How to play 12-15 bb stacks in a 9 handed sng

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When would you play 9 handed sng where about 6 or 7 players are left and your stack is around 12-15bb. It's to big to open push but a raise and cbet and lose the hand would cripple yor stack. Any handy tips you good people could give me on playing this stack
 
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it's a good size stack to resteal or even ship on limpers. and it's not too big too just open shove either but just make sure you got a strong enough hand to do so. i consistantly shipp 15bb from the SB into the BB to avoid them flatting and being OOP where a cbet will commmit me.
 
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i like to try and what till 5 people are in the game becuase every decision counts and people are going to start playing tight because you are close to the money so this is the time to start playing aggresive
 
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I think it is necessary to play a bit more cautiously and to narrow a range of hands, but to try to play рейз, instead of limp. Also it is necessary to be ready to that on flop and turn if pot big on chances will be necessary to you will play all-in, here therefore with average hands without a position it is better not to participate in bank. Also do not forget about stilling))))
 
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When would you play 9 handed sng where about 6 or 7 players are left and your stack is around 12-15bb. It's to big to open push but a raise and cbet and lose the hand would cripple yor stack. Any handy tips you good people could give me on playing this stack

It's actually not too big to open push (even if it seems like it is). If AK or AQ.. in some cases I would just shove with it (but of course.... it depends,lol)
 
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With 12-15bb's left (& 5 or 6 players), only hands I'm "usually" considering to open raise - cbet flop would be with big prs (even then, vs. gd players you might be better off just open-shoving as they'll put you on a wider range... but in lower buyins alot of players don't think a whole lot and the typical 2.5x rs w big pr. (but shove AK/AQ) seems to work with them.
 
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As mentioned above CP52, hopefully you'll find a spot where you can shove over an LP raise or limper(s).
 
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pretty broad question, but yes, youll be looking to reshove over people for value. particularly loose/weak opponants.

we dont ever really want to be limping with that stack size.. even with AA or KK were too deep to just open limp, so its fine to come in for a standard raise.. obv dont want to just shove the monsters, as we want value.
the worst mistake i see is players limping at big blind levels and constantly folding to shoves... they are the players that make sng very profitable.

it can sometimes be correct to open jam hands like small to mid pairs from late position, if you think the blinds are loose and also hands mentioned above AQ+ this is so we dont have to deal with them, flat calling from the blinds then donking an ace high flop etc.. id rather just get the money in so i cant make anotehr mistake in the hand.(by folding to a bluff, by getting it in behind)

when you make a raise, you generally do not want to fold to a reraise very often if at all.. so make sure when you raise a hand, that its worth going with.. OR if the blinds are super tight it can be ok to steal..

just like all tourneys, with 15 bb's getting toward mid to late stage play, we lower our raise size, due to the blinds being a decent proportion of our stack.. and also if we do happen to raise and fold, we lose less chips.

apart from that, post some hands in the tournament HA section, i will generally respond to STT threads..
 
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shoving 12bb's ish...

I would say in general you don't want calls in these situations so you want to do this with hands that are not easily dominated by AK AQ. It gives you slightly more equity to do it with a 45s, 9Ts, ect type hands. You never really want a call so depending on how often you think the other players left to act will call. If they will only call with JJ+ and AK than you fari to fold out all hands. If they happen to have AK or even work AA T9s actually has a chance where AT is screwed!

In live play people tend to want to hand on to their 10BB stk so much more often than online so it depends on this factor the most. Because their calling a shove range is so small it's not likely they'll be able to call.
 
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Shipping it in late position is almost always going to be your best play but if not you should open raise to just slightly over 2BB. Shoving 12-15BB in early position without a super premium hand like JJ+/AK+ is not going to be profitable.

If you open raise a worse hand in EP and get shoved on you are likely going to have to fold, so resist temptation in early position with hands like ATo to raise UTG with 12-15BB.

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be patient i like to wait till the field cuts down a little bit too start playing aggresive, when you get closer to the money then the tight players start to really tighten up and that is when you want to try and steal your pots
 
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Shove.

Also, restealing with an M less than 10 makes me giggle.
 
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A shove with even a mediocre (A8) hand in position is ideal. It doesnt give the pot odds for a lot of players with a marginal hand they would normally try to knock someone out with from the blinds. If you can get a steal or two in you will then be up enough that you can begin raising normally without instantly crippling yourself.
 
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You still have a big enough stack to steal blinds. But if it were me, I would push with any ace high or kq suited type of hands, but only if I was in position. If you have one of these kind of hands in early positions, I would only raise, because you are more likely to get picked off by pushing.
 
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