Low PPs and another hand (6.50)

[bjsaust]

I'm back to being confused about these types of hands. I'm short but not desperate, and not in great position:


PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t100 (7 handed) Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver Cards)

MP2 (t1560)
Hero (t1225)
Button (t1685)
SB (t1635)
BB (t2015)
UTG (t2900)
MP1 (t2480)

Preflop: Hero is CO with , .
3 folds, Hero ???


Hand 2
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t150 (7 handed) Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver Cards)

BB (t1560)
Hero (t1225)
MP1 (t1685)
MP2 (t2385)
CO (t1365)
Button (t2900)
SB (t2380)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with , .
Hero ???


Hand 3

I've been pretty much dominating this table, just picked off a stop'n'go from BB where he sucked out on turn which cut me back a bit. Blinds have just gone up though.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t400 (5 handed) Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver Cards)

SB (t2405)
BB (t2235)
Hero (t3491)
MP (t2114)
Button (t3255)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with , .
Hero ???


Can I push that from UTG?

[taipan168]

I dump all three hands from EP.

[bjsaust]

Ok, thought so. Thanks.

[Technooo]

First hand you're CO, blinds are 150 total which is more that 10% of your stack. Raise looks very good, but folding and calling are fine too, what's the table situation?

[bjsaust]

Noone in front of me was particularly loose or tight from memory. No specific reads.

[taipan168]

First hand you're CO, blinds are 150 total which is more that 10% of your stack. Raise looks very good, but folding and calling are fine too, what's the table situation?

When we have 12x BB we can't standard raise, we're too short. This is a oush or fold decision with 44 and with 12x BB from the CO it's a fold against most calling ranges.

Calling is also out of the question because if somebody raises we have to fold and have burned almost 10% of our stack for nothing. Plus since we can only win 12x the chips we need to call, we don't really have good implied odds here to limp and see a flop (assuming we do get to see a flop for 100 chips in the first place).

[bonaparte]

Hands 1 and 3 I would fold. Hand 2 I only have 8BB left and next hand I'm going to have to pay the blinds. I would push here, not because this is that good a hand, but moreso because I would be that desparate.

[DetroitHusling101]

Hands 1 and 3 I would fold. Hand 2 I only have 8BB left and next hand I'm going to have to pay the blinds. I would push here, not because this is that good a hand, but moreso because I would be that desparate.

Hand 2 is not a good push.From the BU folded to and maybe CO. Download SNG Wiz and use the 30 day trial , and play/plug away with it.
If that runs out and you can't afford to buy it , search "SNG End game Tools" on google. Free program , kinda like wiz , but you have to plug the stack sizes and blinds in manuelly.
I fold all 3 hands btw.

[bjsaust]

I did push hand 2, but I'm fairly sure its one of those hands that looks pretty but ICM analysis tells us its not.

Gotta relearn these lessons the hard way I guess .

[karnouk]

44: I would tend to fold this hand if I have no reads. If I know that people talking after me are tight, I might push this.

55: UTG, it is too risky to push or do anything with that many people talking after me.

A2s: I played around with Wiz for this hand and if CO and Button are tight (ex: wont call without a top 10% hand), and if the blinds call with any pair, any As, KJs+ and QJs, it is a push (top 24%). Even with loser ranges for the blinds it is a push. So if you read that CO and Button are unlikely to call except with premiums holdings, you can consider a push. Interesting hand because instictively I would have said "instant fold".