88 on bubble vs. minraiser
 

Button has donked away a couple thousand chips both pushing and calling with weak hands. My only choice here is to push, right? Can I pull a stop-n-go?

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

UTG (t5280)
Button (t1310)
Hero (t850)
BB (t560)

Preflop: Hero is SB with 8[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Button raises to t300</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Hero???

Re: 88 on bubble vs. minraiser
 

Sounds like an easy push with your read.

Re: 88 on bubble vs. minraiser
 

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Button has donked away a couple thousand chips both pushing and calling with weak hands.

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Hmmn. Now he's doing something else. He's min-raising.

Do we have any idea what that means? Do we have any reason to think that he min-raises KK, QQ, etc.? I've seen some less-than-polished players min-raise their best stuff, hoping to get action that way.

Absent specific knowledge or hunches then, sure, try to double up with the best hand.

Re: 88 on bubble vs. minraiser
 

I'm thinking about BB's chip count at least as much as I'm thinking about Button's cards.

Re: 88 on bubble vs. minraiser
 

Same here, but the action is messed up, because there's already been a fold after the Button's raise, and that's the position Hero is in [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]

Re: 88 on bubble vs. minraiser
 

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I'm thinking about BB's chip count at least as much as I'm thinking about Button's cards.

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That's the main reason I'm not sure what my line is here.

Re: 88 on bubble vs. minraiser
 

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Button has donked away a couple thousand chips both pushing and calling with weak hands.

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Hmmn. Now he's doing something else. He's min-raising.

Do we have any idea what that means? Do we have any reason to think that he min-raises KK, QQ, etc.? I've seen some less-than-polished players min-raise their best stuff, hoping to get action that way.

Absent specific knowledge or hunches then, sure, try to double up with the best hand.

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Good point. I actually hadn't seen him turn over any premium hands. Everytime he went to showdown, he had trash, win or lose.