5 left in a 9 man SnG, start with 2000

I am slightly below average chips with 2600 and to the right of the dealer with AA.

The player to my right calls the 300 i raise 800 to 1100.

Dealer, SB, and BB fold player to my right calls.

Flop comes up Td, 5c, 6d.

My opponent checks i bet my remaining 1500 (thinking i am ahead), opponent calls with QTos (no diamonds),

turn is blank, river is a third 10 to give me AATT and my opponent a set of 10's.

should i have bet more pre flop or raised all in?

usually i would raise 3/4x the BB but i wanted to get one caller to try to double up as i had less than 10BBs. another reason for the small raise was that the table seemed to have gone very tight and players were folding to most pre flop raises.

you could have raised all-in, but you had great value on the bet you made. I think the way you played it was probably the best.

Does value mean that on average i would expect to get the most chips by playing the hand this way (I am quite a new player)?

A problem i have often had with this kind of play is that i do not have enough chips left to get an opponent off a draw (they may be calling with incorrect odds) and get drawn out on, although i am ahead when i bet. when this move works i usually get more chips on average than when i go all in as all opponents may fold. i have recently been wondering about which is the correct way to play this situation (all in seems safer but less profitable?).

Yeah it is, also, less profit can have it's own risks.

i think you did it right, you got all your chips in and got a call with the best hand but got outdrawn.. what more can ya do?

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Yeah I think you played it well.

Cheers,

Mike

The blinds were 150/300 and you raised to 1100 after someone limped? That realyl does seem about right... Maybe a little more like 1500.

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I read it wrong, I thought the guy the come in with a raise. Yeah 1200, is probably the min I would bet, but what is 100? You really would like a call, and getting called by QT is about a good as you can hope.

The only problem with your bet of 1100, is it really doenst leave you enough to push him off a draw on the flop. So, you could min bet which would risk more people callilng (not always bad) or pushing all-in pre-flop and just picking up what is already in the middle (again not always bad thing).

I went out of a sit-n-go today the same way, we were at 600 blinds, so it was crunch time, I missed a chance to steal a pot and was down about 5000 to 7000 or so.

My opponent had been weak, especially post flop, I had 22 and raised to 2400. She called. Flop was K77 suited. I pushed and she said OK! And called me with Q3s. But actually, with two cards to come, the flop call was not bad (especially considering what I actually had.

So thinking back, maybe it would have been best to just min raise then I could decide what to do on the flop.

its fine i probably woulda raised less pf cuz i want a call. you got your money in with the best of it and got sucked out. dont let a suck out make you think you played it wrong.

also there is another section for bad beats cuz thats all this is

Actaully, he was asking a question, not complaining.

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