2 Super Monday Hands that I think I played correctly

[ZeeJustin]

***** Hand History for Game 873741740 *****
20/40 TourneyTexasHTGameTable (NL) (Tournament 5412454) - Mon Aug 23 21:34:16 EDT 2004
Table Super Monday(55661) Table 55 (Real Money) -- Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 7: Jeffreyr (1227)
Seat 8: ZeeJustin (870)
Seat 10: dalbo263 (1500)
TellDaddy posts small blind (10)
tmgrant50 posts big blind (20)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to ZeeJustin [ 8s, Ts ]
Jeffreyr calls (20)
ZeeJustin calls (20)
lanny100 folds.
dalbo263 calls (20)
allstar calls (20)
GO_LOW calls (20)
Nutriloquist folds.
jtgen folds.
TellDaddy calls (10)
tmgrant50 checks.
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 8h, Qc, Tc ]
TellDaddy checks.
tmgrant50 checks.
Jeffreyr bets (60)
ZeeJustin raises (250) to 250
dalbo263 calls (250)
allstar folds.
GO_LOW folds.
TellDaddy folds.
tmgrant50 folds.
Jeffreyr calls (190)
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 7c ]
Jeffreyr checks.
ZeeJustin checks.
dalbo263 bets (1230)
dalbo263 is all-In.
Jeffreyr folds.
ZeeJustin folds.
Creating Main Pot with $2120 with dalbo263
** Summary **
Main Pot: 2120
Board: [ 8h Qc Tc 7c ]

***** Hand History for Game 873749778 *****
20/40 TourneyTexasHTGameTable (NL) (Tournament 5412454) - Mon Aug 23 21:36:26 EDT 2004
Table Super Monday(55661) Table 55 (Real Money) -- Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 4: jtgen (1510)
Seat 5: TellDaddy (245)
Seat 8: ZeeJustin (600)
Seat 9: lanny100 (1165)
Seat 10: dalbo263 (2120)
tmgrant50 posts small blind (10)
Jeffreyr posts big blind (20)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to ZeeJustin [ Tc, Ts ]
ZeeJustin raises (60) to 60
lanny100 calls (60)
dalbo263 calls (60)
allstar folds.
GO_LOW folds.
Nutriloquist folds.
jtgen calls (60)
TellDaddy raises (245) to 245
TellDaddy is all-In.
tmgrant50 folds.
Jeffreyr folds.
ZeeJustin raises (540) to 600
ZeeJustin is all-In.

FWIW, the 2 hands were back to back.

[uw_madtown]

I was watching the first one, but I missed the second one. They both look right to me. Hard to put anyone on J9 in that first hand, so the flop bet is good (of course, gotta be cautious of a slowplayed J9). The turn fold is good too, I think. I know what he had though, so I might be thinking in a results-oriented manner. Seems like the correct play though to lay down 2 pair to that dangerous board and sudden aggression.

Second hand looks fine too. Shortstacked with TT, I'd want to be facing the other, shorter stack heads-up, so moving in is fine here. If you're called, you're called. Only 4 hands you're a dog to, right?

- UW

[durron597]

Hand 1) I fold preflop. I don't like playing such a blatant drawing hand out of position, though I like the limp in later positions... at a 10 handed table, I limp here 3 off the button, maybe 4 if I'm feeling loose.

Edit: I don't like open limping with suited connectors or one gappers either (just to clarify, obviously you didn't openlimp here)

Hand 2) I limp preflop here. I hate playing TT/JJ (and smaller pairs obviously) for a small raise preflop; you build too big of a pot with a vulnerable hand out of position. Given what happened, I don't like the isolation allin since you are not closing the action (you had a lot of callers of a raise behind you).

[uw_madtown]

[ QUOTE ]
Hand 1) I fold preflop. I don't like playing such a blatant drawing hand out of position, though I like the limp in later positions... at a 10 handed table, I limp here 3 off the button, maybe 4 if I'm feeling loose.

[/ QUOTE ]

I will agree with that -- pre-fold, I'd be folding unless I'm 2 off the button, with your stack. If you had double the stack, I think you can afford to limp a few more positions off the button.

- UW