6 Man SNG: Re-raising Another Big Stack On The Bubble

[JSH06]

6 man sng w/ a 65/35 payout

Button: 3500
SB: 2000
Hero: 3500

Blinds: 100/200
Hero's hand: ?
Button raises to 600. SB folds. Hero?

With what hands are you pushing if button is tight? if he is average? if he is loose?

With what hands are you calling against a TAG? against a LAG?

[Slim Pickens]

Why would you ever consider pushing preflop here? If you are stealing with a bad hand, you can do it for way fewer chips than all of them, avoiding the problem of actually running into a real hand. If you're holding a big hand, you're wasting value.

I call with any hand that looks nice: any pair, two Broadway, suited connectors and one-gappers. Against the LAG I expect to stack him when I hit something that beats top pair or when the flop is so ugly that I can put him on a bluff a lot of the time and I've flopped a bluff-catcher. Against the TAG, I lead the flop for 2/5-1/2 the pot all of the time and expect to take it down right there about 2/3 of the time.

[JSH06]

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Why would you ever consider pushing preflop here? If you are stealing with a bad hand, you can do it for way fewer chips than all of them, avoiding the problem of actually running into a real hand. If you're holding a big hand, you're wasting value.

I call with any hand that looks nice: any pair, two Broadway, suited connectors and one-gappers. Against the LAG I expect to stack him when I hit something that beats top pair or when the flop is so ugly that I can put him on a bluff a lot of the time and I've flopped a bluff-catcher. Against the TAG, I lead the flop for 2/5-1/2 the pot all of the time and expect to take it down right there about 2/3 of the time.

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I would consider pushing because any re-raise basically commits us to the pot anyway. I'm not a big fan of the calling range you used. It seems way too loose considering we're playing out of position on the bubble against the other big stack when we have nearly double the amount of chips of shorty. I appreciate the reply though.

[Slim Pickens]

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I would consider pushing because any re-raise basically commits us to the pot anyway.

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Yes. I agree. Even a min-reraise leaves you with about the size of the pot behind, and I can't really ever get behind the min-reraise/push the flop line. Pushing is the only way to raise here, and that's most of why I don't like raising at all.

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It seems way too loose considering we're playing out of position on the bubble against the other big stack when we have nearly double the amount of chips of shorty.

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You negate your positional disadvantage by lead-betting the flop. As long as your opponent doesn't know you're doing this 100% of the time, it works. If your opponent is smart, he can re-raise all-in liberally here, but chances are he isn't. That's why poker is profitable for people who are. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

[JSH06]

Would you be pushing 99+ & AQ+ against an average player here? Do you sometimes trasp w/ AA & KK or is it to risky with the short stack?

[Shroomy]

What would you consider the range of hands he would bet with and the range of hands he would call your push with, for tight, average and loose .. and Ill give you the range for each. (at least EV wise)

Sorry I don't play shorthanded SNG's enough to even guess

[Slim Pickens]

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Would you be pushing 99+ & AQ+ against an average player here? Do you sometimes trasp w/ AA & KK or is it to risky with the short stack?

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Actually, I do push 77-TT here, but that's it. I'll trap with a bigger pair a lot of the time, like maybe 75%. Since I'm doing that, I'm calling with a lot of other hands as well. I don't consider trapping all that risky when you're playing with 15 BB, since that's two-street territory anyway.