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??

[Firefly]

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

[ononimo]

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.

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

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

[ononimo]

GL!

2nd place, pocket pair loses to K10.

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

[ononimo]

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.