Re: A couple of preflop decisions late in the FTP 500k.
In the first hand I folded because as woodguy said
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Raising less than all in UTG with less than 10BB's puts you a dog to the range.
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I think that is the key to the hand. If he just open shoves UTG I'd be more likely to call, but still unsure because I hadn't seen him play any pots.
I shoved the second hand because I felt by shoving he removed most big pairs from his range. People almost never shove AA or KK here and it seems very rare that they shove QQ or JJ too. I'm most scared of 66-99, but he has some ace or two big cards much more often. I'm not worried about the blinds picking up a hand too much, and even if I lose the hand I still cover the table (which is also true of the first hand, I just think the %s and advantages of winning the pot are different). Also, I definitely don't think p5ers are nits.
I do think the second hand is much closer than the first after looking at them though. Stack considerations definitely play a major part in both decisions though. In the second hand we go to 1.2 mil as opposed to 1.1 in the first and those extra 100k chips are very valuable at this point.
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