These are from a $50 trny on Full tilt, I know it's not technically high stakes but I wanted some HSMTTers opinions.


Hand 1: First hand of the tourney. What is the best way to proceed?

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SB: t2000
BB: t2000
UTG: t2000
UTG+1: t2000
UTG+2: t2000
MP1: t2000
MP2: t2000
Hero (CO): t2000
BTN: t2000

Pre Flop: Hero is CO with Q Q
4 folds, MP2 calls t20, Hero raises to t80, 1 fold, SB raises to t280, 2 folds, Hero???





Hand 2: UTG had come to the table shortstacked and pushed 10bbs 2 orbits ago. He timebanked before he pushed, not sure what that means. How do I play this with 5 players left to act?

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UTG: t2115
UTG+1: t10552
UTG+2: t5880
Hero (MP1): t13325
MP2: t14732
CO: t3510
BTN: t4269
SB: t13465
BB: t5526

Pre Flop: Hero is MP1 with 7 7
UTG raises to t2090 all in, 2 folds, Hero????





Hand 3: Villan has been somewhat active, raising around 1-2 times per orbit. He doubled up a couple orbits earlier 77>AA aipf. I had been pretty active earlier, but had tightened up recently.


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UTG+1: t6536
MP1: t30291
Hero (MP2): t12885
CO: t16245
BTN: t7138
SB: t23297
BB: t12380
UTG: t12426

Pre Flop: Hero is MP2 with Q A
UTG raises to t1333, 2 folds, Hero??

fold 3 awkward stack size? fold 2 i guess its a 50 dollar so i dont know but in general i dont think many people push a reasonable amount of chips utg with a hand that you dominate plus 30304304030 ppl behind you and probably call 1 since its the first level

people better than me probably raise 1 but i dont play that good i like playing flops..

1- shove - it's too early to not shove QQ. He is showing strength, but we beat his range >50% of the time.
2 - call. He is short stacked, and the range could be wide.
3 - prolly call and reevauate on flop. I would fold to a pot bet if I didn't catch anything on the flop.

1 shove is pretty much the worst thing u could possibly do in my opinion just because you are beating someoens range does not mean you just shove 2 he still has 9 bbs and he is utg that doesnt mean hes going crazy whether his range or not 77 is not better than too much

1. shove although calling might be better. i dont like folding
2. fold
3. call