Party $6: Help me with top PPs (3 hands)

[laivu6]

All hands are from early stages, on quite loose tables.

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t60 (10 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

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MP2 (t1550)
Hero (t2070)
CO (t1490)
Button (t1890)
SB (t1235)
BB (t1620)
UTG (t2600)
UTG+1 (t2175)
UTG+2 (t3320)
MP1 (t2050)

Preflop: Hero is MP3 with K, K.
1 fold, UTG+1 raises to t120, 2 folds, MP2 raises to t180, Hero raises to t500, 4 folds, UTG+1 calls t380, MP2 is all-in, Hero?

is this a call with 1 PFR behind?

on a side note - was my raise too little?

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Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t40 (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

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MP1 (t1940)
MP2 (t1780)
MP3 (t2181)
CO (t1557)
Button (t1860)
Hero (t1960)
BB (t1940)
UTG (t1940)
UTG+1 (t4842)

Preflop: Hero is SB with A, A.
4 folds, MP3 calls t40, 2 folds, Hero raises to t160, 1 fold, MP3 calls t120.

Flop: (t360) 6, J, 8 (2 players)
Hero bets t200, MP3 calls t200.

Turn: (t760) Q (2 players)
Hero bets t500, MP3 is all-in, Hero?

easy fold?

again, bet more on flop?
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Here i got some reads: UTG is very loose, he called many 3-4bb raises (once with A6o), limped with anything (83o from MP for example), but he was quite passive postflop

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t60 (8 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

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UTG+1 (t1850)
MP1 (t1810)
MP2 (t1167)
CO (t3159)
Hero (t4490)
SB (t1585)
BB (t1850)
UTG (t4089)

Preflop: Hero is Button with Q, Q.
UTG calls t60, 3 folds, CO calls t60, Hero raises to t300, 2 folds, UTG calls t240, CO folds.

Flop: (t750) T, 8, J (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets t450, UTG calls t450.

Turn: (t1650) 3 (2 players)

UTG checks, Hero bets t1000, UTG is all-in, Hero?

[taipan168]

Hand 1 - push all-in with KK after the raise and minre-raise. I would expect to get called by a wide range of hands almost all of which I would be crushing. As played, instacall. Never fold KK preflop at a low buy-in SNG (some would even say never fold KK preflop at any SNG) barring some strange bubble situation.

Hand 2 - Bet more on the flop, closer to full pot size, at least 300. If called open push turn. He hasn't necessarily made the flush and even if he has you have a redraw to the nut flush.

Hand 3 - Good raise preflop. 600 to go on the flop, as played your turn bet is fine. It's a tough spot on the turn, I think given you are up against the other big stack and you still have a nice stack if you fold I very reluctantly fold this one. Opp calling your preflop raise, check/call on the flop and check/raise AI on the turn looks like a flopped set to me.

[laivu6]

seems like "bet more" is my biggest leak right now

and about 2nd hand - as played, is it a call?

[taipan168]

seems like "bet more" is my biggest leak right now

and about 2nd hand - as played, is it a call?

Yes, it's a crying call - you put in almost half your stack, you can't fold now. You are getting 2.15 to 1 odds to call MP3's push and even if MP3 flopped the flush you have 6 hearts left that can help you = roughly 3 to 1 against. Add to that the chance that MP3 didn't flop the flush and is semi-bluffing with K or has something that you're well ahead of (AJ, KJ, A8, KQ, etc). and it's a call IMO, although not one that I'm entirely happy making. The thing is at the low buy-ins you see such random shit that I would have a hard time laying this down. If you didn't have the A I would probably lean towards a fold.

If you had bet more on the flop you could push the turn and put the hard decision on MP3 rather than him putting the hard decision on you.

[laivu6]

Thank you, taipan. Looks like (aside of betting) my decisions are not so bad as I could think with my latest results in mind.

So, for the record:

1) 3 way all-in KK vs AKo vs QQ - lost with A on flop
2) Call and won vs Kd6h (wow!)
3) Fold

[taipan168]

So, for the record:

1) 3 way all-in KK vs AKo vs QQ - lost with A on flop
2) Call and won vs Kd6h (wow!)
3) Fold

1. You should be delighted to have gotten all your chips in as a 56% favourite (AKo is 25% and QQ 18%). That's all you can do, the rest is up to the poker gods.
2. Told you that you see some crazy shit at the low buyins!
3. Tough fold but I think the right one.

So why can't you deposit at PS? Won't it accept your Russian credit card?