Some hands from a 4.40 180

[bjsaust]

Hand 1

Villian seems pretty solid. Stats something like 25/10. I do think he's capable of making a move here, he has seen me fold a couple of times to reraises pre. I'm 2nd stack leader atm, around 30-35 left.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t300 (7 handed) Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver Cards)

BB (t5157)
Hero (t14995)
MP1 (t3815)
MP2 (t8515)
CO (t7742)
Button (t3250)
SB (t4902)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with , .
Hero raises to t900, 4 folds, SB raises to t4877, 1 fold, Hero ???

Hand 2

Villian is same guy from hand 1 (he had AK, hope you didnt read ahead). His min-bet on the flop I took to be a steal attempt on that board, his call of my raise I took to mean he had a piece of it. Had planned to give up, but with that turn card I thought he'd only call with a straight, and perhaps a set. Is any of this worth doing or should I have just folded flop?

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t400 (8 handed) Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver Cards)

Button (t7414)
SB (t2340)
Hero (t9443)
UTG (t4390)
UTG+1 (t7840)
MP1 (t3900)
MP2 (t13617)
CO (t6122)

Preflop: Hero is BB with , .
1 fold, UTG+1 calls t400, 2 folds, CO calls t400, 1 fold, SB completes, Hero checks.

Flop: (t1575) , , (4 players)
SB checks, Hero checks, UTG+1 checks, CO bets t400, SB folds, Hero raises to t1400, UTG+1 folds, CO calls t1000.

Turn: (t4375) Hero raises 2400


Hand 3
New table, dont have anything on any of these. MP3 seems very loose pre, called or raised pretty much every hand I've been at the table, but thats only about 5. Is this good?

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t400 (9 handed) Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

MP1 (t5757)
MP2 (t17322)
MP3 (t16767)
CO (t18197)
Button (t17461)
Hero (t4418)
BB (t10161)
UTG (t11751)
UTG+1 (t13425)

Preflop: Hero is SB with A, T.
1 fold, UTG+1 calls t400, 2 folds, MP3 calls t400, 1 fold, Button calls t400, Hero raises to t4393

[badgers]

1) I fold, a solid player wont be restealing vs. an UTG raiser unless your image is completely awful.

2) c/f flop, as played fold turn.

3) I like, but I would like it much more if you knew UTG+1 was limping a lot.

[chardrian]

Hand 1 - you need to have a plan of attack before you make that bet pre. 4 of the 6 remaining players have perfect reshove stacks. Call or fold is player dependent. Also raising between 700-750 is prolly better than to 900 here pre (especially if you're planning on folding to a shove).

Hand 2 is very risky and player dependent. You will often run into the hand you are trying to represent and kick yourself. You can only do this against players who will fold.

Hand 3 - Is close enough that whatever you do is defendable.

[bjsaust]

Yeah, hand 1 I should have folded. I had some theory of "bullying the table with my stack", but didnt execute too well.

Hand 2 I'm interested in thoughts on. I'm trying to mix some postflop poker into my game (shock horror coming from STTs), and from the BB that flop hits my range stronger than most. Then again I've put 1/2 my stack into a bluff.

Hand 3 - I got in v's QJ and Q8s, making me 48% to triple up. I guess thats what I'm looking for. These...squeezeplays I guess they're called, are still giving me problems as to when/where to make them though.

[johnny_fish]

1) raise tighter with this stack ( so you can raise/call more). Raise/folding alot with <20bb is a leak.

Also note what chard said, choose raise/call against which player before you make the raise.

2) Action flop 4way, don't make moves here. Ppl don't fold, just play your monsters fast on flops like this and c/f everything else.

3) Easy push. Limping along is horrible.

[bjsaust]

Thanks guys .