BB vs SB bigstack: facing flop mini-bet

[gumpzilla]

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Anyway here it goes. As a 2+2er, Hero has an edge on the field mostly when his stack is between 4 and 10 BB's = time to shove. So maybe committing a portion of our stack to this hand so that, if we loose, Hero will drop into this zone? Of course, if the blinds rise soon we are there already...

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There was a similar post in MTT a while ago from betgo about trying to get into the "red zone." It's a terrible idea. Your EV in the tournament is obviously going to be higher with 12 BBs than 7 BBs. That your edge is bigger in a situation where everybody has 7 BBs than when everybody has 12 BBs (a notion that may be true but I'm not sure I subscribe to) still doesn't mean that you magically gain EV by dropping to 7 BBs while par still remains 12.

[bennies]

Hi, I know about that discussion, obviously we do better with more chips. However, I wanted to make the point that the chips/block from about 10 to 15 bb's are worth less to Hero than other chips because it is difficult to play this stack size. Therefore, taking a zero EV gamble to get above or below this interval might be worth it.

Now this particular situation with middle pair might not be a zero EV situation to play passively though...

[KingDan]

Against some players this can be raised with any two.

In this situation against an unknown I would raise, you have way too good a hand to fold.