T-Stone 100+20: Couple hands
 

A few hands from the Sunday 100+20 no rebuy at T-Stone. My plays and their results omitted in certain hands; interested in all sorts of feedback on any of them.

1) 1st level 25/50, 4500 chips. No reads.
2nd hand of tourn. CO makes it 250 after a limper, I call 200 more in BB with JThh. Limper folds. Flop 68K with 2 hearts. I c/r a bet of 200 to 900.

2) Blinds still 25/50. With around 5000 and prolly TAG image, I open for 200 with 98o from the CO. Button (tight) and sb (likes to play) both call. Button is avg. stack, button around 6000. Flop AK6. Checked around. Turn 7 completing rainbow. SB leads for 250, I call with OESD, button mucks. River brick, he bets like 300 and I fold. Him and some other players had been making similarly smallish bets, so I didn't make too much of them.

3) Next blind level, 50/100 with 25 ante. I have about 4500. I open UTG to 400 with 33. Too loose? Tight guy (button from hand 2) smoothcalls, everyone else folds. Flop 774. I lead 600 into 800, he shoves.

4) Next blind level, 200/400 with 50 ante. (approx). I have about 3600. CO (around 30, dark glasses and huge headphones, prolly one of you guys) shoves for slightly less. I have AQo in the sb.

Thoughts?

Re: T-Stone 100+20: Couple hands
 

100+ 20?? WOW what a raping.

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Agreed. Any thoughts on the hands themselves?

Re: T-Stone 100+20: Couple hands
 

1) Call pf is fine I guess, but i don't really like. I'm kind of a nit early on because there really isn't much of a reason to start spewing chips, especially since TS tournaments are turboish. I c/c flop, c/f turn on unimproved board.
2) Again, I fold pf. Really no need to start stealing. You're risking 200 to pick up 75 to increase your 5k stack. Unless you know that most of the time you're picking up this pot postflop, fold. Flop is fine. Turn can go either way, but I like the call because you're getting enough implied odds here if you hit. obv fold river
3) wtf there are no antes in the third level. Stop lying. Fold pf, call flop(obv).
4) Call. You're behind AK, QQ-AA. From the CO, there's a pretty good chance he's holding a smaller pair or a lesser ace.

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I know folding hands 1-3 pf is theoretically "correct", but it seems like the guys who end up with big stacks are mixing it preflop, trying to hit big hands when there are still plenty of bad players. BTW, is hand #3 really such an obvious flop call? I know my first statement sounds sorta n00bish, but I can't help but think guys like Ansky, gobboboy, etc. are playing those hands lots of the time in similar situations.

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3) Next blind level, 50/100 with 25 ante. I have about 4500. I open UTG to 400 with 33. Too loose? Tight guy (button from hand 2) smoothcalls, everyone else folds. Flop 774. I lead 600 into 800, he shoves.

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You never posted his stack size, so I assumed that when you said 800 that was his stack. Pot would have been more than 800 at that point, so I assumed it was something else.

Re: T-Stone 100+20: Couple hands
 

My mistake. He had about as much as I did at the time. You're right about the pot size; assuming I was incorrectly remembering the antes (which I'm sure I was) the pot would have been 950 or something.