hands from a stars 180-person MTT

*I am I_Heart_Chan in the HHs
These are a couple of hands from my latest

180 SNG on stars, and I wanted some

opionions/advice/constructive critism on.

I'm not too worried about how they were

played pre-flop, even though I know neither

of them may have been the best play, I'm

more concerned with the post flop play on

all the streets.

Hand 1: was getting 2.3:1 on my money pre-

flop, and I figured there was a chance I

was ahead, so I decide to take a flop and

go from there. the player that raised had

gotten a bit aggro and had been raising a

lot of pots. On the turn, I decided to

semi-bluff as I figured he missed the board

completly. when he re-raised, I had pot

odds to call because of my OESD. The river

seemed REALLY fishy to me, and I suspected

I had the best hand:

PokerStars Game #3039912964: Tournament

#15018999, Hold'em No Limit - Level IV

(50/100) - 2005/11/12 - 14:13:20 (ET)
Table '15018999 9' Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: m16h/24h (6000 in chips)
Seat 2: smygelfh (1535 in chips)
Seat 3: DMIZZLE22 (1985 in chips)
Seat 4: Triple B2 (2925 in chips)
Seat 5: Horace65 (2045 in chips)
Seat 6: GSmurph29 (950 in chips)
Seat 7: I_Heart_Chan (2945 in chips)
Seat 8: kurt23x (3410 in chips)
Seat 9: CDadyDollars (1420 in chips)
GSmurph29: posts small blind 50
I_Heart_Chan: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to I_Heart_Chan [7h Ah]
kurt23x: folds
CDadyDollars: folds
m16h/24h: folds
smygelfh: folds
DMIZZLE22: raises 185 to 285
Triple B2: folds
Horace65: folds
GSmurph29: folds
I_Heart_Chan: calls 185
*** FLOP *** [Ts 8d 9h]
I_Heart_Chan: checks
DMIZZLE22: checks
*** TURN *** [Ts 8d 9h] [9d]
I_Heart_Chan: bets 300
DMIZZLE22: raises 300 to 600
I_Heart_Chan: calls 300
*** RIVER *** [Ts 8d 9h 9d] [5d]
I_Heart_Chan: checks
DMIZZLE22: bets 700
I_Heart_Chan: calls 700
*** SHOW DOWN ***
DMIZZLE22: shows [Kc Qd] (a pair of Nines)
I_Heart_Chan: shows [7h Ah] (a pair of

Nines - Ace kicker)
I_Heart_Chan collected 3220 from pot

Hand 2: just attempting a blind steal here

with some rags. the BB is aggro, and I had

seen him pull the stop-n-go play before. I

had gotten blinds off of him before, but he

did seem to like to defend, so I probably

shouldn't have tried to steal with such a

crappy hand.
well, the board comes equally raggy, I

figured he had missed and was pulling a

stop-n-go again. do you make this call on

the flop?

PokerStars Game #3039959850: Tournament

#15018999, Hold'em No Limit - Level IV

(50/100) - 2005/11/12 - 14:20:08 (ET)
Table '15018999 4' Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: Lock H J (4084 in chips)
Seat 2: voltt (3574 in chips)
Seat 3: Peekiboo81 (2710 in chips)
Seat 4: frank_stibor (1830 in chips)
Seat 5: Gamlin (7810 in chips)
Seat 6: ashygirl (3240 in chips)
Seat 7: I_Heart_Chan (4080 in chips)
Seat 8: NavyRick (5002 in chips)
Seat 9: CDadyDollars (1370 in chips)
NavyRick: posts small blind 50
CDadyDollars: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to I_Heart_Chan [4c 8s]
Lock H J: folds
voltt: folds
Peekiboo81: folds
frank_stibor: folds
Gamlin: folds
ashygirl: folds
I_Heart_Chan: raises 200 to 300
NavyRick: folds
CDadyDollars: calls 200
*** FLOP *** [9c 7d 8h]
CDadyDollars: bets 1070 and is all-in
I_Heart_Chan: calls 1070
*** TURN *** [9c 7d 8h] [Qh]
*** RIVER *** [9c 7d 8h Qh] [Ks]
I_Heart_Chan said, "nh"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
CDadyDollars: shows [Qs Ts] (a pair of

Queens)
I_Heart_Chan: shows [4c 8s] (a pair of

Eights)
CDadyDollars collected 2790 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***