 at this point: UTG (1600 chips) Raises to 650 Mid position (4000 chips) calls SB (me with JJ) calls BB (500 chips) goes all-in Should i have re-raised here? In hindsight maybe I should. Flop comes down 2d 2c 7c I check (no I don't know why either!!) UTG goes all in for 950 Mid position re-raises to 1500 I laid the hand down, fearing that I was up against a real monster. It still left me with an above average chip stack. 1. Please analyse the play to this point. I do have trouble with these kinds of hands. Unless I hit a set, in the face of an aggressive raise, i am often at a loss as to how to play it. 2. Would you have laid the hand down? Will post the actual outcome of the hand later. Steve

[Valiant23]

Re: Brilliant lay down or wimpy fold? 1. Please analyse the play to this point. I do have trouble with these kinds of hands. Unless I hit a set, in the face of an aggressive raise, i am often at a loss as to how to play it. As I see it you're behind to 7 hands (not counting 22) and the action suggests that the mid. position, with his isolation re-raise, has one of them, but he could also have A7, 88, 99, TT or a flush draw. 2. Would you have laid the hand down? Personally in this situation with JJ I'd probably get my chips in the middle here, dependant on my read of the mid position player. If you thought he was a tight player then I can understand and agree with the fold, but if he was one who played suited rags or any Ace then I'd take a shot at him.