Folded to me in SB - 19 left in Stars $50r

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Wow.. checked in SnGPT and betgo's right... pushing > folding here. I dunno if that makes it better than your other options, but def don't fold.

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Nice to know this much is true. I pushed, guessing it had to be theoretically the right move but I felt (afterwards) that, unless he was just going to bleed his whole stack through passivity, he had to defend his blinds or steals sooner or later though I was beginning to suspect that he'd acquired his stack by chance because he'd literally tossed away 40k in three orbits without seeing a flop.

There is, I presume, no merit in just walking onto the penultimate table with a healthy stack?

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I don't see any benefit in playing weak/tight to make the second table.

Pushing is significantly better than folding, but the difference is not huge.

If you raise, you have a difficult situation on a reraise. If you limp, you also have a difficult situation on a raise. The complete may be better, but you don't know whather to fold, call, or reraise if raised. Since it is hard to know what to do if raised with either a limp or raise, I like the push.

I might raise with a total junk hand or a strong hand.

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Merits and drawbacks of a limp with the intent of seeing a flop or going over the top of a BB raise?

I'm not surprised a shove's +EV, but anything that calls you're probably in trouble against.

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In trouble against is not so clear. Ax, Kx, small pps, and stuff like Q9s are likely to call. Even AK doesn't have you crushed.