What to do with 66 in a touney...

[tking888]

i would of pushed allin preflop or checked/but not to crazy about calling him post flop.

[GypsyTea]

Interesting

Your problem here is implied odds i think.

At this point you want to grow your stack not loose it.

There are only 2 players in pot. The other player is more than likely to look you up whatever you do and whilst you might be ahead preflop, will a pair of 6's hold up on a flop never mind at the end.

You would prefer to see a couple of limpers at least ahead of you and a call from the SB for when you do hit your set you are going to get one tasty pot.

As it is you fold to a raise or check and see the flop, unless you hit that set you're gone.

You need a fat pot in this situation to give you the implied odds to play and then go on and hit your set.

What you think?

Good Post Nucks

GT

[andr8]

Your play style depends of your POSITION . if you are in early or middle position you may call , but if you're in late position you may try a blind steal (and nobody call before you).
I usually call and hope to catch the set

If you're the BB I think all-in was the best solution

[eicosekim]

ive been playing on bodog and pokerstars a lot lately.. one thing that helps me do better when playing is using the "notes" function. just observe a few hands and type down for the people what they are calling the flop with... its a good way to see what people will do with certain cards and it comes in handy because i find myself playing against some of the same people a lot... say some one calls all the way through with 4 7 offsuit, then three hands later that person is in the hand and 447 comes up on the flop you would be able to get a feel for that person and think hey maybe that certain person hit something because two hands before this he called 47 offsuit before the flop, dont get me wrong a lot of people are unpredictable but i do a lot better with the notes

[kickinbutz]

I'd have to push my stack w/ 66 there, I would think if he/she had a pair, they would have raised. meaning: a push would make him/her fold, or call,which you might be ahead.

[soonerdel]

shove all day every day

[ollyy]

[LEFT]I won many times on 66 or a pair, do not give all the AA on but can still give 66,77,88 and we were lucky to go jackpot often with these books

[Poker Orifice]

Interesting

Your problem here is implied odds i think.

At this point you want to grow your stack not loose it.

There are only 2 players in pot. The other player is more than likely to look you up whatever you do and whilst you might be ahead preflop, will a pair of 6's hold up on a flop never mind at the end.

You would prefer to see a couple of limpers at least ahead of you and a call from the SB for when you do hit your set you are going to get one tasty pot.

As it is you fold to a raise or check and see the flop, unless you hit that set you're gone.

You need a fat pot in this situation to give you the implied odds to play and then go on and hit your set.

What you think?

I completely disagree with this reply here above.
OP has stated that they're sitting on slightly less than average stack size and although we have no clue as to what stage of the tournament this is (size of the blinds and more importantly the size of our stack in relation to the blinds... btw this is far more important than how our stack size compares to the tourney average). Assuming if they're on avg. stack size that they must be 20-25+bb's deep.
SB has been calling wide (are we to assume that SB is calling raises wide?.. or that they complete the SB on a wide range?). Let's say they do both.
If this is the case I say we instantly reraise ALLIN as we are more than likely way ahead of SB's range here in this spot. We don't just check.. see a flop and only continue if we hit a set. This is advice for a completely different scenario than this one here (ie. early levels on deeper stacks).
With SB sitting on only 5bb's.. the dead money in the pot (including our BB) we have great odds to shove here with, taking effective stack sizes into consideration (we close out the action.. we are on the BB.. we don't have to be concerned about anyone else but the SB shortstack.. how can we even consider playing this hand any differently?).