Stars 180 man SNG
 

5th or so hand in the tourny.

PokerStars Game #3203524428: Tournament #15852401, Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2005/11/30 - 18:07:06 (ET)
Table '15852401 5' Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: Tmagnus (1990 in chips)
Seat 2: MadManMoo (1350 in chips)
Seat 3: fishy1 (1110 in chips)
Seat 4: TXDuffy (1370 in chips)
Seat 5: HU 1911 (1710 in chips)
Seat 6: ragu46 (1310 in chips)
Seat 7: dyee1217 (1940 in chips)
Seat 8: SharkTank43 (1460 in chips)
Seat 9: DerFräser (1260 in chips)
SharkTank43: posts small blind 10
DerFräser: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to SharkTank43 [Qd Qs]
Tmagnus: folds
MadManMoo: folds
fishy1: raises 60 to 80
TXDuffy: folds
HU 1911: calls 80
ragu46: folds
dyee1217: folds
SharkTank43: raises 100 to 180
DerFräser: folds
fishy1: calls 100
HU 1911: calls 100
*** FLOP *** [Td Kc Jd]
SharkTank43: bets 200
fishy1: raises 730 to 930 and is all-in
HU 1911: calls 930

Hero??

Re: Stars 180 man SNG
 

I hate that PF miniraise. You are OOP, I make it like 200-250 here. Alternatively if you don't want to make a big raise OOP, you can call and play a flop, but i raise to 230ish 90% of the time.

The flop sucks for QQ, I almost don't want to bet it, becuase there is like a 95% chance you are getting raised. After the action, easy fold IMHO. You are open ended, but there is a good chance that some of those outs are held by others. I fold

Re: Stars 180 man SNG
 

preflop raise is WAY too small ... you want to play this pot heads-up, not 3-way. raise to AT LEAST 300 to ditch the caller in between.

i fold the flop too - between the two all-in players, at least one already has you beat and the other one may be drawing to the same straight and/or has some of your outs.

Re: Stars 180 man SNG
 

yeah, my bad with the preflop raise, that was garbage on my part. Thanks for the insight, guys!

Re: Stars 180 man SNG
 

Hehe, was down to 435 chips in this same tourny, im now heads up for the title.

Re: Stars 180 man SNG
 

GL!

Re: Stars 180 man SNG
 

2nd place, pocket pair loses to K10.

750 bucks is pretty nice for 4 hours of work though!

Re: Stars 180 man SNG
 

congrats! nice haul ... i won one earlier today (started FT as chip leader, got as low as 4th out of 4 remaining, but pulled off the win against a weak HU player). i really like the 180 SNGs ... manageable # and talent level of opponents and nice payday if you place in the top 3.