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I mainly agree with the others.
Make it 210-220 pre instead of minraising, looks stronger. Shoving with 12bb is not generally a bad idea, but in this situation it would be bad due to stack sizes and the villain being 52/10.

Cbet is way too big, I'd make it ~200.

River is the clearest fold on earth imho. You're beating exactly nothing. There are no missed draws, and even a 52/10 fish doesn't float you oop with a big cbet and awkward stack sizes. And in addition, fish are generally not familiar with the concept of floating.

i have a question. i am just starting to get into 9 handed sng. My question is probly stupid, but here it goes: When it gets down do HU and my opponent has me covered by about 2 BB in the 200/400 blinds, am i ALWAYS shoving my PP? I know hands like 22-55 most of the time have me at around 53/54% against an A6 hand or K8 hand, but is this what I am trying to get? Or should I fold these hands and wait to get it in a little better ahead?

Dude you could flip up your 22 and shove it 20 blinds deep and still make money. They just don't have a better hand often enough

Snap call any pair <10bb if your opponent isn't a HUGE NIT.

Holdem is not a game of big edges, rarely are you better than a 60-70% favorite unless you super cooler someone. When you are short in a SnG with 5-10bb why would we ever pass on a hand that has 54%?? (Keep in mind with blinds/antess you don't even need 50% equity for a call to be good so 54% is huge)

Thank you

Just wondering what a good ROI is. I play 9s 15$ sng's on stars with a 10% ROI, is that any good?

Prob 6-8% is good depending on number of tables etc. Check the leaderboard (make sure to filter for this year) and that will be the best information on obtainables. GL

No Limit Hold'em Tournament T150/T300
Buy-in: $1.32+$0.18 USD Hold'em No Limit
PokerStars
5 players
Formatted by pokercopilot.com - Mac OS X hand history analysis and tracking

Stacks:
UTG - UTG (T2.094)
CO - CO (T2.064)
BTN - Hero (T2.145)
SB - SB (T3.797)
BB - BB (T3.400)

Preflop: (T575, 5 players) Hero is BTN with A J
UTG raises to T2.069 (all-in), 1 fold,
Hero???

In this situation I didn't had yet to much information about the villain, my question is: Here the chip situation is pretty even and we're not at the bubble, so even knowing that I'm probably ahead his shove range, should I call with a marginal edge??
thank you guys!!

Thanks for the advice, but how do I check the ROI leaderboards?

6-8% not going to happen in 15$s unless you are very good

Depends on utg obviously. If ihad seen him shoving anything else than TT+, AJ+ i would snap here. If he is the typical nit/fish you encounter at these stakes, it gets close, but i guess a call is still in order.

Just to say in every higher game, this is a absolutely no-brainer snap almost always.

In PT4, is the EV line on the graph correct when we enter;

Graph For: Tournaments
Winnings in: Prizes
Checkmark Overlay Net Adjusted

PokerStars - $1.32+$0.18|15/30 NL - Holdem - 8 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

Villain 31/3/9 over 34 hands.

When he calls my flop bet, I put him on. King high type hands, Ax, a seven like me, small pocket pairs, any two clubs. When he raises me OT, Im not sure anymore what type of range to assign. I feel I should take flushdraws out, I feel he doesnt do this with a seven or a pocketpair.

Wich leaves me with A-x and pure bluffs. Does this seem accurate? Pot/stacksize is roughly 1 to 1. So shove or fold right?

Any recommendations? Correction of thoughtprocess?


CO: 1,430.00
BTN: 1,675.00
SB: 1,410.00
Hero (BB): 1,470.00
UTG: 3,115.00
UTG+1: 1,450.00
MP: 1,450.00
MP+1: 1,500.00

SB posts SB 15.00, Hero posts BB 30.00

Pre Flop: (45.00) Hero has 7 6

UTG calls 30.00, fold, fold, fold, CO calls 30.00, fold, fold, Hero checks

Flop: (105.00, 3 players) 7 A A
Hero bets 90.00, fold, CO calls 90.00

Turn: (285.00, 2 players) 2
Hero bets 210.00, CO raises to 420.00, Hero?

Cry fold when he raises the turn. These guys play very unbalanced generally. When they raise, give them lots of respect and gtfo. I probably wouldn't fold an ace, but only because of blockers. If we had KK some how, I would fold. When they call, there is no telling what they have, so valuebet thin until they tell that you are beat. Any 7x+ is good enough to bet the turn imo. I'd probably c/f any hands worse than K7 on most rivers if he flat calls the turn.

Some passive guys are aggressive postflop, but its an exception to the rule. If after ~20 hands they have 30% agres frequency you can be sure they almost always have it when they raise. If they have more than 50% aggres freq, then treat them like an aggro donk postflop, flop top pairs and rarely fold. I'd probably fold turn versus aggrodonk too, but just cause our hand is too weak.

Sharkscope.com is prolly the best place for sng leaderboards.

At 9 mans 8% is very high imo. Like the best of the best. If you can maintain 5% you're doing really well. You didnt mention the sample size your ROI is based on but it sounds like a nice upswing. I hope it continues for you but I wouldnt start expecting to make $1.50 profit per game. It'll only end in disappointment n potentially tilting.

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No Limit Hold'em Tournament T200/T400
Buy-in: $1.32+$0.18 USD Hold'em No Limit
PokerStars
4 players
Formatted by pokercopilot.com - Mac OS X hand history analysis and tracking

Stacks:
UTG - UTG (T3.385)
BTN - BTN (T5.340)
SB - SB (T2.500)
BB - Hero (T2.275)

Preflop: (T700, 4 players) Hero is BB with 7 A
2 folds, SB raises to T2.475 (all-in), Hero???

So the villain was a 10/9 over 145 hands, but he was being really aggressive at the bubble, He shoved every SBxBB before..
So ,which range would be good to call here with some edge???

^looks like an easy call to me, 5.5 bb vs aggro SB shove...
Nash says to call here with 46.2%, 33+ Ax+ K2s+ K3o+ Q3s+ Q6o+ J7s+ J8o+ T8s+ T9o 98s

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anyway, where do you guys play your SNGs?

-Stars has the lowest rake for 7$ buyin+, I think, at 8%, but the field is generally tougher than average
-Ongame has a very cool weekly leaderboard promotion
-some smaller sites offer sick rakeback and rake race deals

This may be a stupid question, but I was wondering, if someone was trying to reach supernova and their goal was to make the most profit from rakeback and not the games, 6 max hypers would be the obvious choice right? Would turbo fifty50s be a viable game?

The 50/50s get ~10% more VPP, seem to run slightly longer then the hypers, but imo are easier to mass table.

5050's/hypers would both be pretty good choices.

Haven`t played Sng`s for a while, but decided to have a go at 6max hyper turbos at stars, and in regads to that I have a few questions:

1: How many BI would be necessary to have decent BRM?

2: What kind of swings can I expect? (lets assume I`m a break even player to start with)

3: How many games would it take to get a rough idea about a reasonable ROI?

200 BI+

Much bigger than other games. 50 is pretty standard for non-turbos, but people drop/heater 100 BI pretty regularly in ST/hypers.

5k-10k games

Thanks. Look like I`ll have to brace myself for a long bumpy ride

Yeah, but I could get like 45 STs/hour (12 table maybe) and only play about 20turbos/hour (prob 15 table), so 5k games isn't anywhere near as bad as 3k games in turbos.

which site besides pokerstars is best for stt grinding?

How many buy-ins do I need for playing $3.50 turbo 9h STT? My ROI is about 15%