sng spot

[UoLtom]

Just wanted to ask what you think about how i played this, didnt want to raise pre flop and build a big pot. Should i be folding/calling/ raising here earlish in an sng, thoughts please.

[SirJonnyP]

think i'd play it the same up to your flop bet, i think i would ship it right there. when utg min-raises online i tend to insta-think top five hands, not too surprised to see the aces there.

[UoLtom]

I realised the under raise when i posted, and yeh, wasnt suprised to see aces but got the right price to see a flop IMO, especially cos UTG only min raised.

[Gerrard48LFC]

I would 3bet all in on flop, apart from that i would have played it the same.

[bridgey321]

I think I 3 bet pre here. Minraise UTG certainly doesn't mean top 5. Take control of the pot I say and if flatted, make cont. bet. on almost all flops. Maybe I take this line because my post flop play isn't brilliant but I do like a 3 bet.

Having played as it is, I think I just stick it in after that action.

[bizkit]

Just wanted to ask what you think about how i played this, didnt want to raise pre flop and build a big pot. Should i be folding/calling/ raising here earlish in an sng, thoughts please.

There's no reason not to flat this in my opinion. If you 3bet here you're not folding out many better hands but when you get 4bet by the initial preflop raiser you're in a bad spot. Sure he can do it with AK but he could have a lot of different bigger pocket pairs too. You have position with a hand that has a lot of potential to make a big hand on the flop...easy call.

Then yeah pushing is probably better than the smaller raise postflop.

[The Incompetent-Donkey]

I think I 3 bet pre here. Minraise UTG certainly doesn't mean top 5. Take control of the pot I say and if flatted, make cont. bet. on almost all flops. Maybe I take this line because my post flop play isn't brilliant but I do like a 3 bet.

Having played as it is, I think I just stick it in after that action.

I hate a 3bet pre, early on you don't really want to put many chips in except when you have a hand.

Pre-flop-Is fine and 3betting would be a mistake
Flop- Fine, but there is no need to raise just shove.

[James]

Early on in a tournament when your deep i flat here like you did. There is no point building the pot with 99. Infact i think i flat AQ and AK here im probably maybe raising jacks and definitely QQ upwards. Anyone elses thoughts?

[Litellio]

I'd go with Bizkit and James here. Don't like 3-betting when you have position and you're not folding out better.

And shove after his c-bet. Standard.

[bizkit]

Early on in a tournament when your deep i flat here like you did. There is no point building the pot with 99. Infact i think i flat AQ and AK here im probably maybe raising jacks and definitely QQ upwards. Anyone elses thoughts?

Definitely more likely to flat here with Jacks than AK.

I think my raising range would probably look something like:
AA-QQ,AK(sometimes)

Smooth raising range would be wide something like:
JJ-22,AK(sometimes), AQ, most suited connectors, suited aces, some one gappers, two broadway cards suited and maybe throw in broadway unsuited with weaker one gappers if the field is really bad postflop.