PS $5.50 SnG for review

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This is my first time posting a full tourny. Feel free to berate me as necessary. Thanks in advance.

Bump. Anyone? I'd be most grateful.

Hand 1: Probably wouldn't bother calling a raise with a hand like KJ even bvb this early on. There are not many flops where you're going to be confident you're ahead so it's just a bit of a waste of chips.

Hand 2: Wouldn't usually open limp suited connectors early on; not terrible if the tables passive and there are likely to be several limpers behind (and no raise) but not really worth it I don't think.

Hand 3 and 7: I would have made the preflop raises slightly smaller (probably 80 and 200). You're obviously not particularly afraid of action, especially with the KK, so in this case I think a raise to 200 would get called a lot more often, while still discouraging multiway action. More likely to get you heads up with the limper, which is what you want.

Hand 8: I don't think A10 is playable utg six handed at this stage. Just fold it.

Hand 9: You played this hand very passively, which is not generally a good way to play AK. Because an ace fell you were able to milk a few more chips out of him, but it would have become very hard to play oop had you missed the flop (which will usually happen). You should raise here, and stack sizes dicate that should mean moving all in.

Hand 10: As with earlier, I would suggest raising to 200 is sufficient. Otherwise I don't have a problem with the way you played it.

When it gets down to four handed you're a bit too tight. I know you didn't catch a lot of cards, but as a rule of thumb if you have less than 10bb you should really be shoving when folded to in the sb with just about any two. You should also be shoving a pretty wide range when folded to on the button.

Hand 17: I really like this shove as you're in dire need of chips, but also because the person in the big blind is the one stack you can really do some damage to, and the one that is least likely to call you.

Hand 18: I don't really like the shove here unless utg has a history of limping and then folding to a raise he's going to be getting great odds on this call and often people limp a monster in this position, hoping for a raise or shove behind. In this case he only had KQ, but it was still more than enough to call your shove.

Hand 21: I don't think you can standard raise here from the sb, it's got to be all-in or fold; and again you need to know this guy has a history of limping weak hands to make the push a good play.

Hand 25: urgh. I hate this situation. Although it seems like you're getting a great price, this hand is going to be pretty hard to play post-flop unless you hit 2 pair or better, which is really unlikely. You're hand's not really good enough to push over the top so I think I'd have to fold here. Would quite like a third opinion here though.

Any hands I haven't commented on I think you played fine, I think up to hand 8 it's just minor differences rather than real errors. Most important things is probably to shove a little looser when shortstacked and folded to on the button or sb.

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