1. 1000 is 1/3 of my stack so I am just pushing here. If he calls I'm in good shape to double up early, and if he folds I pick up 1000 on the first hand.

2. Fold. I can't see how I'm not beat here with a pot raise after 3 limpers.

3. Cap. The pot is already huge, but SB has a set. I'm capping with my straight and flush draws.

4. Fold. I'm already behind and don't want to have to call two SB's.

5. Fold. Two players may go bust here putting you in the money. Even if only one player busts, the othery guys who loses the hand will be shortstacked leaving you ahead of him and in great position to cash. Besides, once it gets to three people I have enough confidence that I'll be able to win the thing, which is the goal in the first place. Seems like an unnecessary risk.

I'll answer 5 first.

I think that's an obvious call. Yes, if you fold you'll almost certainly slide into the money this hand. But you'll almost certainly be shorstacked by a 3-1 margin to second place, and picking up anymore prize money seems difficult.

With the K's, you're a big favorite against everything against AA, and if that's out there 5 handed... well, that's poker. While you may only win this pot 50% of the time or a bit more, every time you do you will be the chip leader by a wide margin... with a normal payout structure, 1 first is worth more then 2 3rds... so if you win half the time with that chip lead, and get 5 seconds, you'll break even with a fold, and if you do better, the call is +EV. Not counting the fact that shorthanded, people are likely to be all in with Ax and Kx... so a lot of the cards that may be you are allready out of the deck.

On 3, it doesn't look like more betting is gonna scare anyone out. So go ahead and cap here, and see if you can get it capped on the river if you hit your flush card. With all those callers and a draw to the nuts, you are DEFINANTLY getting favorable odds no matter how many bets go in.

1) allin
2) fold I have no idead
3) cap
4) 5 card stud is a damn trippy game. anything you do besides folding is gonna make the ace high think wtf. unless of course he has aces. But a) ace high obv more likely than aces, b) he would surely think ace high is best vs a maniac completing a 4 and a loosey calling a jack, so his action is consistent w/ ace high. i probably just raise. anyways whatever you assuming you play has crazy weird ramifications crap on later streets.
5) i dunno but you could do an EV calc

1) NLHE Tournament, 1st hand 15/30 blinds with 3000 chips you have on the button with only 1 EP limper and raise to 150. everyone folds to the EP player who raises to 1000. What do you do and why?

ALLIN - It's mf'ing Aces!!

2) I would panic and wonder what the rules were.

3) It's limit. I would raise in the hope it was over before I drew my pension.

4) I would fold. They play this in cowboy films. He may have a gun.

5) I'll pretend I've done the maths and worked out it's a +ev fold. But it's KK!!!! I'm calling.




(Sorry Steve-O, had a couple of tasty beverages)

without reading the other answers, here i go (i only really play nlhe so if i'm totally retarded on the others, i'm sorry).

1. push all in...1000 is a big raise...he'll call. if not, you pick up a big pot. if you let him see a flop and then push him, he may hit a big hand, and if he doesn't hit anything, he's even more likely to fold with only two more cards to come down, especially if he has like QQ or something and there's a king on the flop.
2. fold...i don't know plo very well but with so many people in, i think your hand might not be good. plus i just do better when i play super tight, since then i conserve chips, since i don't know how to play well.
3. keep raising. you have a good number of outs, with the straight and flush draws.
4. i don't really know how to play this game and i totally didn't follow that post at all. so i would fold, pick up my chips, and go find some nlhe before i lost everything and the dealer got annoyed with me for continually asking what to do.
5. i'd call here. three people already all in, i'm hoping AA isn't out just because some of them must have aces. hopefully a few of them have aces, since they're all pushing, and they're less likely to hit. if you win this hand, you're the chipleader. if you fold, you can probably slide into third after this hand, but you're critically shortstacked, with only seven big blinds left, and you're looking at a push or fold situation. and third really doesn't pay that well.