$2.2 Stop and go

[hernandez]

Do you like this stop and go? Villain has opened a lot of pots preflop, especially from button... I might get some better aces like A9-AJ to fold on some flops (at least
against bad players)? Well AJ might not fold on this particular flop though [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Ultimate Bet No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t150 (5 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: 2+2 Forums)

Button (t4070)
SB (t3630)
Hero (t1295)
UTG (t2490)
MP (t3515)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Button raises to t525</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Hero calls t375.

Flop: (t1125) J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t770 (All-In)</font>

[Insty]

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Do you like this stop and go?

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Not really.
Your general problems are:
a) There is no hand he will fold here.
b) the stacks are such that he should be calling with any 2 given the pot size.
c) even if he calls and loses, he's still got a big stack.

Just fold preflop.

[hernandez]

Would it be better if we had slightly bigger stack so that the push would be closer to pot-size on the flop?

I don't often use stop and go but in this situation I thought I needed to do something because villain seemed to raise my BB too often and I was blinding to death.

And I figured that I was probably around 50/50 against villains range. So the addition of small fold equity on the flop might make this good, no?

[Schmitty 87]

ya i think this is fine, but not significantly different from just putting it in preflop. or you can fold preflop, though i probly wouldn't do it either vs. villain as described.