Bragg article on pushing from the SB - Any thoughts?

[Smockstack]

Has anyone read this article yet? If so, any thoughts? Seems like an apt method for determining pushing hands.

link (http://www.twoplustwo.com/magazine/current/Bragg0506.html)

[jcm4ccc]

It ignores a couple of things:

1. When the blinds are about to increase.
2. When you are short-handed and the blinds will hit you again pretty quickly.

Sometimes you might have to make a push that is -EV, if waiting around is even more -EV.

[nokona13]

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It ignores a couple of things:

1. When the blinds are about to increase.
2. When you are short-handed and the blinds will hit you again pretty quickly.

Sometimes you might have to make a push that is -EV, if waiting around is even more -EV.

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This seems implicit in the last table though. If you only have 2-3 BB, your opponenet is probably calling with any two, and that last table says you should be pushing everying but like 23-26 or whatever it says. I guess if it's the bubble and you have 6 current BB but they're increasing next hand, you might want to push a crap hand, but if you're on the SB, wouldn't you rather wait for the next hand a try to steal bigger blinds?

[curtains]

The article is way more complex than it has to be. You don't need so many fancy charts and tables.