4 key hands from EPT Baden

[Pingviini]

I had a pretty tough table half the first day. ElkY to my immediate right, Luca Pagano, and a couple of others that some of my friends recognized who were playing pretty good. Only 1-2 fishes.

#1 Blinds 150-300 no ante. I have ~12k.
Luca Pagano goes AI UTG for 2.7k ( he had been playing really good but had some tough hands), I am MP2 with TT.

#2 blinds 200-400 50 ante. I have 32k, villain covers.
A good TAG limps UTG, 2 folds to me and I call with QJs (we had been isolate raising a bad LP guy all day but this was the first time the TAG had limped). 1 call, both blinds call/check.

Flop: Q94r
checked to me and I bet 2k into ~2450, folded to TAG who makes it 5.5k total, I call.

Turn: (Q94r)4 he checks, I bet into 8k into 13450 pot. he goes AI, I fold.

some bad beats later I am a short stack of 6k. Fight it up to 28k by going AI several times in an interesting table which had Jeff Lisandro and Dave Colclough. Got moved to the next table..

#3 blinds 300-600 with 75 ante. My stack ~28k.
I have been at the table for 7-8 hands, raised once and got the blinds. An aggressive Dane raises to 5.5k from MP1, I am MP2 with 88, my action? I have a couple pretty active looking players behind me, incl. a bit reckless looking chip leader.

#4 Day 2: blinds 1k/2k with ante 200. My stack ~28k. 8 handed table. I have went ~5 times at this table within an hour without showing down a hand. A solid player (who has been involved in several pots with good/decent hands) raises 7k from MP. I am in HJ or CO with A4s. Should I push or fold?

[Miffed22001]

did you play much with colclough? What did you think of him?

[Ravageur]

i fold the A4s in an instant.

cool hands

[Pingviini]

did you play much with colclough? What did you think of him?

Only played like an hour with him during which I managed to double up on him so I really cant say much. He raised with 88 from MP, I pushed AI for 3x his raise with KT, he thought it for a minute and called and I caught two pair. (I dont really like that play).

[gabe]

1: theres more info needed than this. i would call assuming everything is unknown.
2: i dont bet the turn, you dont need to bloat the pot with TP3k here. do you expect him to call you down with QT? i doubt he limps that utg...he probably has AA/KK or 99.
3: i would just fold preflop. 5k is too much...pot will be too big on flop to be able to outplay him
4: the people after you make a big difference in this hand. i would fold this unless i know blinds are really tight.

[koolmoe]

#1 His M is 6, so I think his range is pretty wide, and you should be a favorite, but I don't really know the player. Feel like gambling? I'd call.

#3 I think I'd push. I'd want to reraise to about 16K, but that basically pot commits you. Calling is terrible as you probably get squeezed. You're not in terrible shape, so folding is still an option, but you need to start accumulating chips pretty soon.

#4 Fold. You'll have better spots to get your chips in, I think.

[Iwind]

I also wondered about that #2 hand here, better hands or possible bluffs c/r AI wich you can't call, worse hands fold, and you don't really need to bet to protect your hand against anything either.

Apart from that I probably call #1, fold #3 and #4.

[Pingviini]

#1 I call with TT, everybody else folds and it holds against Luca's AJo.

#2 I naturally folded, perhaps I shouldnt have even called his initial CR??

#3 I called pre-flop, on the flop with one overcard and got pushed out on turn. My worst hand in the whole tournament, too much ring, too little mtt's Ping!

#4 I pushed and he called pretty fast with 99 and I didnt manage to suck out. I should've been more patient in an already opened pot. Would've been fine place to push to an unopened pot, though. I finished ~57/331.

I will be playing Panasian poker tour event in Manila 4-5th November and Asian poker tour in Singapore 10 days later. Hopefully I will play better there..

[gabe]

#2 I naturally folded, perhaps I shouldnt have even called his initial CR??
....
#4 I pushed and he called pretty fast with 99 and I didnt manage to suck out. I should've been more patient in an already opened pot. Would've been fine place to push to an unopened pot, though. I finished ~57/331.

i think #2 depends on if hes seen you take stabs at pots then give up, because then he could just be pulling a move and folding to the flop c/r is wrong. if this is the case, betting the turn is still wrong i think.

[Miffed22001]

i thought checking behind in hand #2 was standard...?

[Iwind]

Asian poker tour sounds like a lot of fun, wish I could go too, studying sucks

[johnny_fish]

I don't play anywhere near those stakes but whatever..

#1. Easy call vs. his range obviously but what kind of players are behind you? Calling and folding to a squeeze sucks.. So I guess you should push to isolate.

#2. Are you protecting vs. JT or valuebetting vs. QT? Standard turn check. Folding to the first c/r is too weak imo, set/KK+ would lead out probably and he could be making a move vs. your position bet.

#3. stack size MP1? TT+ is probably autopush, 88-99 is close. Calling seems too risky given read on chipleader and other players behind you.

#4. Easy fold, I'd need something like A8s/ATo/66. Open pushing would've been fine.