STTF SNG->cash thread

[ChrisV]

Scuba,

AA hand: You might threebet the flop, but your line is reasonable too if you fold the river. A fast betting speed every street probably isn't consistent with a bad hand because she would probably need to consider checking the turn with a drawing hand or weak made hand and there's no possibility she minraised the flop with air. Also, the pot bets turn and river are suggestive of a good hand. There's no reason to bet the whole pot with a bluff really. If you called, you got shown KQ KT or 77. Also, I don't see how overall aggro can be 1.6 if all the individual streets are much higher?

73hh hand: Looks fine. He probably flopped the nuts.

78hh hand: Agreed with Josem about folding twice preflop. Flop call is mandatory. I play turn the same I guess, but I don't know why you're getting yourself into these situations at 25NL. Suited connectors are horrible hands OOP (I know you played this hand in position, but from the seat you opened from you were begging to play it OOP).

blackize,

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So? We're raising the hand so it isn't guaranteed we'll be playing out of position. And the loosest player at the table is right behind us but folds too much postflop. Seems pretty profitable to me.

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You realise you make flushes and straights like basically never, right? Most of the time your hand plays as eight high. You want to do a bit better than it "not being guaranteed" that you'll play the hand OOP. CO folding too much (over a tiny sample, no doubt) isn't a reason to raise bad hands in early position. I know suited connectors look pretty, but they're BAD HANDS in the sense that they don't win very often at showdown. It's good to call raises with them or raise yourself when in position, but the important part of that is "in position", not "i has a suited connector". 86o on the button is a better hand than 87s in this seat is.

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btw, I do raise stuff like JTs from early position quite a bit. There are several reasons why that's a much better hand than 87s:

- You flop top pair a LOT more often
- If you make a flush you're less likely to be overflushed.
- If you make a (two card) straight, it will not only always be the nut straight, but it will happen on boards like KQ9 where people are likely to have good hands themselves.
- If you miss the flop, the flop will either at least give you overcards or a gutshot, or be something like Axx which people are inclined to fold on a lot.