9 player sitngo

#1 4th April 2009, 11:21 PM

I was in a play money sitngo, and part 1:

Player 1: 2000
player 2: 2093
player 3: 860
Me: 4082

Blinds: Player 1 calls (he's a very tight player), and 2 and 3 fold. I decide to push all in with A10 off and try to steal the blinds (blinds are at 200/400.) Is this a good move? or bad move? and why? I put him on maybe KQ or QJ or something because he just called, instead of raising like he did sometimes with strong hands (but then again, he also bluffed before when he raised 4xBB). This was just a call though in early position.

Scenario 2:

Against Player 2: He has 4.173k, I have 4.7k ish, and we are the final two.
I get A3 rag suited (are rags always suited?). Anyways, I decide after he just calls a 600 blind to push all in. He's also somewhat tight (most of the players I faced were tight; the aggressive ones got out early). I was thinking he would probably fold to this big all-in, and Ace high is okay. Was this also a very questionable move? It was the first hand immediately following the elimination of the 3rd place finisher.

Pre-flop all-ins are fun to me, but I may be pushing it?

Is there another strategy that I could employ, without going all-in, but still bluffing people out? I seem to be going all-in too much.

#2 5th April 2009, 12:03 AM

OK Sac, I'll give my 2 cents!

Quote:

Originally Posted by deumsac

I was in a play money sitngo, and part 1:

Player 1: 2000
player 2: 2093
player 3: 860
Me: 4082

Blinds: Player 1 calls (he's a very tight player), and 2 and 3 fold. I decide to push all in with A10 off and try to steal the blinds (blinds are at 200/400.) Is this a good move? or bad move? and why? I put him on maybe KQ or QJ or something because he just called, instead of raising like he did sometimes with strong hands (but then again, he also bluffedbefore when he raised 4xBB). This was just a call though in early position.

First, good job reading the other player, you should always try to imagine what you are up against! If all you wanted was to steal the blinds you made an OK move, IMO. To maximize the potential of this hand you may have wanted to keep at least one player in by betting semi-strong at around 1500-2000 chips to induce a call.

Scenario 2:

Against Player 2: He has 4.173k, I have 4.7k ish, and we are the final two.
I get A3 rag suited (are rags always suited?). Anyways, I decide after he just calls a 600 blind to push all in. He's also somewhat tight (most of the players I faced were tight; the aggressive ones got out early). I was thinking he would probably fold to this big all-in, and Ace high is okay. Was this also a very questionable move? It was the first hand immediately following the elimination of the 3rd place finisher.

Pre-flop all-ins are fun to me, but I may be pushing it?
All-in preflop heads up with an ace is not a bad play.

Is there another strategy that I could employ, without going all-in, but still bluffing people out? I seem to be going all-in too much.

Fill us in! Did you snag the blinds (scenario 1) and win the hand (scenario 2)?

You were technically only semi bluffing but it totally depends on your motivation. Maximize your take, limit your losses or straight up steal....

#3 5th April 2009, 4:00 PM

Results: Scenario 1: He called with pocket 9's, and I was saved by an Ace on the turn (was a 43-57 underdog).
Scenario 2: I won the hand. (slight favorite/ coin-flip-esque)

However, since I won those hands, like someone else said in another thread, I could play that way again because I was positively reinforced, hence my thread

#4 5th April 2009, 6:13 PM

Late in SNGs often present shove or fold situations that are usually correct. Naturally it's player dependent, but shove or fold is a standard play late in SNGs.

In the first hand, shoving is a good play to punish the limper in a high blind situation. As the big stack you should not let anyone limp with the blinds this high without making them pay.

Similar situation in the second hand. If he limps, punish. Plus as panamajoe said, having an Ace heads up is pretty strong. -With A-3 Against one opponent, he has a 10% chance of having a bigger Ace, and a 5% chance of having a pair.

Sure there are other ways to play it, depending on the player and past histories, especially heads up, but given the information, you made good decisions regardless of results (which were good anyway!)

DonkeyKong

#5 6th April 2009, 11:53 AM

Well when blinds move up as more players get knocked out you have to open up your starting hands, Like for me if its 3 players i never fold a ace, or face cards preflop if possible.

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