A few hands from my wonderful day.
 

Looking for reasons I'm such a donk.

Hand 1:
10/15 Blinds, 10 players, standard mix of stacks I have 925.

I have Ad Kd

3 folds, limp, fold, I make it 70, folded to SB who calls along with the limper.

Flop is 8d 2d 2c (Pot is 225)

SB bets out for 200, limper folds. Hero ...

Hand 2:
6 handed, 100/200 Blinds.

Hero has 540 and is UTG with K2o. Push/fold?

Hand 3:
Stacks: 5385, 2965, 920(me-SB), 730(BB)
Blinds 150/300
Big folds, Semi-agg Button pushes, I have AKs.

Hand 4:
8 handed, 25/50 Blinds I have around 900. Stacks behind me are all about the same or smaller.

Fold to me 2-off button with ATo. Action?

Hand 5:
Total number of players : 8
Seat 1: Hero (1095)
Seat 2: guy (1605)
Seat 3: SB (1120)
Seat 4: BB (810)
Seat 5: guy (2340)
Seat 6: villian1 (805)
Seat 7: guy (1305)
Seat 10: villian2 (920)

Blinds are 25/50.
Hero has Ad Qs

guy folds. V1 limps, guy folds, V2 limps

Hero ??


OK thats all for now. Was just looking at my HHs from last night and of the 1st 15 or so SNGs I looked at these were about the most interesting hands I could find (aside from 1 where I definately made a tilt-induced call of a fish, at which point I decided to quit for the night).

Re: A few hands from my wonderful day.
 

Maybe you'll get better responses, but Ill post my opinions
hand 1: I honestly dont think I could resist pushing this, simply because I cant see villain leading out weth 88 or A2 into PFR and EP limp\caller like this very often (more likely to check\raise or check\call with both), and those are the only 2 hands I could put him on that you are just utterly screwed with. seems more likely he has a small or medium pair, puts you on AK\KQ\AQ, and doesnt want to give up a free card - pushing might change his mind and in case you should have clean outs if he calls.
H2: I fold this. with 2.7 BBs you are most def getting called, and I think you are better off gambling in the blinds.
H3: I usually call here. SB might fold, and if he calls after you there are 2 of you to take him out and you likely have the best hand of the 3 anyway (if you fold and he folds its a disaster, if you fold he calls and doubles up its even worse)
H4: easy fold
H5: I probably limp behind, although raise to 150 isnt so bad if yer confident you can outplay the limper and are prepared to toss your hand if he comes over the top.

Re: A few hands from my wonderful day.
 

Here's what I would do (keep in mind I'm relatively new to NL tourneys, so let me know if I'm way off base)

Hand 1:
Tough decision, I'm either all-in or folding, but likely folding(maybe too weak-tight). I think he's probably got an 8 plus an overcard.

Hand 2:
Fold and wait a for a better situation. Too many yet to act for me to push.

Hand 3:
All-in

Hand 4:
I'd raise to 150 or 200.

Hand 5:
Raise, probably about 300.

Re: A few hands from my wonderful day.
 

1 Fold
2 Push
3 Call
4 fold
5 Raise 150

Re: A few hands from my wonderful day.
 

Hand 1: I'd move in... 2 overs and a flush draw for 15 outs and minimal FE to boot. I have villian on a random PP here... Anything from JJ-55 (excluding 88).

Hand 2: Horrible situation but I think you have to move in here. There are a fair amount of times where this gets folded to the BB and he is put in a terrible situation with 93o or something.

Hand 3: Call... Great chance you are a 3:1 favorite here. Other short stack is too similar in size to make this a fold.

Hand 4: I would probably fold A10o and raise with a hand like AJs from 2 off the button.

Hand 5: I raise to 200 in a hand where you are likely to have position on the flop. From the SB it would be trickier...

Re: A few hands from my wonderful day.
 

Hands 1-3: Push (in hand 3 you're pretty much doomed unless you get lucky).
Hand 4: Raise to 200, play poker on flop, fold to push from blinds, what to do w/limper push is read dependant.
Hand 5: Raise to 150, fold to push.

Re: A few hands from my wonderful day.
 

Hand 1, hero pushes and tries to get low pp's to muck.

Hand 2, hero pushes since k2 is better than what you are going to get dealt in the bb. I'd probably open up a new tournament before I clicked "all-in" though.

Hand 3, I call here. I mean his range is going to be really wide, you have a ton of hands dominated, and you are at 3xbb. Yes AKs isn't the best hand and I'd rather have TT+ but you gotta do what you can with what you got.

Hand 4, I raise to 125 and see what happens. I'm pretty aggressive though.

Hand 5, I raise to 200 and see what happens.

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1. Will players at the $50s bet out with top full or quads here? I can't imagine they'd do it often. Hard to put him on a single 2 after he calls your preflop raise. Dude's probably got a pair of some sort. Maybe he's willing to fold it, and you're about even money if he calls.

I would make it something like 550 and push turn if called, call push on flop.

I don't like moving in as much as that makes it easier for a hand like 66 to call you.

2. Kinda hard to answer without knowing something about the opponents, or at least about their stacks. I might push this if no one was desperate or huge.

3. I think you have to call, it's your last ticket out of a folding war for 3rd. Big bonus is that you have BB covered.

4. I fold, but I'm not sure that's good.

5. I think I'd limp, but if the big stack on the button seems to like raising limpers, I'd raise 150-200 to thwart him & buy the button & mebbe fold some people out.

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Hand 4: Raise to 200, play poker on flop, fold to push from blinds, what to do w/limper push is read dependant.
Hand 5: Raise to 150, fold to push.

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I think you have these backwards, dude.

Re: A few hands from my wonderful day.
 

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I think you have these backwards, dude.

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