party 55's

[Absalon]

what is the typical calling range of all in's in the 55's. i decided to take a shot at one only to get to the bubble, and push in the SB with a5 when it was folded around to me. the BB insta-called me with k10 even though we both had 1500 chips and were in no real big trouble of getting blinded out. i watched the tournament til the end and i am very surprised that all in's were being called by a2, j10, etc. is this standard or did i sit in a good game?

[bigt439]

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what is the typical calling range of all in's in the 55's. i decided to take a shot at one only to get to the bubble, and push in the SB with a5 when it was folded around to me. the BB insta-called me with k10 even though we both had 1500 chips and were in no real big trouble of getting blinded out. i watched the tournament til the end and i am very surprised that all in's were being called by a2, j10, etc. is this standard or did i sit in a good game?

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Post a hand. This question makes little to no sense as you have described scenarios that could go down 2879326376 different ways depending on the many important factors you omitted.

[axeshigh]

Typical 55s calling range:


NL Texas Hold'em $50 Buy-in + $5 Entry Fee Level:5 Blinds(75/150)
Total number of players : 5
Seat 1: 1 ( $2025 )
Seat 2: 2 ( $2345 )
Seat 6: Axes( $1065 )
Seat 7: UltimateDonk ( $1795 )
Seat 8: 3 ( $2770 )
Trny:17067445 Level:5
Blinds(75/150)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Axes [ 2d 2s ]
3 folds.
Axes is all-In [990]
UltimateDonk calls [915].
** Dealing Flop ** [ As, 4c, 4h ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 8s ]
** Dealing River ** [ 9h ]
Axes shows [ 2d, 2s ] two pairs, fours and twos.
UltimateDonk shows [ Th, 4d ] three of a kind, fours.
UltimateDonk wins 2130 chips from the main pot with three of a kind, fours.
Axes finished in fifth place.

[MegaBet]

Quality post.

[applejuicekid]

I like this one

NL Texas Hold'em $50 Buy-in + $5 Entry Fee
Level:4 Blinds(50/100) - Tuesday, November 01, 18:34:58 EDT 2005

Seat 8: UTG ( $1060 )
Seat 5: Button( $1055 )
Seat 3: awesomeguy( $1450 )
Seat 6: SB( $1430 )
Seat 9: UTG+1( $950 )
Seat 2: MP1 ( $1090 )
Seat 7: BB ( $2140 )
Seat 4: MP3( $825 )
Trny:17056742 Level:4
Blinds(50/100)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to SB[ 8d 4d ]
UTG folds.
UTG+1 is all-In.
MP1 folds.
awesomeguy calls [950].
MP3 folds.
Button folds.
SB folds.
BB folds.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6c, 2c, 2d ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9s ]
** Dealing River ** [ 9d ]
UTG+1 shows [ 7d, 7h ] two pairs, nines and sevens.
awesomeguy shows [ 2s, 6s ] a full house, Twos full of nines.
awesomeguy wins 2050 chips from the main pot with a full house, Twos full of nines.
UTG+1 finished in eighth place.

This wasn't a misclick. Awesomeguy made calls like this the whole tournament.

[bawcerelli]

posts like this seriously tempt me to start taking shots at the 55's.

[zambonidrivr]

I know I'll get flamed for this, but I find the $50's less challenging than the $30's... and it's not even close.

[MegaBet]

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I know I'll get flamed for this, but I find the $50's less challenging than the $30's... and it's not even close.

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You shouldn't get flamed for a true statement.

...and I've said it more than once,

From all the new $55 SNG threads I am seeing, it looks as though other people have also finally seen the light and moved up.

[downtown]

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what is the typical calling range of all in's in the 55's. i decided to take a shot at one only to get to the bubble, and push in the SB with a5 when it was folded around to me. the BB insta-called me with k10 even though we both had 1500 chips and were in no real big trouble of getting blinded out. i watched the tournament til the end and i am very surprised that all in's were being called by a2, j10, etc. is this standard or did i sit in a good game?

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Like any level it's player dependent and it's up to you to assign their calling ranges. I think your time would be better spent paying attention to who to steal from when you're at the table than asking for generalizations, only to have it turn into who can post the most ridiculous call at the 55s. (Surprise, there's been a lot of bad calls.)

Last night I was mad when in a SB v. BB confrontation, an evenly stacked BB called my all-in with QJo, ending my tourney on the bubble. I was mad not at the call, but that I didn't know his range was so loose.

I would be annoyed that he bled both of our equity to other people at the table.