I played two small live tournaments this week, and sadly got busted by these AK and KT hands. I personally think I've made the right decision in both situations, even though I'm not used to play live games. And I must say that I don't remember all the information on those hands, because, firstly, I don't have much experience in Live Games, so sadly a lot of it's informations don't stay fresh for long.

Let's start with AK, shall we? The blinds were 400/800 and the UTG calls, UTG+1 folds, the actions is on me on UTG+2 with a stack nearly 24bb, I was quite excited for that, because I was receiving only trash or non postflop equity hands for the last 40 minutes or so such as K3x, 23x, T7x, etc... The field in general was a little bit loose, that is why I was choosing valuable hands or at least hands with a reasonable postflop equity.

I know that AK does not play well in a multiway pot, so I wanted to isolate the hand to get some protection and also could represent some hands like AAx, KKx or QQx with a raise. There was 2k chips already in the pot and I raised to 3k, maybe for isolation wasn't a good size bet, because it will give some good Pot Odds to my opponents, even though it worked fine. The table goes on gap, the SB decided to call, the BB folds and the UTG decided to 3-BET me for 10k.

The UTG's 3-BET range that I was thinking of was 88+, AKx, AQx and AJx. I was getting 53% equity against his range, certainly I didn't want to call that because eventually I'd have to move all in in some street (due the way this hand started) then I decided to shove exactly 20bb preflop and plus the SB call didn't scared me much, I knew my hand was behind but it had some good equity Heads Up, so I was trying to get some more Fold Equity from UTG and make the SB fold.

The SB folds and UTG calls and shows a JJ, the pot was 34k chips, flop was, 2-3-T rainbow, turn Q, river Q and he takes down nearly 43bb with Two Pairs.

Well, last but not less important the KT, this hand was very short, I did the Late Registration in the tournament and the blinds were 200/400 and I had a stake of 2.5bb, I was in Late Position and it was the best hand I was dealt since I started and I decided to shove that.

The BT calls, the BB re-shoves and BT calls again, we go to a Showdown 3-handed Game. The BT had ATx and the BB had Q9x, the flop was, 6-7-4 rainbow, turn 8x, river Jx and the BT takes it down with Ace High.

Thanks,
João Brgai.

This is a cash game forum, not tournaments.

That said, AKo hand should be a shove preflop with that stack size and some limps.

Second hand, don't late reg into a tournament if it gives you 2.5BBs.

This is live cash not tournament.

That said the first hand raise more and you should probably shove over the limpers rather then raise. If you have history with the player you might fold to the limp/raise but with only 24BB and AK you would have to be sure his limp/raise range is QQ+.

In hand 2 you should be shoving far worse then KTs with only 2.5BB. Shove anything playable and if you are first in the pot in LP shove all but the very worst hands. Don't expect people to fold, you are just looking for luck at that point. Late registration that gets you a stack that small is pure luck with very bad odds.

Welcome to the forum, OP. I concur with both of the above, and since this isn't the forum for tournaments, I'm going to go ahead an lock it up. You can re-post in Small-Stakes MTT (multi-table tournaments) if you want, but I suspect you'll get the same answers.