Re: All-in hand rankings for short stacks
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Pushing for 15xBB without ante from 6th position with AJ or 33 is EV+.
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This is misleading. Since AJ and 33 are likely to be the best hands with 4 people remaining to act, as long as you don't fold it's +EV almost regardless of your play. Certainly you aren't arguing that it's optimal to open push... right?
I think pushing is the safe, small gain. In sng's maybe that would be best because your +$EV can rise substantially by just surviving... But from my simplistic point of view, MTTs seem more oriented towards accumulating. It is rare that someone gets down to 10 bb's early in a MTT and actually push/folds his way to victory for 5 more hours... And I doubt anyone would claim it was more than pure variance if he did win that way. I do suck at MTTs though, so I could be wrong [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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