A few quiz hands

I cherry picked some interesting hands over the last few days and was hoping you all might be interested as the guys in the mtt forum really dont care much. If you will post your anwsers and reasoning we can have a good discussion.

Oops submitted it too early still working on it.

Hand 1

The villian was a laggy player trying to win every pot. What is your play on the turn and why?

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t100 (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

Button (t3200)
SB (t2615)
Hero (t2510)
UTG (t4245)
UTG+1 (t1730)
MP1 (t6210)
MP2 (t1947)
MP3 (t929)
CO (t1055)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 3, 5.
UTG calls t100, 1 fold, MP1 calls t100, 5 folds, Hero checks.

Flop: (t350) 6, 9, 4 (3 players)
Hero bets t200, UTG folds, MP1 calls t200.

Turn: (t750) 7 (2 players)

Hand 2 Early in a freeze out no reads. What is your play on the flop?

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t30 (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

CO (t1110)
Button (t1270)
Hero (t1510)
BB (t765)
UTG (t1790)
UTG+1 (t3795)
MP1 (t610)
MP2 (t3285)
MP3 (t1305)

Preflop: Hero is SB with Q, Q.
2 folds, MP1 calls t30, MP2 raises to t120, MP3 calls t120, 2 folds, Hero raises to t300, 1 fold, MP1 raises to t610, MP2 raises to t920

Hand 3 Early in a rebuy. What is your play on the river?

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t30 (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

UTG+1 (t5135)
MP1 (t6085)
Hero (t2875)
MP3 (t1555)
CO (t1155)
Button (t2400)
SB (t3110)
BB (t5320)
UTG (t3225)

Preflop: Hero is MP2 with 9, J.
UTG calls t30, UTG+1 calls t30, MP1 calls t30, Hero calls t30, 2 folds, Button calls t30, SB completes, BB checks.

Flop: (t210) 9, 9, A (7 players)
SB checks, BB checks, UTG checks, UTG+1 checks, MP1 checks, Hero bets t90, Button calls t90, SB folds, BB folds, UTG folds, UTG+1 folds, MP1 folds.

Turn: (t390) 9 (2 players)
Hero bets t90, Button calls t90.

River: (t570) 3 (2 players)

Hand 4 Early in a freezeout. No reads in particular. What is play on the turn and why?

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t20 (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

MP1 (t3000)
MP2 (t1660)
MP3 (t1360)
CO (t2890)
Button (t1490)
SB (t1240)
BB (t2980)
Hero (t3260)
UTG+1 (t4620)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with 5, 5.
Hero calls t20, UTG+1 calls t20, MP1 calls t20, MP2 calls t20, MP3 calls t20, 2 folds, SB completes, BB checks.

Flop: (t140) 3, 5, 4 (7 players)
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets t80, UTG+1 calls t80, MP1 raises to t200, MP2 calls t200, MP3 folds, SB folds, BB folds, Hero calls t120, UTG+1 calls t120.

Turn: (t940) K (4 players)
Hero checks, UTG+1 checks, MP1 bets t720, MP2 raises to t1440

Hand 5. Early position caller, fires all in on the river, do you call here?

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t30 (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

MP1 (t4790)
MP2 (t7305)
MP3 (t2595)
Hero (t5910)
Button (t2825)
SB (t1785)
BB (t8215)
UTG (t7085)
UTG+1 (t1470)

Preflop: Hero is CO with A, Q.
3 folds, MP2 calls t30, 1 fold, Hero raises to t90, 2 folds, BB calls t60, MP2 calls t60.

Flop: (t285) 6, A, 7 (3 players)
BB checks, MP2 checks, Hero bets t210, BB calls t210, MP2 folds.

Turn: (t705) 6 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets t480, BB calls t480.

River: (t1665) 7 (2 players)
BB bets t840

Hand 1 - I weak lead the turn....put a few drops of blood into the pot giving the laggy player an opportunity to try to take the pot away.

Hand 2 - I fold after the re-raise and the min re-re-raise.

Hand 3 - I would probably over push the river trying to make it look like an 9's over A's full house. (I'm assuming still in rebuy)

Hand 4 - I'm folding here - just becuase I have a feeling "the lie in the bushes pounce on the turn raise" is a huge hand. I'm thinking he flopped the straight on the flop and wanted someone to catch up a little.

Hand 5 - I'm confused? The BB bets t840 is not pushing in. I'd call this size bet but fold to a push.

Hand 1 - I think you have to be in front here and I bet out 3/4 of the flop to price out the (albeit unlikely) flush draw.

Hand 2 - This probably depends on the buy-in. At a low buy-in, I'm inclined to push. At a higher buy-in I probably fold.

Hand 3 - Bet. He's called three small bets so will call another, maybe 200? I don't think you'll get any more in through a check and a push will scare him off.

Hand 4 - I bet the turn rather than check. As played, it's a real tough spot. I think I fold.

Hand 5. - Fold. You've missed your flush and only have two pair. Meanwhile, he's check/called it down all the way and now fired out. At a minimum he has tripped 6's or 7's. Most likely a full house though. I know this makes him loose pre-flop but there he was only throwing in 60 chips since then he's happily chucked in 1530.

hand 1- im at least potting it to sacre off any diamond chasers

hand 2- i'd probably fold cause at beast your up against ak so its a coinflip, i prefer avoiding those

Hand 3- i agree with kevster anything too big will scare him off and if you check i think he'll happily check behind you rather than raise you.

hand 4- i'd assume one of them had ace 2, probably mp2, but you have him covered by a lot so i'd probably push the turn here, where you checked.

Hand 5- would they maybe be playing something retarded like 67s or 78s or something, idk, i guess id probably call it while crying

Hand 1. Against an aggro who will predictably bet when checked to, I would always give him a chance to bet with a made hand. I checked the turn, he bet 800, i checkraised to 1600 and he folded.

Hand 2. I reraised on the flop with QQ both for value and information. When he came back over the top for the minimum, that is almost always aces. I had plenty of chips left so I could afford to fold. MP2 had aces, MP1 had Q9o. A key point with this hand is with QQ, Ak, KK, AQ, JJ, 1010 a lot of times you should reraise for value and information, just make sure you act on the information.

Hand 3. A couple of you completely blew this hand. The river is always a push. What can be calling here with other than an ace? And is there anyways he is getting away from the nut full house if you push on him? Lets say you bet 200 and he calls 95% of the time and you push 2665 and he only calls 50% of the time (its painfully obvious he has the ace and I think the call is far more likely than that). Which play has the higher expectation? He called the push with A8.

Hand 4. I folded the turn, the action indicated a made straight and I didnt have odds to draw out. MP1 had A2 and MP2 had 67 for 2 made straights.

Hand 5. My bs alarm went off. I didnt believe his bet on the river whatsoever. The pot odds on my call were also 3 to 1. He had 89o. It is very unusual for someone to be that patient with a made hand that beat my AQ in that spot. If the 7 helped him there, he should have already been way ahead and checkraised me on the turn. The key point here is, you can make these calls if you have good pot odds say 3 to 1 or better because you dont have to right everytime.

Hand 4: Why aren't we gambling it up on the flop? Money too deep to re-raise to 1k? Maybe this is a tourney thing.

Hand 5: I thought the turn bet was interesting. I'd look this guy up on the river too. I expect to see a lot of worse Aces.

The other 3 hands were absurdly easy. However, I think this is mostly because you're paying enough attention to know you're going to get bet into when you check your straight.