Couple hands from the FTP 100 seat guarantee

[the nutz]

Seat 1: ole_school (4,000)
Seat 2: sammy1260 (6,250)
Seat 3: TommySINY (1,150)
Seat 4: buzesis (7,030)
Seat 5: Hero (3,800)
Seat 6: EnriqueM (2,837)
Seat 7: Tall_Mat (4,325)
Seat 8: gamblinman7 (2,923)
Seat 9: oreolight (1,885)

Hero dealt Jacks. Blinds 30/60

Four folds, Hero raises to 210. Folds to SB, who re-raises to 690. BB folds, hero calls.

Flop: 7d 6h 7s

Villian pushes for 2,233.

Hero folds.

Looked like A-A to Q-Q to me. Villian is aggressive, but not an idiot. Solid player who picks good spots. Good fold?

Second hand:

Seat 1: sammy1260 (6,080)
Seat 2: jjli818 (6,585)
Seat 3: buzesis (7,000)
Seat 4: Hero (3,515)
Seat 5: EnriqueM (3,497)
Seat 6: Tall_Mat (4,055)
Seat 7: gamblinman7 (3,583)
Seat 8: oreolight (495)
Seat 9: ole_school (6,380)

Hero dealt sixes. Blinds 40/80.

Fold, hero calls, two folds, call, fold, call, fold, BB checks.

Flop: 6s 7s 8s. I flopped my set. Yay.

Hero bets exactly 1/2 pot. Two callers.

Turn is an 8d - I am no longer worried about the straight or the flush.

Hero bets 90% of the pot - 750. Re-raised to 1500. Hero re-raises all-in, drawing dead to opponent's flopped straight flush.

Could I have gotten away from this? Dan Harrington says that if you are on the wrong end of a set-over-set flop, then you're supposed to go broke. I have to assume that also applies to a straight flush, but I would like someone to back that up so I can sleep better.

This was a $535 tournament to the main event.

[Sprayed]

Explain who "who" is in the first hand. I doubt that most will push all in on that flop with that size of a pot with QQ+. Not saying it couldn't happen, but unlikely. I'd probably call. Not everyone reraises preflop with just QQ+. Some add AQ+.

Hand two is just a cooler. Ask yourself what the odds are of someone flopping a made flush or str8 and then ask yourself what the odds are of someone flopping a str8 flush. Hint: not very often. The majority of the time you will have the best hand after the turn. So, don't be results oriented because you got your chips in with the most likely best hand. Even the best players in the world can't fold a full boat. There's no way that you can know that they have a str8 flush. Also, why would you not listen to Mr. Harrington and check to validate his comments by one of us two bit FTR gamblers?

[drmcboy]

Hand 1 - If you are folding this board you should fold pre flop, or move in yourself. You can't just play for a set here.

Hand 2 - bet the pot on the flop, epescially in a 3 way pot, someone has to be drawing on this board. No, you can't fold on the turn. You shouldn't be playing a 500 buy in if you're asking.

[Fjaman]

hand one i would probably call 50% fold 50%
hand two is tough, curse a little and move on

[dstir2]

on your first hand it's a tough call to make. to avoid this in the future, especially with a healthy chipstack like you had there, raise jacks around 5-6xBB. if you then get reraised, you can put the villian on a stronger hand with better confidence. on the second hand, there's really nothing you can do. if there's a hand to be knocked out with a flopped straight flush on, that is definitely one of them.