Playing from the blinds late in a 45 player turbo

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I wish I had the hand history for this hand.

Late in a Stars 12 dollar sit and go(45 players).

Blinds are 600-1200 with a 25 dollar ante(just went up). 11 players left(6 at my table). I am slightly above average with about 7000(before posting my blind)

I am the big blind with 5c8h

Pot is 1950

Folded around to the small blind who min raises to 2400. (His stack around 12000)

Pot is 3750 and it's 1200 for me to call.

This is my first tough decision. I have no hand at all, but the pot is huge, and my opponent likely has no hand at all either. Do I fold and move on, leaving all that money in there, call, and try to hit the flop, or push?

In this situation, I elected to just call. Pot is 4950

Flop comes 3d5s9h, and my opponent bets 2000. I have about 4600 left, close to 7000 in the pot.

I'll post the results later.

I apologize for the lack of hand history, if there is anything needed for clarification, let me know.

Best,

GTA Poker

min raise there would be monster more than not IMO...with 6bb I am in push or fold mode for sure. I would rather fold here preflop leaving me more fold equity for open pushing vs similar sized stacks.

m_dolens

easy fold. you have 8 high and even if SB is bluffing, you still have crap. push if you really believe in your read, but personally i'd probably be folding this hand.

Unknown

Yeah, you're both very right. It just made me sick with all that money out there. Especially since this tourney had played a little slower than many turbo's and the blinds had really crept up. No one player really had a dominant crazy stack.

As for reads, it was tough to get one, but more than a few hands were being folded around with the BB getting a walk. The min raise didn't scream strength to me.

In the hand, I ended up calling as posted, and after connecting with the flop moved the rest of my chips in. My opponent had a 9(97o actually) which held up to win.

I'd like to see more posts about peoples strategies in turbo's though. I enjoy playing them, as they don't involve a massive time commitment even when you go deep, which is nice for me these days. They do sort of demand a little bit of gamble though, and I want to learn more about optimizing my play in these.

Thanks for the feedback.

GTA Poker

I play a lot of turbo STTs, but not the MTT sngs. This month I changed my strategy dramatically from my old survival until the money to pushing small edges early...and then I changed back. I'm fairly certain that the traditional tight early model still is best.

I think something like sharkscope would help in your MTsngs at this specific stage. Winning players with average stacks should be the most exploitable similar to any MTT. You want to avoid short/big stacks and push at mid stacks when you can open the pot. Any steal at this point is adding around 20%+ish to your average stack.

westside8

Been playing a crap load of turbo SnGs lately. Usually the $16/18 players, $27/45 players, or $11/180 players.

In this particular spot, its an easy fold. IMO, there are times when you need to throw odds out the window. With 5800 after posting the BB, and even if you fold your SB you still have 5200...which is still a respectable stack which can you get fold equity for future hands.

Wetts1012

dinobot wrote: »

This is my first tough decision. I have no hand at all, but the pot is huge, and my opponent likely has no hand at all either. Do I fold and move on, leaving all that money in there, call, and try to hit the flop, or push?

Even if villains range is light, there arent that many hands that are worse than yours. Fold. I doubt he folds if you push - getting a little less than 2/1.

Calling is the worst option imo, youll need that equity to push your position.