[BarryLyndon]

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Given no reads, this is the easiest shove in the world. You shove to maximize FE, AT rates to be the best hand right now, we're oop, there's about 10% of our stack on the table, and any raise get's us pot committed to a reshove from the small stacks.

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I really think that increases of your stack at 10% are for those players who aren't capable of (no offense, deuces, you're not one of these players) making more proficient moves postflop, 3-betting, etc. I want to start thinking along these lines: I'm not someone who needs to make pushes for 10% of my stack. I can find more stronger moves.

We see this "10%" rule for preflop pushes, and it's totally brutish. You're trying to accumulate 10% of your stack, all well and good, but Hagbard is one of the better posters here and doesn't need to be making massive pushes for 10% of his stack, especially right after the FT bubble.

Look - I'm trying not to be results orientated here - but over the past YEAR, pushing limpers for 10% of my stack has never resulted in me making significant advances in tournaments. Ever. It's a mouse chunk of what I needed to do to really make it - 3-bet, stop n' go, go n' go, max flop value. At 350K and right outside the FT bubble, you can raise, make strong flop plays, punish blinds to your left, etc. rather than make a push for 10% of your stack. Especially against a suspect button limp.

Barry