Hi all,

Just got eliminated in a SnG and nearly hooked my screen, wondering if anybody had any ideas on what they'd have done.

Situation: 6-man DON SnG, 1 player eliminated. So far I'd lost 500 chips through missing the flop, failing every bluff and getting bet against when I had zilch.

Blinds 25/50
CUT - 2700, limps 50
SB - 1680, calls.
BB (me) - 1055, calls with 33.

I don't want to raise here as I'd rather see the flop cheap against players who have me covered with the better implied odds and they're a bit spewy.

Flop comes 3d,ks,7s

SB bets out and I call, I think he has got K-x or an outside chance of A7 potentially. Cutoff folds and it's HU.

Turn is 7c. SB Pots it here. I'm thinking he has to have A7 or a s-connector 7 like 78,79s or around that. As I said, he pots it; that's a 450 chip bet and about half my stack. I shove, right?

He calls, the cards are shown and I'm livid to see that he had Kd7d. He takes the hand. Now I'm usually fine if I lose and I just continue but this infuriated me. FH vs FH and this loose tool happens to hit the board even harder than me.

Would anyone have played this differently? As mentioned, I'm the short stack here and I've just been card-dead or missed every flop and nobody folds.

Cheers.

Sh-t happens, suck it up and move on.

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Terrible post OP. Bad beat posts are a waste of time

Jesus, I was asking for advice on the spot. Not exactly a waste of time if it helps me improve, is it?

There's no way I'm getting away from that hand unless I have some crazy read that the villain would only play that way with the stone cold nuts (extremely unlikely). I'd be happy to get it in with the set and more than happy to get it in with the FH.

There's no advice that can be given. You flopped a set, turned a boat and lost to a better boat. Your chips are going in.

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Should have folded river.

Just a bad beat. SB isn't too loose here. 4:1 pot odds for him to complete and he has a decent suited K. He could flop a couple of diamonds or a K and be in decent shape against a Button who limped and a BB who could have ATC.

I'd probably play it the exact same way. But instead of getting mad, I'd just laugh it off. First, it's $1.50, so who cares. Second, we don't deserve to win in poker. We were very unlucky to make a boat on the turn that made him a better boat. I'd suggest the audiobook "The Mental Game of Poker." I got knocked out of a tourney over the weekend because I made my straight on the same card the other guy made his flush. It happens. And it will happen a fair amount of time if you play a lot of poker.

Cheers, I thought it was a fairly standard play although after reviewing the context of the hand I'm considering whether a raise may have got me out of that situation in the first place. The guy seemed fairly passive and K7s could've been well within his folding range.

No matter though, I'm over it and have moved on. Not irritated that I lost the tournament or even the buy-in, just annoyed at the hand itself. Thanks regardless guys, this is all helping me out.

He would never fold top two pair. And 3 betting pre with 33 from the BB seems like a bad play too. It's only a thought because we know we lost to K7. But without that knowledge, our 3 bet would have to be substantially larger to induce them to fold. And if we get a caller and don't connect on the 3, we just spewed off a lot of chips.

There are only two outcomes in this hand. We make an incredible fold to V's pot sized bet with our full house (highly unlikely). Or we shove and lose to a better boat.

That's not wrong, a push was something I had considered while analysing it but given the tendencies and the pot & implied odds I was getting (I believe the first limper was chip leader or thereabouts) I was up for a cheap flop.

In hindsight I think you and the other guys on here are right; it was just a case of the money going in regardless and not much I could do about it, especially post-flop.

True enough, once the money had gone in on the turn I had considered asking for it back.

Only play the nuts and you can't lose.

just fold flop