Question 1: What do you do here?Like 6 hands in... No reads, all I see is he is a silverstar....Whats his range? I figure JJ+, AK?

PokerStars Game #20799641083: Tournament #111191372, $15+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level II (15/30) - 2008/09/29 19:19:47 ET
Table '111191372 1' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: Rimz (1570 in chips)
Seat 2: FULLOHAD (1490 in chips)
Seat 3: Steph_888 (1300 in chips)
Seat 4: phalv (1700 in chips)
Seat 5: werd2u (1470 in chips)
Seat 6: mleone3333 (1260 in chips)
Seat 7: SABICCS (1750 in chips)
Seat 8: JurassicShip (1480 in chips)
Seat 9: fanta-kasten (1480 in chips)
JurassicShip: posts small blind 15
fanta-kasten: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Rimz [As Kh]
Rimz: raises 90 to 120
FULLOHAD: folds
Steph_888: folds
phalv: folds
werd2u: folds
mleone3333: raises 240 to 360
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Question 2: I remeber Ship Happens a respeceted sng player says he or other good sng players would not raise 99 in EP in a unopened pot early on in a sng?? Do you call or fold?? Can you justify this please, bc I would normally raise this...I got this question from your interesting hand with Spacegravy ( i think) in $109 turbo, where you had a FH on the river and folded...

rimz

Going allin is fun so I'd do that.

Your range is probably pretty solid (maybe throw a few more hands in), but against an uknown at this level I'm usually shoving.

fold

shove or fold based on reads

not opening 99 early in an sng is bad imo

early in a sng u wanna 3x ur 99, see a flop and go from there, folding is bad

 

Originally Posted by swd805

shove or fold based on reads

not opening 99 early in an sng is bad imo

If when you say bad you mean optimal then I would agree

if ur saying to not open 99 early in a sng pls say why? Im sure im being leveled tho....

 

Originally Posted by L0bstaM0bsta

You are not being leveled...99=22...you are playing for set odds at 10/20 and 15/30

haha, u almost had me for a second

push all day any day

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Still like pushing?

fold

 

Originally Posted by L0bstaM0bsta

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Still like pushing?

well given its a turbo and hes prob playing a few different tables so we wont be able to look that up in time....also even with given that info we could still even be ahead but i guess id lean more towards a fold

 

Originally Posted by swd805

sheets and beanmo are raising 99 from ep in a fullring sng, but what do they know?????????????????????????????????

sheets is blocked

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Hrm...looks like we will never quite figure out what they really know

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I priv msged jennifear and ship happens to help replyfor #1, 2...It was no level, ship happens in his long thread about his hand with spacegravy, said spacegravy is not rasing 99 from ep early in a sng...and he said no great turbo sng players are...This may only be in higher level sngs, im not sure...I usually play 16's and 25 and will always raise 99 from ep, i consider myself to be pretty good :)

thx in the responses so far...

rimz

Question 1:

Shove unless he's good. This guy, mleone, is reraising you with QQ+, AK, so the correct answer is fold. With no reads, it's a shove in a $16, especially at night when the bad players are on and you might be staring at KQ or AJ.

Question 2:

Raising 88+ is good strategy in a winner-take-all SNG. In a 50/30/20 SNG, the chips you risk are worth more than the chips you stand to gain, so you need to play a tad tighter. In addition, at the low limits, you have the extra benefit of stacking someone off more frequently when you play it as a set mining hand and they triple barrel bluff you with cheese or call their whole stack off on top pair, bad kicker. Therefore, it's a hand I usually limp UTG at the $16s. For the record, it is not horrible to raise this.

Hope that helps!