5400 SM sats

[SwimStrong]

What are the differences between these and just regular turbo sngs? I guess you just play the same but you have to play the bubble a bit differently because you just need to survive and not steal the chips for more equity... I'm not sure though. Anyone have any useful strategy for these?

[Paul B.]

These are so soft, I wish I could play these all day. The key to beating them is to adjust well. Against nits, steal steal steal. Against lags, just sit back and fold your way into the money.

[suzzer99]

You need to just use common sense on the bubble. Luckily your opponents rarely do that. Although this can backfire when you're the middle stack, with a shorty forced all in, and the bigstack reraises to isolate. But it's nice when you're shorty and a bigstack calls a fellow bigstack's shove with AK.

I made a custom structure file for SNGPT that models these. If anyone's interested I'll post it.

Btw I've been wondering about this hand. Blinds had just gone up to 100 w/antes.

PokerStars Game #9884801939: Tournament #50149286, 5400FPP Hold'em No Limit - Level VII (100/200) - 2007/05/13 - 01:11:25 (ET)
Table '50149286 1' 10-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 2: Boricua8 (3967 in chips)
Seat 3: straate (537 in chips)
Seat 5: Amigo (2180 in chips)
Seat 6: delta (2780 in chips)
Seat 7: cjr1010 (1281 in chips)
Seat 8: dormammu1 (2395 in chips)
Seat 9: suzzer99 (1860 in chips)
Boricua8: posts the ante 25
straate: posts the ante 25
Amigo: posts the ante 25
delta: posts the ante 25
cjr1010: posts the ante 25
dormammu1: posts the ante 25
suzzer99: posts the ante 25
cjr1010: posts small blind 100
dormammu1: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to suzzer99 [6s 6c]
suzzer99: raises 1635 to 1835 and is all-in

[fluorescenthippo]

suzzer its a clear fold. didnt u say you made a sngpt mod for the payout so cant u just check it?

[spacegravy]

Damn i would push that all day no wonder i do so poorly in these.

[fluorescenthippo]

well its slightly -ev against sorta tight ranges plus u have so many people to act. its a fold but not like super super easy.

i havent been doing too well in these. ive only played like 20 but i seem to be getting unlucky and hopefully thats all. once its 7-8 its a different game than a sng. people are far too loose. if i have a big stack on the bubble or 6 handed im always afraid to be pushing 100% because the idiots will call with 77 and AK type hands.

[fluorescenthippo]

ok i have 15 ITMs and 20 OOTMs. thats 42.85% compared to ave of 40%. meh.

[SwimStrong]

Hey thanks for the advice, i'd like the sng structure for snpt suzzer. So you think the average person will get 40% ITM in these hippo?

[The Venetian]

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ok i have 15 ITMs and 20 OOTMs. thats 42.85% compared to ave of 40%. meh.

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Still better return than $1500 Supernova bonuses, though it does ratchet up the variance a bit. Anyone else with a better sample size? Is 45-50% ITM reasonable long-term?

[Seeeno]

What exactly are these 5400 SM satalits ?