$55 party heads up play

[SCfuji]

villain seems reasonable preflop. he folded sometimes on his sb with a 2:1 chip lead in the previous level until i sucked out on him and took a big lead. i have been steal-pushing 3 out of the last 5 hands when he limped or it was my sbb.



***** Hand History for Game 2701363920 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $50 Buy-in + $5 Entry Fee Trny:15683854 Level:8 Blinds(200/400) - Monday, September 12, 21:52:42 EDT 2005
Table Table 11774 (Real Money)
Seat 7 is the button
Total number of players : 2
Seat 2: villain( $1788 )
Seat 7: hero( $8212 )
Trny:15683854 Level:8
Blinds(200/400)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to hero[ 5s 7h ]

push or fold?

[Isura]

I think it's a fold.

Edit: But it depends whether he considers 4bb desperation time, or will make an incorrect fold and "wait for a better hand".

[Degen]

once the blinds hit 200-400 you should be pushing at least 60% of the time, and yes this is easily a pushing hand

fold

This is a definite fold I think. Yeah, you want to push and steal as much as you can, but anytime I'm down 4 times with the blinds this big heads up I'm not gonna fold anything heads up respectable, so you have to figure he's gonna make his move soon going in on something like J-10, K-8, etc....if you push here and he calls your in definite trouble of putting him back in the game. Wait for a better moment and don't waste your chip lead on hands you'd likely be so far behind in.

[SCfuji]

i think another argument can be made about letting him back into the game by not stealing this big blind.

I'm not against the attempt at stealing at all, I also think your patterns might come into effect here. Have you been pushing to steal big blind numerous times without getting caught leading to the assumption all your doing is trying to steal and not putting the fear of a strong hand in? I just don't think this is a risk worth taking, with this level of blinds taking the 600 is not going to matter as much as the risk of him doubling up off such a poor starting hand with the realization that he's going to (assuming he's reasonable as you've said) push anything respectable anyways.

[Isura]

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once the blinds hit 200-400 you should be pushing at least 60% of the time, and yes this is easily a pushing hand

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Uhm, not sure where you get the 60% number, but you seem to be leaving out a lot of information.

[MegaBet]

Definite definite fold.

Degen: Definitely wondering your reasoning for thinking this is a pushing hand/situation?