Posted Wed Jan 10, 2007 3:53 am GMT by exit music
This is from a live tournament and I really don't know exactly what blinds/stacks were. I'll try to post as many hands as I can recall. Starting chips = 1000 in each of these tourneys.
Hand 1:
SB w/ QQ, 2nd level of blinds @ 10/20, I had about 1200 chips:
UTG min-raises to 40, UTG re-raises to 200, MP calls, CO calls and Button calls.
Action on you?
Hand 2:
Kh-4h in the SB. It's late in the tournament, there are 3 people left and I'm the short stack, only the top 2 pay. Blinds are 75/150 and I have about 1100 in my stack after posting.
Button folds, I call, BB makes it 300 to go, I call. $600 pot preflop.
Flop: 10  - 6  - 4 
Action: I check and he bets 450, I have 900 in my stack, 1050 in the pot.
You?
Hand 3:
Mid-stage of the tournament, only 1 person has busted so far, I just lost a mid-sized pot and have about 850 in chips. Blinds are 10/20 so my M is still over 20.
A  : -5 on the button. UTG (literally his first poker game) limps in as he has been doing 80% of the time, I decide to limp as well. SB folds and BB calls.
Flop: 10 - 5 - 2
BB checks and SB bets 30 into the 70 pot. He had been betting with any pair so far, so I called, BB folded.
Turn: Q
UTG checked and I bet $75 to see where I was at, and he min-raised me to $150. Since I picked up a flush-draw I called here.
River: A
He goes all-in for the rest of our chips.
What you do??
That's all I can think of from this tourney right now, I'll post the answers once I get at least 5 or 6 replies.
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Posted Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:58 am GMT by MrDarling
Hand 1 - I really don't know. There is a bet, a raise and 3 callers.
If you flat call, UTG might push any way, and then you have to fold. So I'm guessing you have to decide how better then the rest of them you are and maybe fold and wait for a better situation.
Other wise, its a push, and hope that just the smaller pp call and miss.
Hand 2
fold pre flop or push.
Hand 3
Raise pre flop. You have the button and a decent hand, time to steal some dead money. If get called and get this flop cont. bet.
Posted Wed Jan 10, 2007 8:15 am GMT by tame_deuces
1: Shove preflop
2. Shove preflop
3. Raise preflop.
Posted Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:43 am GMT by exit music
Hand 1:
I played this exremely weakly and folded because I was extremely uncomfortable about the situation in front of me. I could have just as easily pushed, it would have been a coin toss either way. Luckily the flop came AKJ, which was followed by raise, re-raise, all in, ect.
Hand 2:
I'm not in the habit of blindly pushing into my super-stacked opponent who will surely give me a wide range of calling ranges, and I don't always like to risk all my chips with no information on exactly how strong my opponents hand is. Obviously making steals at the blinsd is a great plan but I thought that I could find a better opportunity. Anyways, my call preflop is kind of strange, it was worth about 20% of my stack preflop and I figured that if I hit anything I could get him to double me up because he is an aggressive player. I hit my pair of 4s, and that was all I needed to plan my all-in check-raise. HOWEVVER, he bet 400 when I only had 800 left, so he was basically sayin he had to call my all-in. I pushed, as planned, he called with A-8 (no-pair) and spiked an 8 on the turn to bust me out 
I kind of liked how I playd this hand despite the result.
Hand 3:
I felt good about my hand, I was willing to put my tournament life on it, I called and he showed Q-10 for top 2 until the river. Heh as a wise-man once said, the best way to build a stack is to get lucky on the river.
And yes, I guess I am pretty weak preflop, if there is a raise in front of me I rarely re-raise in a tournament no matter my hand unless the situation uniquely warrants it. I slowplay Aces and kings often if it's a heads up or 3way flop and I have position. I play very small-ball poker in mid stages of tournaments and I guess this is an example of it. Although I'm also willing to shove with AK early on to pick up a pot or force a tough coinflip.
Posted Thu Jan 11, 2007 9:00 am GMT by BeerWench13
| Quote: | Kh-4h
Flop: 10 - 6 - 4 |
I wouldn't play there anymore if there are two 4 's in the deck.
First you say: | exit music wrote: | | Obviously making steals at the blinsd is a great plan but I thought that I could find a better opportunity. |
Then you say: | exit music wrote: | | my call preflop is kind of strange, it was worth about 20% of my stack preflop and I figured that if I hit anything I could get him to double me up because he is an aggressive player. |
Perhaps I'm reading these incorrectly, but they seem to be contradictory. If you're going to risk a good portion of your stack, I agree with tame. Push preflop.
Posted Thu Jan 11, 2007 4:05 pm GMT by exit music
These aren't contraditctory at all
Risk 20% to add 100%
vs.
Risk 100% to add 20%
I chose the small-ball approach because it seems to be less risk for more reward. In the second situation he's only going to call me with Ax or dominating Kings and good connectors, which is probably a coinflip good situation, but the other half I'm busting out preflop.
The 4 thing was a mistake in typing 
Maybe I play too passive preflop but lately in situations like this I seem to be putting most of my money into the pot as a favorite. Poker is a game of balacing contradictory concepts.
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