2 hands I am unsure about in one tournament

1C5 · #1 03-22-2005, 06:59 PM

Party $11

Hand 1:

A) How was my initial raise.
B) now what do I do?

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t100 (6 handed) converter

CO (t1671)
Hero (t2225)
SB (t793)
BB (t836)
UTG (t885)
MP (t1590)

Preflop: Hero is Button with A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]. SB posts a blind of t100.
BB calls t100, 2 folds, CO calls t100, Hero raises to t600, 1 fold, BB folds, CO raises to t1671 (All-In), Hero ?

Hand 2: Is this a stop and go for you, a push or a fold?

SB has min raised before and shown real hands each time.

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t400 (3 handed) converter

SB (t5565)
Hero (t1622)
Button (t813)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 3[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 3[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
1 fold, SB raises to t800, Hero?

Bigwig · #2 03-22-2005, 07:04 PM

1. I'd call the all-in.

2. I'm not sure here. I would need some sort of feel for the table. But my default answer is to push preflop.

curtains · #3 03-22-2005, 07:07 PM

Hand 1 - I would raise less preflop. I would raise to 350-450 range (Usually 400 even). After being reraised you should probably fold.

Hand 2 - Once again this has NOTHING to do with stop+go. A stop and go is a very specific case where you are calling for a large % of your stack and will act FIRST after the flop, thus giving yourself a chance to bet and push your opponent off of a hand, whereas they would be committed preflop. This doesn't work when its SB vs BB and you will act 2nd after the flop.

Anyway in hand 2 my instincts were to move allin preflop. However I ran it through the SnG Power Tool program and it claims that its slightly -EV to move allin, so I may have to reexamine this..

curtains · #4 03-22-2005, 07:08 PM

btw my advice of folding to the allin was assuming a normal raise, and not a sudden 6x BB raise. However it may be incorrect to fold in both cases, it just really means a lot to have 2k+ chips in a $11 sit and go.

Bigwig · #5 03-22-2005, 07:23 PM

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btw my advice of folding to the allin was assuming a normal raise, and not a sudden 6x BB raise. However it may be incorrect to fold in both cases, it just really means a lot to have 2k+ chips in a $11 sit and go.

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Oh, I didn't notice that.

Yeah, don't raise to 6BB there. That's silly. A standard 3BB raise is much better.