Bubble hand

[JasonP530]

I have been trying to get more agressive when there are 4 and 5 people left and I am medium stacked and not assured of being into the money. Basically, I am trying to steal blinds(which are significant), and I move all in with respectable hands. Should I be folding this or moving in? I had been, but now I started moving in with it, and have been busted a few times.


100/200 TourneyTexasHTGameTable (NL) (Tournament 11319456) - Fri Apr 15 10:51:06 EDT 2005
Table Table 11775 (Real Money) -- Seat 8 is the button
Total number of players : 4
Seat 1: chuckymerit (4885)
Seat 5: SixDegree6 (1105)
Seat 6: HTK00 (2865)
Seat 8: hero (1145)
chuckymerit posts small blind (50)
SixDegree6 posts big blind (100)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to hero [ 5s, 5c ]
HTK00 folds.

[syphlix]

don't thin kthis is a move in hand when blinds are only at 100... try a 3x'er or something... and if someone raises you all in screw it just let it go...

that's what i would do at least... i can't see how going all in w/ a guy who's got you 2x covered and you've got 28x BB is smart...

[JasonP530]

it must have the blinds wrong, because they were at 100/200, not 50/100. Does that change it?

[pbutkus]

if blinds were 100/200 i like it. likely have best hand, have fe, and if you add a few more chips to your stack the big stacks will be less likely to call you down w marginal hands on future steals bc youll be able to put a dent in there stack. dont like it at 50/100 though.

[curtains]

If the blinds are 100-200 there is no question really, you must go allin. If they are 50-100 now you have a question as to whether you should raise something like 2.5x the BB or move allin.

I don't like raising small and then folding to a reraise, especially when you are the smaller stack and a ton of the hands that reraise you will be coin flips that favor you.

I think this is a reasonable time to eschew the 8-10x BB rule and simply push preflop. It's very clearly +EV to push, the only question is whether its more +EV to do something else. It's hard for me to imagine that raising less and folding to a reraise, while also giving someone the chance to call preflop is more +EV

[rickr]

What about a 3x raise here. Any thinking player would know that you are pushing on the flop, and if Ax does call the raise from SB, it would give him one more chance to dump. Does keeping a little FE back for the flop warrant taking the chance of getting sucked out on?

Later,
Rick

[JasonP530]

I have to see my opponent a lot before I give them credit for being a thinking player.