Tateisgo

Wasn't Eli Elezra in the hand to? I was half paying attention.I think the betting went. Harman checks, Elezra checks, Sammy bets, Harman goes all-in, fold, fold.

One is a genius... the other's insane...

Can't say I'm a fan of this either. Some teams still didn't show up today and given the debacle most had with tickets we can't be sure it wasn't due to the same issue. If we cancel one why not the other?There's no fair way to handle the first event (for the teams who won and the teams who couldn't play), and I think all the teams had tickets today but one team had a missing member.

Smiddywap played for our team tonight.

I don't mind the raise that much. It's a bad hand to have UTG, but given that it's a tight table, it's not too bad in my eyes.After he raises, you should lay this down. You raised UTG showing strength, he re-raises next to act with a full table still left to act. There's no reason to think you're not beat here. The fact that he has more chips than you makes this call worse.I don't like calling the raise, and your push on the flop doesn't make sense. If you hit the flop you'd want to get paid off, not push him out of the hand. If you had a big pair you probably would have pushed before the flop

Any reads on the other player? What was his chip stack?

First they take away our ringer, then they blackbook us from the tournament. Looks like some people are scared...

Tateisgo

Oh... I thought these freerolls were just for seats. If we're playing for first then I push here, otherwise I stick by folding. If I'm still 2nd or 3rd in chips after I fold why risk going broke on this hand? (maybe I'm deluded by lately all the tourney strat posts being about big pocket pairs running into bigger pocket pairs)

Doesn't 4th and 3rd pay the same as first in this?

If you are still 2nd in chips if you fold, folding here is definetly an option. I'd say if more than 1/3 of my chips are in the pot on the flop I go broke here, if not then reads are very important here. Since it's a home game, I'm assuming you have played with this player before and know his general patterns. If he's been playing tight/aggressive, it's probably better to lay it down and work on taking the other players money (although without a pre-flop raise, it'd be a tough laydown.)Usually in home games the payouts for anything but first really isn't worth it, which makes it a really tough

You got your money in twice with the worst hand. If you are indeed good, use your new table image by tightening up and inducing bad plays from other players. The only reason to make these plays would be to mix up your playing style.If you think these were good plays (or even worse standard plays) read HOH 1 &2 three times each before you play again.

Tough spot, but I'd like to think I'd lay this one down. I'm not ready to risk my remaining 15,000 with a push here, and a call will leave me with a tough spot on the turn. With no real reads on the other player I'm putting him on flush draw or top set, and unless I hit a J on the turn I'm probably check/folding the turn having no more information.With 15,000 left and blinds at 200/400 we still have room to battle back against the other players and leave the chip leader alone. We're not playing for first, so we can pick a better spot to make a move.

You need to re-raise preflop. By just calling you're screwing yourself in many ways. 1. You haven't defined where you stand in the hand.2. You have no more information about the raisers hand.3. By calling you are giving the people behind you better pot odds to call with weaker hands.4. You leave yourself no way to win the hand preflop (with a 1400 pot it's probably good enough to take right now)5. You're not putting any pressure on the short stacks.I'd raise it to 1,600 to 2,000 pre-flop(depending on your stack size/raisers stack size). The way you played it, your flop bet was good and I'd pro

Since this is a home game, I'm assuming that you play with these people alot (at least weekly). If you continually see him call big re-raises only with K's and raise with A's there's some chance you could avoid this in the future. If he does call with AK or AQ like you said, there's a good chance you go broke here every time. (it's not that bad to go broke here)I'd say push all-in on the flop if you're already prepared to call his all-in raise (think about if you're really willing to lay down a big pair here - if one of your weaknesses is that you can't lay down big pairs no matter what, eithe