What's the point of first 3 levels in high buy-in SNGs?

[Voltron87]

A lot of people can't get away from it at the 55s, I can attest to that. Dunno about 109+.

[Pokerscott]

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A lot of people can't get away from it at the 55s, I can attest to that. Dunno about 109+.

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Good players probably shouldn't get away from it at the lower limits. Laying down top pair depends a lot on your assessment of the probability of bluffing and the probability of bad players pushing middle/bottom pairs. In the lower limits it could be +EV to hold onto but horribly -EV to hold onto in higher limits. I play at the 109s and I think it is borderline what to do there [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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[Bigwig]

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Taking a shot at flopping the nuts, or reading people post flop?

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Not necessarily flopping the nuts, but flopping a good enough hand that you likely have the best holding. Then, you take advantage of the dope who can't get away from his KQ on a Q 9 5 board when I'm holding a set of 5's.

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We're not talking about a 5+1 tourney here.

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Huh? I see that kind of hand on the $55's everytime I play.

Worse even.