Last nights Satellite - too aggressive?

[NEtwocards]

OK guys, a couple of hands from a Satellite last night. Both of them, I thought I handled OK post flop, but would appreciate any comments on any of my play.

Paradise Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t25 (9 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx

MP3 (t1950)
CO (t1135)
Button (t1210)
SB (t1465)
Hero (t2425)
UTG (t4515)
UTG+1 (t1395)
MP1 (t2280)
MP2 (t1350)

Preflop: Hero is BB with K, K. SB posts a blind of t25.
UTG calls t50, 4 folds, CO raises to t120, 2 folds, Hero calls t70, UTG calls t70.

Flop: (t385) 8, T, 6 (3 players)
Hero bets t280, UTG folds, CO calls t280.

Turn: (t945) 3 (2 players)

River: (t945) A (2 players)

Final Pot: t945

Results in white below:
Hero has Kh Kc (one pair, kings).
CO has 8d Ad (two pair, aces and eights).
Outcome: CO wins t945.




I took some deep breaths and shook that one off. Slowly built back up a bit until about 10 minutes later, another fateful hand:


Paradise Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t75 (9 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx

MP3 (t2700)
CO (t1865)
Button (t1350)
SB (t1140)
Hero (t1720)
UTG (t7120)
UTG+1 (t1070)
MP1 (t1850)
MP2 (t975)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 4, 4. SB posts a blind of t75.
UTG raises to t300, 7 folds, Hero raises to t1025, UTG calls t800.

Note: UTG had been playing very laggy and getting away with some great draws. Also I had had a few great hands that I pushed pretty stong and won at showdown. Felt I had to come over hard here or give it up right away.

Flop: (t2275) 5, 2, 2 (2 players)

Not too scary..... GOTTA push, right?


Hero bets t620, UTG calls t620.


Turn: (t3515) T (2 players)

River: (t3515) A (2 players)

Final Pot: t3515

Results in white below:
Hero has 4h 4d (two pair, fours and twos).
UTG has Ah 4c (two pair, aces and twos).
Outcome: UTG wins t3515.


Ok, Let's hear it!

[drmcboy]

Hand 1 - re raise pre flop, you don't want mutli way pot with KK.

Hand 2 - I'd either smooth call and push a good flop or move in pre flop.

[chardrian]

Hand 1 - I don't mind the call but a reraise preflop is fine too. Since CO raised preflop, his call is screaming Ax diamonds, a set is worrisome, but sometimes a bad beat happens. If you want to play conservatively bet the pot and leave yourself some wiggle room if he just calls the turn. If you aren't going to be able to fold the river if a scare card comes, just push the turn.

Hand 2 - you are so outstacked that your raise was just silly - you don't have the stack to be tricky. drmcboy is right, either call preflop and push with a beautiful flop like that or just push preflop.

How did you get the hand converter to work? It never works for my Paradise tourney hands.

[NEtwocards]

No argument guys, was trying to leave a little wiggle room in the second example, but looking back, aggree my stack was too small. Good lessons learned- and thanks for the replies.

Chardrian - it was my 1st attempt with the converter and had no problems. Copied directly from my HH email and the only adjustment was to use the first opponent alias option and put in my name to be changed to hero. Is that what you're doing? The only boxes I checked off in the converter were to show results in white, the converter link, highlight bets, and condense 1st round. Happy to help more if you have any other questions.

[chardrian]

I keep getting, "this is not a recognized hand history format" in the otput box.

[NEtwocards]

I don't get it. Runs for me slick as shit.
Couple of stupid questions, but:
Are you copying directly from the Paradise hand history email?
Is is possible you are linked to an older version of the converter that doesn't yet support Paradise?
Another thought.... I'm converting through my browser and use Mozilla - are you using a different browser that may be blocking part of the utility?

[NEtwocards]

One more idea (never overlook the obvious...)

Have you selected FTR in the format box?