Rebuy Play - Whatcha Gonna Do?
 

Final table of the rebuy yesterday. I was VERY low on chips. Whats your play here?


PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t30000 (7 handed) converter

saw flop|<font color="#C00000">saw showdown</font>

MP1 (t211496)
MP2 (t1225110)
CO (t453135)
<font color="#C00000">Button (t563825)</font>
SB (t517944)
<font color="#C00000">Hero (t156420)</font>
UTG (t573070)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">4 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Button raises to t90000</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Hero ...

Re: Rebuy Play - Whatcha Gonna Do?
 

I would Push and Pray!

You are so low on chips that you don't really have a choice, in my opinion. If you lose the hand, you're out, but that would happen pretty soon anyway, if you just fold this hand.
If you win the hand, you bought yourself some more time to not bust, and maybe get a good hand to potentially double up again and be right in it again.

But, I'm still new to MTT's, so take it with a grain of salt.

Re: Rebuy Play - Whatcha Gonna Do?
 

I think you can pretty safely push here and be a favorite. Button's range is probably larger than yours at this point, and you're just barely hanging on. Has 3x been the standard raise thus far?

PS - Is that limecat?

Re: Rebuy Play - Whatcha Gonna Do?
 

i think that's a pretty easy push.

Re: Rebuy Play - Whatcha Gonna Do?
 

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i think that's a pretty easy push.

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Although you'll have little FE with a stop and go, its better than no FE by pushing preflop. Unless the raiser has been extremely tight/passive then I think sng&gt;push&gt;fold

Re: Rebuy Play - Whatcha Gonna Do?
 

Easy time to gamble. You have 1/3rd the chips of the next chip stack (just saw the other shorty, but you get the point) and the button is raising a LARGE amount of hands here. A7 is probably ahead.. it's time to get it all in.

Re: Rebuy Play - Whatcha Gonna Do?
 

Push or stop n' go. I think push because...

1. You already have 15%+ of your stack in the blind.
2. Button is making a standard steal raise from position.
3. Your getting implied odds of 2.25:1 to push here. Unless he is on A8+, you're in great shape, equity-wise.
4. You are about to put another 10% of your stack in on the SB with some random garbage if you fold.
5. UTG and MP2 are going to shut you out of any steal attempts after the blinds pass you.
6. If the blind levels are about to go up, your 5xBB stack is going to become meaningless.
7. Stop n' Go is going to be bloody obvious.

Re: Rebuy Play - Whatcha Gonna Do?
 

damn, i never even think about a sNgo.

but now that i do, i'm not sure i like it. one of the most common times for him to fold is when the board looks like AQ2 and he has 75. then we don't want him to fold. i don't think he ever folds to a non-A-high flop.

Re: Rebuy Play - Whatcha Gonna Do?
 

getting him to fold anything, whether its on the flop or not is waayyyy better than him calling.

Re: Rebuy Play - Whatcha Gonna Do?
 

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damn, i never even think about a sNgo.

but now that i do, i'm not sure i like it. one of the most common times for him to fold is when the board looks like AQ2 and he has 75. then we don't want him to fold. i don't think he ever folds to a non-A-high flop.

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This is why Greg (Fossilman) usually says that the best hand for a stop n' go is like 66.