Re: Help playing QQ in SNGs
- From: A Man Beaten by Jacks <nobody@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:17:45 -0400
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:05:34 +0000 (UTC), pattib@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Patti Beadles)
wrote:
There are two basic philosophies:
(1) Just put your chips in and take your chances
(2) See a flop and get your chips in if there's no A or K
The first one acknowledges that SNGs are a dime a dozen and
if you bust out quickly you can just get into the next one.
The second probably has a slightly higher EV, but not by
all that much.
Unless I'm dead certain I'm beat, I'll gamble with QQ even
early in the tournament. It's not like busting out is that
big a deal.
[I'm talking about raising and being faced with a reraise here,
not the other situation, facing a raiser, reraising, and getting
jammed into, though I can't see folding too often in the latter
situation.]
I like both of these lines. I'll take the first if I think the calling
range goes down to TT-AA, AK, but not if I think they're reraising
with a range like TT-AA.
The one hand in the range that perturbs me a bit is AK. I do
slightly better preflop by getting it all in if they have that. However,
if I play after the flop and sometimes fold if an A flops (and less often
for a K), then I do better postflop. So while in theory I'm letting
them outflop me, my edge isn't enormous in the first place.
I think those are the two basic lines to take, though. Which one I
take depends a lot on how much value my time has compared to
how much value the specific SNG has to me. If I'm playing sets
I'd be much more likely to push.
.
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