50NL: 2 hands

Hey, friendly noob here decided to start participating on the forums to give and receive advice on hands and such. It said that I couldn't post URLs without at least 10 posts so my apologies for the hand formats, but I tried to make it easier to read.


The SB player is solid, running 20/14/2.4 over 300 hands
The BB player is also solid, running 20/10/2 over 450 hands

***** Hand History for Game 7592274282 *****
$50 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, December 05, 20:18:58 ET 2008
Table Jackpot #1308914 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 2: Rackis1337 ( $20.76 USD )
Seat 4: Hero ( $54.17 USD )
Seat 5: Fogan111 ( $53.25 USD )
Seat 1: thewhale2007 ( $49.18 USD )
Seat 3: LuckyIdiot87 ( $50.94 USD )
Fogan111 posts small blind [$0.25 USD].
thewhale2007 posts big blind [$0.50 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hero [ 7h 7c ]
Rackis1337 folds
LuckyIdiot87 folds
Hero raises [$2 USD]
Fogan111 calls [$1.75 USD]
thewhale2007 calls [$1.50 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8d, 7d, Ac ]
Fogan111 checks
thewhale2007 bets [$4.27 USD]
Hero raises [$12 USD]
Fogan111 is all-In [$51.25 USD]
thewhale2007 is all-In [$42.91 USD]
Hero ??



This guy posted the BB before raising in this hand. He was running 38/10/2 over 100 hands.

***** Hand History for Game 7592558681 *****
$50 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, December 05, 23:44:59 ET 2008
Table Table 126597 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: Hero ( $133.68 USD )
Seat 5: TOPGUN557 ( $93.46 USD )
Seat 2: player34259 ( $56.34 USD )
Seat 6: fingerjockey ( $50.46 USD )
Seat 3: gapgo10 ( $48.71 USD )
Seat 4: Sawa_chan ( $45.55 USD )
player34259 posts small blind [$0.25 USD].
gapgo10 posts big blind [$0.50 USD].
TOPGUN557 posts big blind + dead [$0.75].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hero [ Qs Qh ]
Sawa_chan folds
TOPGUN557 raises [$1 USD]
fingerjockey folds
Hero raises [$6 USD]
player34259 folds
gapgo10 folds
TOPGUN557 calls [$4.50 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3c, 7s, 2h ]
TOPGUN557 checks
Hero bets [$8 USD]
TOPGUN557 calls [$8 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5c ]
TOPGUN557 checks
Hero bets [$20 USD]
TOPGUN557 calls [$20 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ Jd ]
TOPGUN557 is all-In [$59.21 USD]
Hero ??

Any thoughts appreciated, thanks

Hand 1: ALL IN and be fairly happy about it. You are only way behind one hand: 88. You almost never see AA here.
There are so many combo draws that would love to get all in here such as T9dd, 56dd, 69dd, AXdd, and two pair is also possible as well.

Hand 2: Gross. This is probably a fold because you are so deep.
You've shown a lot of strength so I cant see villain bluffing here very often. And I can't put him on a draw that missed, so I'd probably curse and then muck.

hand 1 is an easy call. don't think about folding these type of hands.

hand 2 yea this sucks, if you guys were shallow easy call. I'm not sure someone that passive is going to run a bluff here, and the only hand I can ever see him doing this with that you might beat is AJ. game time decision.

1- call and feel good
2- call and feel bad

1 is a snap call, 2 i fold.