Two hands and out

[ennotserp]

In a freeroll tournament I had 5410 in chips (twice the average stack - a fairly good position to cash).

HAND 1: 1st to act preflop with [8 8] (blinds 50-100)
-I raise 100 to 200
-everybody folds except big blind who raises 300 to 500
-I call the 300 (heads-up)
FLOP - [6 6 3]
-opponent bet 300 - I called
TURN - [6 6 3] [5]
-opponent bet 300 - I called
RIVER - [6 6 3] [5] [J]
-opponent bet 300 - I called
- opponent showed [JK] and rivered me - I lost 1400

HAND 2(the next hand): in big blind preflop with [JQ] (blinds 75-150)
-1st player to act calls 150 and everybody folds
-I check (heads-up)
FLOP - [9 J 5]
-I bet 150
-opponent raises 450 to 600
- I raise 450 to 1050
-opponent raises 3362 to 4412 all-in
-I call 2810 all-in
TURN - [9 J 5] [7]
RIVER - [9 J 5] [7] [T]
- opponent showed [8 J] and rivered me - I'm done

My Questions:
1) Are these just bad beats?
2) Are other players just donks (am I a donk also)
3) Should I have played these hands differently
-eg. fold after reraise in both hands
-eg. raise on flop in hand 1

I am tempted to give up freerolls altogether.

[Killermanner]

Hand #1, your opponent bet 300 on the flop then 300 on the turn ( that showed he was weak so why you did not push him and just keep calling? )

And for hand #2, it's definitely a bad beat that you could not go away from.

[jctm1988]

Ye thats is quite bad , but bad beat ? hmm no .

You had bad luck , bad streak , you gave your opponent a chance to catch , what was bad, and that he caught gives out that you had no luck there, so bad luck .

But ye , the first hand when he bet 300 i would have min raised, he would have called, then he would have made the same 300 bet , i would have pushed all in , just pray he doesnt have a trips , the full , or the 99 1010 jj qqq kk aa . and lays down the hand ofcourse.

The second hand , he would not have gotten off it , he had hit and a draw , you should have layed that one down pre flop .

I suggest playing private freerolls , or buy ins , the overall freerolls you need to be (very very lucky) , patient, play more hands then normal.


Better luck next time.



JCTM1988

[ennotserp]

OK: I put these hands on a poker calculator and found the following results-
In hand 1 my %'s were 51.3%, 72.3%, and 86.3% for preflop, flop and turn - I now agree that I should have raised on the flop and turn.
In hand 2 my %'s were 68.9%, 76.6%, and 75.0% for preflop,flop and turn - I couldn't fold the hand preflop (big blind check) so I guess I was done.
So even if I won hand 1, the end result may have been the same.