5$ Bubble play is still killing me

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I just am looking for some answers not a lecture not argument.

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Yes. Some people here lack tact, and I have a tendency to get a bit volatile myself when I think someone is being unnecessarily rude, but you really do need to read the FAQ.

As to your hands, the first two look pretty standard to me. Sometimes they call and you lose. That's just the way it goes. You can't expect to run over every game.

That third one, I don't know if I'm doing that too often. Your opponent has 3x your chip stack, so he's probably going to call pretty liberally. You'll probably have more success pushing into the middle stack.

On the other hand, if the guy was a real weakie who was limping every time, I might be tempted to pull the trigger. I would need a very solid read, though, and I wouldn't do it to often. Sooner or later he's going to get pissed off and call.

I push the first one without thinking. The blinds seem a little small in the second hand to push, but you'd call a raise, so you might as well push, especially if there are antes. I check the last one and see a flop. A push doesn't strike me as terrible, but I don't see him calling with much that you beat. You're also in position and unlikely to hit a flop on which you're dominated. Should be easy enough to play.

[Nick M]

I raise the first 2 hands to 600, and the 3rd I check. It's way to early to be pushing. The BB is only 200. Of course if either player comes over the top of me for all my chips and I hold 8s in the SB I call. And I would probably have to call with the A8. But you have too much play here with your stack to just shove the whole thing in preflop without a standard raise first.

hmmmmmmm i might raise to 500-600 from the bb with QJ...i'm not sure. it would depend on my read of the SB so far.

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I raise the first 2 hands to 600, and the 3rd I check. It's way to early to be pushing. The BB is only 200. Of course if either player comes over the top of me for all my chips and I hold 8s in the SB I call. And I would probably have to call with the A8. But you have too much play here with your stack to just shove the whole thing in preflop without a standard raise first.

hmmmmmmm i might raise to 500-600 from the bb with QJ...i'm not sure. it would depend on my read of the SB so far.

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How is it too early? You only have 10BBish. And you plan on raising a huge portion of your stack- you'll be forced to call any all-in... might as well go all-in yourself with that extra FE.

[Nick M]

Well I believe you would have enough to fold if you didn't like the outcome of the flop. 1750 isn't bad at all.

Not only that but with the 8s you're essentially making it only a flop hand. For instance, if you raise and you get called by 2 overs, he flops nothing and you push, he folds only seeing 3 cards, when it was a coin flip to start. The A8 is worse obviously unless you are called preflop by A9 or A10. Anything better than that would push over you. So I guess pushing the A8 is a good arguement because of this reason. Still I think I am more comfortable taking a flop with 12bb.

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Well I believe you would have enough to fold if you didn't like the outcome of the flop. 1750 isn't bad at all.

Not only that but with the 8s you're essentially making it only a flop hand. For instance, if you raise and you get called by 2 overs, he flops nothing and you push, he folds only seeing 3 cards, when it was a coin flip to start. The A8 is worse obviously unless you are called preflop by A9 or A10. Anything better than that would push over you. So I guess pushing the A8 is a good arguement because of this reason. Still I think I am more comfortable taking a flop with 12bb.

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So what's your play when one over comes? Two? Three? If you check, BB gets to steal with any hand even if he misses. You just threw away tons of chips...

[Nick M]

You're asking me how I play a player I don't know...sooooo I don't know how I would play it. I would have to be sitting in the game with those players to know for sure. I'm usually not afraid to take flops with 12bb. If I had say 6bb maybe 7, then pushing would of course be instant.