Fold, Push, or Call? Late stages of 180 person MTT.

[Toddy]

Around 30 people left. Blinds 3-600 a 50. Just moved to this table. No reads.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t600 (8 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx

MP1 (t13993)
MP2 (t12017)
CO (t7531)
Button (t7583)
SB (t9585)
BB (t14733)
UTG (t20273)
Hero (t7387)

Preflop: Hero is UTG+1 with 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].


UTG Raises to $1800. Hero is UTG+1.. Move?

[locutus2002]

Based on your read you can fold, call, or push.

Without a read my default is to call with your stack size because:
hero's stack is to short to pass on a hand as good as 99.
hero will still have 10XBB if he decides to fold ATF.
people are unlikely to raise an UTG opener without a very strong hand, so you'll see a flop.

[revots33]

As the small stack, and with the blinds approaching, I'd push with the nines.

[Toddy]

[ QUOTE ]
Based on your read you can fold, call, or push.

Without a read my default is to call with your stack size because:
hero's stack is to short to pass on a hand as good as 99.
hero will still have 10XBB if he decides to fold ATF.
people are unlikely to raise an UTG opener without a very strong hand, so you'll see a flop.

[/ QUOTE ]

I don't like calling most hands. I like to push or fold because my post flop play needs a lot of improvement and I can see a 9 not hitting the board and me folding like a biatch. I played for 2.5 hours and for some reason I decided to fold this. I just didn't want to lose on a coinflip. In retrospect I probably should have pushed since there's only 5 hands that have me beat pre flop. I think it was the fact that he was raising from UTG and I had a bunch of people behind me.

[Sam T.]

I don't much like a call. Limping would be okay, but calling for a quarter of your stack and then folding when an ace or king flops is terrible. Moreover, what do you do when someone in LP re-raises?

At this point I'd probably push, not minding a coin-flip (if you get one - an overpair is possible of course). But as you say, being in EP makes this closer.

In the blinds, I might stop & go, on the button it's an easy push.

[locutus2002]

I don't like pushing, you are probably behind in the hand against villain's range.

Playing postflop in position is easier for you. If he's tight 1/2 his hands are drawing hands, and you should probably be ahead on a non-ace flop.