$5 - 27man SNG on stars

[blodge99]

I was playing a $5 and 50c 27man tourney on stars the other day. Got down to the last 3 and was chip leader. Im on the button and get dealt AJo. I decide to limp  in order to re-raise.
The hand plays out like this.
I'd appreciate some feedback please.

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PokerStars Game #22654384655: Tournament #125101309, $5.00+$0.50 Hold'em No Limit - Level X (400/800) - 2008/12/06 0:47:14 CET [2008/12/05 18:47:14 ET]

Table '125101309 3' 9-max Seat #4 is the button

Seat 1: jakken1 (13512 in chips)

Seat 4: blodge99 (19828 in chips)

Seat 7: rossi91 (7160 in chips)

jakken1: posts the ante 50

blodge99: posts the ante 50

rossi91: posts the ante 50

rossi91: posts small blind 400

jakken1: posts big blind 800

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to blodge99 [As ]

blodge99: calls 800

rossi91: calls 400

jakken1: checks

*** FLOP *** [ ]

rossi91: checks

jakken1: bets 1600

blodge99: raises 3200 to 4800

rossi91: folds

jakken1: calls 3200

*** TURN *** [ ] []

jakken1: checks

blodge99: bets 4800

jakken1: calls 4800

*** RIVER *** [ ] []

jakken1: bets 2400

blodge99: calls 2400

*** SHOW DOWN ***

jakken1: shows [ ] (two pair, Tens and Threes)

blodge99: mucks hand

jakken1 collected 26550 from pot

*** SUMMARY ***

Total pot 26550 | Rake 0

Board [ ]

Seat 1: jakken1 (big blind) showed [ ] and won (26550) with two pair, Tens and Threes

Seat 4: blodge99 (button) mucked [As ]

Seat 7: rossi91 (small blind) folded on the Flop



Much appreciated

[feedthegoat]

3 handed i'm raising preflop with aj it's not not strong enough to trap.
Flop play standard but on the turn i'm shipping all in.

[Graham C]

Deffo agree, limping here is really bad imo.  Raise it up, AJ isn't a trapping hand.  Also for a reraise, I think the flop raise is too small, just stick him all in now.

[gatso]

don't post results of the hand, skews peoples' analysis

Im on the button and get dealt AJo. I decide to limp  in order to re-raise.

don't do this. AJ is massive 3 handed but raising won't give away the strength of your hand as you should be raising a very wide range here especially as cl and there are only 2 players behind you so the chance of a raise isn't so high, especially at the lower levels where people are happy to complete or check their option. let's raise and build a pot

[x_posed]

Yeah I agree. I think I prob raise approx the pot preflop and call if he shoves. On the flop I'd prob bet about half the pot to induce a bluff and if he just calls shove the turn.

[gatso]

3 handed i'm raising preflop with aj it's not not strong enough to trap.
Flop play standard but on the turn i'm shipping all in.

Deffo agree, limping here is really bad imo.  Raise it up, AJ isn't a trapping hand.  Also for a reraise, I think the flop raise is too small, just stick him all in now.

are you 2 serious? it's the decision to trap that's wrong here, not the choice of hand to do it with. we're 3 handed, AJ is huuuuuge

[x_posed]

3 handed i'm raising preflop with aj it's not not strong enough to trap.
Flop play standard but on the turn i'm shipping all in.

Deffo agree, limping here is really bad imo.  Raise it up, AJ isn't a trapping hand.  Also for a reraise, I think the flop raise is too small, just stick him all in now.

are you 2 serious? it's the decision to trap that's wrong here, not the choice of hand to do it with. we're 3 handed, AJ is huuuuuge

Yeah I see where ur coming from here gatso. AJ is a huge hand in this situation but limping is wrong as a pot needs to be built a bit in order to induce the oponent to get his chips in with an inferior hand.

[blodge99]

thanks for the advice guys.
i knew after that my main problem was not raising it but i think his call of my re-raise was poor.
When he called that i thought that he might have had TJ.

[Graham C]

Yeah I was serious  But am thinking on how to write my argument down so it reads right!

We're only 3 handed, people shove with all sorts here and he's likely to call with any part of the flop so I don't really like to let peope in cheaply to be honest.

There's obvioulsy a deep technical explanation on the rights and wrongs of this but I can't concentrate on it at the moment, but personally, If I'm raising on the flop, I'd make it a bit bigger.

[gatso]

graham, I agree with you on how you should play it as I said above, we have to raise pf. the part of your post I was disagreeing with was

AJ isn't a trapping hand

as it makes it sound like you don't consider this to be a big hand 3 handed

this may not be what you meant though

[Graham C]

Nah, that's not what I meant, I think we agree actually, ignore me, I'm sort of preoccupied losing my own sng's atm!

[feedthegoat]

Don't think I made my position clear either, I have no problem getting all the chips in preflop with AJ I just don't want to get to the flop 3 handed which will happen quite often with a limp here.