Re: $55: Tell me how bad this push is
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I think you guys misinterpreted my post. I was just commenting on "a good 2 + 2 player would push any two here vs. a 600 raise." If I knew that were the case, I'd try to get him in every time. Because I'd take a 65% of getting the dominating chip stack and then punishing everybody the rest of the way. As it is now, you aren't sure of anything. So yeah, you are correct that pushing is probably better now that I think about it, I disagree that you wouldn't want to face the big stack if you knew you were a 2-1 favorite. Again, though, what you would do here depends a lot on how the big stack plays. If he's really passive and isn't even going to call 600 without AK or a wired pair, than a smaller raise might make sense?
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You are showing a total lack of understanding of the mathematics and ICM with this post. It's a leak.
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tigerite is right. You DON'T want to face the big stack when you have a sizable stack yourself when there are shorter stacks because of your stack in relation to the total amount of chips and the prize pool. Winning 65% of the time and not being guaranteed first place while busting out 35% of the time and not getting squat works out to be -EV in the long run.
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