All in with a pair of twos...

[Harv72b]

Last two sitting at a Party 10+1. My opponent has been ridiculously straightforward in how he plays his hands, which has allowed me to bully him pretty much at will (he did double up on me a few hands earlier after I tried to seal the deal with the godlike hand of K4s). Anyway, this one felt right at the time...was it?

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t500 (2 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

BB (t4010)
Hero (t3990)

Preflop: Hero is Button with 2/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, Q/images/graemlins/diamond.gif.
<font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t750</font>, BB calls t500.

Flop: (t1750) K/images/graemlins/club.gif, 3/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, 7/images/graemlins/club.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
BB checks, Hero checks.

Turn: (t1750) 2/images/graemlins/club.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
BB checks, Hero pushes...

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[valenzuela]

push preflop.

[paperboyNC]

yesterday, three handed, I went all-in with 22 and got called by 22. yes sir.

[Harv72b]

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yesterday, three handed, I went all-in with 22 and got called by 22. yes sir.

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I got called all in by 22 today. He won.

EDIT: not on this hand.

[Harv72b]

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push preflop.

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Why I didn't raise more aggressively preflop....like I said, my opponent was very straightforward ABC in his play. If I raised any amount, he folded nearly all the time. He'd only play back with a real hand (A high, pocket pair, two broadway). He apparently had no interest whatsoever in playing junk hands, even with position. So I figured that I could make the minimum raise here &amp; most likely pick up his blind, or else fold if he re-raised me a signficant amount.

Okay, really I'm just bumping this because I'm really curious about how I played this one. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Newt_Buggs]

you still need to push preflop

[pergesu]

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yesterday, three handed, I went all-in with 22 and got called by 22. yes sir.

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If this was at a $22 then I was there, laughing at both of you.

[JC_Saves]

Why push with bottom pair? he has you covered and called your big preflop raise what could he have. He could have been waiting for you to bet on the flop and come over the top on you, but you just checked it and then you bet the two all in. If you want to put your tourney on this hand be my quest, but I don't think that it is a good play, just make a half pot bet and see what happens.

You have no idea where you are at in the hand since you checked the flop. I would have bet the flop.

[wildzer0]

Against this type of player, my typical line is to push pretty much every hand. Often, by the time they finally play back at you, they're crippled from you stealing their blind every time.

[KenProspero]

Yes, but ...

Can't your strategy be countered by, folding against the first 4 or 5 pushes, then calling your all-in with the first decent hand I get?

(I didn't say great hand -- I mean any A or K. If you're an all-in machine, I should be way favored here).

[lastchance]

You need to widen up that range a bit HU.

[KenProspero]

Generally yes -- I think this is a special case, though. If I think someone is going to go all in every hand, I can wait 5 hands or so till I like my odds