Thread: Low buyin SNG dos and don'ts - v1.0
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taipan168
Old 08-18-2006, 12:24 AM #5 (permalink)  
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Originally Posted by soft
5) Push or fold preflop when your stack is <10x BB
Standard raising is usually bad when you have <10x BB.

I hate this, its Harringtons book thing and what he thinks. 10xbb isnt a critical stack like he makes it to be. And another thing is that I have seen so many ppl that makes critics on his SnGs section and I dont even like it either. This strategy also depends on the structure of the game, just look at Paradise, the blinds get bigger faster late than any other site, on pokerstars you can relax with 10xbb. On paradise you have to take more chances because the blinds increase every 10 hands and not 8 min, this means more agressive bubble play on paradise.
I know you've posted elsewhere about this, I'm not sure what I can do to convince you, it seems to be almost a religious belief. Everybody on this site and 2+2 believes that you need to push with <10x BB though, maybe we are all smoking the same dope.

I do agree that you need to be selective with the hands you push with a <10x BB stack, but I think the general principle that if you are prepared to call a push over with whatever hand you are 3x BB raising then you should just get it all in first still holds. Plus if you are raising hands like AK that only get value from seeing all 5 cards then standard raising and folding when you miss the flop is spewing chips IMO.
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