Late in tourney, pushbot on my right

Wish · #1 10-12-2007, 05:39 PM

So I'm down to the stage of the tournament where I'm on an average stack, and I need to steal some blinds and antes to stay afloat. Problem is, for the last 4 blind levels, I've had a slightly below average stack on my immediate right, open pushing every chance he gets. He never seems to get anything going really good, but he's staying afloat with this method. This obviously means I can't open raise or push except UTG, which sucks. I rather suspect I know the answer to this, but is there anything I can do other than hope to pick up a big hand?

erc007 · #2 10-12-2007, 05:59 PM

If your read is he's open-shoving ATC, u don't need a big hand to call him if the blinds+antes are a sig % of his stack. You do need to be OTB, or in the blinds to do this tho.

levAA · #3 10-12-2007, 06:03 PM

Just do the basics - put him on a range - apply the gap concept and move in with any hand that is above his average hand.

So if you think he plays ATC - you move in with top 40%.

tomek322 · #4 10-12-2007, 06:08 PM

being "average" doesn't mean anything. What determines what I call this with, is my stack in relation to the blinds, and how quickly the blinds escalate. If I have 30BB, I am in no hurry to call his shoves. If I have 10BB, than I'm basically calling any pair, Ax or Kx, decent queen in the BB vs his shove.

Wish · #5 10-12-2007, 06:27 PM

Thanks folks. That makes a lot of sense, and I'm a bit disappointed I couldn't figure it out for myself. In this case, I had about 25 BB (M around 15), he was down to around 10 and bouncing up and down between 8 and 12 (around an M of 6 or 7, with antes). So I had no reason to be in a big hurry. Structure was slow enough to be patient (4/180 on stars, 150 minute blind levels, relatively small increases).