First Live Sit and Go

[theROCKET]

Hi all, first post here [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

I have played some online poker, but decided to venture to my local casino for a couple of £10 sit in go's. First time playing live.. was an experience! Here is how it went, with the most significant hands:

10 man sit and go, £10 buy-in, 2500 starting chips, first blinds 100/200 :O

>> Sat down shocked to learn we only got 2500 chips, and the big blind was 200. This really was going to be a turbo game!

>> Very first hand of the game I receive AQo in middle position, decide to raise 3xbb as normal. Un-sure whether this is the correct move with the size of the blinds. Folds to sb who thinks for about a minute and makes the call. Flop appears A33, which I check. Small blind raises into me for about 1/2 my remaining stack. I instantly raise all in without thinking, I don't know if this was nerves! Sb takes an eternity to call and flips over AJ. I double up first hand and the table all laugh..

>> Having 2:1 chips on everyone else I try to bully for a while when in position/with marginal hands. Get lots of people coming over the top, with little flops being seen. Decide to tighten up. Successfully steal some blinds/win a few small pots, that puts me back in chip lead. Short stacks are pushing already.

>> Folded round to me on the button, with 2 low-middle stacks left in the blinds. I receive A6d, which I standard raise 3 times the big blind. The big blind quickly pushes in(who I have noted has been going over the top quite often) I make a marginal call and he turns over K10 off. No improvement for either, and I take it down with A high. Feeling good about myself after this. We are now on the bubble with 4 players left and I am chip leader.

>> I sit about too much instead of making people move. However, the 2nd biggest stack is continually going all in almost every other hand. He pushes on the button, with me in the big blind. I see a9s and call. He turns over 73o and unfortunately for me hits his 3 on the turn. Big hit to my stack. Bubble bursts with player above taking him out.

>> Delighted to be in the money. Chip leader, who seems drunk, has about 4:1 chips on both me and the other stack. The other short stack calls in the sb, which I check in the bb with 46. The flop comes 633 which I check. The other stack pushes which I am delighted to call. He flips over A3 to my surprise. In what is probably the worst beat I have dealt out, I hit a 5 on the turn and 7 on the river giving me a straight and knocking him out by a chip!

>> Thinking the poker gods are on my side and the drunkness/doinkness of chip leader I fancy my chances. I recieve poor hands, even for heads up standards but try to raise and see flops for cheap. I do not get away with this as chip leader pushes all in EVERY single hand in a row. 4 hands in a row of this and I am very fed up, I end up pushing myself with 89s. I get an instant call with chip leader turning over AA! No improvement and I am out in 2nd, picking up £30.

Had an awesome time, with some crazy hands! Any tips/comments would be much appreciated.

[JSmith2007]

If it's 5 handed, your A6s push is fine. I'm not too sure I'd be doing that 10 handed. Anyway, you played it completely fine. The last hand is just unlucky, nothing you can do there and 89s HU push where it seems you were underdogged pretty heavily is perfectly fine.

GJ.

[TheChad]

12.5bb starting stack??? wow, I've never seen that. I would be belligerently drunk for that nonsense. It would be only for fun. At least it was only 10 (pounds?) bucks. you played well though. a sng like this will hump variance like it was the last chance to get laid. It's just an allin fest. congrats on cashing in your first! that's gotta feel good!

[KenProspero]

Well done!! The only criticism I can make is that you should't push when Villian has AA, it usually doesn't work. (Grin)

[pzhon]

Interesting report. Welcome to the forums.

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10 man sit and go, £10 buy-in, 2500 starting chips, first blinds 100/200 :O

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How much was the rake?

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Very first hand of the game I receive AQo in middle position, decide to raise 3xbb as normal. Un-sure whether this is the correct move with the size of the blinds. Folds to sb who thinks for about a minute and makes the call. Flop appears A33, which I check. Small blind raises into me for about 1/2 my remaining stack. I instantly raise all in without thinking, I don't know if this was nerves! Sb takes an eternity to call and flips over AJ. I double up first hand and the table all laugh..

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The small blind should have to act first on the flop, so you can't check before the SB acts. The first chips in the pot on a round are a bet (preflop, the blinds are forced blind bets), not a raise. So, my guess is that the pot was 1300 and you had 1900 left, and the SB bet about 900 and you raised the remaining 1000.

Anyway, with blinds that large, you can even push preflop, but a raise to 2.5-3 times the big blind is fine.

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the 2nd biggest stack is continually going all in almost every other hand. He pushes on the button, with me in the big blind. I see a9s and call. He turns over 73o


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It's interesting that you say he was pushing about half of the time, but 73o is definitely in the bottom half of hands, maybe the bottom 10%. It could be that he was not pushing based on his cards, but on his position, or who had the big blind. He might have believed you were not going to call without a big hand.

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The other short stack calls in the sb, which I check in the bb with 46. The flop comes 633 which I check. The other stack pushes which I am delighted to call.


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Again, the small blind is supposed to act first, so you should not be able to check first on the flop.

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He flips over A3 to my surprise. In what is probably the worst beat I have dealt out, I hit a 5 on the turn and 7 on the river giving me a straight and knocking him out by a chip!


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That method of winning was unlikely, but you didn't need to catch a runner-runner straight. You had two outs, as a 6 would give you a higher full house. That alone is worth about 8%, and you win another 3.5% from the running straights and running 4s.

I've needed and received running combinations before, but what standard out as the worst bad beat I've delivered is when I put about 400 big blinds in on the flop with an open-ended straight-flush draw--against a full house, and rivered the straight flush for about 9 buy-ins.

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chip leader pushes all in EVERY single hand in a row. 4 hands in a row of this and I am very fed up,


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Believe it or not, pushing every hand is pretty close to optimal heads-up when the smaller stack is not huge in relation to the blinds. Optimal is to be slightly more selective, and you have to call with a lot of ugly hands, too. See the SAGE system. It doesn't matter if you are the smaller stack or the larger. Premium hands that are a significant favorite over a random hand are rare. You should be pushing a lot, too.