Tough Spots in Recent Tournies

[AnyTwoWillDo]

Ok here are 3 more hands I had questions on:

Hand 1:

Villain has been pretty quiet, and so have I. I lost a fair chunk earlier losing a big main pot with AA and winning a smaller side pot for a net loss of ~300. Since then, I have been folding a lot to this point.


Full Tilt Poker Game #29544928324: $2 + $0.25 On Demand Tournament (229720315), Table 7 - 30/60 - No Limit Hold'em - 20:35:12 ET - 2011/04/01
Seat 1: FMC04 (1,225)
Seat 2: myney (2,060)
Seat 3: cnsky (9,355)
Seat 4: R_Dizzy1 (895)
Seat 5: Hades_Bra (4,730)
Seat 6: ITALIAN-BIGTIME (1,037)
Seat 7: Yodolf (8,628)
Seat 8: mrgoosev (1,725)
Seat 9: HonestAbe 1 (3,110)
HonestAbe 1 posts the small blind of 30
FMC04 posts the big blind of 60
The button is in seat #8
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to R_Dizzy1 [9h 9d]
myney folds
cnsky raises to 150



Hand 2:

The only interesting thing I had on any of the people involved was that oilman had raised 5x bb with 2 limpers in front of him and ended up showing 10 5o. Thoughts pre-flop and on flop?


Full Tilt Poker Game #29545260576: $2 + $0.25 On Demand Tournament (229720479), Table 3 - 15/30 - No Limit Hold'em - 20:49:36 ET - 2011/04/01
Seat 1: R_Dizzy1 (1,460)
Seat 3: Z-GUY1 (2,010)
Seat 4: pvt99 (1,500)
Seat 5: colon15 (1,290)
Seat 6: Ken1320 (1,470)
Seat 7: oilman515 (6,530)
Seat 8: recycle_man44 (1,580)
Seat 9: Leon8220 (1,500)
R_Dizzy1 posts the small blind of 15
Z-GUY1 posts the big blind of 30
The button is in seat #9
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to R_Dizzy1 [9c 9h]
colon15 raises to 60
Ken1320 calls 60
oilman515 calls 60
recycle_man44 calls 60
R_Dizzy1 calls 45
Z-GUY1 folds
*** FLOP *** [Th Ts 5s]
R_Dizzy1 bets 210
colon15 has 15 seconds left to act
Joker23hh sits down
Joker23hh has registered late for the tournament and will be dealt in on their big blind
colon15 raises to 1,230, and is all in
Ken1320 folds
oilman515 folds
recycle_man44 calls 1,230



Hand 3:

Ok this is later in the tourny and oilman is the villain. He has been playing very loose pre-flop to this point and fairly aggressive post-flop. The hand immediately before this one he min-raised my blind from the CO and I three bet him with 1010 to 4x his bet. The flop came 8h 5d 2h and I cbet a little more than half pot. He thought a bit and folded, and from his chat he obviously thinks I had crap.

cowboy had played fewer hands but he seemed passive post, recycle_mann was a bit more laggy, but not as much as oilman.

Thoughts pre-flop and on all streets please.

Full Tilt Poker Game #29545730351: $2 + $0.25 On Demand Tournament (229720479), Table 3 - 20/40 - No Limit Hold'em - 21:11:51 ET - 2011/04/01
Seat 1: R_Dizzy1 (1,645)
Seat 2: Joker23hh (2,830)
Seat 3: cowboysid1 (1,500)
Seat 4: Highstoner (1,500)
Seat 5: SkysDragon (1,500)
Seat 6: Ken1320 (6,375)
Seat 7: oilman515 (3,310)
Seat 8: recycle_man44 (1,320)
Seat 9: Zech Leon (1,440)
Joker23hh posts the small blind of 20
cowboysid1 posts the big blind of 40
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to R_Dizzy1 [Tc Ad]
oilman515: you bought that
Ken1320 folds
oilman515 calls 40
recycle_man44 has 15 seconds left to act
recycle_man44 calls 40
Zech Leon folds
R_Dizzy1 calls 40
Joker23hh folds
cowboysid1 checks
*** FLOP *** [7h As 2s]
cowboysid1 bets 40
oilman515 raises to 120
recycle_man44 folds
R_Dizzy1 calls 120
cowboysid1 calls 80
*** TURN *** [7h As 2s] [Qh]
cowboysid1 has 15 seconds left to act
cowboysid1 bets 80
oilman515 raises to 420

[Fielmann]

Hand 1:

Fold or shove, anything else is out. I'm slightly inclined towards shoving, regardless of him being tight seemingly.

Hand 2:

Pre is a standard call, the pot is not quite big enough to shove and at this buy-in lvl people will too often slow-play hands that dominate you, while call loose with hands you flip with. Raising less than AI with 99 being oop with little fold equity seems just burning money. Folding is out too, because you have set odds.
Flop I'd often check-raise but considering the loose-passive nature of your opponents, leading out is a very viable option, possibly the best option. I'd make it bigger, though, closer to full pot, there are lots of opponents and lots of cards you don't want to see on turn. As played, I'd fold it, even though you do sometimes have the best hand.

Hand 3

is not an easy hand to play. You can raise pre, trying to isolate as you're probably ahead of their calling ranges. Considering the history, you probably will have to give up on missed flops, but it should be made up by the times you flop top pair and they don't believe you.
I'd probably smooth call on flop as well, a min-bet and a raise from an aggressive player (who just limped pre) doesn't look convincing enough.
On turn I feel like folding it, just like in hand 2 you can occasionally have the best hand, but it looks like it's getting too expensive to find out.

[fjuanl]

1: I probably shove 99 and fold 77 when I'm in this early position

2: At second glance I like shoving pre. There's already 300 out there and everyone besides UTG probably has very weak ranges. Plus at these stakes if someone has 22-88, they won't be folding. Flop is tough no matter what you do; I'm okay with the lead and fold after I see the 2nd person call all in

3: Definitely raise that pre. Flop is fine. Turn I don't see myself folding with your reads. He could be value raising worse Ax or just be getting out of line. Call turn and call most non-flush rivers

[ilikeaces86]

I think all 3 are folds.

[dneureiter]

Hand 1: probably jam without good reads that he is a quite tight player, really close in your case considering your read isnt that good

Hand 2: I jam, plenty of dead money. Also it's unfair to say fishy players call us with lots of hands we're flipping against (not such an awful result with dead money but not good either) without including that they call 22-88 as well. As played fold.

Hand 3: Folding turn for sure we're prolly behind and drawing slim alot of the time, are rarely way ahead and we dont close the action.

[vaks]

Hand 1: I'd just call with no reads


Hand 2: I'd raise pretty big here like 220-300


hand 3: You have to be raising this preflop !!! You are in position with a hand that is probably dominating there hands and it doesn't sound like they are folding to your raise here...

as played....
id play the flop the same way id call the turn and call a non over shove river as well probably