[grandgnu]

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Two questions. Probably easy to answer. Please comment my play, flame me and laugh at me as well if you want to.

Party MTT 10,000 guaranteed.

Hand 1:
Blinds 150/300

I have $5500 which is a little above the average stack.
I get [ Ad Ks ] in EP and raise to $900.
Folded to SB, $9000, who calls.

Flop comes [ 7s, Tc, 5h ]

Villain checks.
I make a continuation bet of $750.
Villain raises $3500.
I fold.

Should I have bet more or just checked here?

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You're in EP, so a raise should be respected (provided your opponents are thinking opponents)

He has more chips than you do, AND he called out of position, which means one of three things:

1. He's a donk who doesn't understand how to play

2. He has a monster that he's decided to slow-play

3. He has a speculative hand that he's willing to defend with, but not willing to re-raise with (let's say.....pocket 9's through pocket Jacks?)

There is around 2100 in the pot pre-flop and he checks, you bet 750 (weak bet) and he re-raises. Your fold is correct, but he might've hit a set and planned to check-raise you if you had bet more anyway.

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Hand 2:


Level 6 Stakes 150/300

I´m a little short stacked with $3500, big stack at the table has $16000
and four players are around my stacksize.

I get [Ad Qh] under the gun.

I minraise $300. Folded to SB, with $1430, who raises an additional $375.
I call so I won´t be totally committed if the flop looks too scary.

Flop comes [ Jd, Qs, 5h ]

Villain bets $150. I call because a minraise on the flop after a reraise preflop seems
suspicious. What would the shortstack do here if the flop totally missed him?

Turn is [ 9s ]

Villain checks.
I raise $300. I don´t think the turnplay is all that wrong, but should I have reraised on the flop?

River is [ Ts ]

Villain pushes in his last $230.
I call.

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Your first problem is the min-raise. EXTREMELY donkish move, I see it all the time online. You have 3500 chips with blinds at 150/300. You can't afford to be min-raising. You're almost in push or fold mode given your stack and the blinds.

The other short-stack who has half your stack proceeds to min-raise your raise, which pot-commits him based on his stack size. I would've pushed him all-in at this point. I might've pushed all-in from UTG with only 3500 chips.

Once you hit the Queen on that flop, against his remaining chip stack, it's an easy push, you can't fold here.

He either had K/K or A/K, so either you outflopped him and he rivered you, or he had you beat the whole way, even after you hit your Queen. Either way, the betting was terrible on your part.