Fancy wheel

[timprov]

Tournaments leave us with some odd lines. I start this hand with slightly less than 3.5 BB. Everybody else has a bigger stack, including Tom in the BB. We're still a ways from the money.

Two limpers to me on the button and I naturally raise 2357. Blinds wisely get out of the way, both limpers call and draw two. I catch a very pretty 4. They check to me and I bet, both call.

UTG stands pat, UTG+1 draws 1, and I stand pat being pretty sure I'm going to be paid off. The only question is how much. UTG checks, UTG+1 bets into me, and I smoothcall knowing that last bet in my stack is going in on the river anyway.

[Tom Bayes]

I had a very similar hand early in the tourney (during the rebuy period), before I was at your table. I drew two to a 742xx and caught 53. I just checked a couple of guys down to the final draw because I was going to be able to get all my chips in then and had no reason to potentially frighten someone.