(22) Spot I dont know how to handle
 

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Hero (t840)
MP1 (t595)
CO (t1805)
Button (t1700)
SB (t805)
BB (t1555)

Preflop: Hero is in UTG+1 with A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]
<font color="gray">UTG folds</font>, <font color="red">Hero raises t150</font>, <font color="gray">MP1 folds</font>, <font color="gray">CO folds</font>, <font color="gray">Button folds</font>, <font color="gray">SB folds</font>, <font color="red">BB raises t400</font>, <font color="gray">Hero folds</font>

I believe the fold was correct. What I am really wondering is do you even raise here? Is this mabey a push?

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Def. not a push and most likely a fold here in the UTG+1 spot. I guess you could limp. But I hate that really. Sometimes I make this 125/150 on PS but it's because we have more chips. Here I think the right play is fold. You're raising into some mighty big stacks there.

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I'd play it just like you did, I think. I think pushing sucks too.

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I probably push here. Now the BB has come over the top you have to muck it

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You want to push 17bb UTG+1 with AQo???? This would be very very bad. You have so much more play than that.

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I probably push here. Now the BB has come over the top you have to muck it

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Pushing with 17BB is crappy.

OP, In this spot sometimes I raise like you did and sometimes I fold. Probably something like a 35/65 mixture

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You want to push 17bb UTG+1 with AQo???? This would be very very bad. You have so much more play than that.

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If i'm playing this I'm pushing. I hate putting 20% iof my stack in and having to fold to a push

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You want to push 17bb UTG+1 with AQo???? This would be very very bad. You have so much more play than that.

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If i'm playing this I'm pushing. I hate putting 20% iof my stack in and having to fold to a push

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I would probably not fold to a push, but this action is bad for us.

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What about folding in this spot? I have been folding this hand more frequently of late in this type of spot from this position at the table, I'd say 70%. Is this bad?

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I hate putting 20% iof my stack in and having to fold to a push

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exactly and we can't advocate pushing 17bb, this is why folding has to be correct...i think [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img].