SnG
So last night I decided to take a break from cash games, and I four tabled $5 sit n go's on Eurobet.
I busted out in 8th place in one of them when the flop came K, 10, 2 and I held K 10 in the big blind. A guy who had mini-raised in mid-position made a potsized bet and I mini-raised that. He called. The turn was a Jack. He checked and I made a pot sized bet. He pushed and I called. He had Ace-Queen and I didn't boat up. Bad play on my part? Should I have done more than mini-raise on the flop?
I did have good luck in the other 3 SnG's, though. I placed 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. The 3rd place finish sucked because I was chip leader forever and got sucked out on twice when the blinds were high. Still, it's profit.
I have about 450 hands left to clear my $200 bonus. I'll grind that out, hoping for any kind of improvement on my cards, and then play some more SnG's. Watch out, ZeeJustin.
There was one interesting hand last night in a $25 nl ring game. I open raised to $2 UTG with red aces and had 3 callers -- button, small blind, big blind. The flop came 10 8 4 with two clubs. The small blind bet $2 into an $8 pot. The big blind folded, and I raised it to $6. The button smooth called and the small blind called. The turn was a red 3. Small blind checked and I bet $15 into a $26 pot. The button called and the small blind folded. The turn was a red King. I went all-in for $11 more. The button only had $5 left and he called with ... King-4 of clubs. Again, bad play by me? Do I raise more on the flop? Do I make a bigger turn bet? Both? Probably both ...
I get the feeling I've been playing gunshy after being sucked out on when I was making aggressive bets. This could have something to do with not running well lately.
I'm listening to The Bravery right now, and I'm not sure how I feel about that. I have a limited playlist at work because I keep it stored on the PC. My other options are The Killers, System of a Down, Muse, The Arcade Fire, Finch, Bloc Party, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of the Dead (Source Tags and Codes ... not that debacle known as Worlds Apart), and Editors. Think of Editors as Interpol Lite!
I wish they let me listen to my MP3 player here.
posted by the new @ 8:28:00 AM
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on the K-10-2 flop: to me, just a tough break on the turn. while the jack was problematic, i would have been more inclined to think a set of tens with the bet size. by making a pot-sized bet on what was a four-outer is just a bad play to me; betting on the come is pretty dangerous, esp. when, as your two pair shows, an ace wouldn't have helped him (i can only assume he thought he was drawing to 3 aces as well as 4 jacks: 7 outs x 4= 28% chance of hitting his hand.) he lucked out pure and simple.
what are the blinds in the $25NL ring game? i always want to open for 3-5xBB with aces, depending on how loose the table is (the looser the table, the bigger the bet.) on a flop with two suited cards where i don't hold the nut flush-out and an opening bet of 1/4 the pot i am going to raise at least the pot, if not a little more. when the turn bricked, i am all-in...gotta make them pay if they want to draw.
good luck and good flops to ya!
-->bcd
IF you made any errors in the KT hand, it were these: (a) playing the hand in the first place, and (b) calling the all-in.
These are both IFs, because we need more info to determine if your moves were right. Pre-flop, was it unraised to you, and/or were you in position? If you were UTG, then this is definitely not a hand to play. But in position (button), it is a reasonable move. Similarly, if someone raised big before you, you want to throw this hand away.
The all-in call is tricky, because we don't know how many chips he had left at that point. If his all-in was miniscule, then you had to call. If his all-in was more than the pot, you have to really think about what he is doing. I would have feared KJ in that situation, but who knows?
what I really need is access to the hand converter from work, but my work's proxy blocks a ton of poker sites.
RE: The Sit N Go bust ...
I was in the big blind fairly late in the sng -- blinds were 150/300. I had about 2000 chips to his 1650. I think there were 5 of us left, and UTG had folded. Then he mini-raised and the rest folded to me. I hate giving up my blinds, and figured I had enough chips to bail on the flop if nothing hit me. So I checked to him and let him bet the flop so I could check raise him.
RE: $25 nl tables ...
Blinds are $.10 and $.25, but I've noticed that on most PartyPoker tables, a raise of 4-5X the BB will still get callers holding low suited connectors and other marginal hands, so the standard raise I make is 6-8X the BB, and even then I get callers holding 89 suited, J-10 suited, a low pocket pair ... etc.
In hindsight, I was thinking that was the move to make -- what you wrote. I needed to raise bigger on the flop and push on the turn if it didn't look like a bad card for me.
Thanks for checking this out and leaving some advice, the both of you. I really appreciate it.
I'm with bcd on the "Aces" hand. I'm at least betting the pot after the flop and I'm definitely all-in after the turn. Losing that hand to K-4 soooooted is what makes me keep an extra "new" mouse in a drawer by my computer. LOL.
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so I think what'll I do is... make more correct plays and write less about letting my opponents beat me!
Bad luck on the two pair hand, but I will say, in a SnG, you can't make a min re-raise on someone, especially on the flop unless you're holding the nuts and you're sure they will call.
If he's got AK he's going to pay you off, if he's got an OESD, your bet needs to be bigger to make it incorrect from him to continue instead of inviting what will generally be an automatic call, especially for bad players on $5 SnG. If you're willing to call an all-in reraise on the turn after a scare card hits, you've got to be willing to punch him, hard, on the flop when you're almost certain you've got the best hand but there are a zillion draws that can hurt you. I don't know what the stack sizes are where you were playing, but on Party, I'd have strongly considered shoving on the flop when he made the pot sized bet. If the stacks are deeper, you need to take his bet, add it to the pot, and raise at least 3x that much.
Good stuff, I'll keep reading.
Once your opponent made a pot-sized bet on the flop, you should probably push (since it's a SNG--at a MTT, you'd just make a 3-5X raise). Min-raising is the worst thing you can do, as it prices him in for any reasonable draw. You want to make it so that it's a mathematical mistake for him to draw at an 8- or 9-outer.
As it was, he only had 4 outs, but he probably thought he had 7 outs (the three remaining aces), so in his mind, along with the potential implied odds, he virtually had to call your min raise.
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