180 sng - Bunch of Ax hands at various stages

[FlyingSaucy]

I've been using turbo $11 180 sngs as a way to get myself exposure to more mtt play and final tables. I've seen the play at these levels is a mixed bag of solid players and horendous loose callers. My reads are at the bottom of each hand.


PokerStars Game #14544390630: Tournament #73758949, $11+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level III (25/50) - 2008/01/14 - 00:03:44 (ET)
Table '73758949 16' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: jeffprezMN (1125 in chips)
Seat 2: GENEJONES (3285 in chips)
Seat 3: loneloboGB-5 (2045 in chips)
Seat 4: FlyingSaucy (2295 in chips)
Seat 5: allin1715 (1380 in chips)
Seat 6: Pastor P (1450 in chips)
Seat 7: TreeToadTwo (1090 in chips)
Seat 8: barman58 (1425 in chips)
Seat 9: 1fox (905 in chips)
loneloboGB-5: posts small blind 25
FlyingSaucy: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FlyingSaucy [Ad Qd]
allin1715: folds
Pastor P: folds
TreeToadTwo: folds
barman58: calls 50
1fox: calls 50
jeffprezMN: folds
GENEJONES: folds
loneloboGB-5: calls 25
FlyingSaucy: raises 200 to 250
barman58: calls 200
1fox: calls 200
loneloboGB-5: calls 200
*** FLOP *** [Ac 3s As]
loneloboGB-5: checks
FlyingSaucy:

I hate to not get value out of this but with 3 other folks in the pot someone has got to pay me off if I lead out here, right? No solid reads at this point.


PokerStars Game #14544651612: Tournament #73758949, $11+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level VII (150/300) - 2008/01/14 - 00:19:44 (ET)
Table '73758949 6' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: b00k0fMud0ra (470 in chips)
Seat 2: Whitezin77 (3310 in chips)
Seat 3: MaxScoffield (2055 in chips)
Seat 4: tightwaad (1235 in chips)
Seat 5: FlyingSaucy (2670 in chips)
Seat 6: Mzungu (2490 in chips)
Seat 7: i_am_button (2903 in chips)
Seat 8: kekekeje (1591 in chips)
Seat 9: gager69 (3800 in chips)
b00k0fMud0ra: posts the ante 25
Whitezin77: posts the ante 25
MaxScoffield: posts the ante 25
tightwaad: posts the ante 25
FlyingSaucy: posts the ante 25
Mzungu: posts the ante 25
i_am_button: posts the ante 25
kekekeje: posts the ante 25
gager69: posts the ante 25
i_am_button: posts small blind 150
kekekeje: posts big blind 300
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FlyingSaucy [Ac 3h]
gager69: folds
b00k0fMud0ra: raises 145 to 445 and is all-in
Whitezin77: folds
MaxScoffield: folds
tightwaad: folds
FlyingSaucy:

Two seemingly decent players left to act in the blinds, I'm in CO. Push?


PokerStars Game #14544887600: Tournament #73758949, $11+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level X (400/800) - 2008/01/14 - 00:34:57 (ET)
Table '73758949 6' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: JigGa43 (4490 in chips)
Seat 2: FREDOULLE200 (14108 in chips)
Seat 3: MaxScoffield (2800 in chips)
Seat 4: boxofmoonlit (10370 in chips)
Seat 5: FlyingSaucy (2540 in chips)
Seat 6: Mzungu (1690 in chips)
Seat 7: bbtruth (1890 in chips)
Seat 8: rayeun (1290 in chips)
JigGa43: posts the ante 75
FREDOULLE200: posts the ante 75
MaxScoffield: posts the ante 75
boxofmoonlit: posts the ante 75
FlyingSaucy: posts the ante 75
Mzungu: posts the ante 75
bbtruth: posts the ante 75
rayeun: posts the ante 75
JigGa43: posts small blind 400
FREDOULLE200: posts big blind 800
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FlyingSaucy [Ad 6s]
MaxScoffield: folds
boxofmoonlit: folds
FlyingSaucy:

No brainer open push? I'm dead if the blinds come around again.


PokerStars Game #14544932650: Tournament #73758949, $11+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level X (400/800) - 2008/01/14 - 00:37:53 (ET)
Table '73758949 6' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 2: FREDOULLE200 (10938 in chips)
Seat 3: Mephisto27 (11020 in chips)
Seat 4: boxofmoonlit (9195 in chips)
Seat 5: FlyingSaucy (3565 in chips)
Seat 6: Mzungu (1865 in chips)
Seat 7: bbtruth (12850 in chips)
Seat 8: rayeun (915 in chips)
Seat 9: DOTHEDEW1962 (10260 in chips)
FREDOULLE200: posts the ante 75
Mephisto27: posts the ante 75
boxofmoonlit: posts the ante 75
FlyingSaucy: posts the ante 75
Mzungu: posts the ante 75
bbtruth: posts the ante 75
rayeun: posts the ante 75
DOTHEDEW1962: posts the ante 75
bbtruth: posts small blind 400
rayeun: posts big blind 800
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FlyingSaucy [Tc Ad]
DOTHEDEW1962: folds
FREDOULLE200: raises 10063 to 10863 and is all-in
Mephisto27: folds
boxofmoonlit: folds
FlyingSaucy:

Ultra short again, still instafold? Fred has been tight and had solid show downs. I'm pretty desperate this short.

[KoRnholio]

1. I'd check it. There's 800 in the pot and you have 2k left. If someone else has an ace, they are getting all in no matter what you do. If you check, one of the two callers behind you might take a stab with nothing, and maybe even look you up when you push with a hand like 99+

2. Push looks good, although to those decent players, a push might make it obvious that you do have a weakish hand like A3. Most of the time they won't call light with a hand like A4-A9 though.

3. Easy push

4. M of 2, this is kind of a gross spot. The guy has been tight so his range probably doesn't include many worse hands than AT (perhaps A9/KQ/KJ). Even though he is getting pretty short himself, I can't see him pushing much worse than that.

I fold it and hope to open push any top 75% hand in the next 4 hands before the BB hits us, at least that way we have some fold equity.

[drmcboy]

number them!

1) I bet, the other lines are all more scary

2) I fold, just not much value compared to the risk imo


3) shove

4) given read I fold, open push one of the next 3. If he had been active I would play here.