Playing now Empire $5000 guarantee.. a couple plays

[Jman28]

Wondering what u think of a couple of these plays i made. I feel good about the first hand, but not sure about #2.

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t600 (10 handed)

MP2 (t5860)
MP3 (t10823)
Hero (t11911)
Button (t340)
SB (t8552)
BB (t10650)
UTG (t9775)
UTG+1 (t1354)
UTG+2 (t6990)
MP1 (t2026)

Preflop: Hero is CO with A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
<font color="CC3333">UTG raises to t1200</font>, UTG+1 folds, UTG+2 folds, MP1 folds, MP2 folds, MP3 calls t1200, <font color="CC3333">Hero raises to t3000</font>, Button folds, SB folds, BB folds, UTG calls t1800, MP3 calls t1800.

Flop: (t9900) 6[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(3 players)</font>
<font color="CC3333">UTG bets t1000</font>, MP3 folds, <font color="CC3333">Hero raises to t8911 (All-In)</font>, UTG calls t5775 (All-In).

Turn: (t25586) 5[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(2 players, 2 all-in)</font>

River: (t25586) 8[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(2 players, 2 all-in)</font>

Final Pot: t25586


Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t600 (8 handed)

SB (t5260)
BB (t4865)
Hero (t24386)
UTG+1 (t340)
MP1 (t17129)
MP2 (t14550)
CO (t6090)
Button (t1126)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with T[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
<font color="CC3333">Hero raises to t1800</font>, UTG+1 folds, MP1 folds, MP2 folds, CO folds, Button folds, SB folds, <font color="CC3333">BB raises to t4865 (All-In)</font>, Hero calls t3065.

Flop: (t10030) 6[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>

Turn: (t10030) 5[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>

River: (t10030) 4[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>

Final Pot: t10030

[Garland]

Hi Jman28,

I played in a couple of these earlier. It's kind of nice that not enough players signed up to meet the guaranteed amount, huh?

Hand #1, AKo. I strongly feel that if you're going to play this now, you should push this all the way. You raised to T3000 after UTG raised to T1200 and MP3 calls the T1200 raise? There's now T6300 in the pot if you raised it that much. No person should fold for that T1800 more as they're simply given odds (T6300:T1800). You should definitely push or fold in this spot and give them incentive to fold!

Bottom line:

1) You have fold equity. Use it! You'd rather they both fold, but if not...
2) You want one to fold and get it heads up
3) You want to see all 5 cards with AK no matter what.

Hand #2

This hand looks fine. Your stack is very big, so that is of no concern to you. You have a hand that only fears 4 other hands, and it's quite likely you have a hand that beats BB anyways. Standard call.

Garland

[Jman28]

Thanks..

You're right. On both counts. I'm not really sure why I didn't push the AK.