I would like some opinions

[Page Jacobson]

I'm in a $11 sng table tourny, level 3, I'm on the button with 9 players still in. I have 650 in chips the sb is the chip leader with 1500. I'm dealt KK, everyone folds around to a LP player who goes all in with 150. The guy between us calls, I call, the sb calls and the bb folds. The flop comes 2c 3c 9h. Both players check it to me and I go all in. I want the straight and flush draws to be expensive. The sb folds and then gets all bent out of shape, because of my bet. His theory is if you have a player all in its better to keep everyone else in the hand in insure the all in guy has a better chance of being eliminated. I would agree with this if it were later in the tourny and we were down to 4 or 5 players. I'd like some opinions.

[wh1t3bread]

You are right, he is wrong. IMO, early stages are the best time to amass some chips and not worry about how many people are left at the table.

P.S. I would have raised, not limped with the KK pre-flop.

[ColdestCall]

My opinion is that the small blind in this case is a total moron, and that you should seek to play with him as often as possible.

[spentrent]

He didn't limp, he cold-called a raise.

[wh1t3bread]

Ooops my bad. Doing too many things at once. I would have re-raised.

[citanul]

As the other posters noted, your "villain" is an idiot. You are right, he is wrong.

Push preflop.

Break your posts into shorter paragraphcs.

Welcome to the forum.

citanul

[curtains]

I hate calling preflop. You must raise something. The SB already called for 150, they would probably call if you made it 150-200 more. I'm not saying this is the best way to go, but I just hate checking.

[mackthefork]

You are correct to protect this early and with an overpair as well, that concept might apply in later game but not if you have a hand that need protection and might well win the hand, or if there is a considereable side pot.

Mack

[RobGW]

You check it down when you have nothing. When you have whats most likely the best hand and a big pot you need to protect your hand by getting SB out. He wants you to check so he can hit his A or otherwise weak hand. I also would have raised all in preflop. You have $650 and there is $375 in the pot. Thats big enough to take down right away imo. Who cares if the short stack goes out or not. It's too early to worry about that.

[hyde]

Fvck him.
or were you looking for a more civilized opinion?

I agree in trying to get an all-in player out of the game, but not at the expense of my stack.
I will check along if I have a drawing hand or something far from nuts.
but if you have the made hand, say....KK, you did the right thing. No sense giving mediocre boy a draw at you.

hyde

[microbet]

I think SB gives bad advice to his opponants. He may not be an idiot.

[rickr]

I would not have flat called, because any Ax seems to call a small stack all in here. They are going to play through the nose to hit their ace against my kings. If I have a hand, I'm betting. That idea is not applicable here. Once you hit the flop, even middle pair, you have to at least see where you are, and protect against the draw.

Later,
Rick