This is an experiment. ($10+1)

[suited_ace]

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t50 (10 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx

CO (t548)
Button (t310)
SB (t1485)
BB (t483)
UTG (t655)
UTG+1 (t1380)
UTG+2 (t505)
Hero (t705)
MP2 (t939)
MP3 (t990)

Preflop: Hero is MP1 with 9[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t705 (All-In)</font>.

What do you think, and why? I'll add my own comments later...

[tigerite]

It's fine - completely unexploitable. Sometimes I do the same, even though it's a 14bb push. There are rare occasions when pushing with 10-15bb is probably better than raising, and I think this can be one of those occasions.

bad experiment??

In theory, I don't mind it. No better hand is folding, but worse hands are calling, and blinds are nice.

The huge flaw, however, is that monkey-pushing is horrible for your "I'm really tight and have AA" bubble image.

[suited_ace]

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The huge flaw, however, is that monkey-pushing is horrible for your "I'm really tight and have AA" bubble image.

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That's actually my main concern. Remember that this is a $10+1, so there's actually a good chance for me to get called by hands that I have slightly dominated. I don't think I'm *only* getting called by better hands.

[Nicholasp27]

i'd still limp in for set value at this point in the tourney, but i'm not against this move

i don't know that it's +ev tho...u are adding 11% to your stack if u steal them, so not near the 20% cutoff, but 99 is a good hand, but i still would rather limp here and play to catch a 9

[HoldingFolding]

Whenever I see this I assume medium pair, not interested in playing post-flop with overcards lying around. This makes it very easy to play against. Probably still +EV with the blinds at 50...

[tewall]

Running the math through came up with this being a slightly positive +EV play, assuming you are playing against equally skilled opposition, and they will call with hands as bad as 56s/any Ace/JTo/any pair. Assuming you're markedly better than your opposition, I would think it would have to be -EV to make this play, since your tournament equity would go down by making it.

[Femto]

I don't like it. If it is +EV, it's only a little, and as we all know sometimes it's better to pass up on slightly +EV situations so we can better take advantage of greater +EV situations down the road.

Yes this is a g00t bet.