early stages of sit n go

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i just recently played a 1 table sng full ring in the early stages. Blinds 10/20 i was just wondering if playing A,j off utg, was fine or could i have opened raised with x amount? I ended up folding.
 
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If it were the early stages of an MTT I'm a lot less inclinced to play AJ offsuit under the gun. However, because it's a sit and go, which is more like the final table of an MTT but with small blinds, I'm going to play AJ offsuit from UTG.
 
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i just recently played a 1 table sng full ring in the early stages. Blinds 10/20 i was just wondering if playing A,j off utg, was fine or could i have opened raised with x amount? I ended up folding.
One of the things I have learned here at CC is that if you're willing to play a hand,(this advice is not counting low pocket pairs) and you're first to bet in the pot, you raise.
So to answer your question, you should have raised IMO.
 
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In a sit and go I prefer to fold this hand in the early stages, I think it is not worth getting involved at the beginning of a sit and go with this hand .
 
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it's of course possible to show profit with this hand utg, but if you are pretty new to poker it's also a pretty big trouble hand, so i'd definitely recomend folding it UTG and maybe opening up more of your range on the button and cutoff. Like if you raise 79s on the button, start opening 56s that will make up for any loss of value in opening AJ utg.
 
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i agree to fold it. especially while the blinds are low. early stages are to test your opponents and see how they react. very rarely should you really be trying to make big moves an big scores this early. make little moves in position. utg is a seat where you should only really enter the pot if your hand has monster potential... hands like AQs+/AKo/JJ+ at 10/20 utg especially in full ring
 
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It is better to fold this hand, or you can try to make a call, and if there is a raise - to throw.
 
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From my own experience I can say that: under the gun, you can either play AJ stake blind or fold.
 
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Yeah early stage of tournament and from that position fold is good play.In my opinion, and from mine experience.
Cheers!
 
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very often the case that the move to 22 .:( :(
 
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You can make an arguement either way with this hand depending on the type of player you are or your percieved image by your opponents but IMO this is almost always a fold especially if you dont have any information on your opponents yet. Your opponents flatting range could include especially in the early stages of tournament could easily consist of Ax type hands that have you crushed and hitting an A on the flop could end up costing you your stack especially on a uncordinated board where the winning hand comes on the flop. If you are the type of player that can make this tough laydown in this spot if your opponent plays back at you aggresively then you could possibly include this in your range here, but if you are the type that will take top pair medium kicker to the felt it is highly not recommended.
 
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Yeah, this is a fold from UTG in an STT.
 
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Hi man...in my opinion is not a wrong to fold preflop from utg, but i prefer to play it with raise..early we are deep, we can play postflop poker.
 
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If you are folding AJ when blinds are 10/20 you should consider a different hobby
 
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Quote: If you are folding AJ when blinds are 10/20 you should consider a different hobby

hahaha
totally agree with you I play for AJ 10/20 if no one big raise.
 
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i also agree that raising or folding would be corect -ive seen a-j get into alot of trouble post flop-its a great hand when it hits the flop but troublesom when it doesnt-when the blinds get bigger i outright fold that hand pre-flop
 
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With those blinds I would definitely come in for a raise with AJo unless there was some other dynamic at the table that gave me pause. While I'm that deep stacked, I'd want to get a feel for how the other players react.
 
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AJ off early position on a full ring is a fold. Firstly, it is a weak hand early position anyways and should be folded.

Keep in mind if you get reraised and call, you will not know if you hand is good even if you hit a pair on the flop.
 
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In a sit and go I prefer to fold this hand in the early stages, I think it is not worth getting involved at the beginning of a sit and go with this hand .

Either fold or better 2x raise see and decide accordingly to the action that will follow . It has to do if you will be re raised ,how many will enter , if you hit anything on the flop. I guess on blins 10/20 , once you can play it .
 
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i dont like ajo utg early in a sng, just too many peeps to get through and too difficult to play postflop oop

think you can limp small pairs and raise big pairs, but i fear for most ajo utg will be a neg implied odds type scenario
 
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in blinds 10/20 just fold it, Id play it from positions after cutoff only.
 
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It is a bad game if you folded AJx with 100bb from all positions.
 
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