Nines? Nein!
 

$215 SNG, UTG is tricky. Comments?

***** Hand History for Game 2129269644 *****
200/400 TourneyTexasHTGameTable (NL) (Tournament 12663569) - Mon May 30 14:56:37 EDT 2005
Table Table 11249 (Real Money) -- Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 1: ICanDoIt2 (2395)
Seat 2: Lavendar9 (1745)
Seat 3: danxxx1 (1360)
Seat 4: BunnieLee (1375)
Seat 6: DarrenX (3125)
BunnieLee posts small blind (100)
DarrenX posts big blind (200)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to DarrenX [ 9s, 9h ]
ICanDoIt2 raises (700) to 700
Lavendar9 folds.
danxxx1 folds.
BunnieLee folds.
DarrenX folds.

Re: Nines? Nein!
 

Nuthin'? Was it my witty subject line? [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

Seriously I expected some weak/tight comments. I thought it was close, but with stack sizes as they were, the size of the raise, and the fact that the raiser was UTG with the second biggest stack it was a fold. Does no comment mean this is a no-brainer fold? Thanx.

Re: Nines? Nein!
 

You've got tons of stack, but nines are very good.

No need to play this out of position.

At the $215, I expect UTG raiser to be raising 44+, A7+, KJ+. (sounds like a decent range).

99's about 55%.

Very close here.

Reads? Trickiness doesn't really help. LAGgy or not?

Re: Nines? Nein!
 

Sorry- yeah, LAGgy... seemed like he made a few check-raises to take down pots, hasn't shown down much...

I think my stack is too big here to push against a guy who may call his whole stack off on KQ... stop & go seems like too much risk/not enough reward. Call and evaluate means most of the time I'm looking at overcards out of position.

Re: Nines? Nein!
 

Not a terrible fold. If you know he knows you are tight and he has been raising out of position on your BB often during this tournament I think a push might be in order as well.

Re: Nines? Nein!
 

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Not a terrible fold. If you know he knows you are tight and he has been raising out of position on your BB often during this tournament I think a push might be in order as well.

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If anything I think I project a LAG image- Can't seem to resist the suited connectors early. Mmmmmmm.... 56s.... oooaaaauuggghhh [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Hmmm... anyone know how to make a better Homer drooling impersonation? Needs work...