Expensive Draws

[SmileyEH]

There is absolutely no way you could ever play 98s UTG profitably with this stack, ever.

-SmileyEH

[tigerite]

Agree with all of the above. You can only play 98s in an unraised pot with loads of limpers, even then it's mostly junk, but you play it to try to flop a monster and knock the others out. I certainly don't call with it UTG and if I did somehow make this mistake I fold to any kind of re-raise, even a minimum one.

I used to play them way too much.. and it was costing me big time.

[RobGW]

O.K. I normally see the flop with suited connectors. I thought that at the lower levels with all the weak players willing to pay off, I want to see lots of flops. I guess I am missing something here?

The consenus is that 98s should be mucked PF. I'll tighten up PF and see what happens. Thanks for the input. The weak flop bet...I normally don't do that. Why I did it here I don't know.

[yoadrians]

Agreed with the previous posters.

More to the point, also, I like the idea of picking my spot in an SNG. And when there's seven players remaining, 98s is not going to be the spot I pick, especially UTG. Heck, it's very, very tough - in my humble opinion - to even play KQs UTG early in an SNG. Risky, risky, risky.

For me, I'm pretty much playing premium hands until we get down to about 4 or 5 players. Is it nice to double up early? Sure. No one would argue that. But on PP, doubling up early doesn't guarantee you a spot in the money, that's for sure.

Pick your spots. Choose wisely, get rid of the 98s garbage right away and you'll live to fight another day when the money is within sight.