Hand Analysis - Your Thoughts Please

[daftpegasus]

Twice last night I played similar hands, AKs in exactly the same way. After the game both hands stood out as critical hands that maybe could have changed the result for me and therefore I’d appreciate your thoughts on whether or not I was correct to fold the hand each time? This morning I’ve spent some time analysing it myself and made my own conclusions as to whether they were good plays, poor plays or what I should have done differently so I’m very interested to see if you back up these thoughts or not.

The first hand is quite early on in the tournament whilst the second one is when we’re down to the final 5 players.

***** Hand 973360940 ***** 25.00/50.00 Texas Hold'em (No Limit) - 27 February 2008 20:27:08 PLounge league (Real/Tournament) Seat 1: PL teaulc (1579.00) Seat 2: PLdobbin (1292.00) Seat 3: PL_Pegasus (1945.00) Seat 4: PLrunadrum (2676.00) Seat 5: PLatitude (1283.00) Seat 7: PLwarbirds (1208.00) Seat 8: PL borokp (1735.00) Seat 9: PLPLady (1432.00) Seat 10: PLgoater14 (1275.00) PL_Pegasus post SB 25.00 PLrunadrum post BB 50.00 ** Deal ** PL teaulc [N/A, N/A] PLdobbin [N/A, N/A] PL_Pegasus [Ks, As] PLrunadrum [N/A, N/A] PLatitude [N/A, N/A] PLwarbirds [N/A, N/A] PL borokp [N/A, N/A] PLPLady [N/A, N/A] PLgoater14 [N/A, N/A] *** Bet Round 1 *** PLatitude Fold PLwarbirds Raise to 100.00 PL borokp Fold PLPLady Fold PLgoater14 Fold PL teaulc Fold PLdobbin Fold PL_Pegasus Call 100.00 PLrunadrum Call 100.00 *** Flop(Board): *** : [7s, 2d, Js] *** Bet Round 2 *** PL_Pegasus Check PLrunadrum Bet 150.00 PLwarbirds Fold PL_Pegasus Call 150.00 *** Turn(Board): *** : [7s, 2d, Js, Jh] *** Bet Round 3 *** PL_Pegasus Bet 250.00 PLrunadrum Raise to 750.00 PL_Pegasus Fold *** Showdown *** : Rake: 0.00 Total Pot: 1100.00 PL teaulc Fold Win: 0.00 PLdobbin Fold Win: 0.00 PL_Pegasus Fold Win: 0.00 PLrunadrum By default Win: 1100.00 PLatitude Fold Win: 0.00 PLwarbirds Fold Win: 0.00 PL borokp Fold Win: 0.00 PLPLady Fold Win: 0.00 PLgoater14 Fold Win: 0.00

***** Hand 973493956 ***** 300.00/600.00 Texas Hold'em (No Limit) - 27 February 2008 21:44:49 PLounge league (Real/Tournament) Seat 1: PL borokp (13074.00) Seat 3: PLSpur (10174.00) Seat 5: PL_Pegasus (15008.00) Seat 6: PLgoater14 (4254.00) Seat 9: PLstrider (3740.00) PLSpur post SB 300.00 PL_Pegasus post BB 600.00 ** Deal ** PL borokp [N/A, N/A] PLSpur [N/A, N/A] PL_Pegasus [Ks, As] PLgoater14 [N/A, N/A] PLstrider [N/A, N/A] *** Bet Round 1 *** PLgoater14 Fold PLstrider Fold PL borokp Call 600.00 PLSpur Fold PL_Pegasus Check *** Flop(Board): *** : [Qc, Js, 8s] *** Bet Round 2 *** PL_Pegasus Bet 1200.00 PL borokp All-in 12474.00 PL_Pegasus Fold *** Showdown *** : Rake: 0.00 Total Pot: 4150.00 PL borokp By default Win: 4150.00 PLSpur Fold Win: 0.00 PL_Pegasus Fold Win: 0.00 PLgoater14 Fold Win: 0.00 PLstrider Fold Win: 0.00

[dico]

Re: Hand Analysis - Your Thoughts Please I'm no expert but I think they needed playing more aggressively pre-flop. Both times you have let potentially marginal hands in cheaply. If you had raise more on each play you may have won the pot outright but if you had a call at least you could deduce something about your opponents hand. Just my thoughts, could be complete tripe:lol With regards to folding them, I would definately call the second one, not sure about the 1st