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Old 06-28-2005, 08:27 PM
tminus tminus is offline
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Default Stealing from loose big stacks when your small

RustyMoney and Conkshafter are loose-passive big stacks and Im tight-agro with small stack. Both of them call 3 bb preflop raises with junk so I decided that if Im stealing I have to push. Do you agree or is this risking too much for a few blinds? (sorry but bisons convertor is broken again)

***** Hand History for Game 2273410920 *****
NL Hold'em $20 Buy-in + $2 Entry Fee Trny:13460729 Level:3 Blinds(25/50) - Monday, June 27, 20:13:30 EDT 2005
Table Table 13861 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 7
Seat 6: Tminus9 ( $595 )
Seat 3: ovenpatcher ( $673 )
Seat 4: TBirdBalla ( $780 )
Seat 9: conkshafter ( $1975 )
Seat 1: drd56 ( $470 )
Seat 2: wrongshui00 ( $835 )
Seat 5: RustyMoney ( $2672 )
Trny:13460729 Level:3
Blinds(25/50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Tminus9 [ Ad 3d ]
drd56 folds.
wrongshui00 folds.
ovenpatcher folds.
TBirdBalla folds.
RustyMoney calls [50].
Tminus9 is all-In [570]
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***** Hand History for Game 2273430828 *****
NL Hold'em $20 Buy-in + $2 Entry Fee Trny:13460729 Level:4 Blinds(50/100) - Monday, June 27, 20:17:07 EDT 2005
Table Table 13861 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 6: Tminus9 ( $695 )
Seat 4: TBirdBalla ( $830 )
Seat 9: conkshafter ( $1213 )
Seat 2: wrongshui00 ( $2040 )
Seat 5: RustyMoney ( $3222 )
Trny:13460729 Level:4
Blinds(50/100)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Tminus9 [ As 2c ]
conkshafter: ty
conkshafter folds.
wrongshui00 folds.
TBirdBalla folds.
RustyMoney calls [50].
Tminus9 is all-In [595]
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Old 06-28-2005, 08:40 PM
lastchance lastchance is offline
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Default Re: Stealing from loose big stacks when your small

These are both pretty standard, especially the second one. Your stack is small enough, chips in the middle are worth enough.
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Old 06-28-2005, 08:44 PM
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Default Re: Stealing from loose big stacks when your small

thanks for the sanity check
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Old 06-28-2005, 08:47 PM
rvg72 rvg72 is offline
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Default Re: Stealing from loose big stacks when your small

Most loose big stacks will call these small all-ins at a very high percentage so don't be going in with crap but any ace and probably any king is fine. The two you posted would be easy pushes in my opinion.
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