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Old 07-26-2005, 10:47 PM
rhizome rhizome is offline
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Default Couple of hands: Laying down big pairs

Both of these are from Empire 25+2 tourneys

HAND 1: Good fold? Opponent plays well. He's tight preflop, but does tend to re-raise opponents often. I had seen about 150 hands with him over a couple of tourneys. At this point, there is somewhere between 15-25 players left of 200+. Preflop seems bad to me. What do you think?

No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t600 (9 handed) converter

MP1 (t4120)
MP2 (t39820)
MP3 (t8924)
Hero (t12723)
Button (t4084)
SB (t7394)
BB (t24184)
UTG (t8837)
UTG+1 (t10580)

Preflop: Hero is CO with K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">4 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">MP3 raises to t1200</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t2400</font>, <font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, MP3 calls t1200.

Flop: (t5700) A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 6[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
MP3 checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t2400</font>, MP3 calls [t6524] , Hero folds.

Final Pot: t8100


HAND 2: Standard play or should I look to dump this? This is at the final table, so each spot is worth significantly more. IMO, Opponent plays terrible. I had seen him for about 50 hands. He played over 30% of his hands and was not very aggressive. He often made min bets. Somehow he got a big stack early and had held onto it. Clearly the re-raise is a cause for concern since he had me covered, but I think my hand is too strong to be folding. Correct?

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t1000 (10 handed) converter


MP3 (t5080)
CO (t40457)
Button (t10876)
<font color="#C00000">Hero (t16574)</font>
<font color="#C00000">BB (t37240)</font>
UTG (t21214)
UTG+1 (t45421)
UTG+2 (t9755)
MP1 (t16233)
MP2 (t7150)

Preflop: Hero is SB with Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">8 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t3000</font>, BB calls t2000.

Flop: (t6000) 5[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 6[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t4000</font>, <font color="#CC3333">BB raises to t8500</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises all in</font>, BB calls
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