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$11 - pocket fives weird stack size

  
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mukaka
Post Posted: Sun, 30 Mar 2008, 8:46am    Post subject: $11 - pocket fives weird stack size Reply with quote
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Didn't know what to do with this due to my stack size.. Higher I would std raise, lower I would push..

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CO: 1,725
Hero (BTN): 1,050
SB: 4,763
BB: 3,047
UTG: 2,915

Pre-Flop: (120) 5Spade 5Heart dealt to Hero (BTN)
2 folds, Hero ???
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ginozola
Post Posted: Sun, 30 Mar 2008, 9:10am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Urgh. I think I push all-in. I don't like limping because unless we hit a set we're playing blind. Raise of 3-4BB seems ok, but if re-raised I'm all in.
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rvrking22
Post Posted: Sun, 30 Mar 2008, 11:28am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Im a) folding this, 55 is not an ideal hand to push with or b) set farming....limp in and if you hit get your stack in, if you miss check/fold flop..I really dont think a push is a goood play here considering you only get 120 chips if nobody calls and if they do call your a 50/50 at best....
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Post Posted: Sun, 30 Mar 2008, 3:00pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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I'm guessing if you plug this into SNGWIZ it would say to push
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bjsaust
Post Posted: Sun, 30 Mar 2008, 5:27pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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It should say to fold I think. Be interested to find out. I need something like 88+ to push here.
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Im_new
Post Posted: Sun, 30 Mar 2008, 5:36pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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I'm folding here.
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Rage2100
Post Posted: Sun, 30 Mar 2008, 5:40pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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bjsaust wrote:
I need something like 88+ to push here.


Yeah, I agree with this. Sometimes I may even push with 77 but I would fold 55.
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yourfather
Post Posted: Mon, 31 Mar 2008, 4:11pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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I think its a shove if blinds are 50/100 or more but now its a fold.
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Post Posted: Mon, 31 Mar 2008, 11:53pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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still have an M of less than 10.. But you're flipping against most callers..
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bjsaust
Post Posted: Tue, 01 Apr 2008, 12:09am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Hmm, I decided to run this through SNGPT and its more interesting than I thought.

This seems to be a real turning point for pushing ranges. Here are my default calling ranges (from really tight to really loose) and the ranges we'd push. This assumes both call equal ranges:

66+,AT+ - 33+,AKs,AQs,AJs,ATs,ATo+,A9s,A8s,A7s,A5s,KJo+,K9s+,QJo,Q9s+,J9s+,T9s

44+,A7+,KJ+ - 66+,ATo+,A9s+

22+,A2+,KT+,QJ - 55+,ATo+,A8s+

22+,A2+,K9+,KJo+,QT+,JT - 66+,A9o+,A8s+


Hard to say what range they'd call with here. A 12.5xBB push will normally be called fairly tightly, but then in this case its no more than 1/3 of the stack of either opp, so they may feel like gambling.

I suspect this is close enough that I probably fold, but my initial pushing range was a fair way off apparantly.
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TLR
Post Posted: Tue, 01 Apr 2008, 1:36am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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I am pushing it
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JeffreyGB
Post Posted: Thu, 03 Apr 2008, 12:01am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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I push as well. A standard raise isn't horrible though, especially if opponents have a tendency to call and then check/fold flops. Or if they have shown they will call pushes with a wide range preflop.

Limping for set value is ridiculous. In fact, calling for set value after the first two levels is rarely correct in SNG play. The stacks are just too shallow for it.
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