3 hands from Monte-Carlo

[PrayingMantis]

Here are 3 hands from the EPT Main Event in Monte-Carlo. Buy-in is 10,000 EURO, which is about $13,000. I have qualified with FPPs on stars.

Hand 1

I'm at seat 4 and been playing quite tight. Original stacks are 10,000, and it's a 90 minutes level. I've accumulated some chips, and then lost some again. I have about 9000 at this point. Blinds are 50/100.

Folded to a young Irish player on CO. He has qualified on Stars. Looks like a solid player, pretty aggressive, but not too much. he has about 15,000 after winning a few big pots with good hands. He raises to 300. He doesn't have garbage here - He's not on an auto-raise mode when it's folded to him. Folded to me on SB with QdQs. I decide to just call. BB folds, pot is 700.

Flop: T95r. I bet 400, CO instantly calls.

Turn: 9. pot is 1500. I bet 800. CO instantly calls.

River: 7. No flush. pot is 3100. I bet 1500. CO instantly raises to 4000. I think about is for a while, stare at him, play with my chips. He looks tense, his mouth is dry. I fold.

Hand 2

Blinds are 75/150. I'm at about 8500. Folded to me on the SB. On the BB is a very aggressive player - constantly reraising on the flop/turn, and we saw him showing down some very bad cards (23s- he bluffed with it all the way in some hand on a dangarous board, and got called. Another time someone called a big bet by this guy on the river, for practically all his chips, with TP+no kicker (A2 on AKxxx board), and won the hand.) This guy likes calling raises PF and then starts pushing people around post-flop. He lost couple of big pots and now he's at 4500, a bit tilting IMO.

I raise to 500 with Q7o on the SB. BB calls.

Flop: K72r. I check, he checks.

Turn: 2. I bet 500. He is quiet for a few seconds, then raises to 1000. A miniraise. I call.

River: T. No flush. I check. He instantly pushes his last 3000 or so into the pot. I look at him and think about it. Then I call. MHIG.

Hand 3

Blinds are 150/300. I'm at about 12,000. A very good (and pretty well known, apparantly) French player on the CO makes it 900. He is constantly open-raising when it's folded to him, for quite a while now. When he did it when I was on the BB/SB, a couple of times already, I stared at him before folding my garbage. It might look as if I'm upset with him raising my blind, and as if I am waiting to make some kind of a move (but I actually just like to stare at people before I fold, if I fold). Anyway, he open-raises again. I have him covered by about 5K at this point. I have AJo on the BB. I reraise to 2500. French guy instantly goes all-in. I fold.

Thanks for any comments.