would you pot control in the following situations and why?


1st hand from $11 double elimination sat. to sunday million final table 1st and 2nd get seats to sunday million. Literally the 4th or 5th hand of the final table no reads other than villans opr which shows him as a regular at the 45 man sngs and $11 double elimination sats with a ROI of %7


PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 11.7 Tournament, 10/20 Blinds (10 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

MP1 (t1090)
MP2 (t1400)
MP3 (t1370)
CO (t1350)
Button (t1120)
SB (t1900)
Hero (BB) (t1760)
UTG (t1270)
UTG+1 (t1600)
UTG+2 (t2140)

Hero's M: 58.67

Preflop: Hero is BB with 2, 9
7 folds, Button bets t40, SB calls t30, Hero calls t20

Flop: (t120) 7, Q, K (3 players)
SB checks, Hero bets t140, 1 fold, SB calls t140

Turn: (t400) 3 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets t440, SB raises to t880, Hero raises to t1580 (All-In), SB calls t700

River: (t3560) Q (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: t3560



AND:

$3+r after about 2 hours in I am Top 300 with 2000+ remaining top 300 pay I think.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 3.3 Tournament, 100/200 Blinds (9 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

UTG (t11925)
UTG+1 (t15675)
MP1 (t10550)
MP2 (t9955)
MP3 (t20246)
CO (t13175)
Button (t5150)
Hero (SB) (t17584)
BB (t18360)

Hero's M: 58.61

Preflop: Hero is SB with 9, 9
UTG calls t200, UTG+1 bets t800, 5 folds, Hero calls t700, 1 fold, UTG calls t600

Flop: (t2600) 9, 3, 7 (3 players)
Hero checks, UTG bets t1000, UTG+1 calls t1000, Hero raises to t5999, UTG calls t4999, 1 fold

Turn: (t15598) 8 (2 players)
Hero bets t10785 (All-In), UTG calls t5126 (All-In)

River: (t25850) 6 (2 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: t25850

nh's.... If they cooler you or suck out gg.

1. Fold pre, I know it's "only" 20 chips, but you're OOP with a trash hand and just going to get into bad situations too often. As played, bet a bit less on flop/turn, obv get it in on the turn

2. Looks fine, you're probably being results oriented..

pot control is not for keeping the small pot if sucked hard...
if you flop the nuts you want the pot to become as big as possible.
you use potcontrol when having showdown value, but still being beaten by lots of hands. think you could say it like that...
you dont want to play a big pot, when youre not sure if youre ahead.