11-15-2005, 02:04 AM
Interesting situation. Hero is short stacked and gets AJs in BB. Big blind at 300, nearly 33% of Hero's remaining stack. UTG folds, Button minraises, and its folded to Hero. Button hasn't been too active with raises, so Hero expects to be no better than a coinflip if he pushes. Likely range is any pocket pair, any decent ace, two broadway cards.
Additionally, SB is playing awfully. He was the chipleader until a few hands ago, and then he twice in a row called big bets on a hand preflop, flop, and turn before folding to a bet that was about 1/8th pot on the river, taking himself from 3500 to 900 chips without even seeing a showdown.
Hero would normally push this and hope to win the coinflip with so little behind after posting, but there is a real possibility that SB will tilt off the rest of his chips if Hero waits it out and Hero will get ITM.
Given all that, is there any way that Hero isn't pushing here?
Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t300 (4 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx (http://www.zerodivide.cx/converter)
Button (t2970)
SB (t994)
Hero (t1026)
UTG (t3010)
Preflop: Hero is BB with J/images/graemlins/club.gif, A/images/graemlins/club.gif.
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Button raises to t600</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>.
Hero ???
Additionally, SB is playing awfully. He was the chipleader until a few hands ago, and then he twice in a row called big bets on a hand preflop, flop, and turn before folding to a bet that was about 1/8th pot on the river, taking himself from 3500 to 900 chips without even seeing a showdown.
Hero would normally push this and hope to win the coinflip with so little behind after posting, but there is a real possibility that SB will tilt off the rest of his chips if Hero waits it out and Hero will get ITM.
Given all that, is there any way that Hero isn't pushing here?
Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t300 (4 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx (http://www.zerodivide.cx/converter)
Button (t2970)
SB (t994)
Hero (t1026)
UTG (t3010)
Preflop: Hero is BB with J/images/graemlins/club.gif, A/images/graemlins/club.gif.
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Button raises to t600</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>.
Hero ???