SnG Stratagies

I just wrote a long post with the backstory but it's irrelevant and ultimately not that interesting, so instead I am posting just the hypothetical question.

Heads up at the end of a tourney (it happened to be a SnG). Blinds actually quite low, average stack has 150BB. Villian is major LAG but a decent player whom you've taken money from before, he loves to raise and re-raise, bets most flops. You have a slight lead in your chips, 10 BB's or so. He has re-raised you the last 2 times you raised preflop from the buttton and you folded both times. You have played tight. You are on the button with 44, you raise 3 times the BB. He re-raises the pot. you do what?

I've always been curious what to do when you are playing someone you know you are better than and if you push it is almost certainly a 50/50. If you lose you are crippled. With the blinds this low I know it is usually best to avoid coin flip situations against a inferior player and let your post flop skill do the work. So is this a call and see what the flop brings? a fold?

[arjonius]

Why are calling and pushing the only alternatives you bring up for consideration? With about 150BB, you bet 3, and the opponent comes over you for presumably 9 or so. What's wrong with re-raising to 30 or 40?

[bubblesx2]

this is just another copy and paste job - i googled the first 2 lines of the first post quote and surprise surprise i found this -

I just wrote a long post with the backstory but it's irrelevant and ultimately not that interesting, so instead I am posting just the hypothetical question.

Heads up at the end of a tourney (it happened to be a SnG). Blinds actually quite low, average stack has 150BB. Villian is major LAG but a decent player whom you've taken money from before, he loves to raise and re-raise, bets most flops. You have a slight lead in your chips, 10 BB's or so. He has re-raised you the last 2 times you raised preflop from the buttton and you folded both times. You have played tight. You are on the button with 44, you raise 3 times the BB. He re-raises the pot. you do what?

I've always been curious what to do when you are playing someone you know you are better than and if you push it is almost certainly a 50/50. If you lose you are crippled. With the blinds this low I know it is usually best to avoid coin flip situations against a inferior player and let your post flop skill do the work. So is this a call and see what the flop brings? a fold?

posted on another poker forum by someone with 13 posts called oshin.

Originally Posted by bubblesx2

this is just another copy and paste job - i googled the first 2 lines of the first post quote and surprise surprise i found this -

posted on another poker forum by someone with 13 posts called oshin.

Cool. But the post is very good anyway.

[hrobakca]

SNG's are a whole different animal especially single table. At the beginning most people are trying for a quick double up so i just play atight game and be patient the hands will come then i make them pay

Chris

[arjonius]

Where do these people who can't even think for themselves keep coming from? Sheesh!

What u don't tell us here is what he does if u come back over the top of him again. With these deep stacks i would re raise him back and if he came over the top again, lay it down.

And one more thing, how does okaying aggressive pre-flop make u a bad player? He got you to lay down the hands u raised with and he took down the pot didn't he?

I don't know.. I am horrible at heads up in SNGs. For me if I can get my chips in with 50/50 in a SNG I do it.

Even if I am a better poker player than my opponent, when it comes to heads up my game goes to crap so I push the 50/50s

I'm not very patient for heads up...any pair I get, or an Ace, I go all in.
I think you have to be agressive at Heads up...If I make the lowest pair at the flop, I raise any bet. Sometimes work, sometimes don't. But keep waiting good hands at heads up don't work for me.

I am aggressive heads up. But I think too aggressive. The other player just has to sit there and wait for a premium hand and he can almost garunteed that he will get paid off.