2 hands NL50 deep. Multidraw and toptwopair hands

[Advent]

Hi. After a 2 month break i played some NL50 . I feel very rusty, help me please. How would you play this hands? Probably very standard but as i said, im rusty...


Villian 50/0/1 over 30 hands..no history
Party Poker
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.25/$0.5
5 players
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Stack sizes:
UTG: $61
CO: $88
Button: $99
Hero: $87
BB: $27

Pre-flop: (5 players) Hero is SB with 2[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 4[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]
UTG calls, <font color="#cc0000">CO raises to $1.5</font>, Button calls, Hero calls, BB folds, UTG calls.

Flop: 2[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] ($6.5, 4 players)
Hero checks, UTG checks, <font color="#cc0000">CO bets $3.5</font>, <font color="#cc0000">Button raises to $7</font>, <font color="#cc0000">Hero?</font>




Results:
Final pot: $





villian 35/13/2.5 over 40 hands, no history.
Party Poker
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.25/$0.5
5 players
Converter

Stack sizes:
UTG: $49
Hero: $96
Button: $51
SB: $119
BB: $61

Pre-flop: (5 players) Hero is CO with J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]
UTG calls, <font color="#cc0000">Hero raises to $2.5</font>, Button calls, SB calls, BB calls, UTG calls.

Flop: A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] T[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] ($12.5, 5 players)
SB checks, BB checks, UTG checks, <font color="#cc0000">Hero bets $12.5</font>, Button folds, <font color="#cc0000">SB raises to $30</font>, 2 folds, Hero?





Results:
Final pot: $

[llamage]

first hand, i fold preflop. 24 suited is not a hand i want to play OOP. As played, I fold. Two players, one just raised, and all you've got is a flush draw. If one of them has a set, it removes the other three 2's left in the deck as your outs. If one of them also has a flush draw, he's taken your outs, not to mention that he'd probably have a higher flush draw.

Second hand:

This is a tough one. The hands you beat are AK, AQ, and A10.
You don't beat a set. You lose to 10 10, J J , and KQ obviously. I would call and re-evaluate turn. Don't push because only hands that beat you will call.

[Check_The_Nuts]

these hands are pretty tough. I think I'd just call the flop in (1) though because I hate to stack off with just a flush draw whenever he has a set/or better two pair. Notice all two pairs beat your hand.

Hand 2 I think I fold. If your calling the flop I'm pretty sure you only want to call one more bet max, so if he leads the turn big you should probably fold but if he 1/2 pots or something call. Top two is a good hand but not on that particular board against a villian who likely cold calls with trap hands (KQ/KJ/AJ/AT etc.). I think he has a set/straight more often than the weaker two pairs and he's likely going to be pretty cautious about putting more $$$ in with JT after playing the flop so strong.

edit: Just reread my hand one answer. I mean J2s here is a lot better than 24s because you have the extra outs of hitting a J versus two pair but with 24 you need to hit either the flush or runner-runner versus the two pair. Basically your farther behind two pair+sets when called even though your way ahead of one pair hands, so thats why I wouldn't want to play it that aggro.

I would probably lead that flop at least some of the time.