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Well, we just seem destined to disagree on these forums.

Here goes...

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If you raise 175, then that's about 30% of your stack out there.


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So?

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I'm pretty sure by ICM if you push here it's +EV.


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Under what assumptions? Anyway, this isn't push-or-fold poker yet with the blinds so low, so ICM is of limited usefulness.

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I'm not sure how you can get more +EV by just raising considering you'd be OOP on the flop unless the blinds only called.


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It's not always about upside. You lose less than if you push against a monster or two.


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plus there's always the chance of a big stack coming over the top, and making my decisions a pain in the arse.

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I see this all the time... so many posters hate uncertainty and therefore love to push, but poker is about making decisions under uncertainty... unless you are a total pushbot, in which case, you are folding anyway at L3.