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Well here is what happened in the hands below.
1 - This isn't a specific hand, but I'm fairly convinced that you have to call an all-in raise with QQ in the first couple hands of a tourney. I was curious to see if there is a limit where this move no longer becomes profitable. Say at the $100 buy in level or a $500, $1000, $10,000 dollar buy in. I.E. You won a seat to the world series of poker, and you face an all-in re-raise and you have QQ, do you make the call?
2 - This is a tough one for me. I like to let this one go, but sometimes I like to call hoping to hit one of my outs, and then apply pressure to them. I base my decision most times on the size of the pot, and the likelyhood that if I do hit that I'm ahead, and able to extract the a large amount of his remaining chips.
3 - I ended up loosing this one to KK. I find that because I have invested so much into the, and there is no way someone is drawing at a hand (i.e. semibluff) that with a check raise, that gets raised to all in, it's better to let the hand go. I've lost a lot of hands to trips this way, but check raising TPTK, and then getting put all in. Because I feel I've invested so much I call, but there are few hands that shove there chips in on that flop that I"m ahead of. The only ones I can think of are QJ & KJ, as well as a tie hand of AJ.
4 - In this case I was up against two pair. I lost the hand, I have should have let it go. At least that's how I felt. I believe the key to this hand was that I was against the SB and BB on a rag flop. Because I didn't raise it before the flop, I let them see the flop cheaply with there rags that turned out to be the best.
5 - I won this hand, as the guy had AhTc. Another heart came but so did another 2 giving me a full house on the river. I think you can play this hand agressively cause you have alot of outs even if he does have the flush. Because it was late in the tournament and he had a nut flush draw, I can see why he would play this aggresively. I think the correct play when facing someone like this and you don't have trips is to let the hand go. I.E. If you had KJ and it was a J high flop and you had no heart in your hand and you are facing an all-in raise from an aggressive chip monster, it's better to just let go of the hand.
6 - Because the flop does not present any draws, you can only be looking at 4 different types of hands.
1 - A9,A5,A4,A3,A2
2 - Overpair TT+
3 - A set, 99,44,22
4 - A bluff, or a medium hand like 55-88 where he doesn't think you have the 9 or an over pair.
In the particular case outlined below I was against a trip 9's and lost. I can't. The problem with calling his all-in is that you are quite often behind someone who has hit a set. It's an agressive bet, and hand 2 might make that play trying to protect there hand, and hand 1 might be semi-bluffing/thinking they have the best hand. #4 isn't as likely in the late stages, where there isn't really a need to be so agreesive. This is the hand that kept me up at night.
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How do you play these hands?
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