Daily Hand Quiz

I respectfully disagree with the staff here. Hold’em is a 0-sum game – when 2 people are knocked out, someone else is getting their money. If one guy gets all of the money from the next 2 people that get knocked out, now you’ve got an opponent with a stack that’s your size. What if, instead, you can get 1/2 (or more) of that money. Now you’re chip-leader Godzilla.

I’m here to play poker, and I just got dealt a premium hand. Let’s play!

I don’t mind a raise here (2-1 favorite against most hands), but if you like the conservative style as chip leader, call and see the flop. If it misses you, check and fold. Or you could be aggressive and lead into the raiser – a flop that misses A-K might have missed him too.

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I agree with matt above-I’m here to play poker and try to get the other opponent’s chips(anyway, I try not to drink and gamble-clouds my thinking ). Given your image, opponent probably doesn’t have AA or KK so a fold is out of the question. I prefer the conservative approach early on and I’d call and see what the flop brings.

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RAISE.

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If you’re so risk averse that you’re folding, you definetly should have limped with AK and just played the whole hand super conservatively. I think a weak tight approach is still +EV because your cards are that good here.

I also don’t understand why you’d raise here. I think your opponent would move in alot of the time, and then you have a tough choice for alot of chips.

I call and check the flop regardless, hoping playing possum if an A or K flops, ready to fold to any bet more than 1/3 of the pot if it doesn’t.

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While I would be quite conservative with a huge stack at the beginning of the tournament, you have premium hand, so I would at least continue playing that one. I would just call and then check-fold if no A or K and bet if A or K.

After, it depends on the table : if there’s a lot of action, I would quitely sit there playing only premium hands until the blinds are worth some moves and more people are eliminated. If the table is quiet, I would probably make a couple of moves to keep pressure and provoke some eliminations.

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Well as it is still early and you have already moved all in twice at this stage your table image isn’t exactly conservative.

The button could very well just have JJ. If I hold 3 times his stack this early where the blinds have little impact I’ll take some risk. If in my mind I see the opponent having QQ or any lesser hand I put him to the test all and and let the race happen.

If I want a little more information I’ll reraise to 350. I know that in most cases if they play back over the top I’m likely to be up against KK or AA. Even though AK is only a 2-1 dog vs KK I don’t like that race because I don’t like not having a full magazine in a fire fight.

There really is no reason to get conservative after early aggression in a sit n go. The blinds eventually level the playing field and force action when several hands might get the correct odds to play. In those cases a large stack formed early can easily get chopped down to elimination before the top 3.

Stay on top of the table with premium hands and keep force them to gamble with questionable kickers,marginal connectors, or dump blinds waiting for premium starters.

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I COMPLETELY disagree with the staff. How can you walk away from a table that is dealing you spectacular hands. If I can turn this SNG into a 20 minute affair, I Will!

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… E is absolutely terrible.

You don’t get re-raised too much preflop this early in an STT, so I’m thinking TT+ or AK for the button if he’s decent (I am assuming he is because he still has $1500 in from of him, that is, a close-to-starting stack). You’re also out of position and it’s early with very low blinds so I like a call pre-flop and c/f an flop without an A or K on it and c/r any non-threatening board with an A or K, probably folding to a shove (but even that’s read-dependant).

That said, a re-raise to about 300-350 is fine too, but I’m not sure what I’d do if button shoved or if button called and the flop bricked. Since you busted two people you’re probably thought of as pretty agressive and, again, you’re out of position.

I usually lean toward B because I’m tight early in STTs, but B or C is fine. E is awful.

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wow….”fold, sit out and go make a sandwich”…quality advice!

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I agree with Dan L. Just smooth call, and check the flop. If you hit, call or raise depending on the flop.
Some people like betting a hit flop, but then you only get ekstra chips from AQ, KQ, or if you are beat. Maybe from AJ on an A, but the others are more likely. If you hit and check, hands like 99, 10 10, JJ & QQ will make a continuation bet too. And if the flops doesnt have scary draws possible, you can annoy the dealer a lot by just calling.
I dont like the idea of sitting out, you can easily get cut down to scraps when the blinds go up and you have to play. Use your image to try and get even more, and if you are beat, you still have twice as much as most of the opponents.

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I selected just to call here There is no reason to reraise a raise here because the other player has a good chance of going all in on you before seeing the flop. Most likely the player that reraised that good amount has queens or jacks and is in front of you % wise at this point.
You hit that ace on the flop you should think you have the best hand at this point and have a very good chance at winning the hand in a showdown. Play carrefull but agressive

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I play online SNGs for a living and find this thread to be very interesting. I think most commenters above are thinking short-term.

The reality is, any of the options offered are viable. I don’t see a wrong answer on the list.

It’s not about this particular SNG, it’s about your results over the next 100 SNGs. Your goal in all of them is to be in a position to compete for the win when 3 or 4 players remain. You are in that position right now, except for one annoying problem – there are still 7 players left.

Being as the blind size is microscopic compared to your stack, I tend to agree with the staff on this one – except for the beer part (unless it’s my last SNG of the day). Believe me I’ve played on in this situation plenty of times and been the next one out. No need to take that risk until the blinds start to mean something.

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I do like the advice for this hand, but with such a large stack at this point, you can create alot of dead money getting people to fold outright in this spot. I chose to re-raise 300 to go. Even if the button has a strong hand (prob. not) I think this test of his stomach will tell you where you are in the hand.

I agree with the sit it out strategy, just not with this hand staring at you.

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I respectfully disagree with the staff. While there is nothing wrong with changing gears, a disciplined player should be able to view every hand and play/fold accordingly. As far as making the money, if you’re that concerned with “sneaking in”, don’t put it up in the first place-Play to Win or go back to the play money side.

I would re-raise 300 because it allows me to challenge my less fortunate opponent while leaving me options an all-in re-raise would not. I would make a continuation bet regardless of the flop and then evaluate my opponent’s response to my bet before acting.

Look at it from your opponents point of view, his initial raise was re-raised and if he chooses to call, the flop would have to hit him pretty well to justify staying in the hand. If your opponent does act, you know he’s strong and you can act accordingly. After all, what good is a big stack if you can’t use it to put your opponents to a tough decision for a proportionately larger percentage of their chips in order to increase your own? I don’t advocate recklessness, but I can tell you from experience that facing a $500 bet before the river with a stack of $1500 is tough if you are not holding the nuts or close to it which sometimes results in the small stack laying down the better hand.

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Pretend the King in the hole is an A and then shove. He mucks everything except maybe QQ which is 50-50, even if he calls with KK, u got him crushed with what u think is AA…

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Im not that kind of ma. Hadad Usoa.

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But you keep on abusin i. Fyodor Tyrik.

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I agree with ‘taking a break’ but only a break from hands other than top ten starting hands. I play this hand and fold everything but high pairs and AK.

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