99 (6.50)

[DetroitHusling101]

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PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t50 (8 handed) Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

CO (t580)
Button (t2620)
Hero (t3200)
BB (t1370)
UTG (t1425)
UTG+1 (t1020)
MP1 (t1645)
MP2 (t1640)

Preflop: Hero is SB with 9, 9.
5 folds, Button calls t50, Hero completes, BB checks.

Flop: (t150) 8, 4, 5 (3 players)
Hero bets t150, BB folds, Button calls t150.

Turn: (t450) 6 (2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets t200, Hero calls t200.

River: (t850) Q (2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets t800, Hero ??????????

[badgers]

Looks like a pretty easy fold. All you beat is a missed FD and that only makes up a small part of his range.

[FlyingSaucy]

As played this is a difficult one on the river. Button's range includes a lot of hands that beat you, but a lot of hands that bluff too.

The SnG player's ultimate answer is to do things differently preflop. I'd not limp there with 99, likely the best hand and you are out of position postflop, so I'd raise pre while you still have the advantage and cbet a flop with no more than one over card.

As played, I don't pot bet the flop this early in a sng. You have an overpair but are in the SB against 2 players whose ranges are huge. A raggy, draw heavy board against limpers is not a good situation to find yourself in when oop. If you limp your pair that means you are pretty much just playing for a set. When you don't hit a set on that kind of board you should play passive oop early sng poker.

[kmind]

Raise pre, bet slightly less in your cbet and bet/fold turn. I just looked at your last 2 HH and you seem to want to give up pretty quickly after flop. Bet/folding should be in your arsenal more (but I'm only judging from 2 hands, you may use this more often)

[badgers]

Oh yeah I also bet/fold the turn.

Fsaucy, if you aren't betting the flop are you calling if either of the other two bet?

[FlyingSaucy]

Oh yeah I also bet/fold the turn.

Fsaucy, if you aren't betting the flop are you calling if either of the other two bet?

Yea, I hesitated in expanding upon that in my original answer because I'm not really sure what I would do if I check the flop and someone bets. I hate to call a minbet and give the person who is semibluffing exactly what he wants. But I also hate to build the pot any more against two players who are likely to keep on drawing. I'm not an experienced cash player, but my sng instincts tell me to call a small bet on the flop but if the player pot bets then I've got to dig deep and decide if I want to push over or not this early in a sng.

[badgers]

Oh yeah I also bet/fold the turn.

Fsaucy, if you aren't betting the flop are you calling if either of the other two bet?

Yea, I hesitated in expanding upon that in my original answer because I'm not really sure what I would do if I check the flop and someone bets. I hate to call a minbet and give the person who is semibluffing exactly what he wants. But I also hate to build the pot any more against two players who are likely to keep on drawing. I'm not an experienced cash player, but my sng instincts tell me to call a small bet on the flop but if the player pot bets then I've got to dig deep and decide if I want to push over or not this early in a sng.

But how do you know either of them are drawing? I would much rather bet the flop and get rid of hands like J3o than check and have to think what to do when an overcard hits on the turn. You have no reason to believe either of them have anything at this time, for me checking would just get me into trouble on later streets.

I think c/fing with an overpair in an unraised pot is really weak here. Which also begs the question, why was there no preflop raise? 99 is a difficult hand to play and we will take the pot preflop an awful lot of the time with a raise to 200.

[DetroitHusling101]

why was there no preflop raise?.

Well i'll be honest why there wasn't a PFR. I suck at 8 tabling pretty much. Well my attention is starting to get worse when i add more tables . I've attempted 2 or 3 8 table sessions today (yesterday was the first day i did 7 , so i shouldn't adding so quick) , and it was a matter of pre clicking the call 25 button and adjusting my attention elsewhere (another hand obv , not some downloaded porn or anything lol), which is bad i should just wait till the action was on me , although if there was more than one limper or if one was UTG chances are i would still just complete , but with the limper being a late position player i think a raise was definitly in order here.