Congratulations on the win. WP

1. Fold
2. All in
3. Call

In hand 2, i'm thinking that the min raiser wants to be perceived as strong, but that he actually isn't. The 3 bettor may well think this too. You could actually be up against 2 ace highs. Either way, i would be more worried about the 3 bettor as i would expect the initial raiser to jam his entire range here. Queens is too good to pass for me here.

In hand 3, this spot is a great spot for the small blind to be shoving with a very wide range, including much weaker aces than yours. For this reason, with your hand, i call.

Good Luck to you and the Team Eureka for the rest of the trip Alex. And cheers for posting the hands.

Good Luck Chris

just having a stab by the way. Not really got much idea about these spots. Would villian really raise so small with a straight here?
not so sure. still think a semi-bluff more likely

Personally, i would elect to call the raise. Villian may well have a straight, but he could also have a flush draw, say  and is raising to try and semi bluff you off it. You have four outs to the full house, with good implied odds if you do happen to hit it.
 I would then probably check / call the river, unless a spade lands, which would make me more likely to fold to a big bet.
 I would probably go for a check raise if we hit the full house, because i think that villian will probably bet again with or without a hand.

I think that, nine handed, from that position,  with 15 bb, i would shove with AT-AQ and 77-JJ and raise/call with anything better.
 Like the person that asked the question, i'm really not sure what the correct range for shoving or raise calling in this situation is. Not even sure if we should be hjamming with any pair here?

My main point was that, in my opinion, your bet sizing way well have allowed villian to get there, or at least given him easy decisions along the way and so giving him less chance to make mistakes.

Would you consider folding if a King, Ace or Diamond show on the turn.
I think you got too fancy.
You should bet more on the flop and check jam, or just jam the turn.
As it is, you made your opponents decisions quite easy for him and allowed him to get ahead on the river.
Who loves ya baby.

Nice one Rick

I'm going to go for.....shove it up your arse

good Luck Niall, JP, and Paul 

I would say that is very much dependent on opponents tendencies. Your comments suggest that they are generally pretty tight. I think quite often a raise will do the same as a shove. Ie-It will usually get through, but you will be flipping or, more likely, in bad shape if you get jammed on. So, it's a raise / fold for me.

I would go for the set mining option here

Very Well played to all of the finalists. Rastafish is still the king of DTD! Great effort George.

I think that with these stack sizes, you should just flat call villian's opening raise. Although your hand is way ahead of villian's opening range you seem to be turning it into a pre-flop bluff. If you flat you could hit a pretty well disguised set. If you get called (as here) the only flop you are likely to be comfortable with is one with a nine in it. I think you have to fold to a 4-bet from villian too?
 Would you really lead out on the flop with an overpair in this situation? I dont think so.
 so, for me, it's flat pre, but, as played, i will go for a check on the flop.

You really check an overpair here? REALLY?

Cbet size should be about 1/2 pot here, 15k again is fine, even less is also good. 13-17.5k perfect.

Cheers for that reply rfgqqabc.
 When i made my original post on this thread i was curious as to how my suggestion to check the flop would be received. I suppose that, as the player to make the most aggressive move pre-flop, convention would suggest that Skippy, our hero in this hand, should fire out a continuation bet?
When i chose the option of checking the flop, i was hoping that there would be some feedback to tell me the error of my ways (if it was an error).
 One of my lines of thought was that, being OOP, hero would be in a similar position to someone who has flat called an opening raise, the main difference being that the pot was now much bigger (due to it being 3 bet), and so that, as well as being, potentially, a stack v stack confrontation, it would also be less likely for the villian to just give up to a c-bet.
 If villian had a flush draw or an over-pair he certainly would not be folding.
 I felt that by checking the flop, hero could then assess his options (particularly dependent on live reads). If vilian checked behind (prob unlikely), hero could then consider leading out on a non spade, low turn card, or maybe check again, trying to get to showdown cheaply.
 I'm pretty tired at the mo, so probably thinking even less clearly than usual, so apolgies in advance if this one makes even less sense than my previous post.
 I do still beleive, that, regardless of the post flop line, my suggestion to just flat call the original pre flop raise is the correct choice. I would be interested to hear if anyone begs to differ.
 Cheers for posting the hand Skippy.
ps-I agree that the c-bet is too big, either way. It appears to commit hero to the hand, which i would say is not ideal, oop, with this stack and this particular hand.