3 hands from $55, 90 man

[donkbee]

Is it worth the chips to raise the flop bet and see where I stand? I opted to save my chips for a more sure spot.

PokerStars Game #6760157256: Tournament #34402031, $50+$5 Hold'em No Limit - Level III (25/50) - 2006/10/25 - 00:14:03 (ET)
Table '34402031 4' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: sirtakealot (1945 in chips)
Seat 2: geoc8 (2015 in chips)
Seat 3: courtiebee (1430 in chips)
Seat 4: MadMaxCD (1505 in chips)
Seat 5: mleigh74 (1250 in chips)
Seat 6: ZBTHorton1 (2655 in chips)
Seat 7: Therugman (4010 in chips)
Seat 8: He H8te Mee (2385 in chips)
mleigh74: posts small blind 25
ZBTHorton1: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to courtiebee [9h 9s]
Therugman: calls 50
He H8te Mee: folds
sirtakealot: calls 50
geoc8: folds
courtiebee: calls 50
MadMaxCD: folds
mleigh74: calls 25
ZBTHorton1: checks
*** FLOP *** [4c 6h 3h]
mleigh74: bets 250
ZBTHorton1: calls 250
Therugman: folds
sirtakealot: folds
courtiebee: folds


Barring reads, this should be an easy easy fold, right? I thought about it for a long time before folding, and afterwards was slightly annoyed it took me so long to do so.

PokerStars Game #6760591069: Tournament #34402031, $50+$5 Hold'em No Limit - Level V (75/150) - 2006/10/25 - 00:53:00 (ET)
Table '34402031 3' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: Bear_Zen (1285 in chips)
Seat 2: ZBTHorton1 (2535 in chips)
Seat 3: WSU Slacker (3695 in chips)
Seat 4: pokerman21 (2155 in chips)
Seat 5: toosweeet (2125 in chips)
Seat 6: joeyjojo73 (3290 in chips)
Seat 7: mr.greenz (3772 in chips)
Seat 9: courtiebee (3960 in chips)
joeyjojo73: posts small blind 75
mr.greenz: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to courtiebee [Th Ts]
courtiebee: raises 250 to 400
Bear_Zen: folds
ZBTHorton1: folds
WSU Slacker: folds
pokerman21: folds
toosweeet: folds
joeyjojo73: folds
mr.greenz: calls 250
*** FLOP *** [8d Jc 2c]
mr.greenz: checks
courtiebee: bets 500
mr.greenz: raises 2872 to 3372 and is all-in
courtiebee: folds
mr.greenz collected 1875 from pot
mr.greenz: doesn't show hand


I gotta push if I raise ... okay fold on FT bubble here?

PokerStars Game #6761179043: Tournament #34402031, $50+$5 Hold'em No Limit - Level IX (300/600) - 2006/10/25 - 02:01:15 (ET)
Table '34402031 3' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 2: Zunow (7102 in chips)
Seat 5: pokerMJ (27697 in chips)
Seat 6: RAMSES81 (11184 in chips)
Seat 7: BloodyAces24 (13428 in chips)
Seat 9: courtiebee (7940 in chips)
Zunow: posts the ante 50
pokerMJ: posts the ante 50
RAMSES81: posts the ante 50
BloodyAces24: posts the ante 50
courtiebee: posts the ante 50
pokerMJ: posts small blind 300
RAMSES81: posts big blind 600
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to courtiebee [5s Ad]
BloodyAces24: folds
courtiebee: folds

[swiggidy]

Hand 1 - what are you putting the blinds on? When you raise you're committed so you would have to push. I think QQ+ raises, so you're worried about JJ, TT, 66, 44, 33. You beat 22, 55, 77, 88. Plus some Ax draws, etc you are ahead of. This seems like a good bluffing spot for SB with BB calling with odds. You are trying to accumulate, right? Not survive.

Hand 2 - this depends. If you've been raising and c-betting a lot he could pull this with overs or be trapping with a pp. At lower buy-ins this is JQ or JT 95% of the time.

Hand 3 - I fold

[chardrian]

Hand 1 - it is a very draw heavy board. And if you are up against draws, you really want to make it heads-up. I would either push or fold here - a call means u r giving up on basically everything after the flop.

Hand 2 - it would have taken me a while to fold there as well. His push could very easily be a draw rather than a J there.

Hand 3 - although your M is only 7, you still have 13x the BB. I don't think you are in push/fold yet. I think you can raise 3x there preflop and see what happens... especially 5 handed.