Party $55 - AQs in SB, facing raise....

[octaveshift]

For some reason, this hand gave me a lot of trouble. Do I really want to call this without position?

Button hadn't been too out of line, up to this point.

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t150 (7 handed) http://216.119.70.224/converter/hhconverter.pl

UTG (t1800)
MP1 (t1340)
MP2 (t970)
CO (t805)
Button (t2205)
Hero (t2065)
BB (t815)

Preflop: Hero is SB with Q/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, A/images/graemlins/diamond.gif.
<font color="#666666">4 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Button raises to t350</font>, Hero ?????

[bluefeet]

yeah, don't like these suckers. if i had 1/2 a nad, i'd let it rip over top. raising makes it extremely difficult to play the flop. me, i just call. making a pot sized bet on a Q-high, A-high, 2-diamond flop....check/fold otherwise /images/graemlins/frown.gif

[tshort]

Seems like a blind steal to me. He could raise with a wide range here. I don't think a call is correct, you most likely have the better hand. I think you should reraise to around 750.

[adanthar]

My typical play is to push here. You can also call and hope the BB pushes, but raising to 1K will pot commit you for no good reason.

[octaveshift]

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i just call.

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Button raises [350].
Hero calls [275].
BB calls [200].

** Dealing Flop ** [ 5h, 2h, 3d ]

Hero.. check folds?

[adanthar]

Pretty much, unless he minbets or something.

[bluefeet]

yup. lots of chips still and mad skills /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[octaveshift]

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My typical play is to push here. You can also call and hope the BB pushes, but raising to 1K will pot commit you for no good reason.

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Interesting. Certainly eliminates position issue.

I need to figure out when, exactly, I lost my testicles.

Perhaps Bluefeet and I need some hormone replacement therapy?

[11t]

I push here

[11t]

Go shoot some guns, it makes you feel real manly.

It would take a really good read for me to even think about not pushing here and if I had that good of a read and was confident the other player had a monster I'd probably just fold.

PS I stand by my gun shooting comment

[octaveshift]

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It would take a really good read for me to even think about not pushing here....

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Is this a function of stack sizes, exclusively?

[11t]

Several things, the blinds are increasing and you need to accumulate chips.

The button, is in fact, the button and a general rule of thumb is that raises from the button (and to some extent the CO) are going to be by a much wider range of hands than raises from earlier position so therefore button raises are going to be folding to pushes a higher % of the time than ppl who are raising from EP.

Nobody likes calling off their stack with KJs, which is probably within his range of raising.

I think AQs has the majority of his raising range dominated, but you are only going to hit the flop 33% of the time and there is a good chance when you do hit you won't get paid and if your plan is to check/fold the flop than you are going to be folding way way too much of the time to justify a call.

So just do what your avatar says and push it baby.

[Bigwig]

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My typical play is to push here.

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[lastchance]

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I push here

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Shove it!

[curtains]

I move allin preflop...your hand is too strong against the buttons typical range. I know its unpleasant when you are in such good position, but sometimes you have to put it all on the line in marginal seeming situations.

[octaveshift]

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I move allin preflop...

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Didn't realize it was so clear cut.

Interesting that when I was just starting, I would have seen AQd and pushed instantly.

Now that I am "better" I look down at it, and my nuts crawl back into my abdomen.