So working on my MTT game. Any and all advice appreciated.

Hand #1
Poker Stars $1.00+$0.25+$0.15 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t600/t1200 Blinds + t150 - 4 players - View hand 1105785

Hero (SB): t26768       M = 11.15
BB: t54094       M = 22.54
CO: t63408       M = 26.42
BTN: t35730       M = 14.89 33/19 (118)

Pre Flop: (t2400) Hero is SB with Q J
1 fold, BTN raises to t4800, Hero raises to t26618 all in

Villain has been regularly opening on the BTN for 4XBB. Jamming here?

Hand #2
Poker Stars $1.00+$0.25+$0.15 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t600/t1200 Blinds + t150 - 5 players - View hand 1105786

SB: t14650       M = 5.75
Hero (BB): t28456       M = 11.16
UTG: t56644       M = 22.21
CO: t41370       M = 16.22
BTN: t38880       M = 15.25 33/19 (118)

Pre Flop: (t2550) Hero is BB with 2 2
2 folds, BTN raises to t4800, 1 fold, Hero raises to t28306 all in

Villain is regularly opening for 4xBB. Jamming here?

Hand #3
Poker Stars $1.00+$0.25+$0.15 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t600/t1200 Blinds + t150 - 6 players - View hand 1105787

BB: t4280       M = 1.59
UTG: t13150       M = 4.87
Hero (MP): t25906       M = 9.59
CO: t48454       M = 17.95
BTN: t46400       M = 17.19
SB: t41810       M = 15.49

Pre Flop: (t2700) Hero is MP with 9 K
1 fold, Hero raises to t2400

Is opening okay here?

Hand #4
Poker Stars $1.00+$0.25+$0.15 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t500/t1000 Blinds + t125 - 8 players - View hand 1105788

BTN: t9630       M = 3.85
SB: t8200       M = 3.28 14/7 (180)
Hero (BB): t25456       M = 10.18
UTG: t16089       M = 6.44
UTG+1: t15890       M = 6.36
MP1: t28515       M = 11.41 30/8 (50)
MP2: t52535       M = 21.01 33/19 (118)
CO: t23685       M = 9.47 32/15 (9)

Pre Flop: (t2500) Hero is BB with Q A
2 folds, MP1 calls t1000, MP2 calls t1000, CO calls t1000, 1 fold, SB calls t500, Hero ??

Is checking behind, OOP against loose passive players okay here? Is any raise other than a shove acceptable?

Hand #5
Poker Stars $1.00+$0.25+$0.15 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t500/t1000 Blinds + t125 - 7 players - View hand 1105789

MP: t7005       M = 2.95
CO: t6950       M = 2.93
Hero (BTN): t26581       M = 11.19
SB: t38979       M = 16.41
BB: t29265       M = 12.32 30/8 (50)
UTG: t51285       M = 21.59 33/19 (118)
UTG+1: t19935       M = 8.39

Pre Flop: (t2375) Hero is BTN with A 3
UTG calls t1000, 3 folds, Hero?

Iso raising here with the hope of taking it down with a C Bet or is raising just going to inflate the pot because BB is likely calling anyway? Assuming that it's likely 2 villains will be in the pot, even with position, is open folding A rag an option?


Hand #6
Poker Stars $1.00+$0.25+$0.15 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t350/t700 Blinds + t85 - 6 players - View hand 1105833

BTN: t8780       M = 5.63
Hero (SB): t16050       M = 10.29
BB: t6885       M = 4.41 19/8 (105)
UTG: t18073       M = 11.59
MP: t44692       M = 28.65
CO: t5885       M = 3.77

Pre Flop: (t1560) Hero is SB with J Q
4 folds, Hero raises to t1400, BB raises to t6800 all in, Hero calls t5400

This guy sat out and blinded down till he nearly bubbled out. Then he doubled up through me T5>T9 with trip 5's. So is this line the best way to get the chips in. Should I open shove? Getting nearly 2 to 1 here this isn't a fold, is it? It bothered me that he got to the cash, and I just wanted to check that my call here wasn't affected by tilt.

1st hand: I think I like it, especially if you have a tight image

2nd hand: I don't hate this either, but it depends if you just shoved on him the hand before or have been shoving on him alot, you are more likely to get called and 22 just doesn't play that well against hands he is likely calling you with. Personally, I am probably laying down the 22, unless my image has been super tight up until this hand.

3rd: opening is fine there, I prefer to do this at a tight table though, so you are more likely to pick up the blinds and
antes, if you get called and miss, you can't really afford to lose much of your stack with cbets, etc..and if a king comes
out and someone tags along, we can't feel too good about our hand because it is likely we are dominated with a better kicker. Ideally you want to be accumulating more chips and have like 50bb+ that you can bully people around with.

4th: I shove. If you raise, I think you need to make it an amount that gives you a pot sized shove on the flop, and be prepared to shove any flop.

I don't like the latter strategy in this buy in level btw, I just shove.

5th: I dump it. Utg could be trapping, or limping a pair, a better ace, not worth getting involved imo. I find a better spot.

6th: I think I might have raised it preflop to like 7k and put him all-in anyways, so no, I don't think it is a bad call, QJs
plays good against a lot of hands anyways.

Hand 1: Easy fold.  You're really setting yourself up for getting it in with terrible equity against a lot of his range, and I think you're going to have the best hand a lot of the time whenever he folds to your shove.

Hand 2: You're depending solely on fold equity with this shove.  Don't put yourself in spots like this based on generalizations -- such generalizations aren't even traps if you don't let them be traps and just play ABC.

Hand 3: The minraise is pretty bad and you're going to end up in a bloated pot OOP and unable to read into the blinds' hands a good amount of the time.  If anything, make it 3000-3600.  I'd rather just open-fold.

Hand 4: Raise-call 5000.  Lots of dead money to pick up in the pot even if it is folded around, and with the blinds this big, that dead money can make a difference in the long run.  Considering we cover most of the people still in the hand right now, I'm comfortable getting it in against one of them.

Hand 5: Since you have room to bet-fold a dry flop, I'm raising to 3000 here.  Technically, the BB folds more often than they call, so no, it's not really that likely that they'll call here, even in the BB.  Bring up a 67/17 in the same spot and then you can say that.

Hand 6: I'm not feeling too good when I call, but I probably take the same line.  Please don't open-shove queen high in this spot, though.

Hand 1

Fold but very close to shoving.  I'd shove with KJ, KQ, A2s-A8s, any pair 8s and less.

Hand 2

I'm jamming here even though I hate 2s.

Hand 3

Nothing wrong with opening here but with a larger raise 2.5 - 3x.  With all the bigger stacks yet to act I would fold here and wait for a better hand. K9 is awful and I'd rather make the raise with a suited connector like 67 or 78 than K9 if you want to get frisky.

Hand 4

With 4500 in the pot I like a shove here out of position.


Hand 5

Easy fold here.

Hand 6. 

Really don't like the minimum raise here. If you are going to call a reraise allin then just shove right off the bat to put maximum pressure on the BB.



Kash

The reads here are based on FT, although the stats will have included some collected earlier in the game.
Yeah, minraise is my standard open with blinds this size. I have started another thread to discuss this.
This is the villain from hands 1 and 2, but if you have noticed that you might have noticed that blinds are less and opponents are larger in number. For some reason when copying mass hands from HEM to convert it reverses the order. So what I am saying is that I don't have the reads I have from those hands at this point.
I actually prefer BB to call and then fold to the C Bet because I get more of his chippies. You would be surprised how often the short stack does that. Actually, you probably wouldn't.

Hand 1: If this guy has done this before a couple of times then anything but shoving here is bad imo. Not only do we get the additional value from the 4x open, but we can maximise our FE vs a range that we’re ahead of. Sure if we get called we’re behind but JQ flops well enough for this to be a hugely +ev and unexploitable shove.

Hand 2: Pretty much the same reasoning as above. If this guy’s standard open is 4x on the button, I’m more than happy to get the chips in here.

Hand 3: Yes it’s a good open. Opening pots hugely light at these BI levels is always going to be +ev given that the blinds will do weird things like flat with rags because they think they’re getting the odds to do so, and of course we cbet a huge majority of the time.

Hand 4: Insta ship almost fist pump. I’m shoving a great deal wider than AQ too. Probably something like 66+ AT+ KQ.

Hand 5: Just fold. No need to throw chips in the pot OOP at these limits. You should be able to beat these games simply by playing almost all pots IP that aren’t PF shoves or monsters.

Hand 6: Just shove. Trying to induce with a marginal hand really isn’t going to be as +ev as shoving and maximising whatever FE we have. Sure he’s going to call with a tighter range than he would shove with, but the equity we gain for the times he folds will far out way that. I mean, I don’t think we necessarily have to balance our range here really, but be aware that we’re going to be shoving here at great deal wider than JQ suited, so it’s going to be better to maintain that strat with all our hands (maybe bar monsters with your reads).

Please just don't listen to this. EVER.

Please convert your hand.

The difference (ignoring other reads on opponents) is you shoved over an EP raise, and in my hand I was shoving over a BTN who was regularly stealing from the BTN.