O-Poker

I meant to get this up a lot earlier, but work hasn't cooperated. I haven't really played any poker this week other than playing the BBT3 tourneys while doing some work.

Man, I can't wait until Vegas - less than 3 weeks!!!!

Anyway, here are the results of the hands from my last post. (Thanks for all the comments they was obviously a lot of though but into some of them. If you haven't, go read them first.)

Hand 1 ($75 on FTP - $35k guarantee)

Full Tilt Poker, NL Hold'em Tournament, 120/240 Blinds, 25 Ante, 8 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

BB: 10,960
UTG: 5,005
UTG+1: 18,796
MP1: 3,999
MP2: 20,605
CO: 9,338
BTN: 4,529
Hero (SB): 7,335

Pre-Flop: (560) 7 7 dealt to Hero (SB)

5 folds, BTN raises to 4,504 and is All-In

cmitch (SB) ????

Call or fold? Why? (No read on the guy. I was moved to this table about 8 hands earlier.)

Responses

Pretty much everyone except Loretta and Lucko (not in the comments) said to fold. Loretta was on the fence. Lucko said to call.

I called, but wasn't sure if it was the correct play b/c I had been playing a lot of turbo sng sats at the time and I think that you call all day long in the same situation in a turbo sng sat. I just felt like I had to be ahead of his range. I didn't think he would shove with TT+, so I felt like his range was 22-99 or AJ+ with it most likely being two big cards. I guess I feel like it is always good to get the money in as a favorite even if against two big cards - could be b/c I play more cash games than mtts.

He turned over A6o and my 77 held up.

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Hand 2 ($27.50 on Pokerstars)

Poker Stars, $25 + $2.50 NL Hold'em Tournament, 50/100 Blinds, 9 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

MP2: 3,160
CO: 4,074
Hero (BTN): 3,558
SB: 7,581
BB: 9,350
UTG: 2,730
UTG+1: 2,960
UTG+2: 6,555
MP1: 5,120

Pre-Flop: (150) J J dealt to Hero (BTN)

6 folds, Hero raises to 300, SB raises to 800, BB folds

cmitch ????

Call, fold, raise? The guy has been active but not too crazy.

Responses

Most people said shove or were leaning towards shoving.

I shoved and he called with AK - Ace on the flop - GG me. Not much I could do here.

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Hand 3 (SNG Satellite to FTOPS Main Event - turbo - pays 3 seats)

Full Tilt Poker, NL Hold'em Tournament, 60/120 Blinds, 8 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

MP2: 1,870
CO: 1,800
BTN: 1,265
SB: 1,560
Hero (BB): 1,345
UTG: 1,790
UTG+1: 1,315
MP1: 2,555

Pre-Flop: (180) Q Q dealt to Hero (BB)

4 folds, CO raises to 420 (probably a steal, but I had a note that he was a solid player)

BTN folds
SB raises to 840 (guy had been playing very straight forward -note said usually has it when bets)

cmitch ???

Shove or fold?

Responses

Most were shove, especially since this is a turbo.

I shoved, SB had KK. I caught a Q and went on to win a seat. In hindsight, I'm not even sure why I posted this. It seems pretty standard. Maybe it would have been a more interesting situation if it wasn't a turbo with flat prizes for the top 3.