I need to stop playing hands like this

[NYCNative]

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Ultimate Bet No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t30 (8 handed) converter

NYCNative (t2130)
SB (t1410)
BB (t1625)
UTG (t3070)
UTG+1 (t1420)
MP1 (t2020)
MP2 (t320)
CO (t3005)

Preflop: NYCNative is Button with 9[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 6[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, MP1 calls t30, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">CO raises to t90</font>, NYCNative calls t90, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, MP1 calls t60.

Flop: (t315) 7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">MP1 bets t315</font>, CO folds, NYCNative calls t315.

Turn: (t945) 2[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">MP1 bets t1615 (All-In)</font>, NYCNative calls t1615.

River: (t4175) 9[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players, 1 all-in)</font>

Final Pot: t4175

Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF">
NYCNative has 9h 6h (three of a kind, nines).
UTG has (three of a kind, nines).
MP1 has 7d Td (two pair, tens and nines).
Outcome: NYCNative wins t4175. </font>

[/ QUOTE ]Most might say I should have folded pre-flop but for this table that raise was tiny and I had the button so I wanted to see if I could get a quality flop. The way the table was playing - plus it was a SNG where you can't just wait for premium hands - made a call okay there.

The flop was decent - middle pair, inside straight and backdoor flush potential - but hardly perfect. I should have let it go in the face of the pot-size bet and only spent $90 to see the flop; maybe I could have raised there but that would have been a button bluff attempt and based on what he held, I wouldn't have succeeded.

Everything else was me trying to convince myself that I had enough outs to chase and that was a losing proposition. Blah, I have to stop playing like this.

[wtfsvi]

This should be in the sng-forum.

I'm quite certain you should fold preflop. In the early stages of low level sngs waiting for big hands is all you should be doing if I got it right. Don't know what to do with flop and turn, but I'm sure the sng-players do.