DrTongue

As 9c and i'm under the gun. i'm at 11000. blinds are 500/1000 and antes are 200. I'm short stack. Nine players at the table. Several big stacks are 50-60KTime to push?

Forgetting tournament considerations, let's say I push all in. Player 7 and 8 both call which puts me 8000 into a pot of 32000. (3-1?)If they both have paired the board and one is on a flush draw and the other on an open-ended straight draw, am I getting the right odds on this hand to make a play?I never can calculate this stuff. Against both draws, any heart beats me. Q or 7 beats me. If they've already paired, pairing their hand again beats me. That seems like about 18 cards against me with the turn and river to go. What is the math?

Early mid tournament. Blinds are 100-200. My stack is 8000. I'm dealt Ac Ah on the buttonPlayer1 blinds $100Player2 blinds $200Player3 foldsPlayer4 foldsPlayer5 foldsPlayer6 callsPlayer7 callsPlayer8 raises $800 to $1000DrTongue callsPlayer1 callsPlayer2 callsPlayer6 foldsPlayer7 callsPot $5200Flop Jh 9h 8sPlayer1 checksPlayer2 checksPlayer7 bets $2600Player8 callsDrTongue ???What am I most likely up against? What is my play? My thinking was that if anybody had two pair, trips or a straight, they would have made at least a pot bet to push out flush draws. So I put them on pairs with s

To finish the story, after the turn I fell into a pocket ace brain fog and went all in.He, of course, had the third jack (and a king) and called. No ace on the river and I'm done.Just couldn't let go of those bullets. They can't lose, can they?

After the flop, my guess was he had a pair of jacks or straight draw, maybe open ended. Didn't want to give him a free card there. In fact I almost pushed all in after the flop to try get him out of there.

And fold after he goes all in?

Long time, no see! :-) Ran into this hand last night and wanted to get some opinions.Bar tournament free roll, $100 to the winner, tee-shirt to second.Down to six players, stacks are mostly even, I got about 3000.Blinds are 100/200, I get AA in big blind. 2nd seat calls, everybody else including small blind drops, i put another 400 in and 2nd seat calls.Flop is TTJ rainbow. I raise 800. 2nd seat calls.Turn is another Jack. No flush possibilities. I've got about half my stack committed as does 2nd seat.What's my play and thinking here? Thanks!

$20 2 Table Tournament / Final Table / Top 4 pay (160/120/80/40)Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t150 (7 handed) converterMP2 (t4890)CO (t1935)Button (t2010)SB (t3750)BB (t3250)UTG (t1390)Hero (t2775)Preflop: Hero is MP1 with [As], [Th]. 1 fold, ???Assume no read on BB's style. Fold, call or raise?

Are your 10 outs really clean here? I'm assuming by 10 outs you mean the 3 remaining Aces, 3 remaining Kings, and the 4 Tens that give him a straight. The board was Jc 5h Qh. The Ah, Kh, and 10h could give someone else a flush. Any K or A could give someone a straight. Wouldnt that make the 10c, 10d, and 10s your only really clean outs?Actually, I like what Absolute suggests on the flop - check it to see what happens, then when you see those weak bets, raise it by the pot, or even a little more than that. Rethinking, that does make some sense. 45 was a pretty weak raise. Unfortunat

You're the big brother I never wanted! Can't agree. Not worth getting short stacked on a semi-bluff this early in a tournament.

Here's my argument against raising after the flop. The pot was 315 and I didn't want to commit 315 having basically missed the flop and with four players to go. Real good chance I'm going to get called by somebody who paired and I'm going to need a T,K or A.I agree that mostly I was lucky that the others played poorly. They could have and should have pushed me out. I was behind both of them from the flop until the river A.

I'd like to get some opinions on this hand. It was the second hand in the tournament, so no reads on the players. Looking back, I'm thinking maybe I could have bet the flop, but since I hadn't been able to push anybody out pre-flop, I'd decided to gear down. I felt pretty strong after nobody bet the turn, but have read that it often doesn't make sense to bet the river because only hands that have you beat will call, so I check/called. (Check/raise there instead?)Turned out to be a nice pot for me with relatively minimal risk, think I got 4-1 payoff, so maybe I played it correctly.

Thanks for the replies! Feels good to get a couple plays right. Here's one more from later in the tournament. I kind of folded my way through this one. Still the right play?Blinds(250/500) - Tuesday, March 15, 23:17:32 EDT 2005Table Table 35244 (Real Money)Seat 7 is the buttonTotal number of players : 2Seat 4: BTO27 ( $4740 )Seat 7: DrTongue ( $3260 )Trny:10427266 Level:8Blinds(250/500)** Dealing down cards **Dealt to DrTongue [ 9h Qs ]DrTongue folds.

Two hands from late in a sitngo that I played real tight. Should I have played either one of these situations? I wonder most about the second hand, since I was small blind and already in for 150. But I felt most likely it would have taken more than the flop to develop the 9Ts into a hand and I didn't see a percentage in potentially putting that much of my stack at risk chasing 300 chips. I guess I was most concerned about catching half a flop and making a bad decision or getting sucked out on.Blinds(100/200) - Tuesday, March 15, 23:06:02 EDT 2005Table Table 35244 (Real Money)Seat 4 i

That would have been cool too! And how about at the end, if Testa had cut his wrists in the bathtub a la The Godfather!!Had its highs and lows but overall I enjoyed the hell out of Tilt!! A lot of really memorable characters and an unpredictable plot. Other than some great cameos, the poker value was incidental but what did you expect?It's a shame the weakest performance was the "hero". What the hell did Eddie Towne have in his mouth the whole time? Looked like Skoal but I never saw him spit. And Miami was almost as bad. She did all her acting with her chin and her hair.On the