2 hands from $6.60 6 max REGULAR

[marmot]

1) Dindin is a calling station. I am 80% certain that he is calling if I push.
(NB. Only two places pay here so not ITM)

PokerStars Game #11554847261: Tournament #58629015, $6.00+$0.60 Hold'em No Limit - Level VI (100/200) - 2007/08/18 - 12:54:57 (ET)
Table '58629015 1' 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: kazisfab (690 in chips)
Seat 5: GPOW79 (930 in chips)
Seat 6: DINDINH (7380 in chips)
GPOW79: posts small blind 100
DINDINH: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to GPOW79 [Jc Kc]
kazisfab: folds
GPOW79???????

2) Paulj555 is LAGGish. I wasn't sure here, pre or post flop.

PokerStars Game #11553400561: Tournament #58624680, $6.00+$0.60 Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2007/08/18 - 11:00:06 (ET)
Table '58624680 1' 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Inasani (2230 in chips)
Seat 2: Goodfunbet (1920 in chips)
Seat 3: 666twiggy666 (1670 in chips)
Seat 4: GPOW79 (1440 in chips)
Seat 5: paulj555 (1740 in chips)
Goodfunbet: posts small blind 10
666twiggy666: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to GPOW79 [Td Th]
GPOW79: raises 60 to 80
paulj555: raises 100 to 180
Inasani: folds
Goodfunbet: folds
666twiggy666: folds
GPOW79: raises 220 to 400
paulj555: calls 220
*** FLOP *** [Kc 9d Kh]
GPOW79: checks
paulj555: bets 240
GPOW79????????

[KillThatInfidel]

Hand 1 is a must push and easy one. You cant fold that. Hand 2, if your going to reraise, make it big preflop (~600) or just call(calling is a lot better here i think). Your small reraise to 400will not force many hands at all to fold. Lead out postflop to see where you are at. As played its really hard, so i fold.

[marmot]

Hand 2, if your going to reraise, make it big preflop (~600)

Reraise amounts pre flop are a weak area for me, are there any general rules people use?

calling is a lot better here i think).

Can you let me know your thinking here? I reraised as thought it likely I was up against over cards or a higher pair and would have difficult decision to make post flop if J+ comes (which it did as he called anyway). Is this wrong?

[Stagemn]

HAND 2 - his reraise is weak. Only just a hair over twice your raise, VERY DONKISH. Your's is the same so it's deserving a call. Reraise 3x his raise to about 550 or so. If he calls, push the flop regardless. GAMBOL! His bet is weak after you check, so even a check push will either get him to fold or if he does have a K, you're beat. I put him on either Ax or some small PP. I don't think he has Kx or 99 here based on his pre-flop action.

HAND 1 - PUSH. Your M is 2.7 after posting the SB here and you need to get what you can when you can possibly can. Even with a win, your M only goes up to 6.2.

[badgers]

Hand 1 - easy push. I know that you're thinking that the short stack is short enough for you to fold what would normally be +EV decisions like this, but he isn't. If shorty had maybe 1BB I would fold here - at 3.5 he still has a chance to double up and make you regret folding here.

Hand 2 - I don't like your 4bet preflop, just call his raise. As played, you need to cbet the flop, and the only meaningful cbet is a push.

Regarding reraise sizes, you don't want to be giving your opps good odds on a call preflop - You need to make them make mistakes by calling when they don't have the odds/implied odds.. Your raise of 220 meant that villain had to call 220 into a 690 pot, >3:1 so he should really call with almost anything, given his 3bet range there's no way he should fold. A raise to 600 would make villain have to call 420 into a 890 pot, giving just above 2:1. The slight change in your bet sizing makes a big difference.

The other advantage of 4betting larger is that you can manipulate the size of the pot so a shove cbet isn't an overbet.

[badgers]

calling is a lot better here i think).

Can you let me know your thinking here? I reraised as thought it likely I was up against over cards or a higher pair and would have difficult decision to make post flop if J+ comes (which it did as he called anyway). Is this wrong?

I see what you're saying, but he reraised UTG+1. I don't know how solid he is, but his range is probably ahead of TT here. We call preflop as we have been given the odds to play for set/overpair value. This isn't the spot to be risking all our chips imo. But you need to sort out your line of thinking - the way you played it you gave yourself a harder decision postflop - your small reraise wasn't going to drive anything out, you're just building the pot when you're likely behind his range anyway.