$109 Bubble hand

***** Hand History for Game 2790544821 *****
300/600 Tourney Texas Hold'em Game Table (NL) (Tournament 16147739) - Wed Sep 28 15:56:48 EDT 2005
Table Table 12275 (Real Money) -- Seat 10 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 1: squadfather1 (2132)
Seat 3: mcummings805 (4570)
Seat 7: TooLucky4Me (1312)
Seat 8: BitterVegas (696)
Seat 10: McShove (1290)
squadfather1 posts small blind (150)
mcummings805 posts big blind (300)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to McShove [ Ad, As ]
TooLucky4Me folds.
BitterVegas raises (696) to 696
BitterVegas is all-In.
McShove????


It's obviously a call to hopefully drag the big blind along, or a shove. Thoughts?

[wookie]

Let's try this line of thought - if the BB is the kind of player that would raise you all in after your call, then call. The BB's stack size would indicate that is the case. Your call will look weak and he is likely to raise with a fairly wide range of hands knowing that the all-in is probably in desperation mode, and that it costs only 990 to have a shot at knocking both of you out.

It is certainly possible that SB would try a similar play but with a narrower range of hands.

If you push they will only call with a narrow range of hands, unless they are pretty loose.

If neither SB nor BB has a decent enough hand, pushing or calling is moot - but I think you gamble here to triple up - which you need to do to get ITM with a chance to win.

how's that? - w

[TWINUNO]

I like a shove here, even though you are a favorite against both of the hands, by having them both in the pot it does reduce your chance of winning the hand. By winning the hand it would still put you in a close second.

[jedinite]

Just calling and taking this three way or four way gives up too big an edge in my opinion.

If you just call you're offering the BB better than 4.5-1 to call, which gives him a great opportunity to call with just about anything. You're letting him make the correct FTP play, instead of vice-versa. And since the BB is stacked, he might come along anyways (but at least now he's making the FTP error).

I'd push here pretty much every time. Assuming you hold up you're second in chips on the bubble, a great place to be.