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PplusAD Germany. Jun 14 2007 16:19. Posts 7182

Okay now ive played 46 SNG . not much , but i had to do lots of university stuff.
last 2 days were full of suckouts and bad beats as allready expectet.
but it doesnt affect me at all cause i play with 40+ buy ins

So even if i lose some buy ins its not worth any complaints.

my results so far are okay to half way decent considering i run decent for 2 days and medium bad for 2days..

46 SNG 2table 1,50+.25 $
TOTAL PROFIT + 31,70 $
I also only put a total of about 5 hours of work into it and i had some serious fun watching how bad the pla<x>yers at 1.75$ SNGS are

Pokerstars also is a very decent software compared to bad Everest Poker software which makes me happy,too

here is a shitty little selfmade graph ( i have no SNG graphing software)

I also had an interesting hand which i am not sure if i played it bad or good. ( i am too lazy to search but i ll tell you about it)

SNG Final table 5 pla<x>yers left ... Top 4 get paid.
I am in 4th Position having 4500 chips.
blinds 200/400 blinds.

i get

in early position.

I raise to 3BB making it 1200 ( not sure if i should have pushed all in T_T but i was somehow afraid to bust early position at the bubble with 2 bigger stacks behind me).

i get 2 callers both about 6500 chips. sb and BB fold.

So pot is 4200 chips.
FLOP

i am first to act and bet 1200 into the pot.(1/3 potsize)
I id fold the hand on turn if i got 2 callers.
and i didnt want to risk going broke vs 2 bigger stacks behind me.
MP folds.
LP pla<x>yer Pushes all in .

Damn i was absolutely not sure if i should call.

my first thoughts on opponents mind were.

1200 seem like a weak bet into a 4200 chip pot so he thinks i have either a Monster or a medium/weak hand.
the other big stack folded so he has no danger of busting out in 5th place going broke.
there is a very high chance LP pla<x>yer thinks A high is good enough on this flop
ANd besides that he knows that i have to play very tight on the bubble.
The pot is big and he would be chipleader if he either beats me or bluffs me out of the pot.

SO i thought

-High chance he has A high and wants to bluff me out cause he knows i have to play tight and could not call with A high myself.
besides that he could not go broke even if his bluff fails
due to the other bigstack folding before him.

-High chance he has a low pair like 33 55 66, didnt push preflop cause of the other bigstack calling before him
and now thinks his low pair is good vs my A high and he would win big time if i call. ( i raised preflop so its likley i have an ace.besides that i made a weak 1200 bet into a 4200 pot so i think this doesnt look too strong for him and he probably thinks his 33 55 66 or whatever is good right there.)

- medium chance he has a Q or a 4 and actually is way ahead on the flop.

I called

So my question is

Did i play this ueber bad preflop ?
Is my FLOP thought process wrong ?

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U see what i did there with A8 ? He 4 bets and there we go insta jam A8 : ---booooom -- . hahahaha ( Krantz)

Last edit: 14/06/2007 16:33

Critterer United Kingdom. Jun 14 2007 20:10. Posts 5337

Ur thought process makes sense but only when against a thinking player, you gotta understand that the majority of 1.75 players just barely know the rules of poker so all the thought trails your going thru are irrelivent. Play the cards more and just play +ev moves, dont worry too much about thinking stuff through at this stakes.

LudaHid: dam.ned dam.ned dam.ned. LudaHid: dam.ned northwooden as..hole

PplusAD Germany. Jun 15 2007 05:05. Posts 7182

Hm, of course this is a ture point
but on the other hand i have the feeling that at least some players do basic thinking even at 1.75$.

And another point is i am a 1.75$ player myself and do the thinking ^^ ( though i played 10+1$ and 11+1$ SNG in the past )
Now I think my flop play and thinking was okay ... my preflop play was too weak. should have made it more preflop or even all in.

U see what i did there with A8 ? He 4 bets and there we go insta jam A8 : ---booooom -- . hahahaha ( Krantz)