9s utg

[dreday]

is my play here okay? Still basically a full table so i don't want to commit to much to this hand utg. I gave up on the hand once my cbet was called. Didnt feel comfortable rasing with this utg, ideally looking for set or ragged board.


Hand #36343203-38 at SnG-0015q (No Limit Hold'em Sit and Go)
Started at 29/Oct/06 19:17:00

littlemurray is at seat 0 with 1110.
DynamoLindz is at seat 1 with 1290.
Black Smoke is at seat 2 with 1285.
SoHungGuy is at seat 3 with 1850.
Alenburke is at seat 4 with 1455.
justavc is at seat 6 with 1985.
gio18 is at seat 7 with 1905.
LuckyJeff is at seat 8 with 2820.
dreday227 is at seat 9 with 1300.
The button is at seat 6.

gio18 posts the small blind of 30.
LuckyJeff posts the big blind of 60.

littlemurray: -- --
DynamoLindz: -- --
Black Smoke: -- --
SoHungGuy: -- --
Alenburke: -- --
justavc: -- --
gio18: -- --
LuckyJeff: -- --
dreday227: 9c 9h

Pre-flop:

dreday227 calls. littlemurray folds. DynamoLindz
folds. Black Smoke folds. SoHungGuy folds.
Alenburke folds. justavc folds. gio18 folds.
LuckyJeff checks.

Flop (board: Qd 6h Ah):

LuckyJeff checks. dreday227 bets 120. LuckyJeff
calls.

Turn (board: Qd 6h Ah 4s):

LuckyJeff checks. dreday227 checks.

River (board: Qd 6h Ah 4s Kc):

LuckyJeff bets 120. dreday227 folds. LuckyJeff is
returned 120 (uncalled).



Hand #36343203-38 Summary:

No rake is taken for this hand.
LuckyJeff wins 390.

[taipan168]

Check behind on the flop. If opp checks again, take a stab on the turn.

BTW your flop bet wasn't a c-bet - a c-bet is if you raised preflop, miss the flop but bet anyway.

[dreday]

Check behind on the flop. If opp checks again, take a stab on the turn.

BTW your flop bet wasn't a c-bet - a c-bet is if you raised preflop, miss the flop but bet anyway.

Stand corrected. Was the limp utg okay?

[taipan168]

Stand corrected. Was the limp utg okay?

Absolutely, at this stage I'm not raising this from UTG.

[ShowMeAtlas]

Why does everyone advocate limping UTG? What's the plan for the inevitable raise?

[dreday]

Why does everyone advocate limping UTG? What's the plan for the inevitable raise?

Well, I normally play $10sngs, so there is a fair share of limping. I don't like limping utg, but considering I have a plausible chance of not getting re-rerasied, Im gonna give it a shot. If i do get rasied, depending on the amount, then Im may call and look to hit a set. Better off then investing money in a raise and then face the prospect of calling a reraise oop. I may consider otherwise if the table has been aggressive preflop, and just fold preflop but that was not the case at this table. The blinds were @ 30/60 with like 9 people still left to act. And in this particular case I was not raised preflop.

Would you advocate rasing utg, and possibly pushing over a rerasie, or folding? (depending on the opponent and reads)
Also,
by rasing utg, i give myself a chance to pick up the blinds, instead of giving the BB a free pass?

[donkbee]

Why does everyone advocate limping UTG? What's the plan for the inevitable raise?

It's early. Limited or no reads. You're out of position.

Whether or not you call a raise depends on who makes the raise, your odds to call, the other people in the pot, etc etc.

99 is a nice hand, but the position is not nice here. Position is very important, more important than a lot of people realize.

It's not to say that it's wrong to raise it here, if that's what you want to do. I might do so depending on the situation and on the table. In a STT though, the first goal is to get to the bubble with as many chips as possible, and raising 99 UTG early with no reads isn't the best way to do this.