Leito1903 said:
Hello everyone I am a beginner poker player and I would like to know the opinions of all of you. If I am in position UTG1 UTG2 with AS and kicker less than 8. It is not pleasant to play the hand in an important tournament if it were live or online unless it is in suite:confuso:
You already answered your question by yourself partly. "It is not pleasant to play such hands" out of position. And you have to listen what your intuition says to you and not playing. There will be most likely better hands and better position, so why do you investing your chips/money in that tricky situation, where you most likely beated, even if you hit your ace. I wouldn't even play Ax from middle position, until it's suited and there were some limps before. Cause honestly with such hand as Ax, you only need to hope to hit the flush or two pairs (which is less likely and still pretty risky, cause if someone has another Ace without second pair, but better kicker, but catch second pair or board become paired on later streets, then your kicker is dead and you loose a lot of chips). So don't put yourself in such trap.
The same thing (or even worse) with hands like KJ, QT, which are easily dominated and can be good for a blind steal, but not for playing from early positions or out of position generally.
BART777 said:
in an early position it is heavy to play such hands, I prefer to dump. but if it is 6 max and my stack it is small, I can be ready to do anything.
Well, basically there are no UTG at 6max, that positions are existing only for the full ring games. So at 10max we have UTG-1, UTG-2, UTG-3, MP-1, MP-2, MP-3 (or HJ), CO, BU, SB, BB. So if let's say 1 player been eleminated or went sat out/disconnected you should have striked through in your mind one position from the left. So if 3 players are out or not playing there are no UTGs anymore. Considering that rule at 6max tables will be no UTGs and the positions are starting with MP-2.