STars $11+1 5 Table Tourney - Bubble Push

JP Rocks · #1 10-26-2005, 04:53 AM

My read is that the SB is a fairly solid player, figure that he wont call on the without a fairly decent hand, say AA-JJ, AKo&s, Maybe AQs, AJs, but no worse than that. BB is all in for t130, so I push from button to pick up the ~t1000 dead money and freeroll the all-in. Any kind of a raise commits me to the pot, and I would feel dirty just limping here.

In hindsight, I probably should have just stayed out, because even if the SB folded, I would have lost a fair bit of FE from the showdown.

Your thoughs?

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t1200 (9 handed) converter

UTG+1 (t4875)
MP1 (t10680)
MP2 (t17080)
MP3 (t7575)
CO (t3855)
Hero (t5460)
SB (t7305)
BB (t205)
UTG (t10465)

Preflop: Hero is Button with Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
6 folds, Hero raises to t5385, SB calls t4785.

Flop: (t10770) 8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (3 players)

Turn: (t10770) 4[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (3 players)

River: (t10770) Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (3 players)

Final Pot: t10770

#2 10-26-2005, 04:57 AM

very bad.

Melchiades · #3 10-26-2005, 05:16 AM

Isn't this horrible? Why would you push when there isn't even a BB to steal?

How is it t1000 dead here? The ante is not dead.

Scuba Chuck · #4 10-26-2005, 05:29 AM

I seriously think you might want to look into your SNG strategy. What's the point of raising here? You realize, you need a much stronger hand than normal to make raising here correct.