a9 utg 6 handed

[11t]

Push and close my eyes? Table has been somewhat tight but the button is going to be coming along with qutie a bit.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t200 (7 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

Button (t285)
SB (t1270)
BB (t1635)
Hero (t1100)
MP1 (t1780)
MP2 (t1235)
CO (t6195)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with 9/images/graemlins/heart.gif, A/images/graemlins/club.gif. Hero...

[outofstep]

I would fold this preflop. Out of position and about 11x BB stack makes this an easy muck for me.

[bluefeet]

tough one. one hand: too many hands on the table still, other hand: for the same reason, it's likely you'll be leaving the blinds t300 broker. i could push or fold, without regretting either decision. this many left, this far from the 'bubble', it stands to reason the table might still be on the tight side (like you said). eh.....push

[11t]

I have 5.5xBB

[pokerlaw]

I wait. AJs or 55+ and i am in, this is a close (and therefore a really crappy laydown)

[outofstep]

Totally misread it for some reason. Well, that changes everything. I would have to say its time to push.

[pokerlaw]

btw, its the structure of the chipstacks that dictates a lot of my decision. you have one massive chipeader and everyone else is even pretty much. you want to be on the better end of the pushing/calling range when you do go in, and I feel A9o is on the bottom end, so get rid of it.

[The Yugoslavian]

Pushing here is non-exploitable....the looser your opponents are the more +EV this will be.

You might as well push.

Yugoslav
Who is still way freaked out by this transparent window thing....

[45suited]

Yugo, does the presence of the shortstack button make you any less likely to push?

My gut instinct is that I would push AJ, ATs, not A9o.

[jeffraider]

Well being that it's 7-handed and you're not playing at Party, I think you should fold.

[yabastid]

I fold this. There's too many at the table and your probably behind somewhere to like 44. Hope the next orbit gives you something or that you can shove any two into the blinds.

yabastid

[agent_fish]

Yugoslavian, you are way hot!

[The Yugoslavian]

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Yugo, does the presence of the shortstack button make you any less likely to push?


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Meh. Not really a huge factor.

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My gut instinct is that I would push AJ, ATs, not A9o.

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Those are good cards to push here....A9o may be somewhat marginal and can go either way, IMO. Like I was saying, mathematically it's at worst neutral EV so I don't mind a push here at all (also given that you're eating blinds so frequently your EV is almost surely going to take a hit anyway being 7H).

Yugoslav

[SammyKid11]

Power Tools has it a push by about .2%...but that's with their default calling ranges (66+, ATs+, AJ+). In reality, I think many of these players might call with any PP plus AT+ plus KQ. When you open it up to this range, your $EV goes even further down. I'd say it's a fold...two spots closer to the button and I'm pushing.

[curtains]

If it were really 6 handed it should be a clear push. However it's 7 handed, and thus probably a fold.

[tigerite]

Curtains is right.. if you had around 985 chips it's a push here, as it is it's a fold