Early STT EP Strategy

RasTa

Some simple questions regarding your sit'n'go style early on(if u waste your time playing these)

First 5 hands of a sit'n'go, what do you do with these hands in EARLY POSITION?

AJ suited
AJo
KQ suited
KQo
1010
99
88

Flushdraw

I'm going to pressume you mean a 9/10 handed regular STT.
In a 6 handed i raise with them all, and if its a turbo/speed that also affects how i play them.

I dont open limp with any hands from EP. If i'm 1st in i'll raise with 8s,9s and 10s. I'd probably also raised with AJs and KQs but i'd muck AJo and KQo.

If the pot has been opened for a raise, i'll flat call with 8s and 9s but i'm not a fan of calling raises with AJ or KQ. I'd reraise with 10s

ArmaniJeanss

RasTa wrote:

Some simple questions regarding your sit'n'go style early on(if u waste your time playing these)

First 5 hands of a sit'n'go, what do you do with these hands in EARLY POSITION?

AJ suited
AJo
KQ suited
KQo
1010
99
88

9/10 handed STTs I take it, and EP = utg/utg+1.

AJs usually limp, happy to fold to a raise, raise about 5% of time.
AJo fold about 97%, raise the other 3% when feeling reckless.
KQs 100% fold.
KQo 120% fold.
TT raise about 30% limp 70%.
99 raise about 10% limp 90%.
88 limp roughly 100%.

STTs are NOT a waste of time, purest form of poker going

Flushdraw

ArmaniJeanss wrote:

9/10 handed STTs I take it, and EP = utg/utg+1.

AJs usually limp, happy to fold to a raise, raise about 5% of time.
AJo fold about 97%, raise the other 3% when feeling reckless.
KQs 100% fold.
KQo 120% fold.
TT raise about 30% limp 70%.
99 raise about 10% limp 90%.
88 limp roughly 100%.

STTs are NOT a waste of time, purest form of poker going

Thats a lot of sick open limping! Leaking chips in the long run

Hectorjelly

Flushdraw wrote:

Thats a lot of sick open limping! Leaking chips in the long run

theres nothing inherintly wrong with limping. In most forms of poker its bad or very bad. Early stages of an stt, deep mtt its fine.

ArmaniJeanss

Flushdraw wrote:

Thats a lot of sick open limping! Leaking chips in the long run

I play at a fairly low level ($20 to $50 STTs) and I'm fairly sure that limping with the likes of 88/99/AJs in the first few hands in Early position is superior to raising.
Most of the time its a policy thats gets you to the bubble with ~85%+ of your chips intact and if you can play the bubble properly....

To be honest, I don't think its 'a sick lot of open limping', its maybe 1 openlimp every 2 STTs, hardly an epidemic ??