What does it mean to "stop and go"?

JC21 · #1 05-23-2005, 06:27 AM

I see this all the time in tournaments forum, and I think I understand what it means, but what does it refer to exactly? And when should it be used?

Thanks in advance.

AKQJ10 · #2 05-23-2005, 07:58 AM

Once answered, this should go in the FAQ.

(The FAQ is soon to move to PokerWiki, where any of us will be able to add it ourselves.)

Others can give a better answer; I always seem to get it wrong, but there should be 500,000 old threads about it.

bluefeet · #3 05-23-2005, 03:50 PM

callling a raise out of position - rather than reraising all-in, with full intention of going all-in on any flop.

i'm sure others could explain the psychology more indepth -- but where villian might feel his hand is adequate to call a reraise all-in preflop, he will likely be much more willing to give it up facing a) perhaps a missed flop, and b) an all-in from hero, who has already called his PF raise ["damn, guy must of really had something" mentality].

more of a late tourney - high blinds - bubble play opportunity. when villian will be faced with elimination (or close to it) when making his decision to call your push.

SheridanCat · #4 05-24-2005, 11:05 AM

I basically agree with bluefeet. If you do a search, you're going to see a lot of examples that are not actual "stop and goes" - but replies usually call those out.

It's basically just calling a raise and then betting into the raiser later. People have been doing it for ages before it had a catchy name.

I saw one poster explain that a stop and go can be effective when you think you have the best hand preflop but don't have enough fold equity to justify pushing all-in (in NL, obviously). An example would be in a tournament where you are a shortish stack against a very large stack. If you push all-in preflop, you'll likely be called, so you just call a raise. By leading out postflop you have more leverage if the flop missed the big stack.

I'm not really a no limit player, and this seems to be a NL concept really. We use the same tactic in limit, but it's usually as a bluff or semi-bluff when a scare card comes.

Regards,

T