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Here are some early round SNG decisions I've come across lately. What are everybody's thoughts on calling/folding these hands?? Is it too early to make these calls? No real reads on any of the players yet?
Party Poker $10+1 NL tournament. Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t30 (10 handed) converter CO (t730) Button (t730) SB (t855) BB (t1010) UTG (t805) UTG+1 (t760) Hero (t775) MP1 (t730) MP2 (t755) MP3 (t850) Preflop: Hero is UTG+2 with Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]. UTG folds, UTG+1 folds, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t100</font>, MP1 folds, MP2 folds, <font color="#CC3333">MP3 raises to t850. MP3 is all-in. </font>, CO folds, Button folds, SB folds, BB folds. Hero ?? Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t30 (10 handed) converter CO (t730) Button (t730) SB (t855) BB (t1010) UTG (t805) UTG+1 (t760) Hero (t775) MP1 (t730) MP2 (t755) MP3 (t850) Preflop: Hero is UTG+2 with A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. <font color="#CC3333">UTG call t30</font>, UTG+1 folds, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t125.</font>, MP1 folds, MP2 folds, MP3 folds, CO folds, Button folds, SB folds, <font color="#CC3333">BB calls t125.</font> <font color="#CC3333"> UTG calls t95. </font> Flop: (t180) 6[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font> UTG checks. <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t200.</font>, <font color="#CC3333">BB raises to t985. BB is all-in.</font>, UTG folds. Hero ?? |
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At the 10s, Im getting my money in with QQ and TPTK. You will see the Villians show down worse hands a majority of the time.
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What percentage of the time do you think I'm ahead here? Does this justify a call considering a)it is early and b)if I lose, I am knocked out. If I double, I'm still not guaranteed to finish in the money.
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The main reason you get your chips in here is that at the 10s you will be ahead most of the time. They will go all-in with TP and crap kicker. And they will push preflop with a wide range of hands.
In Hand #1 If he shows you AA or KK just say nice hand and start another one. In Hand #2 If he hit his set than good for him and start another one. |
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Raise more preflop. 200 is fine, 300 if you want to be safe.
Hand #1 is an easy call here. With your raise and with no read, he probably thinks you have a weak ace and wants to take it down with a small/medium pair (fools at 10's love overvaluing those medium pairs). The only hands you really have to worry about are AA/KK/AK, which have a minimum/medium-sized raise associated with them. Hand 2 is a not-so-easy call since you might be up against K6 or K2. Personally I would lay it down here since it's so early in the tournament and outplay them later. |
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You are going to see AK, KQ, KJ, and KT most of the time. I would never lay this down at the 10s. I would be more concerned if an A hit the flop instead of a K. A2 and A6 are more likely holdings. You are behind a set but most will slowplay sets. I think you are ahead on this one and need to play it aggressively.
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hand 1 - call you're ahead so often at the 10s it's not even funny. you may see this move from any AK-AJ through smaller pockets down to 77.
hand 2 - call - people slow play sets, even 2 pair at this level. you're probably looking at KQ/KJ/KT here. at the 10s i think these calls are definitely +ev |
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Not that this means a whole lot, but I've had hand 2 exactly a number of times and i have yet to lose. Most of the time the other guy has KQ-KT. I think it is a definite call.
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