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Old 07-14-2006, 06:17 PM
natedub natedub is offline
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Default The Biggest Mistakes to Make in a SNG?

This is just a fun little Post trying to get everyone to dig deep down into their souls to remember and outline their worst SNG moments, the biggest mistakes they've ever made, or have seen other players make, how you learned from the [bad] experience(s) and your advice to people who are prone to making those same mistakes or mistakes similar to it. It doesn't matter how silly or stupid...Have fun replying to this one...just remember that we are talking about MISTAKES...NOT BAD BEATS..nobody wants to listen to those (save it for beats,brags, and variance)... I feel that if we all take a moment to dwell on our mistakes and the mistakes of others...then we can all walk away and learn something about ourselves...about each of our personal game concepts...you never know:someone's game (including mine)could be filled with all kinds of leaks and they may not even notice...but if we all lay it out on the table and are open about are weaknesses....we could all walk away stronger players.
*Don't be embarassed to tell us about a stupid play you made....we've all been there before...but let's be smart and positive and try to learn from each other...
...also,..if you know you are making a mistake, and are unsure of how to fix the leak...post it hear and we'll all try to find a way for you to use this as a learning experience.
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Old 07-14-2006, 06:20 PM
Jay Riall Jay Riall is offline
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Default Re: The Biggest Mistakes to Make in a SNG?

Folding every time I got my SB folded to me when I hand a trash hand. I can remember folding hands like K8s, A2s etc etc with like 5bb in the SB.
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Old 07-14-2006, 06:25 PM
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Default Re: The Biggest Mistakes to Make in a SNG?

This is an example of how not to play the bubble: callingdown with a flush draw, missing, then trying a pointless bluff on a big stack who will call you 90% of the time with a very wide range of hands...

PokerStars Tournament, Big Blind is t200 (4 handed) Converter on pregopoker.com

CO (t2865)
Button (t3110)
SB (t6020)
Hero (t1505)

Preflop: Hero is in BB with 2[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 3[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]
<font color="gray">CO folds</font>, <font color="gray">Button folds</font>, SB calls t100, Hero checks

Flop: (t400) 4[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 7[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (2 players)
SB checks, Hero checks

Turn: (t400) 8[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (2 players)
<font color="red">SB bets t325</font>, Hero calls t325

River: (t1050) K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] (2 players)
SB checks, <font color="red">Hero bets t980 (All-in)</font>, SB calls t980

Results in gray below:
<font color="#f7f7f7">Hero has 2h, 3h (high card King)</font>
<font color="#f7f7f7">SB has 9s, Qh (a pair of Queens)</font>

oops! I almost didnt wanna post that
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Old 07-14-2006, 06:26 PM
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Default Re: The Biggest Mistakes to Make in a SNG?

Sitting to the right of curtains. That foolio spite called me every time.

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Old 07-14-2006, 06:30 PM
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Default Re: The Biggest Mistakes to Make in a SNG?

The worst mistake I remember making was calling with a 55 in a bubble situation, with others still in the hand who could have called behind me. It turned out OK, as I won the hand (and won the tournament [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] ), but I had doubts about my play, and when I checked it with SNGPT it turned out to be a whopper.
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Old 07-14-2006, 06:32 PM
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Default Re: The Biggest Mistakes to Make in a SNG?

The biggest mistake is of course calling Bluefeet on the bubble.

Yugoslav
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Old 07-14-2006, 06:37 PM
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Default Re: The Biggest Mistakes to Make in a SNG?

I remember I had a monster stack on the bubble, like 7K or something, the shortest had 170 at 200/400 blinds after losing an all-in with me. A stack of 2K min-raises with me in the BB, 170 guy folds, I push K10 and he calls with 88. That was the worst mistake I've seen someone make, though he won the hand.
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Old 07-14-2006, 06:48 PM
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Default Re: The Biggest Mistakes to Make in a SNG?

Calling all-in on the bubble.
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Old 07-14-2006, 06:56 PM
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Default Re: The Biggest Mistakes to Make in a SNG?

Every single play I made today.
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Old 07-14-2006, 07:04 PM
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Default Re: The Biggest Mistakes to Make in a SNG?

Getting bored and trying to play poker at the low level SNGS.
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