High blind play in SNG. Evaluate some hands please (Video)

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i think first shove with K8 is good.
JQ i think i would have folded. it is good for a shove, not strong enough for a call.
ok, K8s you are in the BB and the guy with 30 chips shoves. SB calls, i don't understand why you shove over the top. the guy in SB probably called so both of you have better odds of knocking the other guy out. Usually these go check check. Now i understand the guy has a very small stack and it is highly unlikely he will make it further, still, i think you should have checked it down with the SB.
 
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78o shove from SB, not that bad, i would have done it if he is a tight player.

75o fold :/ plus i think you can fold on flop, i don't think he is ever bluffing there.

K7o in BB good shove.

69s on the button, I don't like the shove, but you do have only 4 BBs, so it is understandable however i think you can still fold and hope for better cards.

45s you call from BB, i think it's bad, these suited connectors are good for shoving, but calling, meh, i don't like it, if you call and lose now you become the ss. I understand he shoves light, and he should, but that doesn't mean you have to call with 45 when he does.I don't think it's a profitable call.

K9 good shove.

A5, i don't think its a bad fold. from what i've seen so far he seems passive and i think you would have been a 70-30 underdog. however i don't hate a call either. wish i had stats on the guys.

3Ts - time to gamble while you still have some fold equity.

Q8 suited in the SB with 3.5 BB left, it should be a shove, especially since your opponents are so darn passive.



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78o shove from SB, not that bad, i would have done it if he is a tight player.

75o fold :/ plus i think you can fold on flop, i don't think he is ever bluffing there.

K7o in BB good shove.

69s on the button, I don't like the shove, but you do have only 4 BBs, so it is understandable however i think you can still fold and hope for better cards.

45s you call from BB, i think it's bad, these suited connectors are good for shoving, but calling, meh, i don't like it, if you call and lose now you become the ss. I understand he shoves light, and he should, but that doesn't mean you have to call with 45 when he does.I don't think it's a profitable call.

K9 good shove.

A5, i don't think its a bad fold. from what i've seen so far he seems passive and i think you would have been a 70-30 underdog. however i don't hate a call either. wish i had stats on the guys.

3Ts - time to gamble while you still have some fold equity.

Q8 suited in the SB with 3.5 BB left, it should be a shove, especially since your opponents are so darn passive.



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Cheers will look over this in a minute with your advice.

Will look at your video tomorrow too (internets a bitch ATM)

About the passivity of the table.. it's something I didn't notice at the time, but watching the HH I notice its a very very passive table.
 
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be aggresive steal blinds in good position and you will see yourself winning more then usual at those
 
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k8- It's thin, but a good shove i think. No he's rarely strong with completing, however we don't get that many folds after he does complete.

QJ- range is decent you gave, depending on the player. However this is certainly not a call regardless, we're not getting very good odds and we are behind that range you mentioned.

99- Perfect, and this is a spot where you can and should be shoving 100% of hands.


KT- this is shove for me. One guy who is really not there, we are essentially on the bubble. We have everyone outchipped by double, i'd just be shoving 100% here again, depending on the table, but KT is certainly far to strong to fold.

K8s- perfect. He is normally just trying to collude with you in that spot, shoving we instantly gain ~760 chips without going to showdown.

78- we can never just raise there, it's a shove or a fold depending on player tendancies. We have to be a little tighter as we are not ITM so calling ranges are wider.

75- Again we can never really just open raise in these spots where everyone is under 10BB's. If we're debating shoving this hand, it's certainly not a shove. We actually make money by folding and letting the other big stack get involved with the shortie.
 
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k8 shove is standard. so is JQ with the blinds that high
 
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Here I go, sorry I took so long (not like I'm giving expert advice or anything :p).

Here's a good hand replayer: http://www.universal-replayer.net/

K8 shove is fine, that dude has a super weak range and you should take it down pre most of the time. The thing I'm more worried about is how you got down to 850 chips - usually that means you may have missed a few spots earlier in the tournament.

Yeah the QJ is a fold, unless he's shoving like >85% of the time it's a fold. It's true that you're under some blind pressure, so maybe it's not an auto fold, but still a fold imo.

99 looks good to me.

Normally I'd fold KT there too, but with the stacks the way they are (i.e. you're crushing everyone) a shove is good too.

Nothing wrong with the K8s, you take down ~700 if he folds.

Meh, the 87 isn't automatic, since you guys are in a virtual tie and the other guy is pretty short. I really like to shove wide bvb but I don't think this is the time.

The 75 looks like a fold to me, the guy in the BB is going to be calling wider than usual because he's so short and he's really desperate. Never ever open raise, just shove with these stack sizes.

I'm shoving that K7 too - even though he may be adjusting slightly since we've done this a few times. But with that strong of a hand we can't fold imo.

Yeah I'm shoving that 96s, you have like 4bb's and if you let the blinds hit you you're really screwed.

With the 54s, here we're getting great odds but the issue is 1) if we call and lose we have a stack that carries no fold equity ourselves, and 2) our hand isn't really that good. It's not an awful call but I might argue for folding this time (I might just be a dumb nit though :p)

Definitely shoving JT there.

With 62s, I'm fine checking pre but I might shove the flop, there's way too much money in that pot to let it get to showdown, especially since there are no good turn or river cards.

Auto-shove with K9 :)

With K2s, now that you're less than 1bb I'll often just let the BB hit me, but you actually have a good hand so definitely get the money in. If you wait for the BB, you give yourself a chance to get a better hand, and there's a chance that the BTN will raise and the SB will fold to the raise, leaving you heads-up. When you go all-in on the button here, you're likely to see a 3-way pot where the other guys check it down to the river. However K2s is definitely good enough to put your small chip stack into the pot.

Too bad you got a walk with that AK.

I don't know if you can fold that A5 there - it depends on how wide you think he's shoving, but the bottom line is you have less than 3bb's after posting and a well above average hand, most of the time you have to get it in there.

Now that you folded that there isn't a whole lot you can do now - T3s is probably good enough for a shove but what sucks is that you have no fold equity... Wait, nevermind, they folded lol. Usually you never want to put yourself into that spot, but since they're both pretty short themselves I guess you have a little more FE.

A note for the heads-up, with a stack as short as yours you pretty much need to shove every hand. But yeah, maybe another time.

Thanks for sharing!
 
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Here I go, sorry I took so long (not like I'm giving expert advice or anything :p).

Here's a good hand replayer: http://www.universal-replayer.net/

K8 shove is fine, that dude has a super weak range and you should take it down pre most of the time. The thing I'm more worried about is how you got down to 850 chips - usually that means you may have missed a few spots earlier in the tournament.

Yeah the QJ is a fold, unless he's shoving like >85% of the time it's a fold. It's true that you're under some blind pressure, so maybe it's not an auto fold, but still a fold imo.

99 looks good to me.

Normally I'd fold KT there too, but with the stacks the way they are (i.e. you're crushing everyone) a shove is good too.

Nothing wrong with the K8s, you take down ~700 if he folds.

Meh, the 87 isn't automatic, since you guys are in a virtual tie and the other guy is pretty short. I really like to shove wide bvb but I don't think this is the time.

The 75 looks like a fold to me, the guy in the BB is going to be calling wider than usual because he's so short and he's really desperate. Never ever open raise, just shove with these stack sizes.

I'm shoving that K7 too - even though he may be adjusting slightly since we've done this a few times. But with that strong of a hand we can't fold imo.

Yeah I'm shoving that 96s, you have like 4bb's and if you let the blinds hit you you're really screwed.

Here we're getting great odds but the issue is 1) if we call and lose we have a stack that carries no fold equity ourselves, and 2) our hand isn't really that good. It's not an awful call but I might argue for folding this time (I might just be a dumb nit though :p)

Definitely shoving JT there.

With 62s, I'm fine checking pre but I might shove the flop, there's way too much money in that pot to let it get to showdown, especially since there are no good turn or river cards.

Auto-shove with K9 :)

Now that you're less than 1bb I'll often just let the BB hit me, but you actually have a good hand so definitely get the money in. If you wait for the BB, you give yourself a chance to get a better hand, and there's a chance that the BTN will raise and the SB will fold to the raise, leaving you heads-up. When you go all-in on the button here, you're likely to see a 3-way pot where the other guys check it down to the river.

Too bad you got a walk with that AK.

I don't know if you can fold that A5 there - it depends on how wide you think you're shoving, but the bottom line is you have less than 3bb's after posting and a well above average hand, most of the time you have to get it in there.

Now that you folded that there isn't a whole lot you can do now - T3s is probably good enough for a shove but what sucks is that you have no fold equity... Wait, nevermind, they folded lol. Usually you never want to put yourself into that spot, but since they're both pretty short themselves I guess you have a little more FE.

A note for the heads-up, with a stack as short as yours you pretty much need to shove every hand. But yeah, maybe another time.

Thanks for sharing!

Thank you so much, im going to go through the vid with a compiled list of peoples comments and try to fix some of these leaks.
Once again, thank-you :)
 
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