BrainMc's Big Game (with WWYD?)

Went over to play at BrainMc's for the first time ever (you might remember that he plays over at my place all the time and takes our money in the process). We went with a very deep stack and a very slow structure which involved starting at around 4pm and finishing the tourney after about 6-7 hours. We had 13 runners including my neighbor Bobby, Surflexus, WeakPlayer (who's back to posting), ISS Spock (who kept the Wheatie going after it's untimely demise) and a few hood regulars.

Since we started with 250BB (5K stacks and 10/20 blinds) I was going to limp a ton and see what develops. We were also playing 7 and 6 handed on two tables so this was going to get interesting. Seems like everyone had the same idea and we saw a lot of un-opened pots and a lot of early bluffing. I was chipping up a bit with some aggression and positional plays and no premium hands whatsoever.

The first hand I remember of any significance was when either on the button or CO it gets limped to me a couple of times and I see AhKh. I decided to play my first real hands strongly and since we were at the 20/40 level I raised to 250 to thin the field. It folded around to Matt, two to my right and he basically limp-re-raised it to 750. I wasn't sure if he was just getting tired of my aggression or if he was actually holding a strong hand and waiting for someone to raise. I called the extra 500 in position and we saw a 9 high flop with two spades. Matt bet something like 900 and I folded.

WWYD? Questions:
1. Limp with AhKh in position and see a cheap flop or raise to thin the field?
2. Raise, Call or Fold after getting re-raised to 750?
3. Flop action?

I felt good with my decisions there but it pissed me off that I gave back all those chips I had been accumulating.

Anyway, on the the next hand. BrainMc is on my left on the button and I limp with T7o for 40. I didn't notice that he called and just saw the SB fold and the BB check his option. The flop came something like 82J rainbow and since I though I was heads-up with just the BB I bet 60 when he checked the flop. But the BrainMc smooth calls and says something like "I'll see on more". The BB folded and now I was kind of rattled because I didn't intend to play BrainMc heads-up out of position. The turn was a 9s which gave me the second nuts and a second spade on the board. I decided to keep the aggression act and bet 120 into a pot of 260 (20+40+40+40+60+60). To my surprise and delight I got re-raised to 500.

So now it's time for me to try to put him on a hand. The board is Js9s8x2x. Here's the range I put him on: J9s, 98s, AJ, 99, 88, 22 and worst of all QT. I doubt he has JJ because I think he wouldn't limp it behind me pre-flop. He might have some sort of spade draw and is just trying to take it away from me at this point. SO I go ahead and make it a total of 1500. He thinks about for a while and then just flat calls. The river is a third spade.

At this point I kind of froze. we both checked it down and he had Td7d for the chop. I felt terrible that I didn't make a river bet and he felt delighted to get the chop. He said he was definitely not expecting me to show T7o for the chop. So why was I so disappointed? Because I felt like I missed a great opportunity for a value bet / scare card bluff.

If I look back at his hand range then I think he folds to a significant bet unless he has a flush or QT. But really what kind of flush draw would make him stay after a single spade flop? I guess the river spade scared me as well.

WWYD Questions:
4. How would you play the the made straight on the turn?
5. How would you play the river?

The rest of the tournament was pretty uneventful. We combined tables and I was still around my starting stack. No more limping as we were getting pretty high in blind levels by now. I played one AdKd hand where Surf raised to 1200 (3xBB) and I just smooth called in position. BB called as well and I shoved an AsQsXx flop when it was checked to me.

Then came my first mistake. In LP I got TT and raised to when Matt to my right limped for 600 I raised to 2500. He kept saying that there is no need for him to ever raise a pot because I was going to do it for him. Then to my surprise, Mike in the BB shoved for 3800 more. Calling would be for about half my remaining stack at this point. Matt agonized for a while as this would put him all-in and kept staring me down. So at this point I put them both on a big Ace. Matt eventually folded and now it was my decision.

I just couldn't shake off my read that Mike was pushing with a big Ace and I was going to have to win a race here. I guess I could consider an overpair, but it just felt like a scared shove. I felt that he didn't want a call and was just trying to squeeze from the BB with his big Ace. So I called. He had QQ.

WWYD Question:
6. What would you do at this point?

That brought me down to shove or fold mode and I was a bit steamed at myself for not being able to let go of that hand. Thinking about it now, this is one of my biggest holes online. So it came up and bit me in the butt live too.

Anyway, another Mike open shoved UTG and I felt he had a small pair and was desperate so I called with As8s and he showed 88 to finish me off. That was a mistake too. I just got impatient and I was still steaming from the TT vs QQ hand.

Let me know in the comments how you would have played those 3 situations. I am very interested to hear.

And thanks again to BrainMc for hosting!