Two 99 hands from stars 4/180 .. your play?

[invizyn]

Hand 1
PokerStars Game #11479349776: Tournament #58242467, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level V (75/150) - 2007/08/14 - 03:34:44 (ET)
Table '58242467 1' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: DillingerRob (5375 in chips)
Seat 2: Twinpops (4105 in chips)
Seat 3: benny789 (4770 in chips)
Seat 4: grappler1818 (6075 in chips)
Seat 5: Amadeus123 (2695 in chips)
Seat 7: seearsy (7250 in chips)
Seat 8: JAYPSU10 (8490 in chips)
Seat 9: Hero(4095 in chips)
Twinpops: posts small blind 75
benny789: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero[9c 9h]
grappler1818: calls 150
Amadeus123: raises 150 to 300
seearsy: calls 300
JAYPSU10: calls 300
Hero?

Hand 2.
PokerStars Game #11479335131: Tournament #58242467, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level V (75/150) - 2007/08/14 - 03:32:36 (ET)
Table '58242467 1' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: DillingerRob (5600 in chips)
Seat 2: Twinpops (4255 in chips)
Seat 3: benny789 (4770 in chips)
Seat 4: Tbugosh87 (1160 in chips)
Seat 5: Amadeus123 (2245 in chips)
Seat 7: seearsy (7400 in chips)
Seat 8: JAYPSU10 (7180 in chips)
Seat 9: Hero(4170 in chips)
JAYPSU10: posts small blind 75
Hero: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero[9s 9c]
DillingerRob: folds
Twinpops: folds
benny789: folds
Tbugosh87: raises 1010 to 1160 and is all-in
Amadeus123: folds
seearsy: folds
JAYPSU10: calls 1085
Hero?

[badgers]

1) Call

2) Difficult w/out reads/stats. Gotta push this though I think...?

Obv I don't know what I'm doing either, someone better will post soon, have no fear.

[KillThatInfidel]

1=easy call, play for set value.
2=This is a push unless you have reads on big stack.

[topsoyale]

I call in 1 but obv fold to any pressure from behind. As long as you do play for sets only and don't stick around with an overpair you're fine and the hand plays itself.

2: Slightly tougher. A fold isn't bad here but you're likely to be crushing shorties range. If you have a specific read that the caller will call a push from you I'm going to fold, but if he can fold to a push then certainly push.

[Tomazores]

First hand I'm calling, playing for set.

Second hand I'm folding. Mainly because bigstack's call looks like he wants more action. Why didn't he reraise to isolate? He could have something real big QQ+ and wants you to come along for the ride.

[drmcboy]

vs unknowns I move in both, quicker in hand 1.

[invizyn]

First hand i called and whiffed the set. Amadeus bet like 3/4 pot and everybody folded, and showed AA.

Second hand i actually folded (without reads). They flipped over garbage like Q8 and J9 or something like that. I was considering pushing but i thought i was flipping at best with the flat call, and possibly dominated. Maybe i'm just thinking too weak.

[drtofu66]

For hand 2-- did you consider a stop n go? Looks like a fair spot for it-- you'd have 2935 left to push into a pot of 3480 on the flop but the SB would have to call off almost half of his remaining stack to look you up.

[MaxAA]

Call first for set/boat possibility.

FOLD second.

[AApoker]

Hand one is a clear call for set value.

Hand 2 is a clear fold, we may have one of these guys beaten (perhaps the inital pusher) but almost certainly not both. This is a standard fold.

[KillThatInfidel]

Im not so sure its a standard fold. If you can manage to push out the big stack, which i think is very likely, you are wayy ahead of the initial raisers range. I also really doubt that in a 4$ tourney that the big stack would be slowplaying something that has 9s dominated.