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Old 11-07-2007, 10:55 AM
ThePhoenix78 ThePhoenix78 is offline
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Default Two straight early bustouts...did I take unnecessary risks?

After a bit of a bad stretch, I decided to withdraw funds from my FTP account and just leave $100 and rebuild a BR. So I'm playing $2 SnGs for now. Off to a solid start with 9 cashes in 16 tries. But had two early bustouts this morning on hands that were decent but not locks. In both cases, I had a sense I was ahead, but my question is whether you think getting all my chips in as I did in both cases was unnecessary at the low blind levels I was at or whether you think I'm likely ahead enough of the time to take that chance.

Hand 1

Second hand of the tourney, so no read at all. After the action to this point, I should probably assume I'm behind QQ-AA, but in just a handful of SnGs at the $2 level, I've seen some pretty bad all-ins, so figured I had decents odds against the range of a typical $2 donk and called. But think that was an unnecessary risk to take?

Full Tilt Poker Game #4096299628: $2 + $0.25 Sit & Go (31121460), Table 1 - 15/30 - No Limit Hold'em - 8:04:28 ET - 2007/11/07
Seat 1: 1-Fremder- (1,485)
Seat 2: ThePhoenix78 (1,470)
Seat 3: money4420 (1,500)
Seat 4: 45_cents (1,470)
Seat 5: roebuck (1,500)
Seat 6: brucedesbories (1,605)
Seat 7: ICESWH (1,470)
Seat 8: DJ912 (1,500)
Seat 9: Ima Doofus (1,500)
ThePhoenix78 posts the small blind of 15
money4420 posts the big blind of 30
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to ThePhoenix78 [Jh Jd]
45_cents folds
roebuck folds
brucedesbories folds
ICESWH folds
DJ912 folds
Ima Doofus folds
1-Fremder- has 15 seconds left to act
1-Fremder- raises to 60
ThePhoenix78 raises to 210
money4420 folds
1-Fremder- has 15 seconds left to act
1-Fremder- calls 150
*** FLOP *** [8c 8d 2h]
ThePhoenix78 has 15 seconds left to act
ThePhoenix78 bets 275
1-Fremder- raises to 1,275, and is all in
ThePhoenix78 calls 985, and is all in

Hand 2

In this hand, the raiser was raising to 150 for the third hand in a row. He hadn't been crazy all tourney, but I had him labeled as fairly loose-aggressive. Making the big all-in re-raise with TT is perhaps too risky, but I've been reading Collin Moshman's new SnG book and with solid, but vulnerable hands like AK, JJ, TT, I think he recommends such play during the middle levels. I could be wrong though. What do you think?

Full Tilt Poker Game #4096375315: $2 + $0.25 Sit & Go (31121604), Table 1 - 25/50 - No Limit Hold'em - 8:24:07 ET - 2007/11/07
Seat 1: apeart (1,480)
Seat 2: Krumpf77 (1,695)
Seat 5: SpecialBonus (1,515)
Seat 6: ThePhoenix78 (1,385)
Seat 7: FK LASER (2,505)
Seat 8: NoSkillz1 (2,980)
Seat 9: Kriie (1,940)
Kriie posts the small blind of 25
apeart posts the big blind of 50
The button is in seat #8
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to ThePhoenix78 [Tc Th]
Krumpf77 raises to 150
SpecialBonus folds
ThePhoenix78 raises to 1,385, and is all in
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