what would you do?

In an sng, 5 players are left, your under the gun with a 25 BB stack.
You pick up 44, 55, 66 and such middle pocket pairs. So do you raise 3X the BB and immediatly risk 12% of your stack, or do you limp in and try and see a flop and hit a set cheap. Mind you a 3X BB raise here might make it come down to a 2,3 man flop. A limp could result in a 4,5 man flop, in a way this is what you want though...

you cannot afford to set-mine when there is so few players left..either raise-fold to a reraise or just fold it utg...small pairs aint worth it...try to pick stealing spots on btn with high cards...

Well in this case, you are quite the short stack in the sng. Now, there are already 1 and a half big blinds in the pot, and you want to win some chips. If you had a fair amount of chips you could limp in, but this is usually done when there are more players, since the more ppl that limp in with you, the more money you could gain if you catch the trio. But when its short handed, you might think about raising. Its unlikely they got a pair since you get it once every 17 hands. I would raise 4 times bb. If they fold, you won a bit... and didnt risk losing a lot. If they call, well you have a few options. They do not know what you have first of all... You could just as easily have Ace King. I would take a shoot at the pot no matter what comes. If the flop is big, you pretend you had something and do a 6BB raise or something around that number, or even allin. If its small cards, your probably winning with your pair, so you pretend your bluffing, and if he calls you thinking you are, you might get a lot of chips off of that person!

n2kfactor said:

you cannot afford to set-mine when there is so few players left..either raise-fold to a reraise or just fold it utg...small pairs aint worth it...try to pick stealing spots on btn with high cards...

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Agreed, but their aren't that few players left..
5 players are left out of the 6 man sng.
2 places get paid, still plenty of play to go.

-Phil Ivey27 said:

Agreed, but their aren't that few players left..
5 players are left out of the 6 man sng.
2 places get paid, still plenty of play to go.

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Obviously he assumed it was a 9-plyr sng as did I when reading your post (and was what I was going to formulate an answer around).

You're on the table.... you know how the players are playing on it. You mean to say that a 3x rs UTG is getting 3 players seeing the flop? You'd think a UTG 3x rs. would garner alot more respect.
If your table is playing like this then the answer becomes alot more obvious.... you can't raise it up 3x and then play a multi-way pot, possibly out of position when there's going to be at least one or two overcards on the board. Example,... Say you've got 88,99 and you raise it up 3x UTG and get two callers. Flop comes Q-6-2 rainbow...not too bad a flop for you. You were the preflop aggressor so now you're going to have to fire a c-bet on this flop. One guy folds but the other guy calls. Look at the situation you've created,...you've bloated up the pot while holding a hand preflop where you were probably a marginal favourite. The turn brings a brick... now what are you going to do? roughly 2/5th's of your stack is now in the pot.

It is often really table dependent. If your table isn't uber-aggressive preflop but there's alot of loose/passive calling... .why not just limp in? If your table is more aggressive (in most cases), just lay the low/med. pr. down from EP.