$5 NLHE MTT: Two hands deep in $10000 GTD

neverbluff

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1st Hand
15,000/30,000 NL - Holdem - 8 players

MP+1: 30.03 BB (VPIP: 21.70, PFR: 18.45, 3Bet Preflop: 12.50, hands: 109)
CO: 9.8 BB (VPIP: 17.57, PFR: 15.11, 3Bet Preflop: 3.77, Hands: 149)
BTN: 13.92 BB (VPIP: 17.65, PFR: 18.75, 3Bet Preflop: 16.67, Hands: 35)
Hero (SB): 45.15 BB
BB: 11.81 BB (VPIP: 16.77, PFR: 13.38, 3Bet Preflop: 15.79, Hands: 161)
UTG: 19.46 BB (VPIP: 24.05, PFR: 21.05, 3Bet Preflop: 8.70, Hands: 81)
UTG+1: 12.8 BB (VPIP: 5.26, PFR: 5.88, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 19)
MP: 12.96 BB (VPIP: 17.65, PFR: 13.79, 3Bet Preflop: 6.00, Hands: 120)

8 players post ante of 0.1 BB, Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2.3 BB) Hero has J K

fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 45.05 BB and is all-in

I'm not sure if I should be shoving this wide SB vs BB when I'm so deep stacked. I had the biggest stack at the table, but the Villain has a very wide 3bet range so I didn't want to have to limp/call or raise/call

2nd Hand
20,000/40,000 NL - Holdem - 8 players

SB: 16.96 BB (VPIP: 40.00, PFR: 40.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 5)
Hero (BB): 24.2 BB
UTG: 47.76 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 5)
UTG+1: 7.23 BB (VPIP: 19.05, PFR: 13.77, 3Bet Preflop: 1.69, Hands: 171)
MP: 25 BB (VPIP: 42.86, PFR: 35.71, 3Bet Preflop: 20.00, Hands: 14)
MP+1: 18.57 BB (VPIP: 40.00, PFR: 20.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 5)
CO: 14.34 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 5)
BTN: 22.85 BB (VPIP: 21.37, PFR: 18.58, 3Bet Preflop: 14.29, Hands: 120)

8 players post ante of 0.1 BB, SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2.3 BB) Hero has 9 K

fold, fold, fold, MP+1 raises to 2 BB, fold, fold, SB calls 1.5 BB, Hero calls 1 BB

Flop: (6.8 BB, 3 players) 6 9 7
SB checks, Hero checks, MP+1 bets 3.4 BB, fold, Hero calls 3.4 BB

Turn: (13.6 BB, 2 players) T
Hero checks, MP+1 bets 6.8 BB

In this hand, I flop top pair with a good kicker and a backdoor flush draw so I call. On the turn, the 0.50 PSB double barrel seemed strong when I didn't have any stats on him. The T was also a pretty bad card since we lose to an 8 or a T now and can't really improve
 
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neverbluff

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Wish I got some responses on this, but incase people were wondering,

Hand 1:
Villain had KQs
Hand 2:
Hero folds.
 
bstyles85

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Hand #1 with 45 BB left should be a standard 2.5 SB raise. If he were to 3-bet here you can either call or fold in this spot. Neither decision would be wrong. Check the flop and reevaluate from there.

Also, 5$ 10k guarantees? I would kill for that.
 
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Hand #2 is completely standard and an easy fold. What are you really beating in this position you are in?
 
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I can't see any mistakes in your decisions.
 
Matt Vaughan

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Hand #1: Villain only has 12bb himself so this is totally fine. Check out some push/fold charts or an App like SnapShove. Clear cut jam.

Hand #2: On the second hand, preflop looks good to me. I'd probably just be check jamming the flop though on such a wet board where we will have a lot of check jam semi bluffs.
 
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As said above, hand 1 is a jam every time given the stack sizes SB vs BB. In fact it is close to the top of your shoving range in this spot.

Hand 2 is also standard in my opinion. Fold the turn, can't beat anything except overcard bluffs, and you will face a third barrel on the river a lot. You have a bluff catcher only.
 
Jacki Burkhart

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hand #1 is a standard jam. you can actually jam much much wider including any K and almost any Q

Hand #2

preflop is fine, flop is fine (I'm Check raising flop some amount of the time but check calling is standard).

turn, that T is a very bad card but absent a read that we are dealing with a very straightforward nitty player, I'm hanging on for at least 1 more street. I'm hoping he is also scared by the 4 straight and we can check check. But Depending on runout I may check fold river.
 
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