[JaredL]

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I'm also sceptical. It depends on how short your short stack is. For instance, a hand I have had trouble with in SnG's & MTT when short stacked is pocket Jacks. On several occasions when I've had about 5 orbits left (M=5) I've pushed all-in with my Jacks, only to be called by bigger paint (usually AK/AQ). This only gives me about a 57% advantage, with my whole stack and any chance of a come back on the line. I therefore think, in this particular case, it is better to raise preflop, and judge the flop after for the allin, as your then about 75% against AK/AQ, as well as having an escape route if the flop goes against you.

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Firstly, I'm not convinced that you should do anything but push in your example. In the post above this one, you can see the argument that you will be in a tough spot if precisely one overcard came and are fairly likely to make a mistake there.

Again, I want to clarify a couple things. I was planning to describe shortcomings of my point next article, and should have taken into account that they come a month apart and should be separate bodies of work.

Here is what my article does NOT say:
- raising all in is the best strategy against all opponents
- raising all in is the best strategy against opponents who act close to optimally
- making a small raise before the flop is worse than pushing

What my article says:
Making a smaller raise with some of your raising hands and then pushing any flop, calling any reraise is a worse strategy than pushing before the flop with those hands if your opponent is acting approximately optimally and has a good read on you.

There are several things that you could do that could be potentially better than raising all-in. For example, you could make a small raise and then use the flop to decide what to do with some or all of your raising hands. Also, if you assume that your opponent either doesn't play optimally or has a bad read on your play then some small raise strategy could be better.

Again, I will be discussing this a bit more in next months article.

Jared