2 hands from stars 5.50

[thnwkd]

first level no reads... how was my play here

PokerStars Game #2801235866: Tournament #13776686, Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2005/10/14 - 10:26:47 (ET)
Table '13776686 1' Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: Landeskog (1810 in chips)
Seat 2: spazymama02 (1340 in chips)
Seat 3: mrnmrskc (1460 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 4: ROBIN48 (1390 in chips)
Seat 5: HERO (1480 in chips)
Seat 6: Firass (1500 in chips)
Seat 7: AAAjim (1580 in chips)
Seat 8: oxmang (1500 in chips)
Seat 9: ReKoP)ChieF (1440 in chips)
HERO: posts small blind 10
Firass: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to HERO [Jd Ac]
AAAjim: folds
oxmang: folds
ReKoP)ChieF: folds
Landeskog: folds
spazymama02: folds
mrnmrskc: folds
ROBIN48: folds
HERO: calls 10
Firass: raises 20 to 40
HERO: raises 100 to 140
Firass: calls 100
*** FLOP *** [9c Jh Ks]
HERO: bets 240
mrnmrskc is disconnected
Firass: calls 240
*** TURN *** [9c Jh Ks] [7h]
HERO: checks
mrnmrskc is connected
Firass: bets 80
HERO: calls 80
*** RIVER *** [9c Jh Ks 7h] [8h]
HERO: checks
Firass: bets 100
HERO: calls 100


again early in tourny... was this a good fold?

PokerStars Game #2801268807: Tournament #13776686, Hold'em No Limit - Level II (15/30) - 2005/10/14 - 10:37:17 (ET)
Table '13776686 1' Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: Landeskog (2525 in chips)
Seat 2: spazymama02 (1390 in chips)
Seat 3: mrnmrskc (1415 in chips)
Seat 5: HERO (1680 in chips)
Seat 7: AAAjim (3200 in chips)
Seat 8: oxmang (1430 in chips)
Seat 9: ReKoP)ChieF (1860 in chips)
AAAjim: posts small blind 15
oxmang: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to HERO [Ks As]
ReKoP)ChieF said, "?"
ReKoP)ChieF said, "?"
ReKoP)ChieF: folds
HERO said, "nh"
ReKoP)ChieF said, "checked the full house"
Landeskog: calls 30
spazymama02: calls 30
mrnmrskc: folds
HERO: raises 90 to 120
AAAjim: folds
oxmang: calls 90
Landeskog: calls 90
spazymama02: folds
*** FLOP *** [9d 6d Qc]
oxmang: bets 240
Landeskog: folds
HERO: folds
oxmang collected 405 from pot
oxmang: doesn't show hand

[PokerPatNEU]

First hand: Your opp looks like a real dumby. He is probably trying to induce a raise from you, or he's just a total fish with a K and weak kicker. I think you played it fine.

Second hand: Read? I'd say the fold is fine here the majority of the time. Sometimes i will reraise here if i feel my opponent will give me credit for a strong hand and i know i can steal it. But readless, easy fold.

[Khabbi]

First hand I would fold. I play pretty tight in the early going and seeing a guy make a min-raise gives you absolutely no information. All you know is that he's going to be calling with whatever he's holding because he's a fish.

Second hand, good fold.

[STIdrivr]

first hand is confusing nice fold on second

[Blinky]

2nd hand is ok. It's not worth 15% of your stack just to chase TPTK.

First hand.
Don't limp/reraise with that hand in SB. Raise it straight up or fold it (since it was folded around to you-raise it).

Opp's minraise PF is weak, but he calls your reraise. He then calls your large flop bet. Perhaps some Kx sort of hand.

I think you're in better position if you raise PF with AJ. When you hit the J on the flop and bet out fairly strong you're showing good strength - which might be enough to take the pot down on the flop.

Not a big fan of the check-calls on the turn and river. I might fire the second barrel on the turn here but I think it's partially set up PF.

[Aces]

Hand 1 - I'd make the continuation bet a little lower like 1/2 pot or so. After he calls I might just check/call or check/fold.

Hand 2 - good fold.

[elanto]

ok so hand 2 was probably a good fold

hand 1 is a bit confusing. First of all just rais...if you know nothing about your oppoinent why do you want him to raise so you can re raise...AJ is not a hand you want to pull that off unless for example its down to the bubble and theres this aggro player to your left who has been stealiong everyones blinds. Then when youre on the SB and get an ok hand like AJ may then maybe you just want to call b/c you know hes gonna raise to try and steal it from you..then you can just push and hell probably fold. This scenario is different though because blinds are worthlesss and you know nothing about him..what does he raise with? is he tight or loose?..I liked you continuation bet on the flop howevere you could have made it smaller..maybe 180 or even 140. Once he called then you know he probably has you unless hes looking for an inside str8 which is unlikely. However I liked your call on the turn and river b/c his bets were extremely weak..


-anto

[elanto]

Looking back at the hand I think you won it..well, im guessing you did b/c the guy wasnt around for your second hand so he must have been a very bad player LOL

-anto