Quinner;180527 wroteI'm a bit of a newb so maybe someone could explain to me the thinking here. I don't understand why calling is the worst option here. Say he calls and the flop(A) comes 10 7 3 rainbow, hero makes a pot sized bet and takes it down. If it comes flop (B) K x x then folding post flop is the most likely play. What if hero re-raises, as you guys say it will probably be an all in confrontation, if villain has AK and he calls the all in and say hits his K or A on the river, you're going to lose all your chips. But what if villain has AK and you call, and flop(A) comes, or even Q x x, your probably going to be able to outplay him in these situations and it won't get to the river where he eventually would have hit his A or K had you both gone all in.
I guess I'm a bit conservative, but it seems to me calling is the safest way to play this situation if you are concerned about survival (and assuming that you can outplay your opponents enough that you don't feel like risking a coin flip). It seems like instead of a risk all my chips or double up situation, you could turn it into a risk 160 chips, but say he hit's top pair to your overpair you could end up winning 500+ chips or even stack him if you hit a set and he hits two pair kind of sitch. It just doesn't make sense to me to risk all my chips when I can easily avoid this situation and still possibly get chips, possibly alot of chips if the flop is right. And worst case scenario is hero loses 160 chips. That doesn't sound too bad to me....
Thoughts?
I am looking to build a big stack or open another one. Maybe in a live tourney you may want to play JJ a little slower but online you want to build a chip stack so you can then wield it in these SNGs. The idea is then when you actually do get hit later on in the tourney from some suck out or bad beat, you have enough to keep going.
Trying to survive a SNG is not profitable nowadays. Like Westside said, shove and hope that no one wakes up with AA/KK/QQ....