the players are bad. except for one, but he's not involved.

it's a $35 rebuy.

rebuys are over at this point and blinds are 300/600 (level 3, starting stacks were 5K), I have JsJx in the HJ, I open for 1200, I get cold called by a guy who is steaming a bit. HU. After the pf raise I have him covered and he has about 3800 left.

Flop

Ks-9s-2s (pot 3300) (again, i have Js)

What's your play here? he effectively has about 1.25 pot left.






Second hand,


Blinds are 400/800 an I have 3800 left. One tight tight limper, I shove with As8s from the button. Felt standard but he only re-raises with premium hands and his limping range is very wide early going but here i'm putting him on medium pairs and mostly KJs QJs KQ, etc. B/C he quits limping 89s at this stage and tries to limp in with a hand that can stand a raise. If it helps, his preflop re-raising range is AA-KK-QQ. His limping range is wide when he's not first in the pot, but here he's the first limper and he had a decent stack.



Hadn't played in a small no juice home game tourney in ages and I'm starting to wonder if I should have dialed back my aggression, but with the first hand I felt hand cuffe.

First hand, cbet him all in if I read his stack size and your hand right. JJ (Js) flush draw, middle pair?

Second hand, with your stack size the most important factor I go ahead and jam Axs even vs the limp. Although I was confused as to whether you were saying he is overly tight or that he was possibly limping KJs etc? I don't think going all in with <5bbs and a suited Ace is ever really that terrible.

I'm putting it in on the first with a cbet.
Second I'm putting it in under 5 bb plenty lighter then a8 suit from the button maybe even with 9 or 10 bbs

if it helps, 80% of these guys play down to the wire. it's usually a forced all-in that causes a knockout and we start with 50 BB's, so they're playing the waiting game in a SNG type table.

hand 1 i shoved got insta called by KToff no spade, second hand limper had AQ and had to think for about a minute lol.