Tell me what you think. 215.

[Chaostracize]

Argument with a friend over this hand. Tell me your general thoughts, and then I'll post mine.

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t150 (4 handed) converter

Hero (t3520)
UTG (t3080)
Button (t480)
SB (t2920)

Preflop: Hero is BB with A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
<font color="#CC3333">UTG raises to t450</font>, 2 folds, Hero pushes t3520...

[Jdiddy]

say arg ur lucky im a good player and i know better than to push with A5o to a raise from UTG on the bubble even tho id probably beat ur Q5o if i did....then fold

[Chaostracize]

I have absolutely no idea what you are saying.

[pooh74]

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I have absolutely no idea what you are saying.

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that's ditto for me! (what was that?!)

Anyway, UTG will need at least KK to call this...I like this play and your Hero's cards are irrelevant. Unless villain knows hero is making a move, he will lay this down enough of the time to make it a profitable play.

It would work better if short stack had a little less and villain/UTG did as well. IOW, if he calls, us lose, ur still ITM for sure, which is not the case here.

Anyway, this hand is what makes cards themselves so trivial and situations so important on the bubble with divergent stack sizes...its a beautiful thing.

[11t]

I do this all the time with complete rags.

Sucks if he woke up to AA/KK and is about to punk you so be it.

[freemoney]

this is so not the case its irrelevant what he needs when he will call with worse.

[adanthar]

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this is so not the case its irrelevant what he needs when he will call with worse.

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bingo, which is why this push sucks unless, of course, I know him

[ravensfan]

Personally, i don't really like putting your tourney on the line for what is probably a semi bluff... You're big stack and are 20xBB right? Why risk getting called down by the only other threat at this point... If it wasn't UTG, fine, or if you have a read ... fine.
I thought the second post was talking about "the gap", FWIW

[pooh74]

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this is so not the case its irrelevant what he needs when he will call with worse.

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bingo, which is why this push sucks unless, of course, I know him

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The point is that he won't call....

[adanthar]

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The point is that he won't call....

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He won't? I've seen 86s make this call 'because you're raising every hand'.