Pushes!

[imported_machine]

I have just moved up from 20s to 30s and was told apart from the roll there is very little difference between the 2. the last few weeks i have become very aggressive when there is 5 left and blinds are high, i will push 2 cards higher than 10,suited k any ace any pair,obviously i take note of position an stacks etc,this was working very well at 20s, i know this is my first night at 30s but i am 10 buy ins down alot of 4ths and 5ths not many in money, do the pushes change with such a small increase in limit? maybe just a bad downswing but 10 buy ins down in 3 hours is not good, sorry for going on.

ben

[skipperbob]

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5 left and blinds are high

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Are you sure that you are following BOTH of these criteria?

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[imported_machine]

yep to the button, but dunno what happening

[Freudian]

My crystal ball tells me that if you push any ace on the bubble, there are a lot more 4th and 5th places in your future.

[imported_machine]

out of interest u decide all pushes by eastbays tool?

[Freudian]

Never used it.

What I do is pretty much based on conclusions of what I have observed happening on the tables when I play. And if there is one category of calls you see more often than others it is Ax. Which means pushing A2 is generally a bad idea.

[imported_machine]

thats true i guess a8 or better as its above average, and k8+ what else u push, you play cards or position. This is the only real area of my game which is weak.

[lastchance]

This is the wrong way to think about hands.

You need to get a list of hand ranges and figure out about how good hands are compared to each other.

There are some spots where I will happily push K8o 100% of the time, and there are other spots where I have no trouble laying it down.

99-AA, AK-AQ = 5%
66-AA, AK-AT = 10%
44+, A7+, KJ+ = 15%
A2+, 22+, K9+, QJ = 25%
22+, A2+, K8+, QT+ = 30%
22+, A2+, K2+, Q7+, JT = 40%
22+, A2+, K2+, Q2+, J7+, T9 = 50%
22+, A2+, K2+, Q2+, J2+, T5+, 96+, 86+, T2s+, 94s+, 84s+, 74s+, 64s+, 53s+, 43s+ = 70%

This is what I think hand ranges should look like for pushing. The less stack you have, the more hands you push. The less active players around, the more hands you push. The more tight players are, the more you push.

There are probably suited hands you can throw into the mix there, but I think that above chart is a great starting point.

[Freudian]

Depends on a lot of things.

How often I have pushed
How often they have called/the likelyhood of them calling now
Stacksizes
Position
Cards

[imported_machine]

those percentages how often u push them?