Suited connectors early in tourney when you've lost some chips

[juris]

I think I have a leak in my game playing suited connectors early in a tournament after I've lost some chips.

Let's say we start with 1500 and I lost 1/3 of my stack in the first 30 minutes. Does that affect your play of suited connectors, let's say 5-6, 7-8, 8-9, or 9-10 from early, middle or late position?

I want if I'm first in to still raise 3x the blind but don't want to spew chips i have to give up to a reraise. I
therefore only play these hands with a raise in late position.

With the small blinds, should I consider limping or even raising in early position?

[nath]

I have the same leak.
It really depends on how your table plays. Especially after you've lost some chips...
If you can limp in AND get a multiway pot AND get doubled up when you make your hand, then yeah, it's worth it.
Mostly though I think the right answer is to just muck these hands OOP.
Late position I usually raise but I'm trying to get control of the action.
If it's a bunch of limpers to me I may not raise.
It depends still on how much your stack is relative to the blinds, how willing you are to push if you hit a draw on the flop, and how often you'll get paid off when you make a big hand.

[Gildwulf]

It depends what the blinds are. If the blinds are 10/20 and you have 1000 chips I don't think limping suited connectors is a leak at all. 50/100, yea that's a leak.

[juris]

Fair enough, but how about 40-80 blinds?

[Gildwulf]

I don't know the math, but if I am semi short-stacked I still limp suited connectors in pots up to 15/30. I mostly play on Party though where it goes to 25/50.

I think 40/80 is pretty close.

[nath]

with 1000 chips i wouldn't limp past 20/40.

[runout_mick]

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I think I have a leak in my game playing suited connectors early in a tournament after I've lost some chips.

Let's say we start with 1500 and I lost 1/3 of my stack in the first 30 minutes. Does that affect your play of suited connectors, let's say 5-6, 7-8, 8-9, or 9-10 from early, middle or late position?

I want if I'm first in to still raise 3x the blind but don't want to spew chips i have to give up to a reraise. I
therefore only play these hands with a raise in late position.

With the small blinds, should I consider limping or even raising in early position?

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Are you limping these hands or raising them?

It sounds like you're raising them, and that runs counter to the general theory behind mid suited connectors.