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Old 05-20-2005, 11:18 AM
Scuba Chuck Scuba Chuck is offline
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Default Re: Using a big stack to gamble?

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Concrete Example:

Blinds 25/50, Stack: 1800
1 Limper who got an average stack
You are on the button
Raise to 200 with any two?


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Well, you've chosen the one level, IMO, where you could pull some tom foolery like this. I don't recommend this on levels 1 or 2, and it's too dangerous on level 4+.

In general, in tournament play, creative ideas like this are good and bad. Here you're risking 200 to earn 125. Not a bad risk/reward ratio.

I'm not advocating things like this, but I will sometimes do this with much fewer chips. (And something better than any two cards).

That being said, it is a rare move for me. These games can be beaten without such trickery.

Scuba
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