Paying All-In Out Of Position

Good night guys,


I'm new here in the forum and I started playing poker about 2 months ago, so I'm still in the process of learning, reading a lot and watching video lessons, etc.


Today I went through two situations in which I was eliminated in micro tournaments ($ 0.10 and $ 0.25) and would like your help to know the best way to play in these situations.


The tournament was with blinds of 100/200 without before and I was with 9300 chips
In the first situation I was with 6 and 7 off in position in the big bling. Most of the table folded and left the button and the small blind. The flop hit 6, J and 7 rainbow. I raised from 3 big blinds, the button, which had 4500 chips paid and the small blind folded. The turn came a 2, I raised the pot amount and the button came back all-in. I thought a lot, but since the pot gave no chance of a flush or sequel, I paid. The button presented J and Ace, so I thought I had won, but the river hit Ace and I lost.




In the other situation, I was short (9 big blinds) in UTG + 1 and the big blind already opened all in, with 5 big blinds of stack, the UTG folded and I with KQs I decided to pay. The button paid and introduced a pair of Kings. The big blind had pair of J and the board came 10, K, A, 9 and 5, with no possibility of flush, that is, I was eliminated.




This situation has occurred to me before and I realized that it is not a good shovar out of position if you do not have a ready hand. But I would like to hear your opinion about situations like this.


By the way, in both situations the players were loose-aggressive

In micro tournaments with the game a complete mess, and this will happen all the time. For a normal game, you need to start with $ 1, and I would advise with SNG. For a beginner player it will be much easier to play and work out different strategies.

xexeu said:

The tournament was with blinds of 100/200 without before and I was with 9300 chips
In the first situation I was with 6 and 7 off in position in the big bling. Most of the table folded and left the button and the small blind. The flop hit 6, J and 7 rainbow. I raised from 3 big blinds, the button, which had 4500 chips paid and the small blind folded. The turn came a 2, I raised the pot amount and the button came back all-in. I thought a lot, but since the pot gave no chance of a flush or sequel, I paid. The button presented J and Ace, so I thought I had won, but the river hit Ace and I lost.




In the other situation, I was short (9 big blinds) in UTG + 1 and the big blind already opened all in, with 5 big blinds of stack, the UTG folded and I with KQs I decided to pay. The button paid and introduced a pair of Kings. The big blind had pair of J and the board came 10, K, A, 9 and 5, with no possibility of flush, that is, I was eliminated.


By the way, in both situations the players were loose-aggressive

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in the first situation i would have played just like you did. after the flop if your villian has a Jack he has 9 outs to hit on the turn (not counting straights and flushes that did not exist on this board) so he has about an 18% chance on the turn and then again on the river so you made him pay much more than that to see the cards. there's always the chance he had flopped trips or was holding a pocket pair that could hit, but those odds would only add a few outs. good playing, bad luck.


i'm not surei understand the second one enought to comment

That was just unlucky. You're playing good. That was less about position and more about getting beat on the river.