[dmk]

SmileyEH,

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I think I would just stick it in with hand 1. Those saying opponents will never call with a worse hand are insane, I highly doubt any T would fold here, and if someone does have a draw then shutting them out is a huge coup. If you check and end up folding you are left with 1200 chips which is a horribly awkward stack. But if you just take it down suddenly you have over 20BB which will allow you to exploit a lot more +EV stealing situations later on.

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Surely, if you believe you have the best hand, check/pushing is far superior to open-pushing. Also, you are overestimating what type of hands will be calling an open-push. IMO, a typical player is definitely folding a T here.

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edit: Just looking at the hand combinations if the other players are in anyway solid they will rarely have a K here because given nath's stack size AK is ALWAYS reraising. Maybe KQ came along but 2 Q's are already dead. I'd just feel sick if I checked the flop only to see it check around.

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Why would you feel sick if the flop checked through? You act like it would be so incredibly difficult to play the turn. I personally would prefer the flop checking through to anything else.

Check/re-evaluate based on the flop action and/or turn card is definitely the best play here.

Also, hand 2 I'd fold.