A few hands from a few different tourneys in past few weeks

[LeeG]

All these are from a $70 tourney at a local casino. $40BI+10 instant add on + 20 add on, unlimited $10 rebuys for 1K chips for first hour. Start with 5K chips with add on. All these hands are after the rebuy period is over.

Hand 1:
Blinds 200/400. Hero has pocket tens UTG+1. UTG folds and Hero raises to 1200. Action folds to BB who calls. Flop is QQ2 rainbow. Villain goes all in. Villain has been a calling station who has lucked out a few times catching an ace on turn or river. I have him out stacked 21K to 9K. I am at or near chip lead for tourney.


Hand 2:
Blinds 300/600. Hero was card dead for most of the tourney, but has doubled up twice in past 20 min. UTG limps, UTG+2 and CO call. Hero is on button with JJ. Hero raises to 2400. UTG goes AI for 5500. CO calls. Hero has 16K chips remaining and CO has him covered.


Hand 3:
Blinds 400/800. UTG raises to 3000. Action folds to hero in MP with JJ. This is the first bet today by villain that wasn't a preflop AI shove. He's was never called on any of the AI (he had 5 or 6 of them already). Villain has about 6K behind. I have about 14K total and have been playing pretty tight. Looking to my left, the CO's body language tells me he plans on getting involved in the hand. Most others look like they plan on folding.

Hand 4:
Down to 14 players. 10 get paid. Blinds 2K/4K. Action folds to CO who raises to 16K. SB calls. Hero has AQo. CO has 20K remaining. SB has 65K remaining. Hero has 75K. CO is an unknown, but SB is a regular - he's a calling station who will basically never get out of a hand that won't bust him out.

[MrDarling]

Hand 1 : call

Hand 2 : push or fold. Though the limp/push screams AA, sometimes they do it with a small pair or even AK.
Reads depended I probably push most of the time. Not worried about CO's hand at all.

Hand 3 :
Tricky. Mood depended all moves are valid here : calling, pushing and folding are all ok.

Hand 4 :most of the times its a push. We're not really worried about SB hand. Even though CO is unknown, how active as he been in this event. is he position aware? Does he steal enough? Normal CO range is A8+, 22+, SC etc... You are miles ahead of his range.

[LeeG]

Thanks for the reply Mr D.

I feel pretty good that I pretty much played it like you'd suggested.

Hand 1: I called and villain turned over AK and didn't catch.

Hand 2: I folded then kicked myself when they turned over AQ and AK. Neither improved and the AK took it down.

Hand 3: I had been waiting for this guy to push when I had a hand - then he just made a big bet instead with no more chips than he had pushed with on other occasions. It screamed to me that he aces. That coupled with the fact there was another guy wanting in, I mucked it, and the other guy raised and OB went AI and turned up aces (caller only had A9o or something like that - made me wonder what he was so anxious about). Aces held and no jacks.

Hand 4: I pushed. SB wanted an exact chip count, and when he saw he had me covered by 4K he called with pocket 7's. CO had KQs and neither of us improved.