Two final table plays

[LaggyLou]

These are from a PP NL 30+3. I'll post up to my decision point.

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t6000 (10 handed) converter

Hand 1:

<font color="#C00000">MP1 (t45819)</font>
<font color="#C00000">MP2 (t85944)</font>
<font color="#C00000">MP3 (t13994)</font>
<font color="#C00000">CO (t64892)</font>
<font color="#C00000">Hero (t140983)</font>
<font color="#C00000">SB (t26038)</font>
<font color="#C00000">BB (t46998)</font>
<font color="#C00000">UTG (t96653)</font>
<font color="#C00000">UTG+1 (t116217)</font>
<font color="#C00000">UTG+2 (t62462)</font>

Preflop: Hero is Button with A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]

All fold to shortstacked MP3, who goes all in. CO folds, Hero goes all in to attempt to shut out the blinds. Anyone do anything differently?

Hand 2:

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t6000 (9 handed) converter

<font color="#C00000">UTG (t45819)</font>
<font color="#C00000">UTG+1 (t85944)</font>
<font color="#C00000">MP1 (t64892)</font>
<font color="#C00000">Hero (t93985)</font>
<font color="#C00000">MP3 (t23038)</font>
<font color="#C00000">CO (t107990)</font>
<font color="#C00000">Button (t96653)</font>
<font color="#C00000">SB (t119217)</font>
<font color="#C00000">BB (t62462)</font>

Preflop: Hero is MP2 with Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].

All fold to Hero, who raises to 18000. Fold to CO, who goes all-in. All fold back to Hero, who......???

[Sam T.]

Hand 1: Looks good to me. It won't fool good players, but you might re-raise here without going all-in. The push screams "Isolation Bet" and someone with 99 may look you up. From the perspective of the folks in the blinds, a raise to 30K is effectively the same thing, but might not look so obvious.

Hand two: I'm not good enough to turn down these situations. Also the CO knows that you will probably fold a large percentage of the time here. (Are you raising with AJ? AQ? TT? I certainly hope so. Are you calling his all-in with anything less than QQ? Not a chance.)

There was an interesting discussion of a hand like this a couple of months ago. Pre-flop raise with QQ, followed by an all in. Hero called, villain showed AJ. Consensus was that the villain's play was not so bad.

[LaggyLou]

On Hand 2: I have to admit that the all-in play confused me. I believed that he was looking to win it right away, and that therefore I was ahead. Given that, the only hand I was really worried about was AK. So I called.