KQo in BB--standard action?

[cheburashka]

Hi All,

When I think about what has been going wrong with my game lately, the answer I come up with can be summarized in two words: donk calls.

Almost always, I know even as I'm clicking that I'm making a donk call, and after I get stacked I duly write into my tourney journal something like "Overall played OK with mediocre cards; a few good steals; got stacked when TPTK ran into two pair."

Anyway, I'm posting these two, because I actually don't think I made any mistakes, but now I'm on a losing streak and starting to doubt my judgment.

I've been playing pretty taggy, 18/12/1.6. Villain in first hand is very loose and sort of passive over 25 hands, 43/16/0.9, although he hasn't actually shown down bad cards. No reads on villain in second hand, as it's my first hand at the table.

HAND 1

UTG: (3110 in chips)
UTG+1: 300 in chips)
MP12510 in chips)
MP2835 in chips)
HJ: (785 in chips)
CO: (2110 in chips)
BU: (4155 in chips)
SB: (1825 in chips)
HERO: (4995 in chips)

Blinds 15/30, Hero is in BB with K [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] Q [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]

Action: Folds to SB, who completes. Hero raises 60 to 90. SB calls.

Flop: 7 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 9 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] K [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]

SB bets 1735 and is all-in. Hero?


HAND 2

UTG: (4095 in chips)
VILLAIN: (5430 in chips)
HERO: (6820 in chips)
MP2: (3545 in chips)
HJ: (1140 in chips)
CO: (1905 in chips)
BU: (720 in chips)
SB: (735 in chips)
BB: (1960 in chips)


Blinds are 25/50. Hero is MP1 with K [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] K [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

Action: 1 fold, Villain calls 50, Hero raises 150 to 200, four folds, SB calls 175, 1 fold, Villain raises 200 to 400, Hero?

Look, I don’t want to start some ridiculous thread about whether one should fold KK pre-flop, but should the limp-minraise have raised red flags???