Quick Question

[bluewilde]

Sorry about the format:

***** Hand History for Game 2354310891 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $5 Buy-in + $1 Entry Fee Trny:13883929 Level:1 Blinds(10/15) - Tuesday, July 12, 22:15:17 EDT 2005
Table Table 15396 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 7
Seat 5: irishaces08 ( $655 )
Seat 7: sbreen80 ( $2675 )
Seat 9: MCSKOOL ( $715 )
Seat 6: psiddy ( $825 )
Seat 1: dbldecker2 ( $740 )
Seat 2: Wonderblind ( $755 )
Seat 8: JUMBO3 ( $1635 )
Trny:13883929 Level:1
Blinds(10/15)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to irishaces08 [ Qh Qc ]
JUMBO3 folds.
MCSKOOL folds.
dbldecker2 folds.
Wonderblind raises [50].
irishaces08 is all-In [655]
psiddy folds.
sbreen80 folds.
Wonderblind folds.
irishaces08 does not show cards.
irishaces08 wins 730 chips
Game #2354315128 starts.

Is this too aggressive? I'm almost positive I'm ahead and want to raise, but can't invest much without going all the way. I'm sort of tied to bet/call the flop in spite of overs, so I push. I'm pretty sure I'll get called (usually by worse hands) about half the time at this level. Is this a good, decisive approach or an "I have QQ but don't want to win anything with them" approach?"

[drapes]

Yes.

Why risk all your chips for the blinds?

At that point, a re-raise for $120-150 would be standard for me at the 5s. So many people bust with pre-flop pushes in the early levels- why be one of them?

[The Don]

Raise it to 150-175.

[bluewilde]

Yeah...I'm extremely uncomfortable being down almost 1/4 stack in the first round given that much of my game relies on people folding to my pushes in the later rounds (unless I get a big hand I can play strongly and build my chips). So I was definately playing scared here and end up looking like the guys I always chuckle at. I'll try to keep my head on straight next time. How do I go about this postflop? Pot-sized bet with no A/k? Push to a raise? What about K/A high flop? (sorry to be so akward about this, usually i'm better playing these pairs with a fuller stack)

[11t]

If you think you are going to get called by aq/jj/tt then push.

I dunno, at the 5+1's and 10+1's I think you can never fold QQ preflop and be profitable. Just raise it to 150 and call a push, if he calls and the flop comes bad (an A or AK) and he bets at you, you can still fold. A king is much less scary though.

[lastchance]

A lot of times, you're going to be folding A and K high flops. That's ok. But, you can also do a few contuination bets and shut down from there.

You can call down if you feel your opponent doesn't have anything.

Postflop, unless a K or A shows up, I'm pushing and getting people out of a sizable pot.

[tjh]

[ QUOTE ]
Yes.

Why risk all your chips for the blinds?

At that point, a re-raise for $120-150 would be standard for me at the 5s. So many people bust with pre-flop pushes in the early levels- why be one of them?

[/ QUOTE ]

Why not risk all your chips for the blinds ?
If you get called then you are risking all your chips to double your chips. All you fear are KK's and AA's then big slick and you face a coin flip vs AK. Pushing is not all that horrible.

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tjh

[curtains]

Forgive my girlfriend Drapes, allin is fine....I would probably raise to like 200 against these guys, but your play is perfectly fine Im sure.