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Swinebag:
First 3 hands are all shoves for me given how short stacked you are. You have a bit of fold equity but not for long. You will get looked up by smaller pairs, most aces including ones you crush and most broadway overpairs. With your stack you need to win a race. (disclaimer - though I think I do make a lot of mistakes generally with small pairs)
AQ hand is fine-just win the race next time
35 hand is vul - you"d be surprised at weaker hands that stack off there.
QQ hand should be 4 bet all in. Flatting the 3 bet achieves nothing as you are pot committed going to the flop. AK may fold flop now , meaning you miss value. If flop is A hi, you miss value from underpairs.( lol - auto correct put underpants there). With shallow stacks you shouldn"t be playing any flops and looking to get it in. Getting 3 bet holding QQ is fistpump shove time.
Will read the others and post
Swinebag:
Q4 from SB is a shove-well done!
KT hand is fold or shove. I tend to a fold due to villains stack size where he should be playing the hand to the bitter end. With a read though, shoving will get through a lot there.
As played, he must be a weak player because he has put in a thirdish of his stack and is now folding. I think your, "he can only call with a J" thinking is flawed. A decent player will call off with most hands that they raise with and c bet ( all pairs, AQ, AK, KQ and maybe worse).
Swinebag:
Q9 hand is fine - deffo call on the river. There may be more profitable lines, but when I try and steal the blinds and hit the flop, I just want to get to showdown and catch a river bluff if I"m lucky enough to get one.
AK hand - I assume you posted to demonstrate what you are up against at this level. Tag villain as weak/spewy with chips. His 3 bet fold is just awful. His thinking is so basic it hurts, I only ever 3 bet for value against your stack size so would snap the shove. You played it correct obviously.
Swinebag:
QQ facing 3 bet all in. Villain has shoved less than 10 bigs. I snap call pretty much all my raising range here, and only fold the weakest of steals. I will fold more weak hands if I am running over the table and they are letting me steal at will.
JQ hand. You have 20ish bigs so it fold or 3 bet shove here. Calling OOP is terrible. I probably go with fold pre here over a shove as villain is UTG. Would need a read to justify shoving there. As played you hit your Q and for similar reasons to the KT hand would be getting them in here. You become predictable when you c/r air and c/c hands that hit. Stacks are a little deeper than KT hand (though not by much) so villain will stack off with most underpairs and maybe AK.
Final hand. Stacks are now pretty deep but I think it"s ok to get them in with a pair. You are most likely racing given the betting but I just think I have the nuts when I get a pair HU. Just win it next time. There may be better lines but I pretty much do what you did (but hold obv :))
There you go steve. Thanks for posting some MTT hands. I let Brendan deal with the cash ones (though no doubt he will be here later to shred my MTT thoughts). I"ve just posted these whilst rocking my little boy back to sleep. One handed iPhone skillz FTW?!
Swinebag:
Just reread my bit on the QJ hand and think that c/c is an ok line. I think you also c/r enough stronger hands in other spots, so you are not predictable that you can take the c/c line. This is probably read dependent. I still fold pre though, as stacks are shallow and post flop play is very difficult and I don"t want to be making tough decisions here.
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