PokerStars Game #5710887719: Tournament #28900343, $55+$5 Hold'em No Limit - Level III (25/50) - 2006/07/28 - 12:02:04 (ET)
Table '28900343 1' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: swancity (1010 in chips)
Seat 2: HiRik (1205 in chips)
Seat 4: Meatball20 (1380 in chips)
Seat 5: GodlikeRoy (1425 in chips)
Seat 6: dsaxton (1545 in chips)
Seat 7: SDN8V (4615 in chips)
Seat 8: StarCity67 (1105 in chips)
Seat 9: PandaXBaby (1215 in chips)
Meatball20: posts small blind 25
GodlikeRoy: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to GodlikeRoy
dsaxton: folds
SDN8V: folds
StarCity67: folds
PandaXBaby: folds
swancity: folds
HiRik: folds
Meatball20: raises 100 to 150
GodlikeRoy:

Opponent is not a regular, i have not noticed anything out of the ordinary from him. He's been slightly loose so far.

Thoughts? I'll add mine after a few responses.

Call me WT but I flat call and take a look at a flop.

I don't escalate early on in SnG's with JJ or TT..

It's tier 3 so this is a close decision - I think I would push at tier 4 (50/100) as steal looks so likely, but whilst I still have almost 30 times the blinds there is too much play in this game to donk push TT unless I've seen him get out of line..

if you get a caller you are -EV against his range (which I'd put at AK, maybe some AQ, AA-JJ)... I don't like it until next tier when the money at stake is 30% of your stack..then it's worth it IMHO..at 15% of your stack it's just a high variance move - and if I think I'm one of the better players I see no reason to take coinflips so early..especially when there is room to play some poker post-flop..

AA-JJ and AK/AQ/AJ only make up 5% of the hands. From someone who seems loose so far and opens up with a raise from the SB... he could be raising a LOT of hands, and very few he'd want to call with for all his chips right now. At the next level (50/100) it'd be an obvious push, but here I also think a push is good. Like Sun said, sometimes it's important to show that you will aggressively defend your blinds to make them think twice before raising complete crap every time into you. If you only call, the flop will come with an overcard more than 50% of the time.

I'm betting every single chip that I have. [Xast]

possibly the least surprising post this year

anyone run it thru SNGPT? how narrow a raising range would he have to have to make it -ev?

I went for the push here, basically for the reasons outlined by EP9. He folded.

I personally play this like excession. See a flop...especially in position.

But I don't like preflop poker..so that's probably why I do such things.