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how to play these hands, after the opponent makes a big raise from UTG1?is it worth dropping or still trying to play, immediately in the head there are a lot of thoughts that the opponent has at least A K or a ready strong pair of type A A K K Q Q?
 
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Do you think that anytime your opponent raises from UTG+1 they have AK+? Even if they do have those hands you could win some of the time. If it's just a standard preflop raise, I would surely call to see a flop and then reevaluate. You even have position on them.
 
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Hi, difficult decision because it does not depend on just the hand you have AQ-AJ- A10, it depends on your stack and on what part of the tournament you are, as well as how you evaluate this player's game style, so I mention my possible answers depending of some of these situations that I mentioned before:

1) If my stack is short and the blinds are going to kill me then the answer is obvious allin.
2) If my stack is good but the player is a loose-aggressive I probably call.
3) if my stack is medium and is a Tight player I fold.
3) If I have a very good stack and I'm encircling the ITM fold
4) In the final stages of the tournament after considering how many blinds I have and my chance to win the tournament and the villain's stack will not put me in a position to be eliminated, I call.

These are my considerations about the approach with these hands.

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It depends on the position in the game and your opponents.
On the speed of tournaments too. For example, in a turbo sng tournaments at an early stage, I would dropping a10
In multi-table tournaments I play with a10 from the position at all stages. I look at the flop, 3b calls if it is small in the early stage and middle. At a later stage I do 3b from the position and calls 3b out of position if my stack above average.
 
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