(5.50 Stars) AQs w/ 12 BB UTG

[tsearcher]

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MP1 has been extremely tight. Has not yet raised preflop.

Hero (t1275)
UTG+1 (t2140)
MP1 (t1250)
CO (t1425)
Button (t2280)
SB (t2275)
BB (t2855)

Preflop: Hero is in UTG with Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]
<font color="red">Hero raises to t300</font>, <font color="gray">UTG+1 folds</font>, <font color="red">MP1 raises to t500</font>, <font color="gray">CO folds</font>, <font color="gray">Button folds</font>, <font color="gray">SB folds</font>, <font color="gray">BB folds</font>

Two questions:

1. Was my initial raise correct?

2. What do I do after MP1's small reraise?

[Finnisher]

I'd push 1 and 2

[Green Kool Aid]

Pushing preflop is unexploitable here, and 13 BB's does not leave a lot of room for postflop play.

If you are going to open raise, make it 250.

As played, shove over the minraise, at a 5.50 you will see way too much weird stuff and you have already invested &gt;20 percent of your stack.

[tozzy]

1. push with &lt;13 BB
2. reads..., but readless on a 5.50, this is a push.

[kyro]

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1. push with &lt;13 BB
2. reads..., but readless on a 5.50, this is a push.

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He gave a perfectly valid read.

Frankly, I'm folding to the reraise.

[ger664]

Open Raise here for 250-275 and fold only given your read. Readless I would reshove this. While open-shoving this spot is unexpliotable I still think a raise here is a better option if you are good at post flop play.

[EscapePlan9]

Shove shove shove shove shove
I really don't like a standard raise here. You don't have enough room for any post-flop play.

[tozzy]

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1. push with &lt;13 BB
2. reads..., but readless on a 5.50, this is a push.

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He gave a perfectly valid read.

Frankly, I'm folding to the reraise.

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sorry, was so eager to get in befor KGA.
given the read, yeah, i can see a fold.

[tsearcher]

Thanks for the replies everyone. Whenever I have between 12-14 BBs I feel that I've one opportunity to steal the blinds before I go to pushbot mode. So I raise 3XBB depending on card strength and position. If I'm reraised I generally fold based on reads and stack size. If I'm called it's either all in or fold on the flop. Is this a big leak?

[Finnisher]

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Thanks for the replies everyone. Whenever I have between 12-14 BBs I feel that I've one opportunity to steal the blinds before I go to pushbot mode. So I raise 3XBB depending on card strength and position. If I'm reraised I generally fold based on reads and stack size. If I'm called it's either all in or fold on the flop. Is this a big leak?

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You can open-raise in LP but I wouldn't want to play AQs oop against any number of unpredictable opponents with a 10-14 BB stack. I think it doesn't even really matter how good you are post-flop, playing a big pot oop with 10-14 BBs can't be much more profitable than pushing. The general idea of just raising isn't necessarily a leak but it might easily lead you to situations where you have leaks.