I'm close to bubble in a SNG
(10 players remain, 7 paid, i'm 8th).
My hand is T♥T♣, i am UTG
with a healthy stack of 29 BB
Blinds are 25/50
, no antes.
Opponents are a mixed bag, with everyone +/- to my stack (no huge stacks)
My usual strategy in this situation is to preserve my stack for the final table, where the blinds will eat me up slower, since in the current situation there will be 4 empty seats
. This strategy is based to the fact that there are 2 stacks lower than me, in addition calling a preflop raise is typical in this table. If i was the short stack, i would certainly be much more aggro here.
Therefore i'm usually limping here up to JJ
. The reasoning is that it will take me around 6bb
(preflop/cbet) if overcards are shown or am HU. In addition, these kind of low-end premium pairs JJ/TT
are only about 50% to be top-pair in most flops.
So, based on my stack + position + bubble situation
, do you think it's ok to be a little passive here?
TT
is a trouble hand multiway, but i can easily muck it so i'm not troubled with this. Open-fold or Open pre-shove post on a safe flop is prolly the better approach, perhaps not EV+ but safe. Tx! – user1165 Sep 29 '15 at 7:23