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Old 10-08-2005, 01:46 AM
Irieguy Irieguy is offline
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Default Re: 109 interesting spot.. POLL TIME!!

If you fold, you don't understand a thing about folding equity... cuz you got it here, baby.

But a push isn't necessarily the best way to do this.

The SB wants you to bust the BB, so he's folding quite a bit here. The big stack doesn't want to tangle with you, and will likely figure you have a better hand than A6 if you raise.

This might be one of those spots where a min-raise looks scarier than a push. You'd have to fold if the big stack pushes, so I would only do it if I felt he wasn't capable of doing that with anything but a strong hand. Also, if you min-raise and then fold, you'll still be the second chip stack.

If one of the short stacks shoves it in, then well, you were going to race them anyway so it doesn't really matter. They know you aren't folding, so there aren't any hands they'll push with that they wouldn't have called with.

The point is, you may gain just a tad more FE with a mi-raise because it looks hinky, and you gain the benefit of being able to get away if the big stack wakes up.

Irieguy
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