(24) A5s on the bubble

[flopton]

Villain seemed pretty tight, giving walks to the BB frequently and ended up building UTG up from 600 without a race. I was basically committed to calling an all in when I raised the 1500, would you play this any differently?

Full Tilt Poker
No Limit Holdem Tournament
Blinds: t250/t500
4 players
Converter

Stack sizes:
UTG: t2680
Button: t4195
Hero: t3920
BB: t2705

Pre-flop: (4 players) Hero is SB with A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 5[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]
2 folds, <font color="#cc0000">Hero raises to t1500</font>, <font color="#cc0000">BB raises all-in t2705</font>, Hero ? <font color="aaaaaa"></font>.

[Cair Paravel]

Easy push pre-flop. As played, you absolutely have to call unless he flips over aces.

[TruFloridaGator]

Just shove pf, a standard raise is horrific if you ever fold and also costs you a ton of FE.

[flopton]

i wasnt thinking about folding but because i had pushed before a couple of times before ive heard a standard raise might look like i really want action and make people fold thinking they avoided a big hand. i should stick with the simpler plan in the future. ty

[Cair Paravel]

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ive heard a standard raise might look like i really want action and make people fold thinking they avoided a big hand. i should stick with the simpler plan in the future. ty

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That's not a horrible idea, but you're probably overthinking it in this case. Since you'll be calling a reraise, you might as well push and maximize your fold equity. You'd just as soon steal the blinds as let him think his K9 or whatever might be good.

[flopton]

yeah its tough with that idea either it will make people think im on a monster or that im actually saving chips to fold if "necessary". pushing may even get slightly better aces to fold here especially against this tight opponent.