2 hands - Stars SNG $5.5 - 2 table

[jimmy44]

Guys,

Could I have your comments on 2 hands from the Stars $5.5 SNG 2-table?



-----Hand 1-----
Hero's M = 32.67
PokerStars Game #6888132562: Tournament #35123175, $5.00+$0.50 Hold'em No Limit - Level II (15/30) - 2006/11/04 - 05:59:03 (ET)
Condensed history provided by the Tournament Trimmer (v0.7.6) from FlopTurnRiver.com
Table '35123175 2' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: cmc46 (1810 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 2: PLosDMexican (2265 in chips)
Seat 3: zanbod (640 in chips)
Seat 4: josiewales88 (2030 in chips)
Seat 5: bertolucci (1835 in chips)
Seat 6: GaHurricane (2900 in chips)
Seat 7: armi94 (440 in chips)
Seat 8: Hero (1470 in chips)
Seat 9: Paboncito (110 in chips)
GaHurricane: posts small blind 15
armi94: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [Qc Ad]
Hero: raises 90 to 120
Paboncito: folds
cmc46: folds
PLosDMexican: folds
zanbod: folds
josiewales88: calls 120
bertolucci: folds
GaHurricane: folds
armi94: folds
*** FLOP *** [7c 5s Js]
Hero: bets 160
josiewales88: calls 160
*** TURN *** [7c 5s Js] [Qs]
Hero: checks
josiewales88: checks
*** RIVER *** [7c 5s Js Qs] [7d]
Hero: ????

What do you do here? Do you check and hope that villain checks? Or bet to try and win the pot?
I could put him on AK/AQ/AJ, JJ/TT/55, two spades or eventually A7.


-----Hand 2-----
Hero's M = 9.42
PokerStars Game #6888259711: Tournament #35123175, $5.00+$0.50 Hold'em No Limit - Level V (75/150) - 2006/11/04 - 06:31:25 (ET)
Condensed history provided by the Tournament Trimmer (v0.7.6) from FlopTurnRiver.com
Table '35123175 2' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: cmc46 (830 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 3: sprettbet (3205 in chips)
Seat 4: josiewales88 (7620 in chips)
Seat 5: stesva (3265 in chips)
Seat 6: GaHurricane (4375 in chips)
Seat 8: Hero (2120 in chips)
Seat 9: limonizer (5585 in chips)
stesva: posts small blind 75
GaHurricane: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [As Kh]
Hero: raises 300 to 450
limonizer: calls 450
cmc46: folds
sprettbet: folds
josiewales88: folds
stesva: folds
GaHurricane: folds
*** FLOP *** [Js 8c 5s]
Hero: bets 600
limonizer: raises 600 to 1200
Hero: ????

Should I go all-in? If I bet I'll have to go all-in? should have I shoved all-in on the flop?
My table image was tight, so he could be bluffing ...


Thanks!

[taipan168]

Hand 1 - Preflop and flop are good. Personally I would fire again for about 300 on the turn with TPTK, as played check/call river (depending on the size of the bet of course).

Hand 2 - I think I would have just shoved this preflop from UTG. The only hands you're fearing are AA and KK and your push will be called by lots of hands that you're ahead of. As played, I would fold the flop, you're likely drawing to 6 outs and have no fold equity if you shove over.

When you don't have a deep enough stack to make a standard preflop raise, follow up with a c-bet if you miss and still have enough of your stack left to fold if opp raises, then you should just shove preflop IMO.

[jimmy44]

Hand 1 - I bet 200 (i.e. 1/3 of the pot) and he raise to 570. Where it would be 370 for me to call out of a 1370 pot roughly 3.5 to 1. Would you call?
There I've regretted not to have bet on the turn!

Hand 2 - I folded pre-flop. I never thought about that preflop raise + c-bet rule. I'll try not to forget it!

Thanks!

[TLR]

Hand#1: I would definitly bet the turn here, he may be drawing for a flush, but I would take the risk

Hand#2: I think the flop is a push/fold situation

[johnny_fish]

1: turn check is nice, block bet river.
2: shove preflop, no room for raise+cbet+fold to raise. As played, either bet/fold or open push flop. Bet/call sux.