big stack play general strategy question

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Keep pushing on them until you meet resistance. You know when you have to make the pot odds call and when your crushed enough to let it go if they push back.

There seriously are tables that will let you raise 3-4 hands an orbit and continue to never push back until they get two face cards or a pair. I wouldnt choose to not raise A5 from the button just cause I had stolen with complete trash the hand before from cutoff, no way. Now I might muck Q9o from cutoff after having raised the last 2 or 3 in a row, since we get pushed back at lighter in later positions... If we have the table quite crushed chip wise, and they all play a TAG/or tight passive game, we can just raise ATC all day long and generally steal far more than we end up losing due to loose raises and forced calls of the push. Besides, our trash is often only 40/60 or so against their great hand, and with blinds and antes we come out ahead. Then they get to whine at the rail about how they waited all day to get a AQo and we sucked out with our T8. Oh well, sorry sir, but thats big stack poker :> In the late positions, with a huge stack, with smallish stacks in the blinds, I might fold all my dominated hands like Q9o /K8o /JTo stuff like that, but raise up really really egregiously bad trash like 83o since then I am so far out of their hand range when they push and I am forced to call. I just dont want to hand out free double ups, so if the table is playing back at me with hands like A5o or K3s, Then im going to clamp it down a bit, for sure.


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