Two unrelated pocket pair hands..

[davehwm]

These hands are fairly unrelated.

Hand #1

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t50 (7 handed) converter

Button (t865)
SB (t885)
BB (t1950)
UTG (t1075)
Hero (t580)
MP2 (t990)
CO (t1655)

Preflop: Hero is MP1 with 4[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">1 folds</font>, Hero??

<font color="orange">It certainly seems too late to be limping to hit sets and my stack is dwindling, but I suspect it's not a good push either. Comments?</font>

Hand #2

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t30 (8 handed) converter

SB (t725)
BB (t470)
UTG (t1635)
UTG+1 (t1710)
Hero (t720)
MP2 (t775)
CO (t765)
Button (t1200)

Preflop: Hero is MP1 with J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, Hero??

<font color="orange">I know we've had more than our fair share of pre-flop threads. I usually limp here and I'm starting to not like it at all. At a $22 is it too loose to be raising?</font>

[Apathy]

The first one is a fold.

The second one not raising JJ in level 2 8 handed is a crime.

[mwgoblue]

Hand 1: Fold

Hand 2: Make it T100 to go. Limping isn't bad, but I really like a raise here.