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Mr. Pi
03-19-2011, 03:30 PM
I was wondering about this concept after I had a questionable hand today in an SNG.

t100/t200 Blinds - 4 players

CO: t4293 21.46 BBs
Hero (BTN): t6032 30.16 BBs
SB: t1885 9.43 BBs
BB: t1290 6.45 BBs

Pre Flop: (t300) Hero is BTN with :as: :tc:
CO raises to t1000, Hero ?

All 3 of the villains were so to say sh*tnits. I kept ~2x ing almost every hand from the button getting folds all over the place. Everyone of them are folding BvB by default unopened, seeing a raise is quite rare, and kinda means something.

The 2nd bigstack is a nit too. Now that means 1 good and 1 bad thing for us i guess:
Negative - He is raising with hands which dominates our ATo badly.
Positive - He is likely to fold a marginal hand vs our shove. (low pairs AJ AQ?)

Also this is the first time when he raises in the bubble. Imo with his raise to 1000 he wants to tell: "Hey I'm getting it in vs the shorties, but you bigstack - get the f*ck out."

Should I 3betshove this? What range should I 3bet shove here?

Pi :)

dodi89
03-19-2011, 11:03 PM
Yeah, I think you can do it. But if he's 5xing with KK,AA please note that.:)

Mr. Pi
03-20-2011, 01:57 PM
Yeah indeed thats the way to go. Notes like that are buyin savers when you meet the same opponent twice in an SNG.

The only confusing thing about the particular hand was that he was doing this type of a raise for the first time. If he would have done this 2-3 times already it would have been a monster jam.