I'm the runner-up for the shortest stack (we are all short stacked actually), gonna be hit by the blinds next hand.
MP1 and MP2 are regs (13/12, 9/5), no real reads on the others, generally LP (just around 50 hands history). I felt compelled to shove, but SNG Wiz tells me "Fold". Is this a bad mistake? how bad?
i actually dont have a really confident answer,in one hand were soooo short stacked but then again so is the WHOLE table bar bb. were all basically on the same stack sizes as everyone else
i dont know how to explain but i think because of the stack sisez being the same around the table id fold. if u had 4 bb and say the average on the table was 12-15 than its a deffinate shove.
deffinately a decision id struggle with and id say 50% of the time id shove and the other 50% id fold,4bb is soo sick in this positon
edit: didnt know we were on the money bubble,deffo shoving now as said below table will be tighter
Last edited by mynameis69; 02-22-2012 at 06:26 PM.
I'd shove. You have 4bb utg on the money bubble. Its a big spot to pick up chips and last through the bubble. Players should be calling tighter.
Understanding the dynamics of micro stakes SNGs and calling ranges of players in these fields is important as well. Since you don't know much about your opponents except that 2 are "regs", then I would just go with the standard play and shove. I wouldn't be too concerned with getting called light with this hand.
Try changing the ranges of your opponents in SNG Wizard and correct the ranges for the two thinking players, adjust the others to a tighter calling range. Change the ranges until you see where it begins to suggest a shove.
shove all day long, and twice on Tuesdays! U are too short to do anything else here and u need to get it in with this hand which is a top 14% hand from my read on PokerStove
yeah yeah
I shoved!!
looks like I just happened to bump into villain's top range.
thing was that I went to SnG wiz as usual to analyse my daily play and was surprised when it called for a fold.
fiddled around a bit with foes ranges and the wiz held its line: FOLD.
then I took another look after plo ufo suggestion to fiddle around more, and nittifying enough the table I've got my push granted.
thing is that seems a bit difficult (to me) to put foes in plausible ranges at these buy-ins, and above all I feel I fail to judge how (much) their ranges widen up at high blinds (low M).
thnx to all, and I apologize to bring up matters concerning laughable buy-ins. Even to my inexperienced and naive approach they look like donkaments, but one has gotta start somewhere...
Abusing of the readers patience:
ATM looks like I'm crashing those MTTSNGs (75% ROI after 500, which I know is a fart in a storm but can't avoid to be moderately happy looking at my graph) and the BR would already allow me to step up to $1 (I want 250 buy-ins to hold down to 200 before downgrading).
what's the field difference in the 45 and 90 turbo?
being a recreational player who nonetheless wants to avoid to be a happy donk, if I can help it (although it took me years to admit I had been one for ages), I also wonder whether I should try to add some more tables (ATM I start to be quite comfortable with 4 -laughing is allowed..-) maybe slow speed, before stepping up, or stick to the turbo to further improve my late play (the weakest side: it took me ages to understand I had to steal relentlessly from the CO, let alone re-stealing from the blinds).
Is it really so mandatory to boost up volume if I have no rush to grind like a steamroller?