Hand #1- I don't know exact blinds but wanna say it was at 500/1000 100. I pick up KK in utg+1 at a 9 handed table and open to 2100, super aggro asian 3bets to 4k, player behind flats and I 4bet to 16k. I use this sizing to build a pot and feel 1 will call in this situation. Super aggro asian calls and we see a flop of A-3-6. I lead out for 21k and he thinks and raises to 60-65k. We both have massive stacks and are chip leaders at table. Wanna say i started hand with 120k, and he had 200k. He has played a lot of pots and it seems he makes a lot of moves and raises on flops etc, one of the most interesting strats ive seen a live player do. He was a player i wanted to avoid bc i could tell he was super aggro and very hard to put him on a range. SO after he raises i think about it and muck face up saying nice job hitting flop. He shows 77 and I felt terrible. Is there any rationale for ever piling or flatting this bet? I'm sure he shoves turn based on his style of play and doesn't shut down. I feel we can find better spots in this tourny as a lot of soft spots and we still have a massive stack after this hand.

Hand 2- I have a stack of 155k at 1500/3000 400. Utg limps, seems like a decent player, kinda clueless as he complains to dealer a few orbits back after dealer mucks his hand when he is in seat 10 while eating food (and trys to say he wants floor called- anyone that has played a few tournies knows the floor cant retrieve a hand once mucked). UTG prolly has 180k and is playing solid poker prolly more on the tight side. utg+2 ships a 10bb stack, and im next to act with 99. I think for 10 seconds and just ship 50bbs in. I feel utg+2 is super wide and we wanna isolate him- prolly shipping all broadways, small pairs, and maybe a few suited connectors. Also do we take the utg limp into play? I ship and utg thinks for 10-15 seconds and says he has to call and we flip with AQ and lose. Im sure this shove by me is probably fine. Just wanna hear thoughts? Do we muck and look for better spots or is this a good spot to take?

I feel some players would muck aq in this spot after i just jam but idk? Thanks for feedback.

1st hand I think you should have made it larger on the 4b. I think 20k or 25k here is fine given the action and pot size. If the 3rd player has a stack size of 20-40k, then i'd make the raise his stack with the intention of jamming all but the worst flops against V2. This play is largely based on your read.

I would also never show that face up. You showed you will give up any premium when your opponent reps an Ace, which is not the spot to be in against an already aggressive player.

Hand 2: I think you leveled yourself here. You have 50bb and a middle pair vs. one shove, with several players to act behind. If you give him a range of 55+, JTo+, AT+, you are flipping. Given that you are flipping with more action behind, and your play is likely to be viewed as an iso play, 99 is too weak to make this move. As rough as it sounds, folding is your best play here. If you were BTN i'd be more inclined to agree with a shove, but not here. I do agree AQ is a loose call here by UTG.

Hand 1 is not a clear fold, particularly to a superagro. If he had an ace, he would likely just call to get you to barrel and because he probably doesn't have AA/AK.

Looking back on it, I prolly should pile or maybe call and intend to call shove. I feel fact I have kk makes odds of him having ak unlikely so maybe he folds aq here if I shove but yea idk. Thanks for the input! Much appreciated. Asian and I had interesting dynamic where i think we were fighting for table dominance (prolly sounds stupid but hard to explain). I had just gotten my chips after accidentally raising to 10k pre instead of 2.1k and calling of a 50k shove by an older gentleman that I think was trying to make up for my mistake. My call resulted in getting kq in against kj lol which was lucky. Feel Asian may have thought I wouldn't wanna risk chipstack I had just accumulated maybe.



I feel like 99 hand is good spot I got into but prolly a fold since I'm in ep in the hand. I'm an idiot and show way too many hands in live events. I consider myself a nit of sorts. I open a lot of pots with hands such as suited connectors, Broadway's, etc, but I'm prettt willing to give up after a cbet and no real draw once I see a flop. I prolly cbet way too often in headsups pots. I like to show cards to make it look like I'm a lag while I tend to only 3bet and 4bet with premiums.