Stars $20&2 - What would you do?

[TexInAtl]

I made my highest finish today in an online MTT finishing 3rd in today's $20&2 on Pokerstars. I'm a little embarrased to admit this, but this forum has been instrumental in getting my game to this level.

There were a couple hands that I felt were key hands in this tournament, and I wanted to find out "what would you do?" I will post thoughts and results later.

Hand 1:

There has been so much discussion about AK on this forum that I thought this hand would be interesting.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t30 (9 handed)

UTG+1 (t440)
MP1 (t1320)
MP2 (t2310)
MP3 (t1940)
CO (t1690)
Button (t2360)
Hero (t1620)
BB (t630)
UTG (t1190)

Preflop: Hero is SB with A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
UTG folds, UTG+1 folds, <font color="CC3333">MP1 raises to t60</font>, MP2 calls t60, <font color="CC3333">MP3 raises to t180</font>, CO folds, <font color="CC3333">Button raises to t2360</font>, Hero ?

[Tosh]

Super-quick fold.

[TexInAtl]

Hand 2:

What do you do?

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t50 (8 handed)

SB (t2290)
BB (t3411)
UTG (t2970)
UTG+1 (t4290)
MP1 (t3752)
Hero (t1465)
CO (t4325)
Button (t1547)

Preflop: Hero is MP2 with K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
UTG folds, UTG+1 folds, <font color="CC3333">MP1 raises to t450</font>, Hero calls t450, CO folds, Button folds, SB folds, BB folds.

Flop: (t975) 5[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(2 players)</font>

[Tosh]

Move in preflop. His raise is 9BB he will normally call you.

[TexInAtl]

Hand 3:

Anyone think I could have gotten more out of this hand?

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t100 (9 handed)

CO (t4030)
Button (t2986)
SB (t4475)
BB (t2799)
UTG (t2772)
UTG+1 (t1650)
Hero (t2690)
MP2 (t8975)
MP3 (t3769)

Preflop: Hero is MP1 with A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
UTG folds, UTG+1 folds, <font color="CC3333">Hero raises to t200</font>, MP2 folds, MP3 folds, CO folds, Button folds, SB folds, <font color="CC3333">BB raises to t300</font>, Hero calls t100.

Flop: (t650) A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(2 players)</font>
<font color="CC3333">BB bets t250</font>, <font color="CC3333">Hero raises to t500</font>, BB calls t250.

Turn: (t1650) 6[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(2 players)</font>
BB checks, <font color="CC3333">Hero bets t1000</font>, BB folds.

Final Pot: t2650

[Nepa]

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I'm a little embarrased to admit this, but this forum has been instrumental in getting my game to this level.


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What are you some sort of tough guy that has to learn every himself? lol, congrat on the finish!

[Tosh]

Make 300 your standard raise, not 200. Make a bigger raise on the flop too.

[TexInAtl]

I meant that I'm embarrased to admit that 3rd is my biggest finish. I have made it to few final tables before, but usually so short stacked that I didn't really have a chance.

Using the knowledge gained from this forum, I actually made it to the final table with a good chance to win. If not for a complete brain fart, I might have had a really good shot at 1st and definately 2nd.

Thanks Nepa

[TexInAtl]

I feel like I made 1 mistake this whole tournament. Based on these statistics, anyone wanna guess how many chips my mistake cost me?

300 hands played and saw flop:
- 7 times out of 39 while in small blind (17%)
- 13 times out of 39 while in big blind (33%)
- 26 times out of 222 in other positions (11%)
- a total of 46 times out of 300 (15%)

Pots won at showdown - 12 out of 13 (92%)
Pots won without showdown - 28

[GoldenHorde]

Hand 3 - While a great flop for you is so full of draws you need to try and take it down right then instead of pricing him in and risking getting busted.