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$22 Level 50/100, holding 99, now what?
In my mind this is a push or fold play but there are so many people left to act behind me. Is this just a SNG Powertools problem or is there more to it?
Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t100 (8 handed) converter Button (t1863) SB (t820) BB (t1170) UTG (t687) Hero (t1045) MP1 (t1250) MP2 (t280) CO (t885) Preflop: Hero is UTG+1 with 9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]. 1 fold, HERO? |
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Re: $22 Level 50/100, holding 99, now what?
I usually push this.
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Re: $22 Level 50/100, holding 99, now what?
Seems like a push to me, too.
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Re: $22 Level 50/100, holding 99, now what?
Can you two tell me why you like a push here? I hate having 99 in UTG+1 with 10BB.
1. My stack is big enough I'm not quite in jeaopardy yet 2. A standard raise hurts if I have to fold 3. An all in with this many to act after me is just too scary. I've thrown out everything I "thought" I knew about SNG's so please help me "relearn" Straight Flushes, SAM |
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Re: $22 Level 50/100, holding 99, now what?
Ok. First thing - it is absolutely unexploitable to push here (it doesn't matter one jot what they call with). So, if we know that is a +$EV play, folding is out. Therefore what else can we do here. Limp? Well, we have only 10BB and a raise is going to put us in a right pickle. Raise? Any re-raise we are going to have to call anyway, because we're pot committed. And we lose FE on both of these options..
So, in she goes. |
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Re: $22 Level 50/100, holding 99, now what?
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(it doesn't matter one jot what they call with) [/ QUOTE ] Elaborate pleas? Thanks. SAM |
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Re: $22 Level 50/100, holding 99, now what?
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[ QUOTE ] (it doesn't matter one jot what they call with) [/ QUOTE ] Elaborate pleas? Thanks. SAM [/ QUOTE ] Feel free to give them again any ranges, from JJ+,AK+ to some ridiculously loose range (it might even be any two, but I didn't bother to go down that low, because no way will they call with crap like 87 sooted and even if they do - that's great for you), they can't have a range - any of them, all of them, whatever - to stop this being +$EV. |
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Re: $22 Level 50/100, holding 99, now what?
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Can you two tell me why you like a push here? I hate having 99 in UTG+1 with 10BB. 1. My stack is big enough I'm not quite in jeaopardy yet 2. A standard raise hurts if I have to fold 3. An all in with this many to act after me is just too scary. I've thrown out everything I "thought" I knew about SNG's so please help me "relearn" Straight Flushes, SAM [/ QUOTE ] You have 10BB, but your blind is coming up so you'll be down to 900 pretty soon. Not a disaster, but the blinds will be going up to 75/150 soon so you'll be getting somewhat desperate. I estimate that half the time you're called the villian will have overcards and half the time he'll have a higher pair. But the vast majority of the time, you'll just steal the blinds. Which works great for you. A push is better than a standard raise because you're not inviting a call, yet you still have to call if anyone pushes over your raise. |
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Re: $22 Level 50/100, holding 99, now what?
It's not even to do with that splash, it's simply an unexploitable push. The kind of hands we live for in SNG's.
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Re: $22 Level 50/100, holding 99, now what?
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It's not even to do with that splash, it's simply an unexploitable push. The kind of hands we live for in SNG's. [/ QUOTE ] True. I didn't read all that other stuff before I posted. I see nothing wrong with what you said. |
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