27$ - Pwning the bubble

[sence25]

Hi, is this good?

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t600 (4 handed) Hand History converter Courtesy of PokerZion.com

SB (t1830)
BB (t3855)
UTG (t3620)
Hero (t4195)

Preflop: Hero is Button with 5[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t4195</font>

[Pocketbear]

I like it.

[Shortcorner]

Anyone worried about increasingly short sb?

[darinvg]

Looks good.

[AMT]

go for it

[Buckk Dich]

They have to be pretty tight to make this profitable according to sngwiz.

[JacJacAtk]

Seems awfully high-variance, especially if BB might be a moron, and given that SB should call really wide and when he does and beats you you become the short stack who shoved 54s.

[flopton]

I like it and play this way often, but I think the amount of times you've pushed/stolen blinds in the past determine how loose you'll be called. After showing down decent hands and playing tight I think this is good. Though if you've shown bad hands or are winning without showdown a lot, people may be suspicious and call enough for it to be a fold.

In a vacuum I could post a number of individual hands like this where people would say shove, it's good, they can't call. But if they all happened one after another in a HH, people would probably recommend passing on some of them. Folding some of these 'near any-2 pwning' spots sometimes when they come up is necessary to keep it profitable when you do use them.

[rakemeplz]

Dont really like it, small blind should be calling due to the excellent odds he's getting from the pot, and your hand sucks. Flip sb and utg obviously its a lot different.

[vers]

SB seems a little too short here. I think he opens up his range more (or should) b/c he's trailing in chips by 2k. It's pretty borderline for me...