Bubble play
 

Anyone play this hand any different?

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t300 (4 handed) converter

UTG (t1998)
Hero (t1100)
SB (t1170)
BB (t3732)

Preflop: Hero is Button with J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t1100 (All-In)</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, BB calls t800.

Flop: (t2350) 4[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>

Turn: (t2350) 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>

River: (t2350) T[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>

Final Pot: t2350

Re: Bubble play
 

I think about folding, but all-in-all, unless BB has a loose calling range, this is fine.

Re: Bubble play
 

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Preflop: Hero is Button with J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t1100 (All-In)</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, BB calls t800.


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Call me weak, but I really hate pushing into the bigstack when he's in the BB. I prefer to wait until they are in the SB or on the button to steal.

Re: Bubble play
 

That makes sense. Big stack is less likely to call because less invested in the pot is the idea?

Re: Bubble play
 

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That makes sense. Big stack is less likely to call because less invested in the pot is the idea?

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Exactly. I am sure someone will chime in saying that passing up +EV pushes because you are afraid of being called is bad poker, but such is life.

You have a lot less FE against someone with 4x your stack than you do with someone with 1.1x.

BUT! I think J9d is a actually a pretty decent hand to push with if you plan to shove into the big stack, because it will be live most of the time.(Unless biggie decided to gamb00l with JT or something.)

Re: Bubble play
 

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I really hate pushing into the bigstack when he's in the BB. I prefer to wait until they are in the SB or on the button to steal.

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Bingo, especially given UTG's stack size, I push any 2 next hand and expect to take down the blinds the vast majority of the time.

Re: Bubble play
 

I agree about thinking twice while pushing when the big stack is in BB. When there are two players live after him, he is way more likely to fold and you have much more fold equity against that other players.