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  1. 07-23-2005 #1
    joe32543
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    Default What to do...?

    I've been playing these $1 SNG's on Stars. When I get a good hand, I raise my standard 3BB. But, I've not been getting any callers. Most of these cards are one's you don't want against the whole table (JJ, TT, AQs, etc.), so do you fiddle around with the preflop raise? Do you stick to your raise and just take the blinds?
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    Tournament strategies

    That will help you, a little, with the betting amounts.

    Just play your game.. taking the blinds is a good thing, but I find hard to believe that you are consistently taking the blinds in these games. Try adding a few more hands to your raising group and limping less, this should get you more action....
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  3. 07-23-2005 #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by Marm
    Tournament strategies

    That will help you, a little, with the betting amounts.

    Just play your game.. taking the blinds is a good thing, but I find hard to believe that you are consistently taking the blinds in these games. Try adding a few more hands to your raising group and limping less, this should get you more action....
    That's what I thought, but I raised probably 10 hands are never got called. Maybe I was just at an exceptionally tight table.
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    Continue to raise with premium hands. You don't want a lot of callers with most of them. Sometimes it's ok to try and play them sneaky but if you do and you think you are beat dump them.
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    I think it might be too much, so just min raise it. Im sure you'll get a call. Then you can 3 times the BB on the flop but those hands you get I would'nt mind getting called
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    lol funny u say that cause i play $5-$20 SnGs and find that even at 4-5BB raises i still usually get up to 3 callers sometimes. Ive been in tourneys where it seems unless u have a made hand already raising to limit the field is basically useless.
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    Quote Originally Posted by joe32543
    I've been playing these $1 SNG's on Stars. When I get a good hand, I raise my standard 3BB. But, I've not been getting any callers. Most of these cards are one's you don't want against the whole table (JJ, TT, AQs, etc.), so do you fiddle around with the preflop raise? Do you stick to your raise and just take the blinds?
    I've been playing the same SnG's on Royal and have found that lately (the last several days or so) they are the exact same. A 3-5bb raise will usually get everybody to fold. When I started playing these they were fairly loose, but they've tightened up conciderably.

    I still play the same, I've even loosened up a little bit, but I am happy when I get the blinds, especially when the blinds get higher...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chip Leader
    I think it might be too much, so just min raise it. Im sure you'll get a call. Then you can 3 times the BB on the flop but those hands you get I would'nt mind getting called
    You are now "Bigger than Average Stack". Demotion.

    'Never' min raise, you're just offering odds.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chip Leader
    I think it might be too much, so just min raise it. Im sure you'll get a call. Then you can 3 times the BB on the flop but those hands you get I would'nt mind getting called

    Doesnt matter if you have rockets if you have 5 people in the hand with you, min raising doesn't do anything except sweeten the pot, I would stick to raising 3-4x the blinds, if you wait until the flop then someone may have hit 2 pair, higher pair or flush or straight draw then you might not be able to get them out of the pot
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    there have been a few articles on cardplayer.com about adjusting your standard preflop raise ammount according to table conditions.

    http://www.cardplayer.com/poker_maga...426&m_id=65551

    http://cardplayer.com/poker_magazine...id=402&m_id=15
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