Cheers guys.

It's good to know it wasn't completely straightforward. I would have always automatically shoved here in the past, but went with the raise (with pleno's reasoning).

£100 tournament, but it's actually a freeroll for most of the players (a leage final thing), so early on it's been playing like a £25 tournament. 24 players left, with 10 paid.

We're now 7 hours and people have tightend up a lot now. Average stack is about 25BB.

9 handed I get  UTG. I have 64,400 @ 2k/4k/400 (so 16BB).

I would say a shove is only getting called by 99+,AQ+. Although maybe a little looser for the 2 big stacks at the table.

What should I do?

Where is the line between raising and shoving (in BBs)?


Let's say you raise to 8k, the BB calls and the flop is  .

The pot is 21,600, your stack is 56,400 and the BB has slightly less. What do you do here?


Any thoughts appreciated, thanks.

Thanks.

In a situation like this, with these stacks and the UTG raise, what's the weakest hand you would call with - paired & unpaired?

Agree now that I should have folded pre, considered it at the time but it seemed very weak with this hand and position. Also I was consciously trying not to nit up ahead of the end of the day, telling myself it's just a break the same as any other and that other players will be holding out so I may be able to put pressure on them. I think that may have contributed to the call.

Thanks

Had a hand at the weekend which I think I misplayed but am still unsure about what I should have done. I can't remember some of the details exactly.

25/25 Series (Leicester), start of level 10 (last level of day 1):

800/1600/200

UTG raises to 4400.
- He is one of the better players at the table, has been raising quite a bit from all positions and playing cautiously post-flop - he did not seem to barrel much, and had not shown any bluffs all day
- This raise is larger than his usual 2.2x. It stood out as an unusually large raise for him.
- His stack is around 30BB

I'm in the CO, with approx 32BB, look down at 
- I was immediately unsure what to do - call/fold
- Decided to call

Flop: 

- He bets 1/2 pot

What should I have done here and pre-flop?

Thanks

Thanks Alex,

I raised to 18k, he called and then shoved the turn, and I (tilt...) called and lost to his  .

I had thought the outcome would been the same whatever I did, as he would have definitely called pre and flopped top pair, but it could have gone differently if I took the initiative and put pressure on him. Being passive pre-flop was definitely my undoing here

I'm not sure what to think of a hand from a small stakes live tournament I recently played:

£25+5 tournament
Blinds 1,000/2,000

Stack: 45,200

Average stack at table is about 30BB (60k). Down to two tables from four, and as usual in these tournaments nearly everybody has tightened up a lot. This is also the kind of tournament where people fold too much to short shoves etc as we approach the money.

Villian limps UTG+2. He has been playing passive and loose pre-flop and very aggressive post-flop, often betting/donking full pot or even more on flop in most of the hands he has played, so much so that people have commented on it. He has folded to raises after doing this on  at least two occasions. He started the hand with around 50K

I'm in the HJ and have   ;

- What should I do here?

- I limp (how bad is this?), both blinds call, from stacks of 55K and 90K and flop is  - - . Blinds check, villain bets 6K into 8k pot. What should I do here?

The only solution I can come with is to fold pre, but this seems a bit weak....

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

£30 tourn at my local casino. Level 2 (50/100). We are 9 handed and table is... a bit fishy - some people playing lots of hands passively, but some tight players. My image is probably TAG but we had not been playing long.

I am in HJ with 7,700 stack

UTG limps, and so do next 2 players. I look down at   and raise to 800.

UTG calls, others fold, so pot is 1,950. UTG just has me covered but not by loads.

Flop is      

He donks 2,600

What would you/should I do?

I didn't consider folding, he obviously could be ahead but I really couldn't see it - I would definitely expect him to check to me with all strong hands on this board as he knows I am betting, and also his overbet seemed determined to push me off. Maybe such thinking is bad?

My main question is, considering that he is almost certainly going to shove any turn, should I just call and let him do it (in effect giving him 2 cards to hit whatever he may be drawing to) or raise to shut him down now to take the pot, which hopefully I could use well against a weak field?

What would you do if you did just call and he set you in on turn?

Thanks

Thanks for the replies guys. Figured it was (should have been...) an easy check-fold on the flop but was more unsure about the open UTG with these stacks, so it's nice to get some different thoughts on it (i.e. it's nice to know I'm not an idiot for questioning it).

As title says this is my first PHA post. Think I made a complete mess of the hand but would still like some thoughts. Constructive criticism was the reason I joined here, so here goes...

£150 tourney at DTD last night. 92 runners, 60 left, pays to 12.

Blinds: 1200/600/100 (and just about to go up to 1600/800)  & table is 9 handed

Stack: 39K   most opponents have me covered but none by very much

Image: I generally do play tight and in 4 hours had only shown down 3 hands which were KTs, AJs & AA. However I'm not sure the table neccessarily considered me to be that tight as they seemed to have noticed my aggression in the few hands I had won rather than all the hands I had folded

I get   UTG and raise to 2,700. 4 players call, with the last one being the BTN (blinds both fold). With the exception of 1 they all have me slightly covered.

Pot - 16,200
Flop -  

I check, then the next 3 players check, all of whom I'm almost certain would have bet practically all strong hands. The BTN, who's playng about 49K, then bets 10K. He is quite an old guy, has played quite straight-forward apart from 1 hand where he made a big raise with 44 on a 3-5-6 flop with 5 players in the pot, and he seems to overbet the pot when strong (although it's likely he doesn't think in terms of pot fractions etc)

So action is back on me.....

Snap-fold?

Snap fold pre-flop?

So i am going to list how many times a night i make a mistake and with that i need to create forfeits i need to do as a result of making a mistake. One mistake means i must do one forfeit. I am not sure what i will be doing just yet, but i am going to count the amount of mistakes and then get creative with the forfeits, these must test me and has to be something i am really uncomfortable doing but it is for the greater good that i do it. Hmmmm need to mull it over.
 

I started doing a similar thing - no forfeits but just using mistakes per hour (in live tourneys) as a measure of how well I played. Every major recurrent mistake gets 10 points, smaller recurrent/should have know better mistakes get 3 points and new mistakes are 1 point. I put the scores into a spreadsheet which, for each tourney, has a line and small description for each mistake, a column for the points, a row underneath for hours played then the all important mistake points per hour (mph).

It started to work pretty well, so much so that I thought I didn't need to do it anymore, but now I've realised I need to start doing it again.

Just got home after busting out of a local donkament. Muffed by somebody who had been telling the whole table how he would gladly play Hellmuth at any stakes. This was in a £50 tournament. 

So if he flats your 25k bet what do you do on a totally blank turn?

Also if he made it 45k what do you do?

I think if he flats and then checks a blank turn to me I would probably have shoved. I know that's bad from me, but just being honest to show that would have been the best line for Leatherman.

Not sure about the 45K. Even with my rushed thoughts I think that would have alarmed me, but still not sure I could have got away from it.

What about when dean shoves J10 or a heart draw?

What answer have you got then?

This is why I knew pretty quickly that I'd made a mess of the hand - he can shove these hands as well as better hands than mine, so my raise just played into that.

I folded QT pre in this hand, with more chips than you at the time. This is turning into a very bad introduction to Blonde for me....

I was the villain in this hand. Bit dubious posting in this thread (and revealing my hand) as I obviously played it badly (it was 1 of 3 hands through the day I really wasn't happy with) but this was the main reason for me joining here - so the prospect of getting criticised on here will make me slow down and stop spewing.

I had... AJ. At the time I just saw Leatherman bet 8.5K into a 19K pot (I was in the CO, the BTN called behind me and the blinds folded) on a wet board and raised to protect my top pair.... Obviously didn't think things through well, just jumped on the fact it looked a weak lead on wet board. I know now I was either slightly ahead or way behind but just rushed my thoughts at the time (big problem of mine). A few hands before he had raised in EP with A7o and I won the pot when it was checked all the way down on a scary board, so I thought he may have been a bit annoyed with that. Also I didn't want the button calling behind as he was one of the better players at the table.

What should I have done?

Not gonna lie I would have raised and called the shove with AQ, but that looks terrible now.